My completed video with all the parts combined together to make the final version, this for me was more about challenging my technical skills with the editing as much as anything else.
Isaacs Advanced Portfolio
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Final Video
My completed video with all the parts combined together to make the final version, this for me was more about challenging my technical skills with the editing as much as anything else.
Monday, 30 April 2012
Final Poster
This is my final edited version of the poster after many hours tweaking on photoshop trying to make the symbol of tia caqsella look like grafiti on the wall to using picnik to find the right font. I did start off trying to use the window however the text was not large enough for people to read therefore i decided to have it on the wall but the text itself wasn't enough. This was when i had come up with the idea of putting the symbol for my artist that i created on adobe illustrator onto the big white space in the middle which gave it my finishing touch and linked it with my digipack, finally it's finished.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Final Digi Pack
This is my final digi pack finished, i started trying to create it on adobe illustrator but the program proved to be to basic in editing photos that i could not even crop my photos, so instead of me using the pen tools and fillers to create the whole front pannel of my digipack i then switched to photoshop. This was much easier to use for all my photos as i had the benefit of using raw photos therefore i then found some photoshop tuttorials to help me create my first drafts of my fron digipack pannel which then led me to creating the final front pannel. By following generic conventions i came up nwith the ideas for my other pannels of the digi pack to stick with live performance and electro pop, with the jack cable as the cd cover to the speaker refering to live performances and the modern electr pop feeling with my protaganist leg just in show. Again another theme was that you couldn't see my protaganist's face as you can already see her in my poster and i though it would be good to challenge conventions by not showing her face like most artists of my genre.
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
Evaluation 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and
ancillary texts?
There are certain motifs that stand out in all of my
products for example within the music video I kept to the colour scheme of
black red and white this was to really try and get across three different
emotional versions of my singer so that it could appeal to three different
types of audience members, as I was always trying to sell her in the way of
voyeurism to my audience therefore I thought I should go down the same route
when it came to my ancillary task. This meant that when it came to my poster I
knew there was at one point during the filming a perfect shot which showed my
singer looking very seductive but slightly vulnerable and innocent, also the
way she was framed was perfect for putting the rest of the information needed
to go on my poster therefore I felt that the poster was really selling just as
much as what the video had to offer. There is one difference though that when
it came to my digipack I really wanted to remind people that my genre was
electro pop but at the same time I wanted to give the feel that my performer
was a really good live performer as well so to incorporate that into the
selling of my singer I thought I should aptly name the album, Stage Presence, which
fitted with how she looks on camera and acts yet at the same time insinuates
she loves the stage including live arena’s therefore making the link with live
performances. I don’t think I showed this much in my video or hinted it in my
poster however the main construction of my digipack did really revolve around
that idea hence the cover underneath the cd was made of the jack leads put
together to again emphasise the feeling that she is a performer and is just as
good on tour, yet sticking to the typical conventions of electro pop by showing
the speaker and the microphone in the case as well.
However in the midst of creating the digipack and the poster
at the same time I really wanted to have something that linked them because I
had already shown my lead singer in the poster so I thought it would be best to
challenge the conventions of my genre electro pop and not have my singer all
over the cover of my digipack as I think it entices listeners and viewers to
want to look her up and watch her whether it would be her live videos or her
performance ones either way it was all about enticing the audience in. So to
link my two ancillary tasks together I came up with the idea of having a brand
logo (The TC that you see in both of them) so that this way you could always
identify the brand of Tia casella and link it to anything without having to see
my performers face over everything and I think that subtlety works when coming
to sell an album to an audience.
The links between my digipack and main product aren’t as strong
as the poster however I have tried to incorporate aspects from the music video
into the digipack, things such as sticking to the colour scheme to give you
three different aspects of my digipack, which would be the live performance,
video performance and the tour performance, along with the microphone panel
with the red electrical energy flowing from her to show how new and exciting
her character is, jut like the feel when you are chucked straight in with the
music videos choppy start so it captures your attention and alerts you to
something quick and enticing.
