Rough Cut

Here is the rough cut we have made! We will shortly be making a focus group and a Facebook group in order to get some audience feedback on our music video.

Rough cut finished

Today we have been finishing our rough cut of our music video on Sony Vegas Pro 11, which we successfully managed to do. We wanted the cutting of our video to be smooth and relate well to the lyrics which will reflect the song, which also links in with Andrews Goodwin's point that the music and visuals are linked in music videos

When editing our video we have focused on syncing the singing just right so that it looks professionally and on time with the music which you can see from the image above. We are taking our time with this part of the music video and carefully editing his singing to the song lyrics. This will help promote the artist and make him look better if its done right which is  vital within conventions of music videos which would make it more appealing to our target audience.

Editing Update

Today on Thursday the 29th we carried on editing for our music video. We are nearly close to finishing our rough cut and it should be done by tomorrow on Friday the 30th, which we will then be collecting our audience feedback. This means we are currently on schedule if everything goes to plan.

Time management update

This is an update on what we plan to do this upcoming month of December.

Narrative Finished

Today we finally finished our narrative in our spare time. The filming was successful and we will start to edit these clips in our lessons tomorrow on Thursday the 29th.

We hope to finish the last performance clip of the long shot of the band tomorrow also on the 29th. This shouldn't take long as we just need to do one shot. After that we have all the clips we need to finish our music video.

Editing

For editing we have decided to use the software Sony Vegas Pro 11. We will use this software to capture and cut all of our clips together to create our final music video.

This is how much we have edited so far, we are more than half way done. We still need to finish some filming  but we are keeping up with our time as we are editing on the clips we have so far and will add the missing ones when we are finished

So far as a group we are quite happy with what our music video looks like. From looking back at our previous research it is following the theory of Andrew Goodwin  where their is a relationship between the music and the visuals where we have tried to represent the emotions of the soldier which helps the audience connect to the song. Our narrative also follows Barthes theory of having the Semantic code, so far we have edited to direct the audience through the soldiers journey through different movements of camera shots.

Time management update

We were planning on doing some extra filming to finish the narrative tonight on Thursday the 22nd of November, unfortunately we have had to cancel due to bad weather. However we plan to do the filming tomorrow night instead so this is not a problem.

We hope to finish both the performance and the narrative by next Thursday on the 29th. Although in our time schedule we have planned this to start editing, we have decided to edit as we go along that way we are making efficient use of our time.

Creating a moon for our music video

Due to the bad weather conditions the moon hasn't came out much for us to use it in our music video. Because we need to get the music video finished relatively soon to keep with our time scale I created a moon from scratch using Photo shop which i think was quite successful and which could be an option for us to use in our music video if time gets delayed even more.


I think this was a success and looks very realistic once I looked pretty good once I saw what it looked like on top of a video shot.

 

Time management adjustment

Our original plan was to start editing tomorrow on Thursday the 22nd of November. However due to us having some issues with filming we will have to spend one more week doing it. This shouldn't be a problem as we will make extra time out side of lessons to edit our video so we should still stick to the time scale we originally planned to have.

We plan to finish the narrative video today this evening and tomorrow evening on the 21st and 22nd. That will mean we will just need to finish the performance which we are hoping to do on the same days but within lesson time.

Filming for the Thursday 15th November

 Today we carried on doing our performance work. Unfortunately we couldn't get the drum kit for this day which limited us for our band shots however the following shots we did do are as followed

• Close up of microphone from two different angles
• Close up of Tom Martin Singing
• Close up of playing the two guitars

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Today was quite successful and I am happy with the work with have achieved so far.


Because we were unable to finish our performance shots today this will mean we will have to do some extra filming next week which we were originally starting our editing. This shouldn't take long and shouldn't be a problem for our time management overall.

Time management update

At last minute we have decided to film some of the narrative tomorrow evening on Tuesday the 13rd of November. This was because we needed to fit some extra hours in out of college time and this day was the best for all of our group. One problem we are facing at the moment is having the whole concept of the moon in the shot this is because over the past few weeks there has been poor weather and not very good visibility which may stop us from doing our original shots which we will have to work our way around.

Some of the scenes we took tonight was poor quality due to the lighting. We will reshoot these later on at an earlier time of day before it gets to dark so that we can still show that the character is walking through the night but we still have enough light for the filming

My inspiration in creativity

My inspiration in my narrative has mainly come from the video called Rise Against - Hero of war.



Though this video has a slightly different storyline to what we have its has a same concept of a soldier in denial and lost who he is. We will base our video along the lines of the emotions shown in this video of the soldier emotionally upset with what hes been through and just wants to find his way home back to his loved one which you can see as a memory in this video above.

Time Management Update

This is an update on what we plan to do in the upcoming weeks of this month

Creativity

What is Creativity?
Creativity is the bringing into being of something which did not exist before, either as a product, a process or a thought. For example develop a new way of looking at something (bringing a new idea into existence) or even by reapplying an existing process or product into a new or different market.

How can you be more Creative?
To be good at being creative you need to have creative thinking, this is a process which we use when we come up with a new idea. It is the merging of ideas which have not been merged before. Brainstorming is one form of creative thinking: it works by merging someone else's ideas with your own to create a new one. You are using the ideas of others as a stimulus for your own. Or even simple things of taking regular breaks when doing your work or take a nap as it is said it will refresh your brain which will open up new ideas.

Where does it come from?
Creativity is created through the brain coming up with new and imaginative ideas. To create a strong idea the brain needs relaxation where it has time to expand the idea it has created. Jonah Lehrer created a book called 'How creativity works'. Lehrer, a neuroscientist turned writer, finds that these moments emanate from a certain part of the brain. Creativity, he finds, corresponds to a steady rhythm of alpha waves emanating from the brain's right hemisphere. And that is stimulated by relaxation. For example in his book his explained that out of thin air Steve Jobs in 2007 brought about the new revolution of technology which was the iPhone, this was know as a smart phone which could do almost anything. New inventions being developed in society start mostly by the subject of science.


What role does it play in creating a media production?
The media industry employs thousands of people in various media fields such as TV, film, or music, each media field uses creativity of a process of creating a new thing people will watch or hear. Creativity is extremely important as creativity is what captures your audiences attention and engages them with the product. For example in the film industry you need to think of different ways of filming, this will involve different cinematography techniques of angles which would help to engage your audience into what their watching, this requires new thinking.

Creativity is a big issue in education and teaching at the moment. Sir Ken Robinson shows that creativity depends on coming up with an idea and being prepared for if it goes wrong, we have no idea what will happen or it may turn out, this way you will come up with something unique. He states that "All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think,". But growing up in the education system he says "It is stifling the individual talents and abilities of too many students and killing their motivation to learn."".

Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of an idea. If you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.

I agree with this theory, creativity requires passion and commitement to let it become reality. If you don't go for that idea to make it reality then it is simply just your imagination. What makes you be creativity is having innovation which you are open to share ideas and shaping the direction of the future.