Finished website

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Feedback from first draft video

We have now received feedback for our first draft, although there are a lot of things on the email, I don't think it will take that long to adjust. However, there are some parts that we cannot amend, for example, we do not have more footage of me and Alex so we cannot layer the footage. Although, the rest of the improvements do seem achievable, so me Niamh and Rae will consider these comments and amend our first draft accordingly. Once these are done, I think we will do an audience feedback task, asking people of our target audience to tell us what they think of the video.

 

Filming day 4

Fortunately, Alex our friend agreed to being in our music video playing the boy role. We all arranged that today after school we are going to film the final session for our music video. We had a good few hours before it got dark so that we could make the most of natural light. At first we took some shots of Niamh and Alex on opposite sides of a door from high angle shots. During editing, we want to put the two clips together of them two arguing into a diagonal split screen, however we're not sure how we're going to do this as it requires a template.

Next we filmed Niamh and Alex's characters 'being in love', we just filmed them on the couch from various different angles to show how at that point in time they were in love. We will use this footage as a flash back as to how happy they were before.

Another bonus was that one of Rae's friends let us borrow her gay pride flag, we used this during the clips of Niamh and Rae's characters being loved up together. We thought by using the flag, the narrative of our music video will become much clearer and our target audience will understand our concept more. I used the shoulder mount to film the footage, the natural light also worked well as it gives off a optimistic feel showing how Niamh's character feels when she's with Rae's character.

After this, we had to then improvise for the party scene, the lighting in my house worked in our favor because the light focused on Niamh whilst she was drinking. Niamh wasn't actually drinking wine, I found a old empty wine bottle which we filled with orange cordial to make it look more realistic. Myself and Alex were in the background shot to make the scene look like there were more people there. When editing, I think we are going to try and blur the background of me and Alex out a little bit so that the clip is focused on Niamh's character.

We decided to film the parts of Niamh and Alex when they're no longer in love when it had gotten dark outside. This was so that the lighting fitted the mood. We used tripod shots of Niamh and Alex sitting away from each other on the couch to show there is some distance. We were also struggling on how to portray the fact that Niamh's character is gay, so we came up with the idea that Alex tries to comfort her, then she storms off and Alex then pulls out the gay pride flag out under the pillow to symbolize that he now knows that she has feelings for another girl.

Music video problems..

Filming day 3

Today we arranged to film at my house again, and this time we actually got a lot done. We made a list of what we wanted to get done but we used the shot list to help us. It did take us all day, but we got a lot of footage. Here I made an overview of our day filming and included some pictures. Hopefully, we only need one more day to film then we should have everything done.

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easel.ly

Filming day 2

Today our group arranged to meet at my house at 12 to film more of our music video. We created a list to give structure to our day. We decided that first we would do a photo shoot because we need photos to personalize our website and photos to use for the CD cover and booklet. We managed to take some good photos using my pink wall as a continuous background. The photos we think fit our genre of 'pop' as they are girly and fun, this can also be applied to our target audience. Once we had taken enough photos, we moved onto the next thing on our list of filming Niamh lip syncing the whole song again at a different angle and with a change of outfit which will be useful for when cutting the song up.  However, we had to stop filming because the SD card had run out of storage and nothing could be deleted. When the SD card was read by Niamh's computer we figured out that for some reason each photo had duplicated itself. Therefore, we are going to film again on Friday and hope that we get the majority of the filming done.

Application of theories

Website progress

Here is a link which takes you to the website

The development of our band logo

We decided to re-think our logo and perhaps even use the design for the CD cover but change it slightly. Niamh used the graphic tablet to create this design in which she got the inspiration from Instagram. To start off, she drew the design onto a piece of paper before drawing over it with the stylist on the pad. There was a problem because the drawing started to go off the page even when the canvas size was changed. In order to get rid of this problem, Niamh zoomed into the canvas. We then wanted to add the same writing from our original logo onto this one, so we cropped the image on Photoshop to just get the writing. However, at first this came out blurry, so we made the image size on Photoshop smaller. We wanted to combine the fox with a geometric design in order to make it look like it was breaking free, but it didn't turn out that way. Never the less I really do like this design,  

Sneak peek video

We took the footage from the memory card and downloaded the footage onto our school drive. We placed all the footage we had onto premiere pro to put into some sort of order. We cut and edited clips to form a sequence that fitted together and placed the song on top of the footage. We didn't try any effects on the footage just yet, as we wanted to sort the order out first and this is the first preview.

Filming day 1

Organizing to film the music video

To prepare for filming, we used our group chat we have on Facebook messenger to organize when and where we are going to film. We decided to film on Friday the 30th of December at my house as the surroundings and size fits well with the look we are trying to achieve for our music video. I will update blogger as to how this day of filming turns out.

  

Foxgloves on twitter!

In order to make our band website look more official, we have created a twitter page to link onto the website. Every website for a band I have ever looked on always has social media links, therefore we decided that our website should have a social media page. It was quick and easy to set up, we have only tweeted once, but as the year continues we will put out more tweets. We also need to take some photos of the band members so it looks more personalized. Here is the link! https://twitter.com/?lang=en

Character profiles

Moodboard

I made a moodboard to help me map out ideas for our music video and to establish what effect we want to portray. There is a link at the bottom to the moodboard on the website as it won't let me embed the link.

http://www.gomoodboard.com/boards/ZjITW37F/share

Foxgloves merchandise

For the majority of the merchandise I used a website to create my own merchandise because I found using Adobe Photoshop was challenging for me. I used Photoshop for the grey jumper with the fox symbol. At first I watched a tutorial on YouTube to help me, I had to opened both the images on Photoshop, then unlocked the background, I then changed the size of the fox before selecting it and dragging it on to the jumper. After this success, for some reason it wouldn't let me select the fox image it kept deleting itself so instead for the rest of the products I used the other website. I will now be able to use what I have created for our band website for the band merchandise part of it.

Foxgloves merch from hyleanaanthony

The risk assessment

In order to prepare for our music video, we have had to complete a risk assessment. For our thriller, a risk assessment was more appropriate because we filmed outside so there were a lot more potential risks. However, for our music video, none of the suggested risks really apply to us because we are filming indoors for most of it, so to a certain extent the risks are minimized. Never the less, it is still important to complete a risk assessment so collectively we have completed one.

Storyboard

Also, here is the shot list to go with our story board

Shot list say it from hyleanaanthony2

Website practice

Here is a link to my website:
http://editor.wix.com/html/editor/web/renderer/edit/97700940-0536-4735-86cb-c968b8da9cd1?metaSiteId=f8321d0c-5729-4d16-8c67-13c229d2fb48&editorSessionId=BCB98B39-A860-4A8A-B4C5-4B22BEE6454A

Website analysis (10)

In class we have been asked to do a website analysis of a band/artist website in order to see what a professional one looks like. The song we are doing is by Flume, instead of doing an analysis of Flume's website, I have done an analysis instead on the Chainsmoker's website as they are similar artists to Flume. This is so that when we do make our website, I will not be too heavily influenced by Flume's style.