Evaluation Question Four

Evaluation Question Three

Evaluation Question Two

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

Evaluation Question One

Music Video

Actor Issues Updated

From planning to shooting our music video we had many problems with our cast. In total we changed our cast three times. We had to change our cast for various reasons such as lack of time available to film. We had a date set for filming and the second cast backed out on the day of filming. This set us back drastically as we had to find a new cast and film within a shorter deadline. This meant that we had added pressure to make less mistakes as it would be time consuming to go out and re-film parts of the video. Our third cast were good. They got into character and had good availability meaning we could finish our music video to a high quality.

Filming Bloopers

During A2 we had lots of footage that was unused for various reasons such as laughing and lack of relevance. After watching all of the unused footage I decided to create a bloopers video. The footage has came from focus group, voxpop and the music video.

ENJOY

Final Digipak

This post shows my final digipak for my band. I have featured symbols associated with music such as record and pause. This gives a link between the digipak and website that I have created to give a brand identity. I have also featured some similar images on both to show they are part of the same album. On my digipak, I decided to include lyrics to the main song on the album. This gives the audience some interaction with the band. The theme of black and white is shown throughout my digipak, website and music video to give clear fluidity between them. Whilst making this digipak, I had to conduct research to see what the conventions are. After the research I decided to add barcode, production company logos and create my own credits on the back. These all add an authentic feel to the digipak.

Band Website

https://elliswarren20.wixsite.com/mysite

Here is a link to my website for my band. I have created this on Wix which is a platform for making websites. I have included links on my website to an Instagram account that I made for the band as well as a link to the final music video on YouTube. I have wrote a article on the about page and also added photos to a gallery for the audience to view. I analysed some indie band websites before creating my own in order to get conventions of the genre. I have kept the theme of black and white throughout to link all of my production pieces. I have made the website interactive for the audience which makes it authentic as all of the bands I researched such as Kaiser Chiefs had links to social media. I decided to make a website instead of another platform such as a band poster as I felt it would be more challenging and would reflect my genre better.

Credits For Back Cover

I have researched what is in a typical digipak. This meant that I researched in depth the back cover. There are conventions for this such as credits, song titles, barcodes and logos of the companies involved. This resulted in planning what companies to use and researching the genre. It also meant that I have wrote my own credits being inspired by other indie bands credits and looking what is common in the credits. I have therefore wrote my own:

‘2017 trademarked to The Originals Ltd (2010). Under exclusive license of Sony Entertainment.  The copyright in this sound recording is owned by the Originals. All rights reserved. Recorded by Paul Davidson at PAD Studios. Produced by Ellis Warren and Elle Lewin. Manufactured in UK.   All songs written by The Originals. Published 2017 by Sony Entertainment. Unauthorised duplication is a violation of applicable laws.’

Album Front Cover Example

For my digipak I have decided to conduct some planning before creating my final piece. I have done this by creating a back and front cover example. This allows me to play around with various platforms such as Photoshop and PowerPoint before choosing my platform for my final digipak. I have used black and white as this was used in my music video and makes a clear link between the two. I have decided to use music symbols which I think has turned out well. I may use this idea in my final piece as I think it works well. The planning allowed me to get feedback from my examples to help me make decisions on changes and what to keep. I also decided to plan in order to know what images I needed to take whilst filming. This helps me plan ahead for filming to save time for the actors and myself. The images I have used on my example are from Google therefore I can see what styles image I want to take and make a list to shoot whilst filming.

Changes To Actors

As a team, we have decided to change our actors for our music video. This was due to lack of availability with our producers and actors which meant we had limited time which wasn't feasible for both parties. This forced us to change actors as time is becoming an issue to people without responsibilities such as part time jobs and hobbies to allow flexibility. We were becoming increasingly worried as our times that overlapped with actors were of limited availability meaning we would not have time to do more shots than needed in case we wanted make slight changes in the editing stage. Changing the actors has made us both more determined to film at a high standard allowing clean editing and an overall professional looking music video.

Website Moodboard & Planning

 

Digipak Moodboard

Back Cover

Digipak Planning

 

List Of Actors

Update On Shooting Schedule

One of my previous posts was a shooting schedule which showed the intended dates of filming being 25th,  26th and 27th  November 2016. The filming did not happen on these proposed dates due to unforeseen circumstances as some of the members of the acting team were unavailable to film on these dates. We have decided to rearrange the schedule to 10th and 11th February 2017. This allows us to arrange the date with the team again to ensure the same issue didn’t occur again.

Lyrics Ideas and Thoughts