Draft 4

This is the fourth draft of our music video. We have added some close up shots of toms lips and lip synced them accordingly to the lyrics in the song 'Charmer'. As well as this we noticed that we had not yet added credits in to our music video. This has also been added into this draft as every music has credits introducing the song title and band name. As you can see in our draft below, We have mimicked the way in which music videos contain credits.

Draft 3

Here is the third draft of our music video. After a long time of searching through various youtube videos for tutorials on how to do a split screen on either iMovie or final cut, we finally managed it!

Here is our draft with split screen included:

Final Digipak

Here is my final digipak pieced together:

Alexis Jordan - Good Girl

Whilst watching music channels, I noticed Alexis Jordan's latest single 'Good girl' is similar to our music video in the way that it fades to black quickly to the beat of the song, this can first be seen at 0.45 seconds into her video, but it is also used after this point as well.

Filming

This video, 'Always' by Blink-182 has a split screen feature where the screen is split into three horizontally. The strips do not match one another. We looked at this and thought we could film similarly to this to create the idea of a dysfunctional lifestyle containing Charlotte and Tom (the lead singer).



We found this video on youtube explaining how to do the split screen on final cut.

Media trip to Richmix

We went to Rich Mix for the second time on Tuesday 15th March and yet again had another interesting trip. The first talk was from Chief Examiner Pete Fraser on Collective Identity. It was focussed on youth and as an individual I found it very interesting and beneficial.

The second half was again with Pete Fraser but also introduced the audience to Misfits lead director, Tom Green.



I found it very interesting listening about the making of Misfits as I have watched both series so far. We watched an episode from the second series which Tom Green described as his most "proud" episode as it was a very hard one to make. Following this we watched short films made by Tom Green from degree level, which were too very impressive. Though they differed hugely to Misfits as they were very serious based unlike comedy series Misfits.

Influence for the idea of the ice hearts

Whilst watching Wretch 32's latest single's music video. My group and I stumbled across an element from his music video that we all really liked. This features within the first 5 seconds of the music video. It shows what seems like ice forming. However it has just been reversed with editing skills to make it seem this way. We looked at this and thought it seemed very possible for us to mimic the idea and construct something similar in our music video. Seeing as our video is based around an obsessive stalker, we thought the idea of ice love hearts may look effective in our video.

Here is Wretch 32's video featuring the ice at the beginning which influenced our decision into making and filming the long process of the ice hearts melting.

Magazine Advertisement

Here is the final image I have pieced together of what the magazine advertisement for 'The Mags' debut album would ideally look like:

Magazine Advertisement making process

I thought I ought to show the making process of my magazine advertisement. So here are some print screens of the work I carried out. I produced it quite easily on Microsoft Word. As I am not an expert on more experienced software such as photoshop, I thought it was best to stick to what I knew to make the best product I could. I started off by adding the photo I wanted of the drummers drum kit. Having the basic idea that the writing will feature around the drum kit in the space provided.



Following the image I had. I decided to add text to my image informing the viewer who the band are. I added a text box and tweaked the font type and sizing until I was happy with it, the image below is the process of choosing how it should look on the magazine advertisement.



In the next print screen that I have taken, it shows my magazine advertisement having advanced quite a bit. Having looked at other artists albums advertisements in magazines. I decided quotes from newspapers and/or music magazines would be a good idea. I decided to feature one music magazine which is known for being a rock magazine, and two newspapers. I also added in stars from auto-shapes on Microsoft word enabling the advertisement to look quite realistic with star ratings from each source. I also added a quote as quotes often feature on successful artists albums, so portraying the band we have created an image for as positively as I can, I thought I'd add in a quote!



Here is the final print screen of the making of my album advertisement. I have added a parental advisory logo, and also added the URL to the band's website. I have noticed many album advertisements have various logos and also feature the bands or artists website so I have mimicked this with my work.

Magazine Album Advertisements

Contained within any music magazine, whether it's specializing in one particular genre or another, you are bound to find advertisements for albums that are soon to be released by bands. Within these adverts there are similar features you will be able to spot in each one, you may not find all but it is likely you will find most of the following in a magazine advertisement:

- The artists name and the new album title.
- The release date of the album and the download.
- Website, myspace, facebook or twitter of the artist.
- Product content such as extra DVD footage or any bonus tracks that are included.
- Magazine reviews and star ratings from magazines and newspapers depending on the genre, such as NME, Q, Smash Hits, Kerrang, The Guardian.
- The name of record label.
- Tour dates.
- Photographs or graphics of the artist or things associated with their album.
- Where the album is avaliable to perchase such as HMV or Amazon.
- Lines such as “out now” or “debut album”.
- Any offers that are avaliable such as free downloads.

Prezi

Here is how the ice hearts were made that feature in our music video. We decided to put the photographs in a Prezi as a more interactive way of showing how they were made.

Ice & Paper Mache on Prezi

Audience Feedback

In order to gain a wider understanding of peoples thoughts regarding the rock genre we handed out questionnaires in person and thought of other ways to gain answers from people. Facebook seemed like a good idea so after creating a note and inboxing friends with the questionnaire we were able to receive lots of information from people.

I made a note and 'tagged' my friends in it so they were notified of being tagged in the note and were able to answer the questionnaire. Though not all replied, many did and this gave lots of valuable information to go towards the background research of making our coursework piece.

Here is a sample of one participants answers in the questionnaire.