Dairy Entry: Monday 3rd October

Today we each took on different tasks to maximise working potential. Me and Katie worked on potential album covers and digipack ideas to get a head start on the next part of the project. This research included rough ideas for an album name, album tracks, editing techniques and different images for different panes of the digipack. We have decided to wait till our research on digipacks have been collected for the group to start making final ideas. Alfie has focused on putting all the storyboard images in time with the music for the animatic. Iona began prepping for her audience research questions in reference to current digipacks. I believe her work was successful and she should be able to ask our target audience about their preferences tomorrow. We have all discussed and created a new time table for the next two weeks to manage our time before the rough cut deadline.

Diary Entry 30th September

Today we have two lessons together. In the first lesson: Iona continued to finish the stoaryboard by completing the images whilst Alfie coninued to scan in the completed stoaryboard sheets, cropping them to use in the animatics. Laura has been continuing to gather audience research footage for the audience research mini film but moving onto looking towards our ideas of the stoaryboard and what our audience like. I have been struggling with technological issues with premiere however once the footage managed to load and I managed to edit and finalise all of the footage up until the band logo research. Then in our joined free I put all of the extra footage about stoaryboard and our ideas onto the hardrive, so I could add them to our mini film the next time we came to work on it. Once I had finished I went and helped Iona draw and colour a page of the stoaryboard. In our final lesson we all helped complete the stoaryboard whilst Alfie scanned the completed ones into the computer. By the end of the day we only had one page of the stoaryboard left to colour for Monday which Laura took home.

Time Plans

Long Term: until final music video deadline

      

Key:

•     Filming
•     Editing
•     Digipak and Advert

Short term time plan: until end of Rough cut

Diary Entry: Thursday 29th September

Recently we have been focusing our time in lessons to sort of audience research, storyboard planning, props and animatic before we start planning for filming. I have been gathering music video audience research by using the video camera to film our potential target audience. I have asked questions such as ‘which music videos stand out to you?’ and asked questions on narrative. I still have a lot more filming to do to get a good variety of answers that we can use to influence our media video. After I had taken the footage, I handed it over to Katie to create a video using the software ‘Premier’ to edit it with. This is the software we used during our preliminary task, and hopefully it will refresh Katie’s mind and give her a better feel for the software. I am hoping to have the same opportunity to try this soon.

Iona’s strength is art so we have encouraged her to take charge of the storyboard. So far she has done an excellent job of turning our raw ideas into something more lifelike. I can’t wait to see the finished piece.

Alfie has been starting to create the animatic for the video which uses the storyboard pictures, but replaces the written text with typed text and puts it to time with the lyrics of our song.

We are currently all playing up to our strengths so hopefully we will do role reversal and all have a go at things that will challenge us.

Diary Entry: Wednesday 28th September

The group has invented a conveyer belt system, where we all help with the story boards. I have been designated head writer, which is my strongest quality, and a drawing artist for the final half of the story boards. Laura has become our head colourer, whilst both Katie and Iona are putting drawings and colour onto the scenes which I have already wrote. This has helped immensely, and is an excellent way to get past our problem of a lack of progress. The storyboard was simply too detailed and complex for only two members of our group, now that everyone is chipping in we will begin to get back on schedule, and then all of this planning will pay off as we begin to actually film our video.

Narrative adaptation

We have changed our idea of the main story of our music video to a narrative we can do a real justice to . We found that the narrative was difficult to storyboard and would be very difficult to film, as we had multiple ideas for the transition of our Mr Hyde character. We decided that it could not be represented well, whilst still representing the music and band, so we simplified our ideas. Our main narrative is now three characters who lead un-extravagant lives travelling to a place where they can live out their fantasies. We will still be intertwining scenes with the band, as well as keeping the motifs of clocks, and tea parties.

song choice

We chose to use the song ‘sun goes down’ by the futureheads. This song has a variety of pace and tone within it; this will help us to create a varied and meaningful music video. The band themselves are an Indie post-punk band, with music video’s that are inventive and varied, we hope to replicate a music video with just as much power behind it.