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Digipak

This is the Digipak that was created as the CD case for our band "A-Club". The name of the album is "Without Fear". The Digipak contains two pictures of members of the band in the style of playing cards, one contents of the songs, one contents of the band members, the front cover of everyone on swings and the CD holder. We were each given specific colours as to not only add colour to the Digipak but to create a faint theme of identity and difference, yet as we are four popular light colours there is a sense of energy and unity among us.

Final Music Video

 This is our finished music video. The only noticeable difference that we made to the video was removing unnecessary transitions that made the music video look tacky. We also planned to film more footage, but due to time restraints and careful consideration we decided to not film more footage as to make it simpler and not overload the video with different locations.

Editing the Music Video 1

Once our first session of filming was complete we uploaded the footage to the iMac and began to edit. While the majority of the shots in the band room were good, we decided that we needed more outdoor sequences, as well as some extra shots in the Drama room. As a group we also decided to use more locations in different areas of London, or locally, in order to make the video less repetitive and to make it longer, as the edited video footage only reaches approximately one and a half minutes.

Task 2- Editing Lip Syncing- Elton John

This music video was our groups third attempt at making a music video, and this specific video was edited by me. Our second attempt didn't make it to publishing, as there were too many flaws with it, ranging from Azimul's less than good lip synching, as well as a lack of variety in shots and continuity. I am more pleased with this video however, as we have managed to improve from the first video and the second. The lip syncing in this video was much better, as James and I had help with other people and had built enough confidence to recreate the song appropriately. However, there are still problems, such as a problem with my lip synching about half way through, yet I don't know if it was or wasn't my fault. I feel that the editing could have been better, as well as my eyer contact with the camera, but taking this into consideration I believe that I can improve for the real music video that we will produce.

Task 3- Choosing the Music for your own Music Video

After listening to quite a lot of different music channels on YouTube of Royalty-Free music websites, our group has decided to use Plain White T's "Our Time Now". Our group agreed on this song due to it being upbeat enough for us to make a creative video, and the band in question having little comparative popularity, apart from one of their song "Hey there Delilah", for us to not attract too much attention to our created music video. The music has the added bonus that there are no offensive lyrics or bad language, making it easier to lip sync to.
Plain White T's- Our Time Now

While we are happy with our song, there were other songs that we discussed before choosing that we almost made our video around, such as the same bands song "Hate", which we realised would not fit the emotions and the energy that we wished to portray in the video we create.

Possible Song- Plain White T's- Hate

Task 4- Audience Research

 After we showed out intended music video to the 'target audience' of the song, they described the song as fast, upbeat and colourful. After listening to the song, the audience also described the artists as similar to others they had heard, namely Green day, Busted and Sum 41. The target group described the mood of the song as cheerful and happy, as well as stating that if the song were a colour, it would be yellow. Another thing our audience stated was that the music video reminded them of was a group of people running through the fields and the city.



 They later said that they would expect our music video featuring clips of us playing instruments and other band things on top of a building. The question subjects thought the narrative of the music video should be a group of friends getting together in the city and enjoying themselves and having a fun day out. The below picture shows another group responding to our video and answering the set questions.

Through the groups' answers we now know the rough impressions that the song gives to people who haven't heard the song before, giving us a guideline to out music video.

Task 5- Contacting the Artist

This picture is proof of us attempting to gain permission to use Plain White T's song for us to create a music video around it. James was the person that originally emailed them, and so he will gain all responses from them. Without their permission we would have to choose another song due to Copyright.

Storyboard

Risk assessment

Risk Assessment

Group Members:   
Samuel Dell, James Chege, Azimul Hoque                     Location: London, Drama Room

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Getting hit by cars	Anyone in the video	1	3	2	Be careful, take care to not film in used road	Y
Tripping over cables/ camera equipment	Anyone while shooting	3	1	2	Be careful when around camera equipment	Y
Potential danger with instruments	Anyone in the band sequence	1	2	1.5	Take care with any instruments we use	Y
Getting Mugged	Anyone	1	5	3	Be careful in where we film	Y

Contacts

Emergency Service:      999
Robert Clack School:      020 8270 4222
Other Contacts:              07907 905059

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Azimul and James Mise-en-scene: Sam and Azimul  Editing: James and Sam We had some help with the filming from Jack and Destiny.

Title: Our Time Now  Tag Line: Every second counts

Synopsis: The music video is about a group of friends enjoying their youth by walking around in London and making memories with each other. This includes scenes when all the members mess around when playing football.

Key Genre Conventions: Pop punk

Moodboard

Follow azimul's board Mood board on Pinterest.

Costume and Props

Character Name: James Chege
Costume: Skinny jeans T-shirt or jeans	Props: Guitar
Character Name: Destiny Ogbeide
Costume: Jeans T-shirt or jeans Jumper	Props: Drum kit
Character Name: Samuel Dell
Costume: Shirt or t-shirt Chinos Jeans	Props: Microphone Football
Character Name: Azimul Hoque
Costume: Chinos Jeans Shirt Hoodie	Props: Acoustic guitar

First Production Meeting

This is a picture of our first Production meeting where we discusses the basic ideas of the video, the shooting schedule and location. We all decided that London would be a suitable place to film, as the setting of the music video will need an urban setting, and there is a lot of potential for filming locations. I mainly dealt with the storyboard, while Azimul and James were looking for good enough locations for our mise-en-scene, and decided on Shoreditch. After speaking to our teacher, we have concluded that our plans are all alright and can proceed as planned.

Second Production meeting

During our Second Production Meeting James, Azimul and I had discussed what we had filmed so far, and what we may be filming in the future. We decided that what we had done was decent enough to use in out video, but the next stages of filming may be difficult due to conflicting timetables and different after school activities. Our band sequence needs to be filmed, but the drama room that we will need to film in is only available at specific times, none of which we are all available in. The next production meeting will likely have a shooting schedule sorted out.

Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
8/10/2015	-Football -Lip synching -Walking	London	-Camera -Tripod	Casual clothing – jeans, shirt/t-shirt	-Football	Cast: James, Azimul, Sam and Destiny Crew: Jack
05/11/2015	Band sequence	Drama Studio	-Camera -Tripod	Casual clothing – jeans, shirt/t-shirt, hoody	-Drum set -Microphone -Guitar	Cast: James, Azimul, Sam and Destiny Crew: Jack

Information on the Artist

The Plain White T's first formed as a band in 1997 in Lombard, San Francisco. Originally they started with only three members, with Tom Higgenson as the lead singer and guitarist, Ken Fletcher on Bass guitar and Dave Tirio on Drums. After finding some popularity a fourth member was recruited, Steve Mast, to play lead guitar and sing backing vocals. During this time they continued to gain popularity, enough to fund themselves enough to afford a designated van for the band which Higgenson crashed later on.
In 2002 the band underwent changes in its members, as Steve Fletcher and Steve Mast left the band and were replaced by Tim Lopez and Mike Retondo. 2002 was also the year that the bands first album, 'Come on Over' released, starting their career to becoming a well known band. In 2003 Dave Tirio switched from drums to rhythmic guitar and De'Mar Hamilton, the fifth member of the band, took over at drums.

After this, 'Plain White T's' began to gain momentum, releasing multiple albums such as 'All That We Needed' in 2005. In this album was the first appearance of their most well known song, 'Hey There Delilah'. his song became massively popular, With most Radio stations playing it, the Plain White 's became known in most households, despite their history linking them to play smaller gigs and concerts in their home town.
 Since then, the Plain White T's have been creating music in the band even to today in 2015, showing their popularity is still recognized today. The band has even made some appearances on Television, such as appearing on 'iCarly' and one of their songs being used as the theme tune for ABC's 'Greek'.

Timeline of work

▼ 2015
▼ December 

Information on the Artist
▼ November
Branding the Spice Girls
Second Production meeting
First Production Meeting
Costume and Props
▼ October
Moodboard
Initial Ideas
Lyrics for the song
Treatment
Risk assessment
Album Cover exercise for the Digipak
▼ September
Editing to the Beat
Research into the song choice
Task 5- Contacting the Artist
Task 4- Audience Research
Task 3- Choosing the Music for your own Music Vide...
Task 2- Editing Lip Syncing- Elton John

Music Videos- Added Value

Deconstructing Two Music Videos to Identify Charac...

Styles of Music Videos

▼ June

Production team

First music video- I Got You Babe

Brief

Welcome

 ▼ April

 Evaluation Q.7 Looking back at your preliminary ta...

Evaluation Q.6 What have you learned about technol...
Evaluation Q.5 How did you attract/address your au...
 Evaluation Q.4 Who would be the audience for your ...
 Evaluation Q.3 What kind of media institution migh...
 Evaluation Q.2 How does your media product represe...
 Evaluation Q.1 'In what ways does your media produ...
 Finished Film- Patience
 Thriller titles
 Screening
 Audience feedback
 ▼ March
 Patience- 1st Day of filming
 Patience Editing 1
 Designing/ Making Title Sequence
 Past student Thrillers
 Patience 3rd Production meeting
 First Draft/Evaluation
 Styles of editing
 Shooting Schedule
 Treatment
 How to film a Thriller
 Introducing our group
 Initial Ideas
▼ February
 Unknown
 Modern Thriller Openings (Prezi)
 Patience- Studio Ident
▼ January
 Media- Media Theorists
 Patience- Shot list
 Patience- Animatic
 Patience- Storyboard
 Patience- Costume
 Patience- Risk Assassment
 Patience- Location
 Media- Preliminary Task and evaluation
▼ 2014
▼ December
 Media Studies Blog 4- Psycho analysis
 Second Production Meeting
 First Production meeting
 ▼ November
 Rope Analysis- Media
 Media Studies- Studio Idents
 Media Studies- 'The Birds' Analysis
 Mise-en-Scene Media Studies
 ▼ October
 Media blog one- Thriller convenions
 Media sound Possessed 

 ▼ September
 Media Assignment- Hitchcock's North by Northwest
Cinematography Film Exercise
 Genre
 Brief
 Welcome

Animatic

Location Sheet

For our music video we have chosen to shoot all our outdoor shots in London. The first location that we plan to film at is on Fournier Street. We have chosen this street because it is not busy and the buildings look good for a wide shot.

As well as the outdoor scenes we have plan to shoot a band sequence. We have chosen to do this in our schools drama studio with the big film lights to make the scene look as professional as possible.

Location Visit Sheet Programme Title: Music Video Writer: Azimul Hoque Producer: Samuel Dell Director: James Chege Date: 8/10/2015

Access to location via: Public transport (TFL) Name Location: Spitlefields

Health and Safety Issues to note: ·       Traffic ·       People on Boris bikes

Potential Filming Problems: ·       During lunch hours the area can become busy ·       Cars passing by and blocking our shots

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)

Fournier Street

Gun Street

Shot List

Shot List
Scene	Shot Number	Description
1 2 3 1 1 2 1 2 4	1 2 3 4 6 7 10 11-14 16	The location that we shot this was in London area. It shows all the band members walking across the street. The band sequence. Each member plays their instrument. Football court. The band playing a game of football. Lip-synching up against a wall in an alley-way. Band members walking towards the camera, Sam singing. Full wide shot of the band playing their instruments during the band sequence. Walking towards the camera, whilst the lead singer lips syncs. Close up of each band member rocking out on his or her instrument. Random shots in the park. (football, walking around, talking etc.)