Evaluation Research

I researched some websites and tools that I can use on my evaluation to make it more interesting.
The first one I found was a website called MindMeister it is an online creator for mind maps and brainstorming.

http://www.mindmeister.com/

The next website I found was Mix book this allows you to upload photos and organise them in to well structed folders etc and then upload them online. Again there are templates you can use to start you off and once these have been made I could upload them onto my blogg.



http://www.mixbook.com/

The third website I found was called Prezentit, this is an online programme which allows you to make online presentations and then share them online, I could also use the embed code to put on my blogg.

http://www.prezentit.com/

Finally the fourth one I found was Animoto this website is used to turn videos and music into video slideshows. It could be a good way to present 1 of my evaluation questions.

http://animoto.com/

Song Timings

We worked out and wrote down timings for the song

Period 3:
We decided to roughly plan out the main storyline of the video and condense it into scenes, here is a rough draft:



We also discussed certain things to do with each scene, for example the flashback where he loses his wife, she was initially going to be a girlfriend but we decided that this might of been hard to film as the scene would be in silence, therefore we decided that if it was his wife, we could use a shot of her throwing her ring at him as a symbolic ending of the relationship.
The flashback of him losing his house was also initially supposed to be him bankrupt, but after toying with ideas of a gambling addiction (too hard to film as we are not 18 and would not be able to film in a casino), him handing over wads of cash (would be too repetitive) and him checking his bank balance (too boring, wouldn’t engage the audience) we decided that it would be much easier and would look more effective if he was to lose his house/ his ex wife has changed the locks and he sees her in the upstairs window with another man.

Twitter Account

We also created a twitter acount for our star "Hugo" we added a profile picture of our artist, we also sent several posts to some of the famous stars we are following one being Ed Sheeran with the hope of getting a retweet. We have only got a few followers at the moment but the account has only been up for a few hours.

Whilst I was creating the twitter page Sarah and Mike were working on the storyboards, Mike has done most of the drawings for it but Sarah also did a few of them to help him out. Once all the storyboards were created Sarah done a video recording of the storyboards in which is going to be edited and then added to the music we are going to be using. By doing this we get an idea if the story/clips goe with the music but we might also think of some more ideas when we actually see what it would look like as a storyboard . As well as this we also found one of the locations we are going to film, we have decided on using Parliament Hill Hampstead Heath, this has a huge field on a hill with a bench that overlooks London.

Website

We created a website for our artist on a website maker called moonfruit. We chose this site as it was different to others and we felt it had somne really good features that could make our website more unique and better than other peoples.

Bellow is a print screen of the home page, it has a few pictures of Hugo performing and also has the Atlantic Records logo. Unfortunately some of it had to be cropped but usually on the website it wouldn't be like that.

We also have other links to different pages on our site these include: rates in which displays venues, dates and prices of things, a contact page, a login page so in order to buy things and get more information you have to become a memeber, and a photo gallery.

http://hugomusic.moonfruit.com/

This is the link for our website



Music video and camera research

Due to the reason we weren't 100% sure with our idea we decided to try and look at some current music videos that had been shot in 1st person for some ideas and inspirtation. The video we found very useful for ideas was Cinnamon Chasers- Luv Deluxe.


After watching the video we decided that we are going to go into more detail about the story and use quicker cuts and graphic matches, different than what we were originally thinking. We also decided to pack the video with a bit more action than previously thought of, this would keep the audience more entertained and interested but it will make them watch it more as on the first or even second time there will still be things going on that they might not of originally seen.

When we decided most of it was going to be filmed in first person we had to try and find a way to hold the camera to make it look like it was being viewed out of the persons eyes. We found and tried some different ideas, one being straping it to the side of my head but it wasn't very stable and the camera kept falling off. Luckily we found a video someone had made on youtube which we decided to use.

This was a picture of us trying trying our own way of making a first person POV camera. Unfortunately it didn't work very well so we had to re think it.










We found this video which when we tried the idea out it worked really well.

Camera

When we were experimenting with different cameras these are the two which we thought were the best ones. When looking back at them we decided that the first one (backpack) was the best camera and the one we were going to use.

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Day 25: 16/01/2012
This lesson I researched some websites and tools that I can use on my evaluation to make it more interesting. The first one I found was a website called MindMeister it is an online creator for mind maps and brainstorming.

http://www.mindmeister.com/

The next website I found was Mix book this allows you to upload photos and organise them in to well structed folders etc and then upload them online. Again there are templates you can use to start you off and once these have been made I could upload them onto my blogg.



http://www.mixbook.com/

The third website I found was called Prezentit, this is an online programme which allows you to make online presentations and then share them online, I could also use the embed code to put on my blogg.

http://www.prezentit.com/

Finally the fourth one I found was Animoto this website is used to turn videos and music into video slideshows. It could be a good way to present 1 of my evaluation questions.

http://animoto.com/

Production Diary 24

Day 24: 09/01/2012
Today Me, Mike and Sarah filmed our artist singing, we used a recording studio in Ursuline High School.We decided to use this place because there's only going to be odd shots of him singing in the music video, the whole thing won't be him singing. With this is mind we came to a group descision that the best place to film would be in a recording studio, it would also make it look professional. We filmed Matt (our artist) singing the whole song then when we get back to school we will decide what bits we want. We filmed several different angles and types of shots so we will hopefully have some good footbage we will be able to use.

This is one of the photos we took of Matt singing in the recording studio, we were very happy with the way it looked when we were filming it. Also there were some very good props we were able to use e.g. the microphone. As well as the props, around the room were loads of different lights we could angle and change the brightness to provide the effect we wanted.

Production Diary 23

Day 23: 04/01/2012
This lesson me and Sarah looked at all the things which were left to film, we wrote them all down and allocated dates in which they were going to be filmed. Whilst we were doing this Mike was researching and designing the Digi Pack.

Production Diary 22

Day 22: 17/12/2011
When we were experimenting with different cameras these are the two which we thought were the best ones. When looking back at them we decided that the first one (backpack) was the best camera and the one we were going to use.