I did the final pie chart and made up our action points from what we found.
Tuesday 25th September
As a group, we sat down and looked at our action points of what our audience wanted. From that, we decided we wanted 3 girls to build an R'n'B band.
Looking at what style/look our audience wanted, we picked 3 girlswe wanted to be in our band.
We chose Amie, Gemma and Jemma. After asking them we started building a draft of their character profiles.
7th October
Ryan and Lauren took location shots.
Me and Ryan decided to go outside of school to get our main location shots. We felt that the subway would be a good place to take a lot of the location shots as the girls come from a rough background. At the time there were a lot of leaves around and we thought it would be nice to capture them within the shot so it gives the surrounding a nicer feel. We then got a few shots of a piano as this represents the music and as Gemma plays piano we felt this was be a good location shot.
Me and Ryan then annotated them together pointing out what we did and why we chose them.
9th October
Our target for the end of the day was to have our 3 mock up CD/DVD cover's done.
Ryan did two of them. In one of my mock-ups I showed the girls faces in a housing estate-style road, this was to represent our bands USP, which was coming from a rough background/childhood. The other mock up also represented this. I also came up with a name for our album which was 'Streetlights as Spotlights'. Which also again represents our USP for our band.
I did one mock up. I decided to do quite a girly focused mock up rather than focusing on their rough background, this is so the audience see its all about their music from now on and their are trying to get away from their rough background. I then coloured them in and annotated them as Ryan and Lauren re-took a location shot.
As Priya was finishing of the mock ups, me and Ryan went to re-take a location shot as we wasn't happy with our first one.
9th October
Ryan did the character profiles. I completed the normal information such as name, age, gender etc, but also showed what part they played in the band. One being the main singer, the other being the musically talented one who wrote the songs and the other member who's main passion was dance. We did this to show a diverse range of skills in our band.
I had to write up the band history. I had the help of Ryan so I knew the basic background and made their background more musical based.
I had to research lyrics and then write our own for the band. I chose a main focus for the song and then built it up from their. I also scanned in our questionnaire onto the blog.
13th October
Me and Ryan took the promotional pictures. Ryan took them and I positioned the girls and told them what they should be doing and what effect it would have on the audience. We also took a few shot of the girls just having fun to show the bond between them.
Me and Fitzi then went to the photgraphy room and chose the pictures we liked best and printed them.
I helped go through the pictures with Priya and decided which was best to use for our evidence.
14th October
Me and Ryan annotated the promotional pictures pointing out what we did for specific reasons.
21st October
Me and Ryan attempted to upload music video's on the blog. this again didnt work. instead, we uploaded the promo pictures, location shots, character profiles etc onto our blog.
I did a Britney inside cover analysis and uploaded it onto the blog.
I did a Bruce Springstein inside cover analysis and uploaded it onto the blog.
I did an inside cover analysis from a compilation disc and uploaded it to the blog.
22nd October
Ryan and Fitzi did a inside cover mock up each.
I did a mock up of the inside cover and i chose to do a basic image that will be recognisable and will stand out that will mainly focus on the band. I decided on a plain back background with pink neon writing of just the bands name as this will be quite outstandable. Through choosing this, it closely links to 'Pineapple' which is a well known brand to teenage girls who are the main focus for our target audience.
23rd October
We all worked on our blog, making sure codes and coventions stood out.
28th October
I created one draft of a magazine advert.
Lauren- 1 draft of magazine advert
Pri - 1 draft of magazine advert
29th October
I created the front and back cover for our digipak using Photoshop, I tried to make it as much like a professional, real product so I used all of the codes and conventions that we researched and talked about.
Me and Lauren did the inside cover
Me and Priya helped put our ideas together to come up with the inside cover for our band.
3rd Novmber
We made a choice of what our final advert would look like and had input towards the final draft.
6th November
Me and Lauren did the final changes to the magazine advert
Me and Priya did the final changes to the magazine advert
11th November
We planned what we had to do for the storyboard and set ourselves things to do.
Me and Lauren did storyboard, props and location
Ryan - Script
Lauren - Plot summaryMe - shooting schedule
18th November
Ryan and Lauren drew the pictures for the storyboard
I took the final section of our plan and drew the pictures for the storyboard aswell as writing in all the details such as; timing, camera angles.
20th Novemeber
Me and Ryan filmed the animated storyboard and made sure that it was to the time limit.
25th November
Me and Lauren uploaded the animated storyboard onto the editing software
We also spent this time learning how to use the new software and learning how to edit and use different transitions.
While I was helping Priya upload the animated storyboard, I figured out how to use the new software so when it came to editing, I would find it easier to use this software and use all the different effects.
2nd December
Me and Lauren started editing our animated storyboard, we found we had a lot of difficultly working the software
4th December
We spent this lesson getting feedback on our animated storyboard
23rd December
All of us came to my house to start filming our MTV Cribs Special. We managed to get all of that filming done, but with only two members of our band as one member was ill.
29th Decemeber
Today, we all filmed the girls talking about the connection to their song and how it influenced them individually.
5th January
We experienced some difficulty's with the camera, so we had to re-film all of what we had done. We never got round to filming the MTV cribs, but managed to film the interview and got the dance rehearsals and connections to the song again.
We also lost some of our original group members, so I offered to take a place so we could get this filming done easier as I would be able to make every filming session.
8th January
Today, we all went into town and filmed the girly day out. We then came back to film the recording studio and music video.
13th January
Me and Ryan tried to upload our filming onto Final Cut Express. but again we had some difficulties with the camera and software, and some of it got wiped off.
14th January
Me and Lauren tried to upload again and get back some of what got wiped off. We managed to get most of it uploaded.
4th February
Today, I came up to start editing the film, adding titles and getting rid of unwanted sound.
25th Feb
Today, we started filming dance rehearsals
I went up to the editing suite and starting to upload the dance rehearsals and start to edit and cut them with the help of Ryan.
4th March
Today, me and Ryan had to refilm the connection to the songs as we had lost our previous filming of this.
25th march
Today, Ryan did some editing
Me and Lauren went to mine to film the 'MTV Cribs special'. I also filmed the interview.
I filmed some of the 'MTV Cribs special'.
26th March
I came up to upload and start cutting what we had filmed.
29th March
I came up to start sorting out the 4 interview (split screen)
31st March
I came up to continue editing the split screen
1st April
After uploading the MTV cribs special, I cut and started to edited each piece.
I came up to help Priya upload and start to edit the MTV cribs special.
I added music to our film for when the titles were playing and I also created the beginning title sequence. I added in all of the transitions between the shots and in between the audio files. I also altered the volume levels for different parts of the film when dialogue needed to be heard rather than background music. I also learnt how to position different shots on the screen and crop some of the shots to get rid of any background images that did not fit into the music video. I then cut down our film so that it matched the five minute maximum running time.
