Evaluation

So after much editing and processing and forgetting to upload it to Youtube and then it spending 2 hours doing so... The evaluation is finally done signalling the end of coursework. Thanks to everyone who has helped out over the past year and made this a very successful project.

All the tasks together

Main Task:

Ancillary Task 1:

Ancillary Task 2:

Evaluation

So now there is now only one thing left to do. The evaluation. I will do this by making a 'DVD extra' as such. I did a load of behind the scenes recording while we were on location and then I can do some interviews with myself and also some of the people involved like the main character. I will then put these all together to make the video. These are the questions I need to address:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I will need to answer these questions if I want to do the evaluation properly. I will be the one that will be talking more about the evaluation questions although I will try and get some others to talk about a bit about it.

Magazine Advert Ideas

These are the two ideas for my advert:

I now need to get some feedback from the people in my class and find out which of them they prefer.

Feedback:

The feedback from my posters was quite mixed. I think that generally the bottom one was the most popular of the two as people seemed to think that although the picture on the top was maybe the best it did look a bit childish. They like the way that the bottom one left you guessing a bit more and the empty field kind of gave a bit more of an impression. It was more organic. I like this too in the way that the official album is called the Organic Family Hymnal. So therefore this bottom one will become my advert.

Magazine Poster Research

So to create my own magazine advert I looked into some other real ones. Here are some examples:

From what I can see from these adverts none of these actually seem to tell you much about what they are offering in terms of the music and the things that are included with that. So for this reason my poster is going to try and do the same thing. It will probably include a picture from the digipak. I am thinking that I will just use the picture of the field empty and then add some text that kind of teases them into looking into it. On the digipak I've added lyrics of the song so I may do this on poster too. I want to try and get people to look into the music video but not give so much away that they immediately dismiss it. This is what I will work on.

Digipak Pictures

This is all the pictures that will go on my 6 panel digipak that you can see underneath:

I printed off the digipak on the A4 sheet of paper in black and white to see if there were any noticeable errors on it. I will then print it out in colour to double check. I will then ask some of the people in church etc. and see what they think.

On another note, I think putting the video on youtube was a good idea because I got a comment on it from a person who I didn't know and who saw it on the rend collective's facebook page. He / she said that it was very good which is very positive!

I am now going to think about creating the poster and then I will edit together an evaluation / Behind the Scenes / Interview video over the half term.

Movements Cover

I think this is one of my final ideas for the cover. I will post this on facebook and see what people think of it later.

If people like this then I will maybe try and do all the internal pictures in this style too

Final Cut

My projected date was hit and here it is:

I am using the power of the internet to get feedback:

Facebook:

Youtube:

Movements Second Cut

So I have listened to the comments that people have said and here is what I have done as a result. The least interesting bits have been sped up and now that I can see what is going on all in one go I can refine it to make the speed changes a bit less sudden and try and do it smoother. The painting out in the background worked very well and you can hardly see it at all unless you were looking for it! There are a few bits which just need to match the music a little better though and I fear that the video is at some points straying a bit too far away from that so I'll have to be careful

Now you see kim....

In order to get the one cut video that we wanted to achieve there was always going to be a point when someone was caught in the video that we didn't really want/need to see. There are two points which were pretty much unavoidable and these are the ones that you can see below. This first one in Kim running towards her diversion sign. When reversed obviously it looks like she is running back so I decided to paint her out as we don't want our attention drawn to the wrong thing. Here is what I did:

Start with the base image /\/\

Use the clone tool to take a sample from another part of the image /\/\

Voila! /\/\

And I also did the same for Joe underneath who was packing up the map so that it didn't fly away. He was the only one not involved in the diversion / home sequence

The only annoying thing about this is that you literally have to do every frame separately in order to make it work. This does work fairly nicely and is not to hard to achieve though

First Rough Cut of the video

Done in a couple of hours towards the end of the day

Here is the first cut of the video

My only concern from looking at the video is that people may find the end a bit weird in the way that they take hands.

Otherwise I'm very happy with the way it came out

It went well!

Second time lucky!

