The Video

Digipak

Magazine Advert

Evaluation: Question 1

Evaluation question 2

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

Our Digipak was produced in Adobe Photoshop, and it was important related to the music video and the actual song. below is an image showing my Digipak:

 

 

The front and back cover of the Digipak is in black and white, this represented our dress code in the music video as these were also the band's main colours so there was also a reference to the bands theme. The name of the band is 'Silent Sundays' so we decided that our digipak should also have a reference to our bands name, the first panel of the digipak is a church door, the reason we went with the church theme was because of the bands name, the sunday part. Once the door is opened the rest of the digipak shows the front of a church, by making our digipak like this we were showing our audience and opening into the album through the digipak and I found this very effective.

 

The Magazine advert was also created in Adobe Photoshop and below is an image showing the magazine advert:

 

 

 

The magazine advert needed to have reference to our music video and the bands main theme's, so we decided to make the main image the inside of the churchm which is also found on the inside of the digipak, we used the same font as the one found on the digipak and found that the way our magazine advert looks was very effective as it has strong links to the bands theme and style.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Evaluation question 3 (wordle)

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Before we began the process of filming our music video we had chosen our music and the genre of it which was indie, we made a survey in order for us find out who our target audience would be and were they mostly view music videos.

 

The image above shows the survey and the results we gained from this showing that most young teenagers watch music videos on YouTube and as we were opting to upload our music video onto YouTube this will be great our target audience, who are teenagers and young adults, will easily be able to view it. The feedback we received from out audience was mainly positive as they enjoyed the music video, this was good for us as we had worked hard to get the band together film and edit the music video. Most of our audience particularly enjoyed the lip synching as they thought this was immaculately done and was not recognisable unless told, they also enjoyed our props as our dress was black and white and shirt and tie as we tried to look as indie as possible, this was great for us that audience liked our dress code because we felt that this was extremely important when portraying an indie band.

 

To receive audience feedback we asked some of our target audience some important questions about our music video, these were as followed:

 

1. Did you enjoy the music video

Out of 12 people who we asked this 7 replied saying yes they enjoyed it, and 5 replied saying no they didn't enjoy, overall the majority of those asked enjoyed it so we were satisfied with this as we wanted to make this a fun and enjoyable video for the audience.

 

2. What did you most like about the music video?

We asked one of our target audience who had enjoyed the music video this question, and they replied saying "I mostly loved the music video because it tells a story which go along with the lyrics, and you guys have done that so well to show this in the music video". From these feedback I learned that the audience did see what the video was about and what the meaning of the video is about, so this showed that we had done what we wanted to do successfully with our target audience recognising this.

 

3. What did you not like about the music video?

We asked this to those of our target audience who replied saying they did not enjoy the music video,  so we wanted to know why, this was the answer we got. " Towards the end of the video the editing got sloppy, and the lip synching was not matching with the sound of the song, and camera work was slightly off point when the guy was walking down the hall way". From these feedback I was not surprised at what the audience did not like about the music video because we did recognise this and tried our best to fix this but did not have enough time to do so, also with the camera work showing the guy walking down the hall way, this was done in a hurry and should have been more careful when recording it to make sure the camera work was good.

 

4. If you could change anything about video, what would it be?

For the question the main reply that kept popping up was, "we wanted to see the band more", the reason why we did not show the band as much because before filming and beginning the process of this music videos we researched indie bands and songs, and viewed some of their videos, one of our inspirations was the song 'Dani California' by the 'Red Hot Chilli Peppers', and some of the songs by 'The Arctic Monkeys' we realised that they mainly showed the lead singer throughout the whole video, and only show a few clips of the band throughout the video, this was why we did not show the band as a whole a lot throughout the music video, and showed me, the lead singer a lot throughout the music video.



Evaluation Question 4

Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
03/12/12 03/12/12 04/01/2013 04/02/2013 14/02/2013	Scenery The band members as a whole Lights Lead singer solo by himself Boy and girl argument	Whaleborn Lane Robert clack (Upper) – Drama room Robert clack (Upper) – Drama room Robert clack (Upper) – Drama room Café – Whalebone lane House	- Drums, guitar, microphone & stand Stage lights (colours) Microphone & Mic-stand None	- Black trousers, White shirt, skinny black tie None None Casual clothing	- - None None None

Editing process of music video

The editing process of the thriller was done by Simon Akinwunmi, a member of our group for the music video, so far he has been trying to match what we have filed to the music so the  lip synching is on time and looks as if the character is singing the actual song.. In order to make a successful music video, Simon would have to edit to the beat. to catch it right on the base guitar, we selected the Song on final cut and locked the clips. Then he played the audio clip and pressed the key, command + (M) every time you hear the base guitar then would move my clips into position. This was effective because he then edited to the beat which made everything mash/come together.

Shot list

Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 5	1 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2	The lead singer Michael holding the microphone and singing The band members are in action, playing their instrument and the lead singer is singing. close up of the instruments Close ups of instruments, Guitars, drums,guitar stick Background shots Close ups of the band members Close-ups of the guitarists Ground up shot of guitarist Shots of spotlight Shot of spotlight reflection on band members.

Character Plan

Character Name: Michael Matute (Lead singer)
Costume: ·       Skinny black tie ·       Black trousers ·       Black shoes ·       White shirt	Props: ·       Microphone ·       Mic-stand
Character Name: Simon Akinwunmi (Bass guitarist)
Costume: ·       Skinny black tie ·       Black trousers ·       Black shoes ·       White shirt	Props: ·       Guitar ·       Guitar stap
Character Name: Freddy
Costume: ·       Skinny black tie ·       Black trousers ·       Black shoes ·       White shirt	Props: ·       Drum kit
Character Name: Nyasha
Costume: ·       Skinny black tie ·       Black trousers ·       Black shoes ·       White shirt		Props: ·       Guitar ·       Guitar strap

Location sheet

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: Make you a saint Writer: simon Akinwunmi Producer: Sofiyat Kasim Director: Michael Matute Date: 15/12/12

Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to note Access to location via: Student pass card Name and number of location contact: Robert clack school (Upper site) - 020 8270 4200 ‎

Health and Safety Issues to note: There has to be a teacher present in the drama room.  We cant tamper with any of the equipment as we could harm ourselves due to the high electric currents.

Potential Filming Problems : Not having the media room available to us. Not using the instruments due to other people using it. Time.

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc) Gosfield Rd Dagenham Essex  RM8 1JU Since we are filming mostly inside the school, the weather forecast would not be a problem for us.

Digipak - Front cover

The front cover of our Digipak had to link with our band and what our band is about, so to do this we needed to use the right colors, image and font to represent our band style and music. Our main colors would be black and white because these are the colors the band uses so we decided to go with them for our front cover, and finally as our theme is a religious them we used a bible font. The image below shows our Digipak front cover:

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Analysing audience research- survey monkey

As you can see from the image above and the audience research it shows that young people mostly watch music videos on youtube. This is mainly because young people now days are always on the internet and watching music videos and socialising online more than actually watching music videos on TV.  This is why from the research young people mostly watch music videos on youtube.

Digipak ideas

Digipak ideas

Digipak ideas

Silent sundays - church theme Church with the symbolism to make it seem holy. For the title of the album in old english. This could be a possible idea for our digipak as the band is called silent sundays and this may suit their name.