In what ways did you use new media technolgies within the production of your project ?

What have you learned form your audience feedback ?

What have you learned from your audience feedback ?

View more presentations from savagej.

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

In regards to the effectiveness of the three products and how well they work together in unison, is a matter best discussed with the aid of feedback from my peers and others. However before we talk about the feedback,first I would like to discuss my own opinions and feelings on the products, ranging from continuity of design to consistency of standard. The use of certain colors and shades was an area in which I attempted to be as consistent as possible, closely following and using a set of colors associated with the feeling of being 'content', whilst also incorporating the use of leaves and colors you would be likely to see in the summer and the autumn. Oranges, yellows,browns, whites and blacks. The latter of course referring to shade away from the sun and not feelings. I feel that my three media products use these colours well to create this feeling of 'content' and 'enlightened happiness' , in particular my digi-pack. I would personally say that this product was the most consistent in potryaying these emotions, whilst the poster suffered failure at the point in which it was strongest; the use of the leaves. Obviously the leaves potrayed these feelings well, but pull the product due to its varying shades clashing with text. The video on the other hand. I had orinaglly intended to incorprate these colours into the video, therefore really promote this feeling. However in comparison to the other two products,  the colours wern't as vivd as they  could have been due to band weather on shoots. Besides this, the narrative and camera movements do still help carry this emotion through, probaly more so than just use of colours would have. The single constant joining the three products is of course the track,  so thinking about the track in relation to the individual products and how that worked enabled me to see much clearer how each product related to its original inspiration. Then after assessing how each individual product worked with the track, it was easier to asses how they all worked as a unit. I feel that my three products work together well, and the general feeling is consistant throughout, the standard however could be improve on behalf of the poster and colours involved within the video, but on the whole i feel the standard is good and consistent.

Now its time for audience feedback-

Dan Coulston - The Digi-pack and the poster both work very fluently together creating this ' bohemian/independant' feel;. The use of colors clearly bridges the gap between the poster and digi-pack , I would defiantely make the link between the two, highlighting there effectivness. The video displays this bohemian feel through the use of images well, however not so much through the use of colours as the ancillary products did. However as a group I feel all three work well together.

Leah Beavis - I liked the earthy feel to the colours used in the Digi-pack, makes it astheically pleasing. I feel the colours complemented the track very well. I would say on the back cover of the Digi-pack the track name "colour" could be more pronounced. In regrads to the poster, yet agiain i feel the use of colours is effective, and i would say i would instantly make the link between the digi-pack and the poster. The video could use these colours more to keep total contiunity between the two, however on the whole i feel the products work well in unison.

So again as first stated,it is the consistency of the colors in the video that seems to be the shortfall. Perhaps i could of used lighting, even outside to try to bring forward some of the colors i lost due to the weather. However this may have been difficult. So to conclude; In terms of the emotional effect these products radiate, i feel that each of the products demonstrates the feeling of warmth and peacefulness that i had originally had intended. So in terms of an emotive link between the products, I feel it is strong as each product sends off this feeling therefore joining as one emotion, and one product.  In terms of the general aesthetic, the products work well well on the basis of colors, lighting and pleasing images. However the products were limited in the continuity, for example font, and orangery yellows within the video. This was largely bypassed though by the emotive link given out by the use of colors and shades in the ancillary tasks, and by the story line and shots in the video.

In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge the conventions of real media products.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi

Video + feedback

George Attwill - When it came to conveying the narrative, perhaps it could have been cleary in parts, and time mangement towards the end. The opening two shots could have been a bit shorted and more concise. I like the graphic match has a feel good vibe about it whyich fits the song genre, and the links involving visulizers does give a physcadelic feel to the video.

Dan Coulston - Some shots were slightly shaky, nsome of the transitions didnb't work and felt a bit last minute but the flow of the video is incredible and some of the angles used seem to work very well in the shot, the parts that were lipsynched were done very well and captured the flow of the song very well.

