Filming 27/10/15

Group:

Olivia

Kirsty

Model Release Form:

Actor:

Jamie Richards

What we filmed:
We filmed the narrative, this included many shots that created a story. We did this from a cinema aspect and tried to be as cinematic as possible. 

How many takes:
We took over 5+ takes of each scene to make sure we had a lot to work with.

Re-take?:

I don't think we will need to re-take, the actor was very co-operable and none of the shots were ruined.

Reflection:
Since we already had performance i found myself wanting to do scenes that i thought would fit in inbetween the performance, i therefore had to think more of scenes that would work on their own even though we had performance already. This made it more natural and made sure we got a lot more scenes. 

Website Update

After receiving feedback from Nicola I decided to re-do the website with a different template. We looked through the ones Wix offered and the group decided on it. I will also re-create a new logo. 

Video of editing the site (25/10/15):

Props For 27.10.15

For our narrative we will need more props than our performance.

• Phone (Me)
• Jacket (Me)
• Photo Frames (Me)
• Images for the photo frames (Conor & Daniel) (Me)
• Mirrors (Already There)
• Location (Olivia)

I bought four photo frames to put on our side, they were fairly neutral and will add a nice effect with images of the couple in it. 

Due to complications with Conor we didn't have any images we could use.

Therefore i had to get them. Since we weren't allowed to use images of peoples faces i had to find ones that a couple would have therefore i thought of

• Vacation photos
• Concerts
• Loved up Photos

I used google to find the images and found these four 

We could pretend this was our bands concert, this is good as it's non-descript and vague

Paris being the city of love, i thought this would be a good connection

I made all the images black and white using photoshop CS6 then i changed the levels so the shadows were a lot darker, since our music video is in black and white we don't need the colour.

They all fit apart from the concert one, this is concealed by the Paris photo and therefore will not get in the way. 

I also printed out more copies of this photo as we will be getting our actor to rip it up and we might need more than one take. 

Rough Cut Feedback

We aimed to get a lot of feedback through many sources such as through a form, through asking and tweeting.

Google Form - For the questionnaire we went with open questions to give us more qualitative data so people can write what they want and we can get a real response that's unique to each person.

I also sent an email out to my friends and people i knew including the questionnaire 

Music Video Feedback:
Jake Wynne and Pete Fraser - Jake Wynne's Twitter & Petes' Twitter

Asked over Facebook

Questionnaire Feedback:

From the responses we can see we mainly hit the right genre with what we have done. However the overall grading for the digipak could use some improvement. 

They really all like the black and white effect on the digipak and how it follows through the entire theme. However from the responses we clearly need to make the digipak stand out more and make it less generic from other albums. 

Overall the text does seem to fit however someone suggested "some text that looks like it's been hand written" and therefore we will test that to see how it looks. 

Overall the responses said we should change the images and some text. From feedback with nicola and al we are already thinking about changing the top left image. After this we will change the entire digipak to suit the new logo and change what has been said. 

After this we know that we leave the CD panel alone and that the general theme does fit with the theme of the band. 

Overall it was a tie with 8/9 since the video isn't complete this is understandable. 

Overall the shots we did and the black and white theme was well received and therefore we know that we dont need to re-shoot. Also the clip with " jump by the guitarist " we will keep after feedback from nicola saying we should remove it. We all like the shot and since we have secondary feedback that says it's a good shot we will keep it. 

Overall there is not much change that needs to be done they suggest location shots and the band getting more into it, however we feel as though the location will be okay if we include enough narrative to draw the viewer away. We're taking after what the 1975 did in Heart Out where there is one staged location.

It seems as though the homepage is their favourite, with starting a new website completely we will take all this into consideration and implement it in the new design. 

They like the images used in this initial design and the theme throughout the website. We are thinking of making a separate feedback form and comparing the new against the old seeing which we like more. 

Overall many people like the website giving it a 8-9 score and a yes to it fits the genre. The only negative is some said it only fits it to an extent. 

Again, Mixed responses some say "really well put together." then others say "a lot of dead space" therefore we have decided to make a new website taken all the responses. However the main outcome is that they liked this initial design.

Overall:

• Film The Narrative - Done
• Create a new website
• Change the panels on the digipak
• Quicker Editing 

Music Video Rough Cut

This is the initial rough cut of the music video - this doesn't include the narrative or is fully done and is just a taster to see how it looks. With feedback from Nicola she said:

- Fix the scene at 0:43

-Make sure the narrative fits in

-It looked professional

This also includes feedback on the video below 

We also created a music video rough cut with blocks of narrative to see how we could work it in: 

Digipak Rough cut

We asked for feedback from Nicola and she suggested to:

• Fix the top left panel - The quality and sizing
• Include small text on the back cover
• Try and include colour

From doing this we learned

• Photoshop shortcuts to edit images quicker
• How helpful tutorials can be
• Space isn't a bad thing (we initially made everything too big and cramped)
• The importance of precision 

Narrative Ideas 19/10/15

Before filming we decided to create a page of ideas to film, We have also found a boy's room we can use, The theme we are going for is a break up - we won't give away what happened but it will follow an actors story after he has broken up and it will show how angry/sad he is after it. It will be intercut with the performance to make it a combination. We were initially going to scrap our ideas for a narrative however we think it will show off our skills and will add more to our performance.