Final Products

Music Video;

      

Ancillary Texts;

 

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 2

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

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Ancillary Texts Second Drafts

After completing my first drafts I added spotify, facebook and other social media logos to the bottom, I also changed the colour of the logos to fit better with my colour scheme. For my digipak I changed the front cover image as I felt the first one didn't fit, this one I've chosen was taken the same time as filming one of my scenes in my video. 

Disneyland Trip

For my birthday my parents have booked a last minute trip to disneyland paris, as i need to re shoot some scenes anyway i will be doing so in disneyland to create a more interesting mise-en-scene and video in general, im hoping to have the hands of the person who's point of view the video is to also be filmed as this will create better verisimilitude and continuity of time and space. One shot im hoping to re shoot is the holding hands shot nearer the beginning of my video, however im hoping to shot this down main street USA with the Disney castle in the background. The more happier 'memories' in the video will be shot here as the connotations of disneyland will reflect this. I will also be shooting the airport scenes from my animatic in paris, Charles de gaulle and doncaster robin hood airport. im hoping to get shots of me walking with a suitcase and shots of an airplane in general.

Advert Ancillary drafts

First Draft

Below is my first draft for my magazine advert, after creating this i realised the album title is misplaced and not bold enough and it is missing a release date, website and record label

Second Draft

This draft is older and more conventional, the text stands out better and there is a record label, website URL and release date for the album included thus fitting the conventions

Third draft

This draft is for wither a half or quarter page in a magazine, again it includes all of the conventions and also includes where to buy the album other than the website. I create two with different things in different positions to experiment with my ideas and to see what looked best.

My magazine adverts in context;

To create continuity and verisimilitude i decided to photoshop my adverts actually into magazines and on websites as they would appear in real life.

In kerrang magazine;

In a magazine as a full page and half page;

On the Kerrang! magazine website;   

Digipak Draft

How I created my Digipak

First of all I started with initial photos I took at my filming locations and stills from my video to help create a base for the digipak its self, I used a photo from the lyrics analysis i created for the disk for the music video as the lyrics on the image link with the music video.

Secondly I started adding the text, i chose to do all the text in black and white and handwritten to resume the continuity within the music video, I did this by handwriting what i wanted onto a piece pf paper and the scanning it in and placing it onto my digipak using the magic wand tool (step by step on how i did this below)

After adding the text I also added logos such as the record label and the barcode to fit the conventions of a digipak

After looking at the above digipak I realised there was something missing therefore I decided to add a beige colour to the background of my cd/dvd compartment, I chose this colour so it would fit with my overall colour scheme.

Ancillary text ideas and research

Existing Album artworks;

Initial Ideas;

Colour scheme ideas; For my ancillary texts I've chosen to keep the neutral colours of browns/beige's/reds to keep the continuity throughout my work.

Codes and Conventions;

Magazine advert-

Smaller magazine advert (half page/quarter page)-

Drawing/Animation Ideas

For my music video I would like to incorporate a small element of animation, this would include hand drawn drawings in my video and making them move. Below is a range of drawings I have drawn and scanned into the computer I would like to include in my video as I feel like these fit perfectly with the theme and atmosphere of my chosen song.

Making these move will be a bit of a challenge and would be very time consuming however I will go about this by converting them into png files like I have done with the lyrics and like I have done on my ancillary texts. I will make them move by changing their position every frame so they are on a continuous loop of moving. I would like to make the arrow move around the screen and make things like the hearts beat, the stars twinkle, and the broken heart break and split even more, and the rain fall. 

Existing videos which include elements of animation like these are listed below;

Justin Bieber - Where are U Now 

Bring Me The Horizon - True Friends 

Audience Feedback

Below is a prezi presentation of my audience feedback and how I will use this to improve.

My First Draft

For my first draft I decided to experiment with the lyrics and how they would be displayed therefore there are a range of ideas shown within this and I will be obtaining audience feedback. There are also some shots which are incomplete due to me planning on filming in new york and over the christmas holidays, however I am happy with this first draft.

