Monday, 20 February 2012

Further development in my ancillary tasks, photo edits

These are the pictures I have edited for my ancillary tasks, I will use these edits to complete my magazine advertisement for a new album or tour and for my digipak of the RIOT! tour. I have edited all my images in black and white on Photoshop, i chose to do this because i think they feel more personal and will have a good contrast between the colours my group has decided on for Paramore as a brand, mustard yellow, grey and red. I added a filter called 'grain' over all of the photographs i edited to make them more edgy and rough to fit the genre of rock.



































Friday, 10 February 2012

Shooting day - final band shots! Boiler room

These photographs show the process of filming our final band shots for the music video. They are on location in our school boiler room, this room had the mise en scene that we were looking for. Through trying the various other locations that we did (school gym, drama room) it helped us to find out what worked and what didn't, helping us find the perfect location. 



Thursday, 9 February 2012

Editing our narrative footage

The photographs below show the process of editing our narrative footage on the software Premier Pro, as well as just cutting shots to place with the music we also used filters over the footage to get effects on our shots, and added transitions between shots when they were needed.


Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Applying theories to our video

We have been learning about different theories in our theory work in media studies and discussing in class how they link to practical work.

Negus was our main focus when looking at genre theory across media forms, we kept what he found in mind when creating our music video and followed the conventions of our genre, so that we wouldn't be met with rejection for our target audience. We followed conventions by combining both band shots and narrative in our video.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Shooting day - final narrative! Stalker!

Below are images taken from the day of filming our final narrative shots, as a group we were unaware of how the footage would look as the location we were using was very small and restricted us. The outcome was very successful and really fits with the styles of video we were looking to create. There were a few disasters throughout the filming process such as the lamp we were using for lighting got knocked over and the bulb broke. This turned out to be in our favour as we had to make do with Hannah Vandervennin's iPhone light, this enabled us to create the strobe effect you will see in some of the close ups of the narrative actress (me) in the video.

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Monday, 6 February 2012

Sports hall footage

By deciding to further develop our idea and change the locations on our band and narrative shots, we began to carefully look back and evaluate our band shots in our school sports hall and could see the faults and factors we as a group were not happy with very clearly. The lighting was not as successful as we thought when we first looked at it, the background was not completely flooded and the lighting on the vocalists (my) face was enhanced enough and quite dim in some places.


Development of idea

Since filming both our band shots and narrative shots for our music video and seeing what they look like on screen and how we could edit them. We have kept the same concept as one narrative actress wanting to be the lead vocalist in the band but have developed our idea further to make it more exciting. We have decided to develop our idea further by adding a stalker theme to the narrative, bring a dark concept to our music video. We will shoot this in a rough location along with our band shots which we will now shoot in a run down location to fit the theme of the music video.

In terms of the camera angles and quality of filming in our recent band shots we as a group were very please but the location when playing the footage back did not fit in with what we were trying to achieve. Since then we have been location scouting and found two possible locations, both very run down and dirty, a pipe and boiler room and a run down garden.







Sunday, 5 February 2012

Shooting day - band shots!

We have filmed the majority of our band shots now, we filmed them in our school sports hall where we turned off all the light and flooded the band (drums, guitar and vocals) with theatrical lights. We did not know how this was going to turn out because it was the first time we tried it, our idea was very successful when looking back on the footage that we filmed. We had a variation of wide shots and close-ups on each band member. We used different camera equipment, including the steadicam, the dolly, and the tracking system. When we finish off filming our band shots we hope to include the use of a jib, to make our camera shots more diverse.



Saturday, 4 February 2012

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Shooting day! Developed narrative

This is a video of behind the scenes shooting our narrative in London, it shows the filming of the narrative with us using and setting up the equipment as well as feedback from us as a group on how we felt the day went.