December 2014

Throughout the whole of December, we filmed more and more for our video. We filmed the band shots that we needs for our video. By filming these band shots to put into our video, this helped us to promote our band more throughout the video. We were told to make this change to make the video more effective, for the same reason, to promote our band. This made the video better in the sense that it felt more of a band video rather than the one or two singers. We then added in the band shots into the video along with any other lip syncing and misc shots that we have used. We added in misc shots because that was the image of our band. We didn't want the video to make sense and we wanted the band image to be about having fun. This was the draft from adding the band shots. 

There are many differences between our previous drafts and this is due to the band shots being added. This adds more to the video as it isn't just a mix of shots and the video now has much more structure to it.

We then started to make our ancillary products, our Digipak and website. We started to make the website on wix.com however i was stuck with where to begin because we had to have photos that featured our band. We knew then to take photos that would feature on a band website. We looked at other websites that suited our genre, for example, Gotye. We saw that they mostly used pictures of there band together. We knew to take photos of our band. We also used shots from the Digipak and from our video. This is because we wanted a link to each media related to the band. 

I also found a way to add a video into the home page. Although this is only a draft, by experimenting with the software it helped me to understand how the website creator works and create the best possible website.

let loose story board vs video

Let Loose Draft 2

November 2014

Week 1 -2 
This was the time where we filmed most of our shots and most of the editing took place. We found it better to spend most of this time editing our video. Through doing this, we had more time to add to it as we knew now exactly what shots fitted best in the video, although some were very different to our storyboard. This was because some of the shots that we had planned to do were too hard for us to film, or we had tested the shot against the music and incorporated it in the video and found that it didn't work as well as other shots or ideas that we had. This was were we spent time tweaking the video. We wanted a first draft to be completed by the week after. 

This week we made our band social media. We had to make Facebook and Instagram profiles for each member of our group. This was to connect the members to our audience. This is a presentation of what we made:




Week 3 
By this time we had created the first rough draft of our video. We had made a title page and edited the basic shots. This draft is extremely basic and we had received feedback already as to what to change.

This is our first draft: 

We are very new to editing music videos and this is shown. Also feedback from our class and respondents of an interview said that our main singer should be more confident with lip syncing. This is what we have to alter in our next time filming and editing. 

We also had to develop our research. We looked at research on props and location to find where we wanted to film and what we should wear and use. We looked at similar genres of our video and used this as inspiration for our video.
Last week of November
With my class we went on a trip to the BFI, where we learnt how to make an effective music video. This helped my group and I make our video as good as possible. We had to go to London for this trip, this gave us the opportunity to film some shots in London as we didn't have a lot of time to get up to London to film. The shots were filmed on London Southbank, during the Christmas season and they fitted well within our video.

We then started to film our video. We had a challenge as it was hard to film the shots that we wanted to do were based around the summer and due to it becoming winter. With the weather changing we had to use the last bits of sunlight 

Risk assessment

What would you like us to assess next?

I would like you to analyse my drafts of my video and the research that goes with it. Also look at my production diary to check whether I have completed it up to date.

What are you current targets to improve?

I need to complete my production diary. This will help me to track where I have been and what I am going to do next. I also need to put all my research onto my blog. This will show the reasons as to why I have chosen specific things, rather than them being a spontaneous decision.