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Evaluation 3
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
From the start of conception I wanted to have my music video
as a narrative, I took the lyrics far too literally and started to try to
create a relationship between a man and women from what I took from the lyrics
and in the end it was becoming very far-fetched ideas because instead of trying
to come up with original ideas of my own, with a different meaning I was trying
to suit ideas to the song which I very quickly realized wasn’t working as when
I gave my ideas to the class the feedback I got was that it would be very
simple and cheesy to watch, along with the fact that this kind of storyline
wouldn’t really suit the genre of my music track which at the time I wasn’t
100%on. So from my first feedback session I realized I had a basic knowledge of
music genres and what performances suit which so I started to research into
different bands videos such as muse to get the synth feel that I have in my
song as well.
I then went into my video with a completely new concept
focusing on really trying to sell my singer with a simplistic concept that
would attract the audience straight away, and after getting a good response
from the class about this idea I went ahead to start filming so that I could
really show people what I wanted to make. As I couldn’t explain a few of the
shots I wanted to use in my video I decided to compile a little clip from Florence
and the machines and a mix of the shot that I wanted that I found on YouTube of
an alleyway, and edited them together with some of my music track so I show
people a bit of my idea before it was finished and the fact that people were
saying they could really see the music suiting the dancing from Florence and
the mix of low angle medium shots of an alleyway suited the feel of the music
track, so from then on I knew what I was going to be filming.
Whilst editing the white part from my music video that I had
filmed I kept in mind the comments from my fellow students that the edit I had
done of Florence fitted the music track, so I made the decision to make my
edits to the beats of the music as from what I gathered that would bring people
into the feel of the genre more and wanting to watch my singer as snappy quick
edits requires them to focus more and shouldn’t really give them time to get to
bored. Once I finished a part of the white section I exported it and put it
onto YouTube so that I could get feedback from other teachers to offer advice
at what level I was heading at with what I had done so far. Fortunately I had
some really good comments saying I was working towards a level 4 and that the
edits on the beat of the music worked really well, however there were some
warnings not to keep going with the same repetitive pattern otherwise it could
get quite boring to watch. With that in mind I set about moving onto to film
the black section of my video.
Once I finished the editing of the black section I then put
it next to the white section to get the contrast I wanted and put that on YouTube
to see if I was still going in the right direction and it still fitted with the
voyeuristic style of selling my singer to the audience. The feedback I then got
was from some colleagues and teachers that my teach new and this was very
helpful as they give very constructive comments which are quite hard to get
from friends who only tend to say they like it or that it looks nice, anyway
they thought that the black section was much more interesting to watch as the
editing style was more about finding the right music beats and seemed much
tighter, this was because the time between editing the two my skills in editing
had improved so with this information in hand I then went about changing
the start of the white section with a
few inserts of the black clips so it would introduce the next section.
After completing my music video with the red sections
included, all put together and finalised I posted my video onto the social
networking site Facebook so that I could get the audience feedback from friend
s to see if what I had created suited the genre and also to get an idea of
whether or not my music video was suited for the age range of my friends. The
feedback I got from them was quite useful, such as comments about how the
editing worked really well contrasted to some people suggesting that maybe
there should have been a narrative as it was quite samey just seeing the singer
dancing in a similar way throughout the whole piece. Overall the constructive
comments made me look back on my music video as more as a project that developed
my skills in the editing suite and hopefully will help me to create better
projects.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Friday, 30 March 2012
Audience Feedback
From the edited parts i already had done, which were the black part (30 seconds) and the white part (30 seconds) Mr wallis sent them to some of his collegues who gave some very useful feedback, here are some of the emails that and comments he got back.
These comments were really usefull as people liked both parts of the music video the white and the black when i was afraid that the majority would prefer the black as that was where i found that my editing was most strong as i had had more time on the computer after editing the white sequence. It's constructive comments about the nightclub was quite usefull as one of my conception ideas was to film in a nightclub but in the end i couldn't do it as i wouldn't have been aloud to film everyone in a nightclub and also get my uinderage lead singer in one aswell. However overall it is really a confidence boost to see that people are saying i am going in the right direction and after the majority prefering the black part i shal probably look at re editing some of the white part as i now feel my skills have developed further with editing on adobe Premier pro.
