Thank you for taking the time to evaluate my Blog
Links to my partners blog : http://rufaromwanakaa2.blogspot.co.uk/
Monday, 28 April 2014
Video Final video
This a final video, there have been some major changes from
the draft copy
be advised : strong language and violence depicted in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lgW3qIKpUs
the draft copy
be advised : strong language and violence depicted in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lgW3qIKpUs
Art of Peer Pressure Website
This is the link to my website
http://joewhitbread.wix.com/jcwmediaa2
My website was based mostly on Kendrick Lamar's color scheme with Grey and Reds
I have put the most things that are important to a music related website such as sharing the website
or the music, a store and a picture gallery of the artist.
http://joewhitbread.wix.com/jcwmediaa2
My website was based mostly on Kendrick Lamar's color scheme with Grey and Reds
I have put the most things that are important to a music related website such as sharing the website
or the music, a store and a picture gallery of the artist.
Evaluation 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of teaser trailers/posters/magazines)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJtXhea_abs
This is a link to a video in which we answer various aspects
of this question in some detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJtXhea_abs
This is a link to a video in which we answer various aspects
of this question in some detail.
Evaluation 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-H0bmR5gpY
This a link to the advert to our music video which at the end shows the
contents of my Digi-Pak and there is montage of scenes from the video
from what is shown it looks like both medias fit in well together as two separate but
related pieces of work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-H0bmR5gpY
This a link to the advert to our music video which at the end shows the
contents of my Digi-Pak and there is montage of scenes from the video
from what is shown it looks like both medias fit in well together as two separate but
related pieces of work.
Evaluation 3
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
To get are audience feedback, we made 8 people watch are piece and fill out are questionnaire, the people who had filled it out where completely random and we got some mixed opinions from those we had asked.
Pros
- The video does link to its intended audience.
- The effectiveness of some of the shots used
- The song fits the intended genre
- Use of car
- Range of transition and effects
- The characters well chosen
Cons
- Cliche
- The story does not fit together.
To get are audience feedback, we made 8 people watch are piece and fill out are questionnaire, the people who had filled it out where completely random and we got some mixed opinions from those we had asked.
Pros
- The video does link to its intended audience.
- The effectiveness of some of the shots used
- The song fits the intended genre
- Use of car
- Range of transition and effects
- The characters well chosen
Cons
- Cliche
- The story does not fit together.
Evaluation 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
These Images show us working with both laptop to edit are work and use various programs e.g Wix and Blogger.
The second image shows us working with the camera for various pieces of work.
Media technologies in this piece had helped us greatly in all aspects of are work. For the planning stage we used it to research artists, locations and props a lot of what we saw on the internet had made its way into the the music.
The technology was used obviously in the filming and development partly for editing and filming but more importantly for the Digi - pak.
When finishing the only technology is only used when updating the the blog.
The second image shows us working with the camera for various pieces of work.
Media technologies in this piece had helped us greatly in all aspects of are work. For the planning stage we used it to research artists, locations and props a lot of what we saw on the internet had made its way into the the music.
The technology was used obviously in the filming and development partly for editing and filming but more importantly for the Digi - pak.
When finishing the only technology is only used when updating the the blog.
Final Music Video Making 4
Final Music Video Making 3
These images are showing some of the cuts we
where making in the process of re doing the video.
There is also an image displaying the 'just ridin'
clip we had added in during process of editing
there has also been subliminal messages put into the video which are done in a similar style to the
'just ridin' clip.
where making in the process of re doing the video.There is also an image displaying the 'just ridin'
clip we had added in during process of editing
there has also been subliminal messages put into the video which are done in a similar style to the
'just ridin' clip.
Final Music video Making 2
These Images show some of the effects options we had
used in our knew redesigned video there are some notable changes
to our videos SFX mostly at the start and driving scenes we added a unfocused filter to give the piece the right atmosphere to start the piece of and for driving scenes we added a camera recording logo to give it the look of a home video.
Final Music Video Making 1
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Website set up change
I have changed the layout of my website as the layout I had been using seemed outdated and when
looking at the websites of mainstream artists, I noticed that they each have a certain defined look to them
This is an example from the Eminem music video the page opens up to promotional image of both Eminem and Rhianna promoting a new song or album. I went a similar route with my own website when I had made the changes to my piece replacing my menu page with the front cover of my C.D.
