Practising lip syncing and camera techniques

video of our presentation

This is our video we recorded of us presenting our ideas o the rest of our class. This is the un-edited version.

feed back form from our presentation

reply from miss wilcox about our actors

proposal to miss wilcox for drama students

moodboard

these are all images that influenced us about mcfly and our story board

Music video ideas

 These ideas are what we planned for our music video roles. We wrote down our strenghts and weaknesses on here and also he roles in which we will each have to complete this task. We have also put some on ideas on of what we want in our music video. 

our letter from teacher about our filming today

powerpoint for questionaire results

questionaire

This is our questionaire for our music video.

 

 

 

1. what genre do you like?

a) pop

b) rap

c) acoustic

d) indie

 

2. what music video do you ike right now?

why?

 

3. what attracts you to a video?

a) dancers?

b) fast moving scenes

c) colours?

 

4. what is a good location for a pop song?

a) studio?

b) party?

c) other (give reason)

 

5. should the location change throughout the video?

a) yes

b) no

 

6. boy singer or girl singer?

 

7. boy rapper or girl rapper?

 

8. what dancers would you prefere?

a) boys?

b) girls?

c) both

 

9. should there be extras or just singers?

 

10. bright colours

black and white

or both

 

11. should the outfits be changed?

or stay the same?

 

12. Should the video be animated or real life?

13. do you still buy CD's?

a) yes

b) no

 

14. how much money do you get a month to spend on CD's?

a) £0

b) £1-£5

c) £5-£10

d) £10+

 

15. would you like artist info, lyrics and posters in the digi pack?

if so why?

 



 

 



 

 



Music analyses for 'oh what a night' - lovable rougues

Shot Type	Low medium 3 shot	Analysis
		The lighting this shot is low key.  The key light is this is coming from directly in front of him because of the way their faces are lighted. The background of this shot is a graffiti wall with their band name on. Location of the song is a party so in this shot it looks like they have gone into an empty room and wrote graffiti all over the wall. As the lyrics are saying ‘your house is a joke, I’m that kind of bloke’ then the camera shows them singing in that room with the graffiti in wall is swing they have no respect for that persons house. The way the camera is angles in this shot is a low medium shot so it looks as if the singer is leaning over it to make him look more powerful and showing that the three are the main three at the party.
Lyrics	‘Your house is a joke, I’m that kind of bloke’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shot Type	High medium shot	Analysis
		In this shot the lighting is low key, only the people in th middle have there faces lighted. The key light in this is again directly in front of the person because f the way his face is lighted and the person to is left is dark. The way they are standing in this shot is showing karate. This is relevant t the video because the lyrics are saying ‘it’s a god job that I know karate’ this is relating the shot with the lyrics to connect the audience with them. The background behind them is pretty much the same as the first shot, showing that they have grafetied the walls of a room in the girls house.
Lyrics	‘I think your parents might hate me, it’s a good job tha I know karate’

 

 

Digipack Analyses

Digipack

 

This digipak is very dark which could reflect the artist’s genre. The images are of close up serious faces. I think it could include more persuasive things to link it to the audience such as lyrics, a booklet on artist info or more photos. The font is big and colourful to catch attention and there isn’t a lot of writing to make it simpler. The contrast of black and white is very bold. It is not very informative but it does catch a lot of attention. It’s very striking. I think the writing works well against the background because it stands out against the black and its big and bold, however the colours are bit random against the rest of the cover. I think the artist is represented as a rapper because of the dark colours on the covers, he also looks mysterious. The ideas which we have gained from this digipack are that keeping plain and simple looks professional. Also using a bold title against a plain background is very eye-catching.

 This digipak is all basically one colour. The filter looks like an orange kind of sepia colour. This shows a vintage look. Also the colour relates to title of the album 'Dessert rose' because deserts are full of sand and colour gives a sandy look. The pictures are simple but makes the mood of the digipak look calm. It might be this way because the artists songs might be calm and opra like.

 



 

 

 

 

 

Task 1

Task 1: Audience

1.    We are expecting the digipack to look bright and colourful e.g. pinks and blues, to attract the viewers but also we want it to be in sync with the genre of the song. We would like the cover of the digipack to have the band on it or a logo of some kind that matches the band. I think if it’s too busy like with lots of writing everywhere or a variety of pictures then it would look to chaotic and give the wrong impression of our song. Our songs genre is pop and the song is happy and chirpy, so a simple cover would suite the cover of the digipack just fine.

 

From the questionnaire we did, we asked if the people still bought CD’s, the majority ticked yes for this so now we know that our focus group are likely to buy a digipack with the CD in if we made one. We as a group still buy CD’s and our target audience is around are age, so with this information we can interpret out likes and dislikes onto the digipack as well as asking around and hopefully we will have come up with the perfect digipack to sell tour audience.