Friday, 9 March 2012
Filming shoot 2
For my second shoot I wanted to get the black background so I decided to film in the drama studio of our school which is really useful as within the drama studio it has its own lighting rig with theatre lights if I wanted to use them. It turns out I didn’t need them as the problem was that the light they gave off was to warm and didn’t define Effie enough when she was moving so I used the lights from media which were photographic bulbs so they were much brighter, however that was where I encountered a problem. Out of the three lights that we have two of the bulbs had broken so I ended up with just one light left, and this took up a lot of time as I had to then test to see if the actual lights were broken rather than the bulbs which ended up digging into the little time I had with Effie. With one light, I then had to start filming the shots I needed with only side lighting however this added a really great effect as it made it feel as though she was enticing you in as you want to see more of her face and body when she dances into the light.
Another problem I
encountered was that even though the drama studio was black there were still a
lot of scratches on the wall where the paint had come off and also the ceiling
was not painted black at all so this limited the amount of low angle shots I
could get as it meant you would see the white ceiling in the background, and
this would be even more noticeable when it came to editing as the contrast
would be put up to keep in likeness with the white section. So I really had to
think about where I could move with the camera to get the best shots yet still
not get any plug sockets or shafts of light from the fire exit coming into
shot. However one thing did occur to me was that if I got just a little of the
ceiling in view it won’t matter as when it came to editing I could just scale
the size of the shot up so I would still have the angle of the shot but cut out
the ceiling as it would have zoomed in slightly.
In this shoot Effie is wearing the white dress as I really
wanted to give a strong contrast from her tight restricted movements in the
photography and the tight black dress, compared to the freedom of movement she
has in her white dress but still with the element of the black trapping her
like the black dress restricted her movement in the white area the black space
restricts the area in which she can move around but with what space she has got
she can move much more freely as if she is trying to break out. The reason for
having this feel to it is because I find it suits the electro pop genre of
music and again those types of dance movements and acting vulnerable really
play to capturing an audience which obviously would be a main point to focus
when creating my music video.
The cage idea was slightly influenced by the music video Atari
teenage riots song blood in my eyes as a cage is featured in that along with
some grimy scenes, it inspired me to really go for the vulnerable girl theme
whilst at the same time being very seductive and having the cage allowed me to
express that by giving Effie the direction to reach out of the cage towards the
camera so it would feel as if she was reaching out to you as an audience member
to help her yet at the same time I would have some high angle shots to then
bring out the feeling of the audience in power which would then emphasise Effie’s
seductive facial expressions. The aim was that at no point would the audience
loose interest or stop looking at her and hopefully wanting her as it Is proven
to be successful by appearing to the male gaze theory as that is half your
audience covered along with the fact that some women could watch and be
influenced to be like her, therefore covering both sexes of my audience.Thursday, 1 March 2012
Editing the white part
So after having shot all the white footage in the
photography studio and importing it into Adobe premiere pro I started to sort
through my footage and play about with the contrasting and the and the effects.
Straight away I changed all the pieces of footage (which turned out to be 12
minutes) to black and white and changed the contrast levels to get the optimum
shades of black and white without compromising her facial expressions and her
body being to blocky and sharp with the colours. As you can see in the picture
here the whites and blacks are definitely more defined but the main reason for
this was that you would then focus on the performer much more and therefore
sticking to the voyeurism of Goodwin’s theory getting more attention for the
artist.
Some
complications that have arisen so far from editing the white part is that it is
tricky with some of my lower angle shots to keep her in the frame when I scale
the size down, the reason I had to scale the size down was because when getting
the low angle shots I needed the ceiling comes into shot and it is in a bit of
a state so to overcome that I scaled up the shots which also gave me a range of
more close up shots. This was useful as it gave the white sequence a more
diverse feel as there was now a larger variety of shots to keep the audience
interested.
After having this first draft done I think I might change
the editing slightly as to me it seems very similar in the fact that between
each of the lines of song the sharp editing is the same pace and it seems as
though it goes on a bit too long, and I am worried the audience might feel that
as well and seeming that this is the opening I don’t want people to get bored
straight away so I might play around with the shots and add in some longer
connecting shots.
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