Final Music Video

This is the final video we made for the song 'Fire + Bones' by The Midnight Heavy.

Evaluation 3

Evaluation 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Here is the link to the Survey Monkey I created in order to get audience feedback. Click here to take survey


Q1- Did you enjoy the video?

 

Answer Choices
Yes, very much	0%
Yes, it was okay	50%
It was alright	25%
Not really	25%
Not at all	0%
Q2- What did you enjoy about the video?                                                           - Instruments in the video   - i enjoy the music and how the music reflects the video   - the shots were good   - the lead singer was good                                Q3 What would you rate the video out of 10?                                                                                -5   -6   -6   -7   Q4- What could we do to improve the video?                                          -Costumes and more rock theme   - have more locations and energy   - add storyline   - more people   Q5 Did the video work well with the dijipak and magazine advertisement?                  -Yes, very 50%                                                                                    -Good 25%                                                                                     -Alright 25%                                                                                     -Awful 0%                                                                                    From these results on Survey Monkey

Evaluation 4

Evaluation 4: How do we use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

                 

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation 1

Evaluation 1: In what way does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Digipak

After doing some extended research into cover design. We decided to change the idea of the digipak to go with a more Minimalist approach than before. By doing so we have a more professional looking product, yet it is still eye catching due to the colour scheme and the sharp, small images on the design.

Magazine Advert

Here is one of our drafts for the magazine advert that we have been editing on PhotoShop. The text is from the website Dafonts.com which we have to import to PhotoShop.

Here shows a variety of versions of digipak covers. We varied the text in each

Album Art

Here are screen shots showing Frankie's editing of the album cover. Currently, we are testing out different fonts from the website Dafont.com to see which look the best.

Shot List

Here is a list of the shots we have used in our music video.

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1-preparing to sing 2-begins playing  3-singing begins 4-guitar cuts in 5-drums start 6-outside 7-park 8-singing 9-singing 10-guitar 11-singing 12-chorus  13-singing	1-turning on amp 2-plays electric guitar 3-daniel 4-daniel playing guitar 5-plays drums 6-walking along 7-walking along 8-daniel 9-daniel 10-daniel playing guitar 11-daniel 12-daniel singing 13-	1-close up shot of amp 2-mid shot of guitar 3-daniel approaches microphone, laughs 4-mid shot of daniel playing guitar 5-mid shot of the lead singer introducing a tempo 6-close up hand-held shot of daniel walking down an ally way, turns and looks straight into camera 7-daniel walks across screen 8- mid shot of daniel singing 9-extreme close up of singing 10- close up of guitar from odd angle 11- extreme close up of singing 12-centre frame mid shot

Costumes and Props

Costumes and Props

Actor Name:	Daniel Macia
Costume: Check shirt, beanie hat, dark blue hoodie, black scarf, textured dark blue jacket.	Props: Amplifier, microphone, electric guitar, drums

Survey Monkey

Here is an example of a survey monkey that our group constructed earlier in the year. The aim of the survey was to gain research on our potential audience by asking questions about music videos.

Photoshop Development

This post will demonstrate the development of the magazine advert on Photoshop. 

Here is the original photo that I am going to develop.

I downloaded a selection of fonts from Dafonts.com, the most suitable font for our magazine advert, and the one that fitted the genre the best was 'Impact Label'.

Here is a rough example of what the text will look like on the magazine advert. On the real one, we are planning to put much more information on, and to make the image black and white.

Filming

 

Here is a photo of Ahmed setting up the camera, ready to film singer Daniel lip syncing to the song Fire + Bones by The Midight Heavy. We filmed Daniel singing the sog the whole way through from three different angles, close up, mid shot from the side and extreme close up. We will now edit the footage into the music video.

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
day1 day 2 day 3	close up singing close up filming lyric on sheets mid shot of daniel walking   bus scene	goodmayes park robert clack school golf course alleyway emma sofianou	camera, tripod camera tripod camera tripod camera, tripod, matches and ipod	indie looking clothing indie looking clothes indie looking clothes   --------- -------- ------	green brick building big coloured sheets with lyric on them white card sheets with lyric on them matches, white card sheets	Emma and Frankie Emma , Frankie and Ahmed Emma and Ahmed Emma,Ahmed

Magazine Advert

Helpful advice that we should remember whilst creating the magazine advert:

- Make sure all the relevant information is included.
The customer needs to know the event, the date any any other bonus information such as reviews or a website so this needs to be clearly advertised on our magazine advert.

- Find a software or technique to create the advertisment.
How we create the advert will depend on which medium we are using to advertise. Here are some basic ideas

• If we are making a small scale print ad, such as a flyer or magazine advert, a good programme to use would be Adobe InDesign or Photoshop.
• If we are making a video ad, try working with iMovie, Picasa or Windows Media Player.
• For an audio ad, good programmes to use are Audacity or iTunes.
• For a large scale advertisment, you would probably have to contact a print shop to get the work done.
  

Contingency Plan

Here is a screenshot of the contingency plan for our product and how we plan to deal with any problems that we may face.

Risk Assessment

 

Here is a assessment of the very few risks invovled in making our music video.

 

Production Schedule

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Programme Title:  Fire + Bones Client: The Midnight Heavy Writer: Frankie McFarlane Producer:  Director: Emma Sofianou / Ahmed Sayed / Frankie McFarlane Date: December 2012- January 2013

Key points to note regarding location We were looking out for unusual or interesting backgrounds to use as the background which the singer will stand against. Name and number of location contact:  We would contact Mr Johnson, our media studies teacher, if we encountered any problems or had any queries regarding the filming or editing of our video.

Health and Safety Issues to note: - Climbing over fences    - Slipping on muddy floors - Using matches - Carrying equipment on public transport

Potential Filming Problems : - Not having enough shots for our video

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc) The weather was similar to this on the days we filmed. We were lucky that the weather remained constant on the different days that we filmed.