Costumes. Car . and general things.

Characters

Main person             - Josh Savage
Bassist                      - Ceejay Broadhead
Hippie 1                   - Dan Coulston
Hippie 2                   - Dylan Elwell
Quirky Dude            - Kieran Bellows
Resident White guy - Sam Chamberlain

All these actors are good friends of mine, who I have known for years. All of them being by far the best people for the job in terms of their persona's , however their acting abilities were, well to say the least........... average, but I aint saying I was any better.

Costumes

Keeping in contnuity across my whole video. Costumes were going to have to be representive of the bohmian feel. Luckily most of my friends are all "laidback/non caring" types which meant that they all aready had clothes that would be suitable.

For my costume, I wanted to incorprate that feel. I decided to go for baggy trousers, with low level patterns on them.

A lazy blue 'anything' style jumper. Giving the impression of waking up in the morning and sticking on any old clothes without regard for looks.

 

I had also the idea of a headband, this was mainly just to keep my hair out of my eyes in the wind. That in itself is a statement, reflecting long lazy hair with no particular style. ( uncontrolable). However i did lose this headband an so some shots are missing the headband.

Skateboard

Having a Skateboard in my video was vital for adding to the mise-en-scene of the video. The conatations of which being generally rebellious from society, part of the counter culture. So i made sure to add a skateboard into my video to help bring this conatations across. The skateboard itself is a re-issue of 1970's board, given retro and old school conantations. It also made a useful tool for linking the two groups of people togother.

Guitar

The guitar in my video, although an essential part of the performance also gave me a further area in which conantaions can be drawn. The conantations being; someone in touch with soemthing greater alowing a higher field of expression.

Car

The first car in the video honestly did not fit with conventions atall. This was because it was my Mums car which is a bit to new and white to be bohemian. But i had no other choice as I have nothing of my own to use, so that had to do. The second car, a 1980's VW Polo, with a mini saloon style body. Was the most perfect car I could have ever dreamed of. This was my friends car, Ceejay Broadhead ( the bassist) . The car gives off a certain vibe that was perfect for my video, I mean it's just so perfect. the best way is just to have a look at it ...;.....mmmhh.

Places in which to film

A short post of a couple of places I would like to film.

 This location is where I plan to have the breakdown scene. The sun is alingned with the road, shining down the road from the right of this shot.

This place is where I plan to have the Friends/band all meet up.

This shot, I plan to have the main character walking down that road./ The sun is at the top the road on a good day, and so will make a good location for obtaining sun glare shots.,

Problems with video

Continuity 

There are little patches of my video which show a lack of continuity. There was a head band on the character at the start however the headband went missing and so it effected the continuity of the rest of the video.

 In the final shots, the main character is wearing a coat that had't appeared at the start of the video, however it does not look out of place, most people who have watch my video didn't notice until i told them.

Weather also caused problems with continuity, however most of the time it just couldn't been helped, for the limited time i had shooting when I could get all the gear, charcaters together, i had to make do with the weather i was given. Generally it isn't too bad, however the sun was mainly always accompannied by heavy cloud, which made shooting very variable.  Examples of the heavy cloud is  the 'Phoning friends shot', the other weather problem was the varying wind levels particularly between the first verse and second verse.

Next time round, I would make sure to keep all items involved within the video in the same place, for example a box, so as not to loose any bits. In regards to weather I would make sure to get the bulk of my shooting done within one or two similar days, so not to involve vast colour differences.
Narrative Vs. Performance 

My video was a heavily narrative based film, with little time to convey the ideas. So i had a battle between fitting in performance in between the narrative.  I knew there would be this conflict however i underestimated how tight on time for shots i would be. In the end i found myself shooting two little mini-scenes, of the character just singing and playing guitar in two different locations relevant to the narrative. I then aimed to edit these parts into my video, all the time trying not to take too much away from the narrative. However this did effect one scene, in my opinion quite a vital scene, in which the friends meet up. I had to resort to doing jump cuts to shorten a 8 second shot into a 3.5 second shot.

