Time Management

These tables were produced so that if me and Lucy had either booked a camera or needed to ask any of our actors a question we would be able to easily know whether they would be free. For filming, as we all finish early on a Wednesday this has been the best day for filming. For photography we have been quite lucky in that during the last week of term some lessons had been cancelled. This enabled us to have more free time so that we could go into the wood and also into the photography suite and get some good group photos.

I think that having time management is really important, and the use of these tables have been extremely useful. I was able to take this from my AS Media project, as we didnt have this it was difficult. This is something which I will be able to use in the future also for my next projects.

Digipak Research- Similar Genre Covers

Here is the Album cover of 'The Script'. There are bright colours and a variety of thoughts and images from this. Building rooftops and smoke coming from chimneys almost gives it a grungey look, with what seems to be a cardboard cut out hand holding two people with what seems to be a rainbow. The fact that there are so many confusing ideas on this one album cover suggests that the album has variety on it... I like this album cover quite a lot even though it is confusing.

Here is the album cover of 'Scouting for Girls'. I realy like the font and the use of colour on this album cover. 'Scouting' suggests they are looking or in search of something, and with the characters here on the boat almost in search of something reflects the title. The sepia effect I think works well, however it doesnt seem to reflect to me what the content is like, (even though it is a good album... there are many songs which seem similar, this may reflect the one event happening on the cover.

Here is the album cover for 'Lights and Sounds' (an unsigned band). This is the current album cover where I picked the music from for my Music Video. Currently it is very plain, and therefore for me the main thing i want to change is the brightness. As I wish for my album cover to reflect the content, like 'The Script' I need to have a lot more colour on it so that people can believe it is full of life. I really like the font of this... I may try and produce my own so that I do not completely take the bands current indentity away.

Effects Research and Uses of Gratification

Effects Research
Effects research is the idea that audiences can differ depending on what type of person they are, or how they are at that moment in time, these perceptions are made by the effects researchers. An audience member is seen to be either Passive, Active or the same. A passive member of the audience is someone who is not really thinking but infact they are just there and seem as though they are involved. An Active member of the audience is therefore the opposite- someone who is highly involved and participating. Effects researchers presumed that all audiences are the same and that they all would have the same response to a media text no matter what their background who what they have seen previously. However this was challenged by researchers such as 'Blumler and Katz (1974)' who believed that audiences do not do what the media wants, but infact the audience decide what they want to do with the Media- uses and gratifications.

Uses and Gratifications

Research For DigiPak

This will be the style of digipak I will be using. I will be designing for sides: front, back and the two inside sides which one will be behind the CD.

Here is the digipak template to show the panels and where they are when i will print it out. I may use a website which allows you to trial their printing and print one CD for free as the trial.

First Day of Production

First day of production opened my eyes tremendously... I didnt realise that at 2.30 on a wednesday afternoon on the edge of town one street so could be so busy!! Luckily i was able to take some photos which I would be able to include in my photostory board. Unfortunately not all of the actors were able to attend, so I only have a few of the cast in the photos, but we were able to see whether they desired camera angles were achievable with our location and college equipment.

If you are able to wait between shots you are able to get the street empty. I still have faith in our idea, and im excited about shooting it!

The Lyrics and Analysis

(Verse 1)
Today I'm on my own again
But when you're here it all keeps coming back and I don't know how to act
When I see you there I don't know what to do
Because I think so fast and I don't know which way to choose
You make me feel so good but you're hardly ever here and I still want you it's true

(Chorus)
So take me out please darling cos I've been waiting all my life
For this feeling, we have wasted so much time
So let's go, tonight we'll be together and
We'll float right up to the sky and fly around the world

(Verse 2)
The days go by and the sun still shines
I long for you and everything you do
My world falls down around you
When I see you there I don't know what to do
Because I think so fast and I don't know which way to choose
It feels so good I hope you feel it too

And I still want you..just you

(Chorus)
So take me out please darling cos I've been waiting all my life
For this feeling, we have wasted so much time
So let's go, tonight we'll be together and
We'll float right up to the sky and fly around the world

(Bridge)
Speak up, shout out, come on woah
Speak up, shout out, come on woah
Make me believe that you are my home
Waiting for you to save my soul

Discussions with our Group

Here is my conversation between the band, starting with asking for permission to use their music to being given the lyrics.

----------------- Original Message -----------------

From: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
To: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (ACOUSTIC SHOW - 27th SEPT) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
Date: 18 Sep 2009, 15:43
Subject:




Dear Lights and Sounds,

We are Lucy and Lauren and we are currently at a sixth form college in Worcester, England. One of our recent projects is to create a music video that includes a track of our choice. This is the difficult part... We have searched Myspace and have come across you. Your music is really remarkable and we would be honoured to be able to feature any of your music in our music video.

The music video we produce will only be used for classroom purposes and to be sent off for evaluation by an exam board; unless you would like it to be shown elsewhere for advertisement.

We would really appreciate it if you could get back to us asap so that we can begin production soon as we have deadlines to meet.

Even if we are unfortunate and do not get the go ahead to use your music, we would just like to say what a great artist you are, and keep up the good work!

