Saturday, 27 December 2014
Friday, 19 December 2014
Music Video Draft #1
This is the first draft of my music video. As you can see I have left a few blanks with notices telling me what I need to add to my next draft. I mainly focused on the performance parts of my music video as I have not had time to include all the narrative sequences.
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Magazine Advert Draft #1
This is the first draft of my magazine advertisement. Following my brand guidelines, I kept with the continued house style of orange, black and white to show a link between all three of my media products. I have also included different fonts including my primary typeface 'Albertsthal Typewriter' for the artists name 'Ed Sheernan' and my second typeface 'Absender' for the name of his hit single 'Afire Love'. After looking at various real world media advertisements, I noticed the majority of them advertised social media. This is an important factor for music artists as this enables fans to keep in touch with the latest information and keep up to date which what is happening. The layout is fairly simple but includes all the important information - artists name, album name and the name of the artists hit single 'Afire Love'. I also included an image of the two main characters - Sam and Victor' as my whole music video revolves around the story of them both.
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Location Release Contract
A location release is important to anyone who intends to photograph, videotape or record on property that is not owned by themselves. This document verifies that I have permission from the selected owners to use their location to film for my music video and highlights the different terms and conditions I had to comply to, to ensure that I am able to use the selected locations as I wish. For example, as part of my performance I had to get permission from my media teacher Mr Fisher to use the drama studio at Haydon School before I began filming.
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Production Diary - 04/02/14


Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Production Diary - 02/12/14

Today after school I completed my studio shoot for my music
video. I first set up the lights in the studio and positioned them till I was
happy with how they suited the image I wanted to convey. I then changed the aperture of the camera to
F/5.6 as I believed the lights were too bright. To film my video I used a
selection of different camera equipment including a tripod and steadicam. The
main purpose of the tripod was to support the camera, I used the tripod for the
majority of my video as it enabled me to take good quality footage without the
use of camera shake. I also used a steadicam to capture the movement of the
camera. For example, I used the steadicam to capture a panning shot of the
artist singing to the song to show a diverse of different camera shots and
movements. At first, I found the steadicam quite hard to work with as I had
never used it before and found my footage to be quite shaky. However, after a
while I soon got used to working with the steadicam and held the equipment with
more grip which made my footage more stable. I made sure when I was filming
Aaron that I filmed him lip-syncing to the whole song as my teacher recommended
to film the actor miming to the entire song than a separate verse or chorus.
Overall, I took a total of 5 clips from different angles of my artist singing
the entire song.
For some parts of my video, I
positioned my artist to sit in a chair and sing while looking at a photograph
of my other characters displayed in my music video; Victor and Sam hugging. This
is similar to the Script’s music video ‘Breakeven’ as the main artist, Danny O'Donoghue is shown to look at a picture of him and his girlfriend on
his phone, reflecting on his past relationship. I tried to imitate this in my
own video as I asked Aaron to look down at the photograph. To see a backstage video from my shoot, click the post: 'Music Video: Behind the Scenes'
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