So we got all the video footage in the bag and now it's time to begin editing! I even got some behind the scenes stuff done too!

3rd of January! (Tomorrow!)

OK here we go second time lucky! I'm much more confident that we can do it tomorrow! I have at least 6 people coming and possibly more which is brilliant because it means that we can get this show on the road! I have everything sitting right where I left it and people know what they need to bring when they come tomorrow so we should be fine. This time it'll be from 10 - 2 so that people aren't looking too tired when they are in the video! Let's hope it all goes well!

New Date for Fiming

I have talked to the people who own the field and also to other people who I hope that will help me in my video. Both groups have said that the date I have pitched to them (3RD JANUARY) is available to most of them.

Because it is a bank holiday there is no school still and I am not working meaning that I can make the time a bit later for everyone. I'll therefore make the time 10.00 to 14.00(ish).

Let's hope the weather is good!

Saturday 18th

So I've had a very frustrating morning. Trying to find where the main character actually WAS was a big problem. He decided that he couldn't be bothered to turn up. In the end only two people actually did turn up. In the end we had to cancel. Very frustrating and annoying so we will have to re-organise it for another time...

Weather

So the weather is playing havoc once again and it may be that we may not be able to film tomorrow morning since the weather is due to be below freezing. I will make a decision about whether to go ahead with the filming tomorrow morning.

It also seems that the help that I have asked for may also not materialise. 4 people have already dropped out. I'm going to need to have at least 6 people (Including Dan - Main character) helping out with all the other stuff going on around the field.

We shall see how it goes...

Thanks Tesco

I have enough cardboard now!

Checklist for Saturday

EQUIPMENT

□ Signs

□ Diversion

□ Family, Work, School, Life, Friends

□ New, Coming through, Difference,

□ Home

□ Camera (Fully Charged)

□ Photo Camera (For Behind the Scenes)

□ Tripod (In Case)

□ Buckets

□ Map

□ Little Plastic Balls

□ Coat

□ Cardboard

□ Paddle (From Dan)

DOCUMENTATION:

□ Setting up Map

□ Script

□ This Page!

Reasoning for One Shot

I plan to do this video completely in one shot but why do I want to do this?

Well there are two reasons: It fits the mood of the song, and it is something unexpected

Mood:

The song flows nicely with the choral parts placed in the song and the way an acoustic guitar is used instead of an electric one. I think that with the way the song is set in it's mood would fit well with a one cut shot

Unexpected:

With the new technology that is available to me I can do so much more than just making a standard video with the cuts like I did last year. It is evident that with the music videos that are around today the good ones are the ones that push the boundaries and this is what I want to do in this case.

Movements Final Scripting

MOVEMENTS FINAL SCRIPTING

this video will be in one shot

Man is walking backwards with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

Zoom in on their hands and they part the camera moves around to look at the small person standing still.

Move to focus on the main character with several other people jumping around him shouting at him with girlfriend, friends, work, play, life, family, written on them. The crowd parts to let the camera through the crowd and we are now in the circle looking out at the people in and spinning around.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The crowd starts moving backwards out of the way and the man starts walking backwards away from them. The camera pans around so he it is behind him. It moves all the way around.

He stands still and dodges the punches being thrown at him by someone. He then moves backwards some more and falls over but gets back again. The same thing then happens.

Loads of balls gets thrown at him but he moves backwards through them

Walks backwards through the wall of cardboard. Camera pans around the wall as he goes through.

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him from all sides

Gets thrown a paddle and starts moving in a different direction. Rowing BACKWARDS. Looks really confused as he does this. Camera is on the side of the boat

Buckets of water thrown at him.

Crawls out. Moves backwards for a sec. Camera is still by the side of him and then pans around to the front

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it in the air.

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some people that are standing in his way. Camera following him from the front. He is moving backwards

Sees a man with a diversion sign. And another. And another. Must be pointing in different directions. These people are beckoning him and smiling. Moves on backwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs moves on backwards

He flaps his hands as he moves on

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera then stays put. We see the man move backwards and fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then shuffle on to screen and sing 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black