 

In our group we asked each other if we still brought music magazines. We all said no apart from one of us who said vary rarely. Teenagers now days are more likely to download or search things on the internet that they want to buy. Because of this we will need to up our game when making the magazine to make it more appealing to our audience and give great information inside and attractive colours and pictures on the cover to draw them in.

 

We used sources from the internet to find out about our band that we are doing a cover of. We needed to find out about their background e.g.  What awards they’ve won since they started, how they formed there band, why they started as a band etc. We needed to find this information to gain a better knowledge of the band and to see if we can get in contact with them.

 

2.    The methods that we have used are questionnaires, focus groups and internet sites. The strengths of the questionnaires is to gain knowledge of what likes and dislikes our age group has. Also we can get a lot of information in one go because there are all on individual sheets. The weaknesses of this type of method is that people may lie or over exaggerate there answers, or they may not find the time to do it or just refuse. Also questionnaires don’t go into specific detail without being bias, and people may not understand what the questions are asking so they cannot ask us what they mean because we were not there when they was handed out.

The strengths of our focus group are that they give us a good idea of what that age group likes. A weakness is that it was only a handful of pupils and there might not have been enough people to express their different thoughts and opinions.

The strengths of using the internet are that there are so many different sites we can look at and we can gain a lot of information that way. Also there are plenty of different websites to look at to make sure the information we was obtaining was correct. Some weakness of the internet is that some sites such a Wikipedia have a section where you can input your own information; however some people may put something that is completely false about the subject you’re searching for.

Some of the things we would do differently about these methods are making the questionnaire more detailed about what we want to know and not having such a wide answer space. Also we could have asked more people for our focus group to make sure that information we obtained is reliable and valid.

 

Permission letter to mcfly

Permission letter

 

Dear Copyright Holder,

 

 

We are A-level students and we are writing to request your permission to use one of the latest tracks by Mcfly. The track we wish to use is ‘Love is Easy’.

With your permission, this track would be used in our current A-level Media Studies project, which involves creating a music video to a popular music track, as well as producing an album and a magazine advert for the artist.

If we received your permission, this track would ONLY be used in an educational context and be viewed by our media class, our teacher and the OCR exam board moderator. It would not be released to a large audience.

The artist and your company would of course be fully recognised throughout pre-production and the final video itself. A copyright notice with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project. If this is required, please send full details.

 

We look forward to hearing from you,

Regards

Elizabeth Baker

Toni-Marie Warden

Paige Etherington

 

Background of Mcfly.

 

The genre of this band and the song is pop rock and punk. The names of the singers are, Harry Judd , Danny jones, Tom Fletcher, Dougie lee Poynter. Tom Flecture was the founder of the band, and was originally auditioned for another band called Busted. However he didn’t make the final cut. Danny (who was still in school at the time) was auditioning for a rock band, but he caught Tom’s eye, and Tom then suggested forming their own band. After this they then held auditions for a drummer and bassist. Shortly after Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter came along and the band was formed.  They hold the record for youngest band to have a #1 debut album in the UK, as of 2004. The band formed in 2003. Mcfly have in total made 6 albums, and there first song they made was ‘5 colours of her hair;’ They have also sold 10 million record worldwide. danny was born March 12, 1986 , Dougie was born November 30, 1987, Tom was born July 17, 1985 and Harry was born December 23, 1985. They are signed to the Island Records label and are managed by Prestige Management.

 

 

 

The bands awards are;
2004


• Walt Disney Awards – Best Newcomer
• Smash Hits Awards – Best UK Band
• Smash Hits Awards – Best Album for Room on the 3rd Floor
• Smash Hits Awards – Best Video for "That Girl"
• Smash Hits Awards – Best Stars of the Year
• Smash Hits Awards – Most Fanciable Male (Danny Jones)

2005

• Smash Hits Awards – Best UK Band
• Smash Hits Awards – Most Snoggable Male (Danny Jones)
• Smash Hits Awards – Best Single for "All About You'"
• Smash Hits Awards – Best Album for Wonderland
• BRIT Awards – Best Pop Act

2006

• Virgin.net Music Awards – God Group
• BT Digital Music Award for People's Choice Award for Best Official Music Site

2007

• Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards – Best Band (also hosted)
• UK Festival Awards – Best Pop Act (for appearance at V Festival)
• Virgin.net Music Awards – Best Live Act

2008

• Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards – Best Band
• Star Smash Awards 2008 – Best Album (Radio:ACTIVE)
• Star Smash Awards 2008 – Best Band
• Star Smash Awards 2008 – Artist of the Year

2009

• Meus Premios Nickelodeon Brazil 2009 – Best International Artist
• UK Music Video Awards – Best Live Music Coverage
• News of the World – The Most Sexiest Men of the Year (Dougie Poynter)
• Also nominated for MTV Latin Awards
  

2010

• 4Music Video Honours – Best Video of 2010 for Party Girl

2011

• Nordoff Robbins – American Express Digital Innovation Award
• In Rock Magazine – Best British Band

2012

• Nordoff Robbins Music Awards – Best Live Act