EVALUATION

Pictures: Main character and Filming

Final CD cover and Website

WEBSITE

CD COVER

Above: Picture of inside Cover

Above: Picture of Single Cover

Final Video

This is the final music video that we have produced for Fever Ray's "Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog remix)"

Online distribution to audience

We have created a YouTube account to distribute our media project online. We hope to gather audience feed back from doing this as we are waiting on comments from people who might watch our video.

YouTube is a world wide site that will allow a variety of people to view our project.

 They will be able to...

. Comment - say their personal reaction and talk to other people leaving comments 

. Rate our video - decide how many stars it deserves

. Like or Dislike the video

. Subscribe to our account - to receive news of any new videos we might post

. Respond with a video

. Add video to Favorites or Playlist

. Share - share the video with others

. View hits - see how many people have watched the video

. View video statistics

alice whitehouse

7th January 2011 by ashleigh

Today, I posted the video on facebook so I could get feedback on the video. I asked a few people to comment on the video - what they think is good, what could be improved and the overall feel of the video. Below are the responses I have got so far.

Dante's feedback was that it looks very starnge and surreal which is what we originally intended the video to be. We wanted a conceptual feel to the video. I asked Yvonne to come into the mac suite andd view it. last lesson we added and changed a few things so i just wanted an update feedback to see if the video has improved. She thought so. I asked my friend vanessa wo has already made a music video for her Btec media studies course about what she thought of the video, and she replied back with positove comments but she mentioned that she was confused at first. I asked her if there was anything else we could do to make it less confusing and she said that there isn't much we can do. Aarinola's feeback was very evaluative - with good, bad and improvement points. From the feeback, we are going to go over the footage and see if we can add any more effects and make sure its structured so the narrative is clear. We will only do little changes though as the bulk of the video has been edited.

This is the music video on YouTube at 10th January. No comments or ratings, though I have had comments from Facebook.

I also asked for JULIE's feedback.

Her feedback was overall positive. in terms of improvements, she did mention that the cut off lip syncing could have been sharper. When i asked, Julie said she kind of got thedrift of the stroyline. my impression is that it is notvery clesar but the audience can follow, understand parts, and havedifferent interpretations. conceptual videos are understood and appreciated by open minded people - i think also because there isso much going on it is hard to relise what is going on because theaudience may be immediatly drawn to the colourful special effects and not necessarily the storyline. alsoapart from this she said that we:

Had good attention to detail
Variety of interesting shots
She found the animal scenes homourous- it was different
Smooth transitions from the woods to the garage scenes to the woods again
The mise-en-scene was very good - very colourful and very nice costumes and make up
well planned and structured -well directed and edited

FEEDBACK FROM AUDIENCE

ASHLEIGH

Website

INITIAL WEBSITE IDEAS

During todays lesson dean created a basic background which we felt would suit our pages themes and content quite well. The use of the strobe orbs continue the theme of bright lights and conceptualism. 

This is the next stage of our website design. During this lesson we added some photoshopped pictures of the artist, modified the background, and inserted some boxes which contained links to other pages of the site. There is also some logos which have been added in the bottom corner.


TodayAlice and  Dean worked on the website.
Dean has been editing 3 photos on Photoshop which we took whilst filming, these photos are of Harriet's (our performer's) face and he has manipulated them to make them more interesting and fit the general theme of our video.

To create the effects that we wanted on our pictures, we had to use techniques on photoshop that we weren't completely familiar with, but we soon managed to get the hang of it. For the first picture we copied the same image onto another layer, flipped it horizontally to get the image of them looking at each other and then finally added the blue laser effect. 

The second image was inspired by one which we found online. We weren't able to use this due to copyright issues, so we just created the effect by drawing on a picture of our actors face with a dark brush, and then changing to a black and white image to help it blend in.

For the final picture, we created the strobe light lines by adding an outer glow to thin solid blocks of the green colour. Then we duplicated the layer 4 times and arranged them to appear to be coming from the eye of the subject.

Tuesday the 20th

Today alice and dean worked on the website changing the colour of text and font.

We originally wanted white writing on our web page to contrast with the black background and compliment the colourful pictures. we found however that as the image behind the text was quite light, coloured writing worked better. we changed the text in the main column from yellow to blue which was easier to read yet kept yellow and white for the side boxes just to make the whole page a bit more visually interesting.

. Today we also changed the order of the photos down the ride hand side to compliment the picture for the track in the top left hand corner.  

