What i would of liked to have done

If i had more time i would of liked to have shot in more locations especially for the flashbacks, as we really had to use the college to our advantage as our group members lived so far apart.
As we had lost some of our footage we couldnt add in as many scenes as we would of liked to as we didnt get enough time to film a lot more.
I would of liked to have produced a digipak using more of photoshops effects as well as use the 6 piece template .
It would of been really interesting to find more views on what people thought of our song choice and whether or not they thought we had done the song justice.

Update

This will be the last update.
thankfully we managed to get everything done by our deadlines, although we are missing question 3 of our evaluation.
I really enjoyed creating our music video, and i am very proud of how it turned out and the effort my group members put in

Our Official Version of Dry Your Eyes

This is our official version of Dry Your Eyes by The Streets music video. Hope you enjoy.

Evaluation

I have personally answered question 1 in the evaluation.
iIn what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.



Question 2 will be answered by one of my group members Elizabeth,





1 of our group members where not able to produce question 3 .
Question 4 was answered by Humayra

DigiPak & ad

i decided to change my idea for the digipak as i ran out of time so instead of going for the 6 part template i only done a 4 part template, i wanted the whole scene to go across which i did succed in doing. Where i was going to do different angles i decided that it would make it to boring and look repetitive. I wanted each image to be in black and white to help show depression and loneliness as well as heartbreak. I did change the colour about to see if it would look better in colour or whether it would look good to have that orangey/redy tinge to it, but black and white was definately the most effective.

Company logo

This is the final draft of my own version of our company logo, i decided to use an iris with " A2 View " by using the word view it helped tie in the iris to show what people see and creating a new look on things.

I looked at using an eye but thought that it was to detailed and busy and would take away the focus on our group name. Having DEHT in the right hand corner is to represent each indivual in the group as it is the first initial of each member.

Props used

We used 2 major props in 2 different locations, 1 being the single red rose which was used in 1 of the flash backs this really showed early love and romance that came along in the relationship.
The other prop was a beer look a like in actual fact its a mixture of hot and cold water with a teabag and sparkling water, from having Dan alone in a pub with a beer portrays a solitary intreverted individual.

Audience Research

Animatic

Call Sheet

Humayra Khan - EditorContact number - 07572354647
Email address - humayra.k@hotmail.co.uk


Elizabeth Mensah-Tandoh - Director/Camera man
Contact number - 07932044157
Email address - emensahtandoh@gmail.com


Dan Smith - Leading actor/Editor
Contact number - 07944738736
Email address - dan-da-man-92@hotmail.co.uk


Tamara Birch - Sound/ Camera man 
Contact number - 07931654833
Email Address - tamarabirch94@hotmail.co.uk


(Extras)
Melissa - Leading actress
Contact number - 07723554487
Email Address - melissa93@hotmail.com

Update

We filmed quite a bit today, in 4 different locations the pub, cafe, road and by the pond. Luckily we got permission from the people that worked in the locations we chose. The waitress at the pub helped make a beer looking type of drink using warm, cold water a teabag and sparkling water. We used a single red rose which worked really well for the flash back. Now we are just going to finish off editing our first draft as well as get the animatic finished.

update

We lost all our footage yesterday and had to start filming everything again. We tried to film today but it started to rain heavily and majority of our shots are outside, we done quite a bit of editing today and are going to continue tomorrow, as well as filming.

Magazine Advert

This is a sketch of how i ruffley want the magazine advert to look, i wanted to match the digipak to the advert as this will show that it is from the artist without even having to read the advert. I really liked having an outside image as it ties in with the music video as well as shows depression on the way i am going to shoot it.

Digi pak sketch

I have sketched a ruff idea on how i want the digi pak to look like, i tried  a few ideas but i thought this was the best 1 to go with. I wanted to push across a very depressed alone feel. The top 3 pictures are of 1 scene as the bottom 3 pictures are of different angles of the same image.

Update

We tried filming today but we had a few problems, we should be filming tomorrow at around 2. We are pushing it for time but we only need a few more shots, i also need to take pictures of the boy for the digipak of our album as well as for the magazine advert. We also have split off into pairs for editing and we are both going to produce different versions of the music video.

Analysis of Album Cover

Drake - Take Care

Drake is quite a new artist to the music industry, as this is his 2nd album to be released. The album is quite a slow depressing feel it although he does have 1 or 2 upbeat tracks such as "the motto" compared to his first album which where all quite upbeat tracks. The album cover is really simple although very effective.  Having Drake in quite fancy clothing wearing alot of gold jewellery, sitting at a table with a gold goblet and a candle in a gold candle holder, shows that he has reached the "high life" which he was not use to before, the gold goblet is a very good status symbol.This shows quite a confident cocky person showing that he has made it in life, yet Drakes facial expression is quite depressed which you wouldnt expect from someone showing that he has made it in life. This portrays that being rich and famous isnt all it is cracked up to be, with a few of his songs you will hear quite a few of the problems he has faced, especially with women from his past. Drake is also sitting alone this shows that he became succesful on his own and that he does not trust anyone, especially since the lyrics in some of his song are " i dont trust these hoes at all".

Rihanna- Russian Roulette

This shows quite a dark side of rihanna, this is when she went through a dramatic fashion change, as well as music. Her music started to have quite a dark feel to it compared to her previous music when she was known as a fun loving girl. This also shows that rihanna has become a women rather to her long brown hair with her unique smile. Rihanna is showing quite a lot of skin making this image quite 'sexy'. Using reds, blacks and greys gives a really dark evil environment to the image as well as the R looks like it is made out of blades, again exhaggerating the dark evil concept. Rihanna's also covered in barbed wire showing a huge fashion statement, maybe even a religious statement due to the fact jesus had barbed wire around his head when he was pinned to the cross. This made rihanna a great fashion icon

Location idea's

We have got a few different location idea's a few we want to use more than once in which we can link the flashbacks with him walking down the same street alone. We also want to use a pub but have the boy be alone in the pub this portrays quite an isolated feel to the video, the plan is in editing we would like to speed up everything except the boy we think this would be a really good idea.

We have also got a bench and a street where both of the flashbacks will be shot, we want the flashbacks to be shot in simple places so the focus is on the couple and not its surroundings.

2nd Day of Filming

The 2nd day of filming we had a few problems in which we all had different idea's on where to film the flash back, aswell as changing outfits so it didnt look like it was all shot on the same day. We managed to overcome this problem and shoot some really good footage. We had a few problems with having people walk through the shots and cars pull up and park, which we had to wait till we could start shooting again.
We got some really good shots and all participated well, the girl in the video done exceptionally well and made a good contribution to ideas to.