From,

Lucy and Lauren

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (ACOUSTIC SHOW - 27th SEPT) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
To: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
Date: 18 Sep 2009, 17:31
Subject: RE:

Hey this is absolutely fine :) which song have you chosen? x

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
To: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (ACOUSTIC SHOW - 27th SEPT) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
Date: 22 Sep 2009, 10:53
Subject: RE:



YAYYYYY :D

Thank you for getting back in touch... we had surprisingly quite a few replies, but in our opinion your music was the best! Congratulations :P

Our FAVOURITE song is 'feel alive' however as you already seem to have a music video for this, we were thinking possibly 'fly around the world' unless you have any other songs not on your myspace which have a similar sound to 'feel alive'.

Where are you all based?

If you have any ideas of things that you may like to see, or any general ideas which may be of use, please feel free to get in touch. The next step for us is planning a video that will compliment your music.

Thanks again, Speak Soon,

Lucy and Lauren


----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (ACOUSTIC SHOW - 27th SEPT) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
To: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
Date: 23 Sep 2009, 16:15
Subject: RE:



Hey that's top news!!

"Fly Around The World" would be great to have a vid for. We say go for it. If you need more info about the song for ideas let us know, but to be honest it's pretty clear from the lyrics what it's all about. We're just soppy romantics!

Please keep us updated with it all. Thanks and speak soon

ALex x

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
To: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (JACK WILLS TOUR DATES UP) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
Date: 24 Sep 2009, 10:38
Subject: RE:


Great! Information on the song would be great, maybe the story behind it? Being soppy is not always a bad thing haha! Could we please be sent the song lyrics so we can have a look at them, just so we're clear on the messages your sending out?

We'll keep you posted :) We just need to pitch our idea to the class, we're sure they'll love you.

Thanks again,

Lucy and Lauren xx

Hi Again,

Any chance on those lyrics? Our pitch had the green light so now we need to think about making a start on production. We are currently in the process of our logistical arrangements and we're making the finishing touches to our research and planning. Any background information on the song would be brilliant.

Hopefully hear from you soon,

Lucy and Lauren

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: LIGHTS AND SOUNDS (ACOUSTIC SHOW - 27th SEPT) (lightsandsoundsmusic@myspace.com)
To: .~*Fallen Angel*~. (lolilol@myspace.com)
Date: 6th Oct 2009, 23.06
Subject: RE:

Hey girls,
Yeah no problem. The song's about a loving someone and getting them to take a chance on you basically. The flying around the world represents that feeling of invincibility you get when you're in love...like you can do anything.
Lyrics are
Today I'm on my own again
But when you're here it all keeps coming back and I don't know how to act
When I see you there I don't know what to do
Because I think so fast and I don't know which way to choose
You make me feel so good but you're hardly ever here and I still want you it's true
So take me out please darling cos I've been waiting all my life
For this feeling, we have wasted so much time
So let's go, tonight we'll be together and
We'll float right up to the sky and fly around the world
The days go by and the sun still shines
I long for you and everything you do
My world falls down around you
When I see you there I don't know what to do
Because I think so fast and I don't know which way to choose
It feels so good I hope you feel it too
And I still want you..just you
Speak up, shout out, come on woah
Speak up, shout out, come on woah
Make me believe that you are my home
Waiting for you to save my soul
Hope that helps...looking forward to seeing it :) good luck xxx

Skills building in 'Technical Week'

A week was put aside by our teacher, where we could pick out several things which we thought may cause complications when either filming or editing.

My worries were:

• Not being able to use the QuarkExpress software, as i mainly use Photoshop.


• Not knowing how to alter the features onthe cameras. E.g. being able to adjust the iris on the cameras or adjust the focus.


• Having no idea how to produce picture in picture with the adobe Premier Pro editing software.

Here is evidence of us achieving a good result with Adobe Premier Pro editing software to produce picture in picture:

Here is a print screen of our footage in the software. You are able to see that all of our clips are at the same time in the timeline however they are on different layers. We managed to do this by clicking on footage on the screen in the top right corner and then being able to drag them and resize them. This meant that I was able to readjust the slips so that they were beside one another rather on top of eachother.

Here is the clip that we produced with our footage:

I was really happy with what we had produced. During the production of this clip we realised that for us to have enough footage we needed to film a lot more than we had originally thought. Having four clips happening at once means that the amount of time our footage covers will decrease. I am glad that we did this test run so that we could have found this out before we came to film it.

Preparing where to shoot our footage...

Before we could begin shooting our music video we needed to make sure we had locations to film, therefore we sent several emails to both odeon and gala bingo, located in worcester to ask if we would be able to film parts of our music video just inside the doorways of both places.

Here is the email that we sent:

Dear ........,

We are Lucy and Lauren and we are currently at a sixth form college in Worcester, England. One of our recent projects is to create a music video, we have control over where we film and we had the entrance of ................ in mind.

Our plan is not to actually film inside, but just the outside and entrance. We require your written permission in order to go ahead with this.

We would be really grateful if we could get a reply as soon as possible.

If this is not possible thank you for your time anyway.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks, Lauren and Lucy


Our reply from Odeon was:

Hi Lauren & Lucy

I can't see this being a problem. What time and when will you be doing the filming :-)

Regards

Paul Castle
Cinema Manager
ODEON Worcester

Our reply from Gala Bingo was:

Hi Lucy

You will need to give me more detail about the purpose of the filming and what it will be used for

Regards Mike
Worcester's Management team:-

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Pete Reeves - COM Operations
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