Lesson 15

During this lesson me and Sarah started to develop our stop motion animation images on Photoshop. The purpose of the animation/ stop motion part of the music video is that we believe it emphasise the narrative of the music video and the element of romance in the video. We also believe that it makes the music video more interesting and original.

Animatic-Beau

Here you can see the animatic that me and Sarah produced to give an idea on how our music video will look.

Lesson 13

In this lesson, as a team, Sarah and me finally started to put together our shots and produce an animatic for the song; you give me something. When putting the shots together on final cut pro, we realised that some of the shots were far to long and had to be divide to fit the time. Putting the shots together with the song playing in the background, helped us to visualise how the video will look once we start to film, the actual video. The benefits of producing animatic before shooting, gave us a lot to think about and what did not work. The improvements that we will be making to our animatic will mostly consist of, adding more shots to reduce the length of specific shots and to add variation. 

Lesson 12

In this lesson the whole class, in their groups, carried on with their music video story boards. I and Sarah decide to specify the length of each scene we drew, by calculating the length of each chorus. We found that by downloading the song ‘You give me something’, on to our phones, helped out alot; as we were able to listen back to the song when every we want to, with any problems. This sped up the task, to finish of our story board, as we have fully calculated the length for each stanza in the song; the only thing now that we have left to do, is to add few more scenes to our story board sheets.

Lesson 10- annotating You give me something

Pitch feedback

Beau music video- pitch

Lesson 9

lesson on our music video presentation

Blog feedback- improvements to make, and add

Lesson 8

This lesson was a very productive lesson, the first half of the lesson we edited our presentation, for our music video; we also added posts that were missing form our blogs. The second half of the lesson, each group had to present their pitch, on their artist and their music video idea, to the whole class. Each group were given a feedback sheet to fill in, about the groups that presented their music video idea. These sheets will then give the groups feedback on what they can improve on, and what didn’t work in their music video. Sarah and me will be pitching our music video presentation to the whole class tomorrow, as we didn’t have enough time to present.

Blog feedback

Audience profile- Beau

You give me something music video- case study

You give me something music video- case study from Yazmin Ahmed

Lesson 9

This lesson was a very productive lesson, as it gave everyone time to catch up with their blogging, and finishing of class work. Sarah and I kept our minds on, finishing of class work, as we were already up to date with our blogging. Sarah started off, finishing off the audience profile; while I started on the PowerPoint presentation, for our music video idea. This presentation will be viewed by the whole class on Thursday 18^th, so I and Sarah decided to do three slides each. Sarah will be doing her three slides over the weekend, while I have already finished off my slides, in this lesson. Overall I would say that, both I and Sarah are up to date with our work.

Moodboard- Prezi

Beau-Moodboard on Prezi

Lesson 6

In this lesson we did some blog catch up and finish of our mood boards. When I and Sarah had finished of our mood board, we took some photos from different angles of, the mood board, and uploaded them on to our Prezi account. With this software we are hoping to make and animated tour, which will hopefully take you around our mood board, and give you a closer image of the mood board, itself.

Lesson 5

In this lesson we had to start our mood board, for our artist Beau. I and Sarah decided to divide the task between us; Sarah would be sticking down the pictures and deciding how to present, the mood board in an artistic way. I however, decided to research on the images we could use for the mood board; for examples, guitars, microphones, artist like, James Morrison, Ed Sheeran etc, images of places in the city that we could shoot e.g. buses, underground, in city centres etc. I think Sarah did a great job of assembling the images in a very artistic, interesting way; one of the ideas she had was to corporate the lyric of the song we would be using in our music video, in to the mood board. This was a great lesson as it showed, mine and Sarah artistic side, which will hopefully influence our music video.