Artist Website

I have created a website for our artists Bobby & Brix.

Bobby & Brix Website

Since the artists of the song we are doing does not have a website and they only have a website for their clothing line, I got my inspiration from an artist within a similar genre (British hip hop and UK rap), Wretch 32.

Wretch 32 Website

Slow motion and Colour grading

Progress Editing 27/11/14

Adding: Slow motion, colour texture and improving Brix verse based on feedback.

Notes and Ideas for Q2

Q2 Ideas by Candi Media on GoAnimate

Rough Cut vs. Existing Music Videos

Notes and Ideas for Q3

Rough Cut Feedback

Summary:

• The first part of the song needs to be lip synced
• Cuts between different shots need to be more smooth
• Joshua's wearing all black in the second chorus, before the climax, where the camera goes up to the sky and back down
• It cuts between the day and the night time, and it does not make sense
• In the second verse, the camera moves behind the wall and comes back to the same artist, and it would be better if it moves to another artist or location, instead of coming straight back to emmanuel

What needs to be done and when:

• We need to either film the base tracks in West Silver town in the dark or the chorus in the daylight. This is so the filming is continuously in in the daylight, or all of she shots are in the dark, after the climax (transition from white clothes to black clothes)
• We need to add our slow motion parts, as they were not slowed down in time to meet the rough cut deadline
• When: We will film it again sometime this week (24th - 28th of November 2014)

Rough Cut

Overview of today's edit

Overview of editing: 24/11/14

Applying Andrew Goodwin's theory to our Music Video

Applying Goodwin Theory to M.V.

Incoporating Carol Vernallis Theroy to MV

To Upload

Changing Blog Layout

As a group we all decided that we wanted the synergy colours of Bobby X Brix to be black and white. We decided to do this to represent the song in which we used to make our video which is called the other side. We took Andrew Goodwin's theory in to account in order to allow the audience develop different types of meanings through the songs lyrics and the song name. One of the meanings which was made obvious through the song name (The Other Side) was life after death. With developed thinking we came up with the colours white and black which symbolises heaven and hell. White representing heaven and black representing hell.

Therefore in order to compliment this theme, we made our main colours for synergy black and white
for that reason I decided keep the synergy pattern flowing through the blogs which is the colour black and white, and make the blog layout and background to also play a part in synergy.

Before our blog was not really representing our synergetic colours. The colours were blue and white. Therefore I decided to change it to black grey and white with a picture of Bobby X Brix

In order to change the setting I had to go to the top right hand bar to 'new layout'
in this layout, I change the background to black.

On this setting, I could change the colour of the text of the side bar to white.

Example of Slow Motion

Reshooting the ending

Whilst we were editing  we realised that by the end of the song we are going back and forth between the base tracks/performing shots that were shot during the day and one of the artists singing the chorus which is recorded at night time. We decided that we might have to reshoot the chorus so that its during the day as those shots may not work together unless there is a really good meaning to it. It also wouldn't make sense for some of the shots to be at night time as our song doesn't have the structure, from morning to night/taking us on a journey throughout the day.

Note and Ideas for Evaluation Question 4

Notes & Ideas For Evaluation Q1

Costume

Notes and Ideas for Evaluation Question 1

Notes and ideas for evaluation question one

Emmanuel Tedeku aka Brix - Diary (Pictures to be added)

Editing

How the editing process has been for me:

Editing so far

Editing

Editing so far

So far in the editing process we lip synced the first and second verse. Our song includes 3 artists and 2 of them have their own verse and one artist sings the chorus, therefore we had to edit a lot of footage because apart from the performing scenes each artist also has their own individual shots in a specific location. We then began to cut in between the tracks on the beat, this was hard to do because you have to make sure that the transactions are fluent and that the shots don't go on for too long.

Editing - Bobby - Graveyard Scene

Reflection

Reflection- Update

Above is a screenshot of our new footage within Final Cut Pro, it is Brix's psychiatrist scene. The lighting which was an issue with our previous recorded footage has been successfully resolved, with crisper lighting which produces a better viewing quality. We are happy with result and hope a situation similar to this does not arise in the future, with better planning.   

 Taking a screenshot in the process of stacking the collection of various camera shots to then sync the clips with the original soundtrack. Later that day we finished editing Brix's psychiatrist scene, however when we submit our rough cut we are likely to make some improvements, as we have slow motion to include.  

Progress Editing

Editing Process

Relating to Carol Vernallis' theory

Reshooting Pt2

On Monday the 11th of November group 4 went out to reshoot Emmanuel aka 'Brix' scene at Yuksils house.  We went to reshoot the scene due bad lighting. Although we wanted our shots to have a low key lighting effect, this did not go according to plan. This is some of the footage of what we shot on the 24th of October. Therefore we shot it again with a Dedo light. Overall we were pleased with the outcome having the white light instead of the orange desk light.

Here are some pictures of when we filmed and also the comparison between the two shots

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As you can see here are two similar shots taken from our footage. The first Shot is a close- up of me 'Brix' in action. In the second shot is a medium close up of me again. Apart from the different costume, there is a major difference between the two shots. The first one was the re-shoot and the second one is the original shot we initially had before the reshot.

