Ancillary Brief- Planning Ideas

What I did on Tuesday 22nd November 2016

On Tuesday, when I was alone, I tried to edit with the small amount of clips we had. I cut up the base tracks we had and made clips fit with the beat of the song. At the end of the day, we were supposed to show a very rough draft of 30 secs but Marisa let me off because I wasn't confident by myself. The rough cuts are now up on our blog though and we were able to get feedback next lesson from fellow students and Mary.

Feedback on Blogging Health Check 2

Since this blogging health check, I have updated a few more blog posts and kept things up to date. For example, I have been in charge of the social media and I have sent a tweet out everytime we had filmed. I uploaded our pitch and did the feedback for it aswell. I think I need to work on using a variety of ways of presenting my blog. I think that I still just write in the blog, in the normal format. I think I need to also work on showing the artists brand more clearly. I might also need to add more detail and add more images to my blogs for evidence when explaining things. For example, my synergy task should have more images so the audience could get a physical idea of what I want my artist to wear or what kind of font I want. I think it is good that I blog what I did during the lessons when I am by myself so there is proof of what I had done individually.

Notes and ideas on evaluation question 1 (Blog task 39)

PLAN

Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• I think for our music video, we used a mixture of Vernallis' and Goodwin's theories. We tried to use a narrative but as Goodwin says pop videos aren't really meant to have a narrative. I think that we go against conventions of pop videos because they usually don't have narratives, they usually just focus on the artist singing towards the camera and maybe choreography. However, the artist did play both the narrator and as the character. We did also break the 4th wall by the artist staring into the camera at times. We did this so it makes it seem like our artist is acknowledging that people are watching and to involve the audience. Vernallis says that narrative in music videos are not always complete and our one isn't. We did this music video incomplete and it just focusing just on the female part but we want it to be seen that her relationship is in a crisis but the male character isn't shown present time. He might be shown in little flashbacks or referenced to through the use of props such as through the phone.
• Vernallis says that they are balanced between performance and narrative and I believe we did that. Goodwin says that they are based around song lyrics and we tried to do that with the narrative.
• We were mostly inspired by the original video when it comes to editing, for example, the text coming out of Karen's mouth.

Magazine Advertisements Analysis

Research/Inspiration for my Anchillary Products & My Final Choices

Start of ancillary work

Feedback for Final Music Video

Outline of improvements needed before deadline (Blog task 45)

• colour grading
• adding text to 'the words start flowing out' bit
• check to see if the clips are not too quick or short
• check to see if it is cut properly and no lyrics are cut off

Synergy Post

Synergy post from meganmanigan

Feedback post on music video

Feedback postx from meganmanigan

Editing Analysis

Editing analysis from meganmanigan

Editing Analysis

Editing analysis

Feedback on BHC2

On blogging health check 2 I got a mark of 13 out of 21. This has improved as on BHC 1 I was on a mark 10, and grade E. I have now moved up to a grade C.
I have improved by attending more lessons, and blogging more in my spare time. I have also improved more by attending some workshops and putting in extra work to get a better grade which has worked as I have gone up 2 grades.

My new targets to increase my grade further for blogging health check 3 will be too

1) Keep to the deadline of the health check as mostly I miss the deadline which means all my blogs are not marked and I don't get the grade that I would have had if I had stuck to the deadline.

2) Include more details into synergy and focus on showing how synergy will be included in our artist.

3) Begin to think more about the evaluation questions as I am now coming to an end of the music video production, focus on the next stage of coursework and be more focused.

I am happy with my grade as I have put the extra work in since my last BHC which was not at the best it could be.

Feedback on Health Check

I've improved in terms of blogging and I am now up to date and also using good technology. However there are some things that i do need to improve on for example:

1. Putting the artist Kiki Karmel up on the blog a lot more and making her brand a lot bigger. So making sure the blog is all about her and her music.

2. to also keep up with the blogging so that means checking up on the blog and also keeping up to date of when I am blogging and also keeping on using technology. Making sure the brand is a lot stronger also

3. We need to update a lot on the audience feedback so what the audience think of Kiki so far and what their opinion her is like.

Evaluation on Rough Cut 2

production - changes in our video

In our original plan, we had the music video based on main character, the artist, and a boy. The boy was meant to be used for flashbacks that the artist would reflect back on.

As the boy did not attend the college and was not in our group, this made him an unreliable source.

We got rid of the flashback ideas and based the music video now on jest the main artist. This made production easier as we could film during lessons and any time the group was available and would not rely on the boy.

Filming evidence

Filming evidence

Rough Cut 2

Test Shot 2

Rough Cut feedback

Rough cut feedback1 from meganmanigan

Rough Cut 1