Lyric Style Influences and My Handwritten Lyrics

Anastasia Tasou

As I will be writing the lyrics of the song over the top of my footage I have decided to write them in a similar style to 22 year old UK freelance artist Anastasia Tasou. Tasou creates art which links to her thoughts and feelings therefore I would like to incorporate this within my video to link with the personal and emotional feel and themes within my video. I would also like to do little doodles over my footage (such as the photo series I created for my song) much like in the style of Tasou.

Work by Tasou;

My handrawn lyrics for my video;

Health and Safety Assessment

Casting, Mise-en-scene, Props, Location, Costumes, Cast List

Costumes & makeup

As I have decided to be in my own music video I created some time lapse videos showing costume ideas for my music video.

For casting I decided to be in my own music video as I am the look I would like for my video.

Costume idea 1;

Influences- 

Front women of indie rock bands such as Jenna Mcdougall of Tonight Alive, Hayley Williams of Paramore and Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless have inspired my first costume idea greatly due to the flannel shirts, denim shorts, dark makeup and hairstyles.

Costume idea 2;

Influences- 

Women in the rock music industry such as Ashley Costello of New Years day and Taylor Momsen and The Pretty Reckless have influenced this costume idea due to the dark makeup, stand out hair and outfit choices

Mise-en-scene, Location ideas;

I took a trip to lord line and documented my visit in a video to show my footage of where I would like to film.

Documented footage of my trip to Hull Marina 

Animatic

I created my Animatic using windows movie maker and used the text tool to represent how I would like to present my lyrics when editing.

Storyboard

Production Plan

Lyrics

Analysis of lyrics

For my music video I will be cutting the first 42 seconds from the song as I feel the song is already too long and there is not much i can do with this part of the song in my video, therefore I will be analysing the lyrics from 43 seconds onwards. I also created a photo series to my song with photographs I took at Lord Line and Whitby to create the overall feel, tone atmosphere and mood for my video. I believe all the lyrics to this video create imagery and therefore its easy to create visuals. The photo series also portrays how i would like the lyrics to be shown in my video.

Lyrics;

I remember you ascending all the stairs up to the balcony
to see if you could see me - hidden quietly away
And I remember the skin of your fingers,
The spot three quarters up I'd always touch when I was out of things to say.
You held my hand, but you were too afraid to speak and I could never understand.
I remember when you leaned in quick to kiss me, and I swear,
that not a single force on earth could stop the trembling of my hand,
And I remember how you smiled through the smoke
in a crowded little coffeehouse and laughed at all my jokes.
And I remember the way that you dressed and,
how we wasted all the best of us in alcohol and sweat
And I remember when I knew that you'd be leaving, how I barely kept up breathing
and I bet if I had to do it all again, I'd feel the same pain,
And I remember panicked circles in the terminal in tears.
How I wept to god in fits. I've hated airports ever since.
It must be true what people say, that only time can heal the pain.
And every single day I feel it fade away, but -
I still remember how the distance tricked us,
and lead us helpless by the wrist into a pit to be devoured.
I still remember how we held so strong to this,
though we had never really settled on a way out.
I still remember the silence, and how we'd always find a way
to turn and run to our mistakes.
I still remember how it all came back together just to fall apart again.
My dear, I hear your voice in mine.
I've been alone here, I've been afraid, my dear.
I've been at home here. You've been away for years. I've been alone.
I breathed your name into the air; I etched your name into me.
I felt my anger swelling; I swam into its sea.
I held your name inside my heart, but it got buried in my fear.
It tore the wiring of my brain; I did my best to keep it clear.
So, dear, no matter how we part, I hold you sweetly in my head.
And if I do not miss a part of you, a part of me is dead.
If I can't love you as a lover, I will love you as a friend.
And I will lay a bed before you; keep you safe until the end.

Lyrics Analysis using my photo series;