Filming 3

I am going to shoot the new shots for the idea this weekend, so I've made a shot list to help with the first scene.

Opening


- Before the music starts i will have an introduction showing the car breakdown.


 - An establishing shot of the road, the car will come from behind the camera and pull in, in front. ( possibly use varied focus) 10-15 seconds.
- A pan from the right, hopefully tracking with a car going in the same direction, the car now situated in at the side of the road will come into shot from the left. As camera slows to stop, with the whole car in shot, the driver of the car will emerge, get out( check bonet) and then walk off to sit down. 20-25 seconds.

The music now kicks in;-

-There will be yet another establishing shot, making use of sun glare, showing the driver now sat down. ( shot from the characters left)
- I will then cut to a long shot of the driver on the phone ( speaking to his friends who join the narrative later).
- Then I will show a siloette style shot from a low angle behind the driver, ( looking frustrated).
-  the camera will now be on the characters right, he will start singing, looking directly at the camera.
 - I will cut back to the phone shot, but this time have the character walking towards the camera, with 3-4 edits breaking the long walk up, to make it snappy.
- For the lyric , " In the hope of saving me" , i am going to have a the camera track through the grass, and pan upwards at the character, who is now standing looking forlorn and singing the lyric.

After this point i will cut to the bridge, i would like to possibly spin the camera round on the final few seconds of the opening and at the start of the bridge, and see if i can merge the two shots in a 'trippy style' edit.


Post shooting

- The shooting went fairly well, however i did come across a few problems. When i got back to the media room to edit i found some shots were slightly out of focus, but most were still OK. I will try to get out in the next few days to redo some of the shots, particularly the first establishing shot.
- Another problem i had was a faulty tri-pod which made the Pan shots very difficult, as the tripod kept jumping and it was hard to get a consistent smooth shot.

Ideas - 3

Due to a few issues with organisation and work conflicts, ive had to make a few adjustments to my general idea.

The first verse will start with a car breaking down containing the main character, this scene will be set at the side of the road and continue until the Bridge.

The bridge + chrous will bring new charcters to the video, these will be a group of friends + band members who the main charcater is meeting up with. however they will be in a different location,m and so i will cross cut to this scene.

In the second verse, the two groups will meet up and then further travel towards the end location for the second chrous and outro. This outro scene will be  set in a cofmtable enviroment, such as my friends cabin in which we all meet up anyway in real life. Im going to make the end scene into a party set at his cabin.

Poster - Final

This is the poster for my Track, yet again i have tried to keep within the conventions of the genre as much as possible. The poster itself is fairly simply allowing as much attention to be drawn to the Album name and also the band name. I had a few issues with using leaves as a background however, this was because the leaves provide so many different shades, tones and colours that it was impossible to read the writting clearly on most of the poster without changing the colour of the text constantly. This is why the text is bound to the green leaf on the left hand side.

Feedback

Alice Clark -

Digi-Pack - Final

This is my final digi-pack piece, I tried to keep within the Genre of folk music, with a laid back style with warm and fairly soft colours. I also tried to relate my digi-pack as much as i could to my video, for instance the use of the sun-glare shot on the back cover of my digipack. My favourite  section of the didgpack is the frontcover, although i wish i could lowered the band name by about 8-10mm, but i lost my original copy of my digipack and so i could not edit past this unless i started from scratch.

Feedback

Dan Coulston - I like the warmth potrayed in the digi-pack, my favourite parts being the back and front cover because the photos which expel this sense of warmth and good feeling. I feel the track does correlate with the digi-pack.

Dan Finn - I thought there was good use of colours in the pack, however i thought the middle section ( the sillouetted trees and the sunset) looked abit out of place in comparison to the other pages.