As you can see the lighting is much more effective and the shots are less grainy. In the reshoot there are still shadows which we could not avoid. However there are less shadows in the reshoot which we got rid of by using the dedo light. In conclusion the group is satisfied with the reshoot and are happy with the lack of shadow.

Blogging Health Check

In media, I have received my blogging heath check. This gave me the feedback both positive and negative feedback on my current blogs up to the 24th of October.

Overall I was personally very unhappy with my blogging health check grade as I aspire to get an A grade in media. Although this was not a shock to me due to the fact that I personally feel that I haven't been pulling my weight e.g. missing blogs , lack of detail etc.

This is a picture of my pro-portal. This includes my blogging
health check grade and my first progress grade.

Hopefully When the next blogging health check comes on the 24th November my blogging health check grade can be pushed up substantially.

Overall I believe that I am Below target :(

There are thing which can do in order to put my self on track :

• More depth and detail included into blogs
• Timing! make sure your blogs are up to date and in the right order 
• Overall blog rate; Aim to blog frequently once every day or two

Applying Carol Vernallis Theory to M.V.

Second verse

Reshooting the second verse

As you can see on the left, we reshot the second verse, this time we used deco lights which didn't give us the yellow effect and we were more happy with the lighting this time round. The shots itself are even more clear and more effective.

We also decided to do a lot more close-ups as we were told that we didn't have enough of them in our video. The shot on the left is from our new footage and the shot on the right is from the old. 

Reshooting

Reshooting the second verse

We decided to reshoot the second verse because we didn't like the lighting.

As you can see from these screenshots of the footage that we recorded the lighting is very yellow and doesn't look natural. This scene was shot inside a house and we had to use a desk lamp to add some light, but the effect that it gave is not what we were looking for so we decided to reshoot this scene.

Filming so far

Photos from filming: 10th November

Vlog: Filming Monday 10/11

Research- Reflection on Progress

Tuesday 11th November

On Tuesday the 11th of November Bernard aka 'Bobby' will be shooting his graveyard base tracks in Enfield; St James Church. On our storyboard we decided to get a midday shot, Therefore we will be shooting @ 1:00pm midday.

Reshooting on monday pt1

On friday the 24th of October we went to Holloway to shot Emmanuel aka 'Brix' scene which was based at Yuksil's house. Due to circumstances and misunderstandings we were unable to take lights on the friday. As an an alternative we used a desk light which led our shots to be low key and to also have an orange effect with a yellow colour pallet

Although we wanted our shots to have a low key lighting effect, this did not go according to plan. This is some of the footage of what we shot on the 24th of October.

As you can see in these pictures, the shots look very grainy and also shadowed and this is not the effect that we set out to get on our storyboard.

 As you can see here, these are some of the shots which have inspired us to make our scene like our music video.





In this case we will be reshooting on Monday 10th November in order to correct these shots.

Aims for Lesson: 6th November

First Blogging Check Feedback

Feedback and Targets

Current Level: 15/20 (B)

Feedback

Strengths:

• Nicely presented
• Being more creative in the range of ICT and apps you are using
• All posts from the checklist are mostly complete
• Greater frequency in posting to the blog more recently
• Lots of detail and some excellent work in the research post

Weaknesses:

• Research posts do not have as much detail as planning posts.
• My time management is inconsistent – For example, most research posts were posted on 28/09.

Targets given:

• Try to be consistent in the level of detail you offer in ALL posts regardless of how you decide to present them (doesn’t just have to be detail in writing, can be visually, can be in the way you construct them etc…)
• Post with frequent intervals rather than posting everything on the same day
• Continue to use ICT to present in a creative way
• Think of some interesting ways to post to the blog during the production phase

My response:

I think that I do need to start doing extra blogs that show the groups journey, instead of only doing blogs that are needed. Also, detail in my blogs are beginning to decrease, so I need to improve this. I acknowledge that I do post blogs in bulk, so I need to work on spreading out the days I post blogs. I think that all my targets are achievable and I will start working on them.

Post test shots and footage of potential performers

Yuksil add some behind the scene footage of us performing at the empty place...

Pitch- (Video of our Pitch)

Blog Check Verdict

Positives:

• I have a number of detailed blogs that have well presented information included
• The majority of blogs stated on the guideline sheet have been completed
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After receiving feedback from my Blogs, I have constructed three goals:

• Increase the number of blogs by following the blog check-list
• Add more detail to future blogs 
• Explore new methods of presenting my blogs

Marks: 13/20

Blogging health check feedback

I have received feedback on my blogs. From my feedback I have set myself a few targets. Overall, I have a low number of blog posts and some of them are incomplete which I have to finish. I also have to make sure I blog consistently throughout the week and blog things that are not on the blogging checklist.

 Targets - Complete all of the incomplete posts
                Use a wider variety of ICT and keep it consistent
                Have a consistency of detail in my blogs