Final Piece: Website

Here is the link to the website for my coursework. I had a little bit of trouble with this so was not able to create as much content and pages as anticipated. However, I am happy with the way my website has turned out.


http://09nortem.wix.com/jamesbaya2musicvideo

Final Piece: Ancillaries (Album Cover And Insert Booklet)

Front Cover

Spine

Back Cover

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Coursework: Final Piece

After working on my coursework for 6-8 weeks on both production and post-production, I have finally finished my music video. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenges that came with working alone and piecing together each part of my music video. The step up from AS to A2 was difficult to contrast to at first, with having only my opinion and skill set, but after my initial planning and practice I felt much more comfortable. I feel my music video has enabled me to grow massively in my ability to edit and use post-production to enhance my video as well as being able to learn to present a narrative in a non-linear fashion but still allow it to make sense to the audience. 

 Throughout the production of my music video I also enjoyed being able to put my own stamp on things and be responsible for my own creative decisions. This allowed me to express myself, more than I was able to in a group of 3 from AS, which meant that I felt I could make decisions quicker and add my own personal spin. 

Overall, I have enjoyed this experience and have achieved more than I imagined possible. 

Coursework: Ancillary Tasks

 Here are screen-grabs of my album covers and insert pages of the booklet.

 

Back Cover

Album Cover And Front Of Booklet

Insert Pages Of Booklet

Insert Pages Of Booklet

Audience

Filming Day 2...

The aim for filming was to capture all the outdoor shots for my music video. When we arrived at the location, however, it was too bright to film the bits I intended to get done. Instead, I took a few photos that I could use for my CD insert and ones that I could manipulate for my album front cover. So far, I am considering using the first photo as my album cover.

Filming: Day One...

For the first day of filming, I planned to film a few of my indoor shots. For these I filmed at my sisters flat, a location where a lot of my music video will take place.

The shots I planned to film were some of the ''flashback'' shots. For these I needed to consider how the mise-en-scene would change from the 'present tense' shot to the past via visual semiotics. For example, in the ''flashback'' shots, as this was seen to be a happy time by the male character, a string of fairy lights has been added to the scene along with a pink and a blue Disney mug to symbolise the relationship and memories of the two characters.

Coursework: Planning My Video

In order to plan and organise my ideas for my music video, I printed off a copy of the lyrics to the song and began to collect my thoughts around different verses of the songs. These annotations will form the basis for my initial ideas and storyboard of the music video.

Coursework: A Change Of Plan

My original plan for my music video was to have two narratives running alongside each other with two different endings. When attempting to film this, I realised that, with the time limit, this would be incredibly hard to do.

I attempted the dual narrative but found it difficult to get both the shots synchronised and in time with each other. I thought about filming both shots with a few differences to remove the stress of trying to replicate the shots exactly. However, I thought that the audience might not understand that it was the same narrative and not two different stories.

Instead of my original plan, I'm going to change my narrative into a story of a broken down relationship. I'm going to continue to use the song Let It Go by James Bay as I feel this would fit the new narrative and that the lyrics fit the story completely. 

I will continue to use the same actor as I feel his look fits the part.  

Coursework: Risk Assessment

Before going out to shoot, I decided it would be a good idea to carry out a risk assessment of the places I would be filming for the safety of my actor and myself. The locations I planned to film in included: a wooded area, a flat, a house, and a few separate outdoors shots.

The Risk Assessment form below covers the risks for all of these locations. 

Coursework: Contributor Release Form

For my music video, I needed to gain consent from my actor so that both him and I would understand what was needed and how long for. I asked my actor to fill out this form which states what my music video will be used for, the title of the production, and an overall statement in which explains what is needed of the actor and where he can expect the video to end up, eg Youtube.

Initial Ideas

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