Media Evaluation - Question 4

Media Evaluation - Question 3

Media Evaluation - Question 2

How effective  is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Media Evaluation - Question 1

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Music Video // Final Version

Changes:

This is the final version of our music video. We decided to change the club scene up a bit, and add a random strobe lighting rainbow effect as we felt something was missing from this section. Also while editing, we accidentally re-arranged the clips at this part, so they were no longer in the correct order, but we felt this made it look more frantic and way more enjoyable to look at, so we decided to keep it. We also were told we used this wrong version of our song, as this was an radio edited version, so we looked for the correct version as it dips in volume sometimes to match the real artists music video, which at times didn't work for our music video. So we corrected this.

Final thoughts:

I am very pleased with the overall turnout of this final version, I love what my group has achieved and believe this is the best we have done so far.

Music Video // third draft

Changes:

This is the third draft to our music video. We have now added in the artist name, title of the song and the name of the record company copyright at the end. We also added a shaking effect to the multi-coloured strobe lighting effect part to make it seem wild and hectic. This has also been done in the club scene, but it very minimal.

Thoughts:

Overall, I am very pleased with the outcome and what we have achieved with this music video. I feel we may need to add some more important changes to this draft to lead to our final draft.

Music Video // second draft

This is the second draft to our music video, featuring improvements. This now features the new and improved job scene, where the Ricky Rabbit attends a job interview. The location has now changed to a school staff room, giving a more professional look and not having the horrible classroom in the background. Also, this now includes the club scene, where Ricky Rabbit goes to the club to dance the night away and him walking into the club doors, to make it more authentic. 

The good:

The club scene looks very real, it looks like it has been filmed in an actual club due to the positioning and the lighting makes it look packed and amazing. Also, we as a group love the new job scene. Before we hated the classroom featuring in the back, we felt it spoilt the professional look of the entire music video so we just had to re-shoot it to meet up with our extremely high standards. So far, so good.

The bad:

We wanted the outside of the club to look relatively dark, as it's common knowledge that people go clubbing in the night. We decided to film during the day and then will try to make it darker in post production, but forgot in this draft so will have to do it for the next.

Overall, this music video is coming along pretty well.

February Schedule

Here is what I intend to do over the course of February. It is mostly editing and blogging, due to us wanting to re-shoot the interview scene to make it look more professional. Also, everything is due on Valentines Day, so I need to make sure I blog and edit the video to completion.

First draft // social media feedback

I posted my music video onto Twitter in an attempt to receive feedback and responses. Those who responded do fit into the target audience for Scott Garcia, so this feedback is very useful. Here is what they said:

There wasn't any proper constructive criticism here, but receiving such good responses shows how our video is on the right track, and most importantly, appeals to my target audience.

First draft // feedback

 This is the feedback we received throughout the feedback of our first draft. As you can see, we did receive a lot of positive feedback. With some even saying they like "Everything really" and " good pace".

Some of the things that need developing is that we need to hold on the rabbit signs need to last a little bit longer as the audience need to be able to read them. Also, we were advised to add colour to the strobe lighting effect part of the music video, and make it "proper mental".

We have taken this advise on board, and we have decided we will change the colour of the strobe part, making it look like a rainbow of colours. We also have decided that it would be good to make the signs last longer so people can understand why they are there.

Music Video // first draft

This is my groups first draft for our music video. There are still some clips that are missing from the video, but we are planning on shooting them very soon.

The good:
I live the overall outcome of this first draft, our video narrative is very unique and entertaining and the result of the video came out far better than I anticipated

The bad:
The only bad thing is that we need to make the edits go more with the beat, and we need to re-shoot the job scene, as we feel it doesn't look realistic and ruins the amazing other parts of the video.

But as a whole, I am very impressed.

Music video plan // club scene

Music Video // Club Scene on MindMup

Here is the plan for our club scene shoot. We need various equipment, people and we will be using our schools drama room for the location. Everything is detailed above.

Music video // props

There is a scene within the music video where our character "The Rabbit" is running home and stumbles across a club promotional poster. He picks it up and decides that he wants to go to this club. So, I decided to create the poster that the rabbit will pick up and look at.

We also saw the opportunity to promote Scott Garcia in the music video, placing him as the celebrity guest who will be hosting the club night, as he also is the DJ in the club scene that comes later on in the music video, so it makes perfect sense.

We opted to go down Scott Garcia's Ibiza style roots and created the fictional name "Eskobar" for the club.

January Schedule

This is what I intend to do over the course of the month of January. Our video features quite a few different scenes, so we decided to do different scenes on different days to make it easier for us, and that way we can edit the music video as we film, leading to it being made quicker.

This month we also have to screen our first draft, so we are going to try film as much as we can to show to the class, and of course, blog as I go along too.

Tutorial

Animatic // video

The pitch // video

The pitch // feedback

We received feedback on our pitch. The feedback was pretty positive, with people saying they like the logo, name, music video idea, genre and various other elements.

Things that need developing:

The main feedback we received about developing is the location of a club. We are going to film the outside of a club, then ask the drama department when they have free rooms, uses their lighting and make it look like a club scene. Also, people have said that they feel the target audience needs to be expanded up to 30 years old. We have took this into consideration, and have decided to do so as we realised they do still go clubbing and they would be hearing this type of music.

Overall, we were very impressed with the feedback we received, as it shows that we are on the correct track and shows that our idea is so far successful.

Production log // November

Above is what I intend to do throughout November 2013. Most of it concerns blogging, digipak and music video editing. I hope to have the second draft of my digipak done by the 18th, and start to plan the next music video shooting in an attempt to start filming the next part in December. 

Planning the first shooting

Since we will be filming on the 30th of October, Kate cleverly decided to create a mind map to use as a plan for the shoot. She included everything we need, which we can use as a check-list before we set off to film, and make sure we have everything we need to avoid a re-shooting. Below is the mind map.