The Showcase

Within our class we came together and put a showcase together, with fellow students and teacher to watch our music video before they were fully completed. We believed this would help us with the final stages of creating the video as we can see what is going well and what needs to be changed. The showcase would allow peers and teachers to give us feedback on how our video is looking and any comments they had on it. We hoped to gather feedback in a variety different areas, for example editing and lighting etc.

Our teacher gave us each individual student a sheet to fill out with question about our videos. The questions consisted of, what was especially good about the music video. Would you watch it again? If yes why? If no, why not? And did you notice any errors within the video?, the sheet also asked the class to rate certain areas of our video out of 10 , were ten is the highest.
The class were asked to rate the, editing, sound, camerawork and the synchronising of sound.

Once our video was shown to the class we then discussed the pros and cons of it.
The class believed that a positive aspect of our video was indeed the editing , the edits were in time with the beat and there was a variety of different edits to keep the video interesting. Most people rated our editing with a 9 out of ten score, however our we did gather a piece of feedback that the editing was out off sync at one point so we will have to change that.

However a negative side of our video was the narrative and shot repetition, peers told us that they did not understand completely the narrative and also that there was too many off the same shot within the video. This gives us as a group something to discuss and hopefully change in the near future.

My Album Cover

Looking through my blog you will see that I’ve analysed many album covers, this is because the next stage within creating my artist I am going to create my own CD cover for my artist. I hope that looking at other covers will help me with the layout and look of my cover. There are many things I have to take into account when designing my cover, the colour design, picture, size and text as it has to look good on the shelves but more importantly appeal to our target audience.

MySpace Profile for our Artist

As you can see above I have made a MySpace site for our artist, B Money. I have previously showed in older post artist use website to promote them and widen their fan bases. I have put together a MySpace as the site is very user friendly and will allow fans to have easy access to our artist’s page. A webpage for B Money will do many things to push his career forward.
Having a webpage will firstly gain him a bigger fan base as there a millions of people using MySpace and everyone will be able to look up our artist and become a fan. Fans are key to an artist progressing as without fans who is going to buy the records, sites like this will allow fans to post the artist hopefully giving feedback on current tracks and songs they wish him to sing in the future.
However to keep the image and style of our artist correct on the site we have to make sure the layout and content is suitable and will not offend people or lose fans he already has.
MySpace allows for music and videos to be shared so this will give us a chance to give our fans a taster into new tracks and gather feedback on them.
This is a world wide site and people from all over use it, so making a profile for B Money will do nothing but help us promote his music.

Filming Part 4

As you can see from the previous post, we are currently not finished our video, so we once again come together as a group and begin filming more shots for the video.
Before going out filming as a group we discussed the shots that we needed and to help us towards a high quality video. we not only disscussed the shots but also the lighting of the shots and the camera postions. We done this so that when filming all goes smoothly and there are no confusions.
Within this part of filming we gather a range of shots that we believe will have given us a great chance of produced a quality video.
We used a variety of places to film for the video to give the video a range of settings.

The video so far.

Below is the edited video we have so far, i believe the video is of a high quality and the shots we gathered give it a professional edge. However we are only around 1.20 in to the video so still have a vast amount of work to be done to reach the end. Hopefully the rest of the video will be up to the standard we are producing so far.

Filming Part 3

We have now edited the opening sequence to our video and are very happy with the results, the video so far is at the standard we hope to achieve.

As a group we went out to film the first verse for our video, this is a big chunk of the video so will take time. We had a few different locations for this part of filming so the video was not just a one setting piece. Filming went to plan and all the shots needed we got to a high quailty. Within our video so far there have been a variety of different shots and views and within the littke bit of editing we have done a vast amount of cuts have been used.

The video so far is looking good and hopefully this will carry on throughout.

Filming Part 2

The first stages of filming did not go to plan so we went out and filmed again , for this particular shots we went to another member of the groups house to allow for the shots we needed.

Not only were we re-filming our open sequence we was also changeing it by now doing the whole sequence in a first person form. We hope this form will give our video a differnet edge and make it stand out.

Although filming took a long time we got the shots needed, as a group we come together to discuss these shots and on the hole they are exactly what we wanted. This will now allow us to edit giving us a chance to see how the video is going to look.