This is our final design for the website page. We all agree it reflects our electro and experimental genre but also the themes within our video of the animalistic black and white contrasting with the bright, conceptual human colour. 

On Location - Filming Shoot

On Saturday 13^th November, we re-filmed the wood scenes. Fortunatly for us, we used another tape to record the garage scenes so this saved us a lot of time. We had to rescedule priorities to  film on that day. We wanted to film as early as possible so that we could leave enough time to edit. It proved difficult finding a common day when all the actors and ourselves were free. Due to the fact that the actors playing the animals had other commitments such as their part time jobs, we had to find different actors to find the animals less than a week prior to the shooting date. Although it was hectic knowing that half our footage had to be re-filmed, It turned out to be a positive outcome because we were able to put ‘what we would have done if we shooted again’ into action so that we could make the filming better.

It took us 4 hours to shoot in the woods. Alice was the director and I was filming the scenes. Dean could not make it last minute. We made a few adjustments to the storyboard on the day. We decided not to make the main performer Harriet draw a triangle on her face. The reason being is because when we were editing the scenes in where she is in the garage, she doesn’t appear to have the drawing on.

We also felt the need to film more angles when the badger sees Harriet. When we previously filmes, we did a master shot and a few close ups. This time we filmed from both perspectives, one of which includes twitching of the camera from the badger’s view.

Overall, we filmed this scene many times ftom different angles so in the editing suite we can take our pick as to which one’s we will use for the final product.  We also decided not to record harriet lip syncing in the woods. The reason being is because Harriet is moving throughout and it wouldn’t be realistic to be singing whilst running through the woods. We are going to find a dark room either in Alice’s house or at college and film her lip syncing. Overall we filmed more shots (more close ups, point of views and long shots) from different angles.  Earlier in the week when we were editing the garage scenes, we had variety of shots to choose from but it would have been more useful if we had more choice from different perspectives and better framing. 

We did encounter a few problems on the day. I got to Alice's house at 8am but unfortunatly the actors couldn't make it until 11am. This gave us plenty of time to set up, go through the storyboard to see if we should make any adjustments and check everything was in order. For example, that we had the box, pink wig, clean costumem masks and correct make-up. When the actors turned up, Alice did hair and make-up and costume. I checked that the camera was in focus and that the white balance and exposure has been set.

We filmed in the morning when it was daylight so  we didn't have not well lit footage. The sunlight was quite bright on that day and in some parts we filmed, there was a beam of light in the background. This was unavoidable because the lights shone between the gaps between the leaves. Especially in the garage scene, the room is well lit to establish mood and atmosphere. The audience will see bright flamboyant lights flashing. When 'harriet' steps out of the wardrobe, you see constant flashing lights. This is mysterious and crazy in a weird way. It gives the video a conseptual feel.

In the woods scene, we did pay close attention to framing. Especially because the woods were muddy and hilly, it was hard to position the camera in a stable i.e. not canted position. I believe the location we chose fits the conceptualness of the video. It's a good base to narrate the story. Everything combined and this includes the mood established, the costume, make-up and props are all used purposefully to sell the artist.

The outcome from filming today was very positive. I feel that I’ve learnt much more and from recent experiences from filming. I believe that this footage is better than what we previously filmed because we have learnt from the mistakes we made last time.

Ashleigh

Third Shoot... Black Room

Last tuesday we finished our filming with our performer Harriet in the drama studio. we chose this location because it has black thick curtains all around and can fits our specification for our lip synching shots. we had her sitting in front of the camera yet this was fine as we only framed her from the neck up. She sang the song exaggerating the lip movements from a few different angles including side on and extreme close up of her lips. 

she had learnt all the words and acted in front of the camera well as it was subtlety and intrigue we wanted to achieve.

Although we did not need harriet to be in the full costume i had to do her make-up the same as on our woods shoot and also put the wig on her. The make-up takes a few minutes as i have to apply white face-paint evenly shaped to her eyelid then add glitter gloop and blue glitter along with silver which links her eyebrows to her lids. 

This image shows me filming and directing Harriet from behind the camera. we were shooting a high angle side close up which turned out to be very effective footage.

We used a torch to light her face in the dark which gave the material a mysterious quite mystical feel. you wonder where she is because it is completely dark all around her which ties into our theme of Escapism as she has escaped reality.
The filming wet really well and now we have shots of her lips singing to synchronize with the words in the song.



ALICE