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I had also looked at dedicating an a page to tour dates, I took that
from other mainstream rappers and other artists websites to add to my own websites plausibility.
http://joewhitbread.wix.com/jcwmediaa2
looking at the websites of mainstream artists, I noticed that they each have a certain defined look to them
This is an example from the Eminem music video the page opens up to promotional image of both Eminem and Rhianna promoting a new song or album. I went a similar route with my own website when I had made the changes to my piece replacing my menu page with the front cover of my C.D.
from other mainstream rappers and other artists websites to add to my own websites plausibility.
http://joewhitbread.wix.com/jcwmediaa2
Health and Saftey
Are music video features props that look extremely realistic the most obvious of
which was a gun which was used at various points during the video, this gun is a fake
it was a bb gun which was unloaded.
There was another scene showing acts of of physical violence I would like to point out that scene
was acted out no form of assault actually happened.
The driver of are music video was fully qualified to do so and safety precautions where taken even
though it looked otherwise through the video.
which was a gun which was used at various points during the video, this gun is a fake
it was a bb gun which was unloaded.
There was another scene showing acts of of physical violence I would like to point out that scene
was acted out no form of assault actually happened.
The driver of are music video was fully qualified to do so and safety precautions where taken even
though it looked otherwise through the video.
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
The Video editing
Here some screen grabs showing the various aspects editing of the music video
This first screen, shows the cutting of a small piece of the video.
This second screen, shows us working on changing colors of a particular scene in the video
This third screen shows us working on the part of the videos brightness, contrast.
The fourth screen shows us checking on a finished scene for the piece.
Working on censoring swearwords in the song.
Choosing a particular piece of audio to edit
The bottom screen of the video editing software we are still working on perfecting areas of the video.
Close up of the available video editing effects for the video.
This first screen, shows the cutting of a small piece of the video.
This third screen shows us working on the part of the videos brightness, contrast.
Working on censoring swearwords in the song.
Choosing a particular piece of audio to edit
Monday, 3 March 2014
Music Website; How I had created it
The Beginning
The base template for my website was a black background I had considered keeping it given that most rap artists make there backgrounds plain and simple but I needed to to make the background presentable, I had tried various backgrounds ranging from graffiti to and unloaded pistol, I had finally settled on using a black white brickwall which had simularities to my CD case.
The Middle
Once my background had been finished, I had started to progress the website adding various sections to the piece e.g. Store and Biography. The store was an example page where I had added some the record labels clothing line onto the website to give it some authenticity. The biography page was very similar to an 'about us' page giving the viewer some basic information about the artists career and talking a tiny bit about his debut album.
The other section that I had added to the piece was the gallery this page shows nothing but promotional art for the piece.
The End
To finish off the website, I had to create some work on the menu page, I initially intended to add the music video to front page but at the point of designing the website it was unfinished so I substituted it with the music video for the front cover of my digi-pak this has been done on the websites that I had been researching before finishing the website.
The base template for my website was a black background I had considered keeping it given that most rap artists make there backgrounds plain and simple but I needed to to make the background presentable, I had tried various backgrounds ranging from graffiti to and unloaded pistol, I had finally settled on using a black white brickwall which had simularities to my CD case.
The Middle
Once my background had been finished, I had started to progress the website adding various sections to the piece e.g. Store and Biography. The store was an example page where I had added some the record labels clothing line onto the website to give it some authenticity. The biography page was very similar to an 'about us' page giving the viewer some basic information about the artists career and talking a tiny bit about his debut album.
The other section that I had added to the piece was the gallery this page shows nothing but promotional art for the piece.
The End
To finish off the website, I had to create some work on the menu page, I initially intended to add the music video to front page but at the point of designing the website it was unfinished so I substituted it with the music video for the front cover of my digi-pak this has been done on the websites that I had been researching before finishing the website.
Monday, 17 February 2014
Website analysis 3 - Chris Brown
Once Opening the Chris Brown you are met with four photographs which link to
various music videos, this is quite an eye-catching opening to the website.
The website itself is layed out in quite a stylish yet simple way and perfectly fits with out I wish to
create my website, the website shares a similiar colour pallett to both the Kendrick Lamar and Eminem websites aside from the use of white on the toolbar.
This website is the closest to how want my website to look in terms of colour pallet and the simple layout.
http://www.chrisbrownworld.com/uk
various music videos, this is quite an eye-catching opening to the website.
The website itself is layed out in quite a stylish yet simple way and perfectly fits with out I wish to
create my website, the website shares a similiar colour pallett to both the Kendrick Lamar and Eminem websites aside from the use of white on the toolbar.
This website is the closest to how want my website to look in terms of colour pallet and the simple layout.
http://www.chrisbrownworld.com/uk
Website research 2 - Eminem
The second website that I had looked at was Eminem. Straight away I noticed direct similarities to Kendrick Lamar's website in terms of its color scheme. One thing I noticed about Eminem's website was the big in your face advertisements for his new album.
In terms of the tool bar it is the average for the for music websites so there is nothing interesting to note there.
Website link:
http://www.eminem.com/
In terms of the tool bar it is the average for the for music websites so there is nothing interesting to note there.
Website link:
http://www.eminem.com/
Website Research 1 - Kendrick Lamar
Before designing my own website, I thought it necessary to look at the websites of artists who are all in the same genre.
The first artist I looked at was Kendrick Lamar, he is a relativity new artist in the rap genre but his website does not put him across like this at all, the website is professionally done and it contains features that most websites would usually have examples include, a toolbar and links to social networking pages such as twitter.
The color pallet of this website fits the genre perfectly and I would not be surprised if it is used by other artists of the genre, I am going to use a similar color scheme of dark red and black in my own website.
link to his website:
http://www.kendricklamar.com/
The first artist I looked at was Kendrick Lamar, he is a relativity new artist in the rap genre but his website does not put him across like this at all, the website is professionally done and it contains features that most websites would usually have examples include, a toolbar and links to social networking pages such as twitter.
The color pallet of this website fits the genre perfectly and I would not be surprised if it is used by other artists of the genre, I am going to use a similar color scheme of dark red and black in my own website.
link to his website:
http://www.kendricklamar.com/
Friday, 31 January 2014
Filming schedule
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Date
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Set/Scene
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Cast
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Location
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Props
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Saturday 30th
November 2013
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Introduction scene/Welcoming characters
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Malcolm/Sean and Callum
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Staple Tye
flats
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Car, Bandannas, Gun, Chain and Fake cannabis
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Wednesday 4th
December 2013
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Car interior
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Malcolm/Sean and Callum
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Car
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Car,
Bandannas
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Saturday 7th December 2013
|
Driving Scenes
(Outdoor view from inside)
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Malcolm/Sean and Callum
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On Roads
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Car
|
|
Saturday 14th
December 2013
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House Robbery
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Malcolm/Sean and Callum
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Household
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Bandannas,
Bat and Gucci clothing
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Saturday 14th
January 2013
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Solo with Artist lip- syncing
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Malcolm
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Tower Block
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n/a
|
The video's narrative
The art of peer pressure by rap artist Kendrick Lamar has a clearly defined narrative. The song tells the story of a young Kendrick Lamar who is participating in his cousins usual schedule, Kendrick's cousin
is part of the California gang Pirus (Bloods).
The video itself starts of with the gang driving in a car coming across various situations such rival gang members patrolling around and also meeting and flirting with women. The videos climax sees the gang take part in a burglary and getting away from police.
our aim was not to copy the video but to tweak it, make some our own e.g the quick flashes to various scenes in the opening of our video.
is part of the California gang Pirus (Bloods).
The video itself starts of with the gang driving in a car coming across various situations such rival gang members patrolling around and also meeting and flirting with women. The videos climax sees the gang take part in a burglary and getting away from police.
our aim was not to copy the video but to tweak it, make some our own e.g the quick flashes to various scenes in the opening of our video.
Saturday, 11 January 2014
analysis of video by class peers
Our class have recently viewed and commented on our Media videos most of the comments we had received were similar to each other these comments included
- some of our shots are getting cut to much in the editing process loosing details
- unclear/ not sure of story
- matches genre well
- no lip syncing
- good use of effects/ props
The editing in our video is meant to unclear to start of with as it flashes backwards to planning the robbery which is why we have choose to use quick cuts and transitions.
The story of our piece becomes clear towards the end of the video with the robbery taking place at this point.
- some of our shots are getting cut to much in the editing process loosing details
- unclear/ not sure of story
- matches genre well
- no lip syncing
- good use of effects/ props
The editing in our video is meant to unclear to start of with as it flashes backwards to planning the robbery which is why we have choose to use quick cuts and transitions.
The story of our piece becomes clear towards the end of the video with the robbery taking place at this point.
The Editing Process
we are currently under in process of editing and finalizing our video. we have been using various effects and filters in our video to give the illusion of a flashback or time passing. this can be shown through this image here.
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Here is the image with the effect in place.
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This is an image of the video's opening, we used images of of Google maps as they only appear briefly
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This last image shows the changes we made to make a daytime shot look dark, we had used a nighttime filter and had lowered the exposure and contrast of of the shot which made the scene look convincing.
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Here is the image with the effect in place.
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This is an image of the video's opening, we used images of of Google maps as they only appear briefly
Screen Shot 2014-01-10 at 13.18.22 (2).png
This last image shows the changes we made to make a daytime shot look dark, we had used a nighttime filter and had lowered the exposure and contrast of of the shot which made the scene look convincing.
Screen Shot 2014-01-10 at 13.22.24 (3).png
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