Opening credits research

In order for our music video to look more professional, we were told that we need to have the song title and artist to come up at the beginning and perhaps the end of the song as well. I was watching MTV the other day when I saw the video "Pack up" by "Eliza Doolittle" come up. I like the plain simple font used with the black writing and I also particularly liked the pink banner that the credits were written across. I particularly liked the banner as its pink and girl and this reflects my groups chosen genre of "pop" and it being a female artist of Pixie Lott, I think the colour pink indicates this well to our audience. However, on the IMovie tools, the only colour you can achieve for a banner type effect is white, and this doesn't really fit with our music video, especially because our video is all in black and white, I thought a bit of colour would help but we unfortunately can't achieve this. So, instead we have just gone with a plain simple aerial font and written the following: Line one - Broken Arrow Line two - Pixie Mix Line three - Pixie Mix EP EP stands for extended play, which makes it not quite a CD, but not quite an album either, it falls in betwee both these brackets. So, the CD in the shop would have our single "Broken Arrow" plus maybe three or four ore tracks alongside this. Seeing as myself and the three other members of my group have all included around twelve songs on our Digi-Pack covers, so this would count as the full album and would be considered as "Pixie Mix LP" (long play). So, to avoid confusion, we as a group have added "Pixie Mix EP" to our opening credits to mean the single and so that it will avoid any confusion over our album covers.

Draft four

Here is draft four of our music video. It is very similar to our original first draft. Other than the fact at the beginning we have added opening credits in the bottom right hand corner stating "Pixie Mix - Broken Arrow" with a line separating the two to make it clear that it's the name of the song and the artist who its sung by. We did this to introduce it and to make it look more like a music video rather then just a series of clips along with a piece of music.

Draft three

Here is a draft version of my music video, but as a group we removed all evidence of the black and white editing and experimented with the contrast whilst the clips were all in colour. As a group, we decided to click "revert to original" on each clip as this way the clips were all of a similar contrast and made the music video flow better. I'm still undecided as to whether or not I like the music video better in black and white or colour...

Editing Techniques

This is a video of a song called "Together" by a group named Herve. The reason why I have uploaded this to my blog is simply because of the editing used in this video. Regardless of the genre of the song, I simply love this video as because of how creative it is. The fact that the whole music video was based simple on images which had been photo shopped in order to create the images to "move" in their own way. Now that we are moving on to final cut pro to produce out final editing, I thought this video may help, only in perfecting ours top motion, not the whole music video as we have moving images and not just still photographs like this video.

Evaluation

Once I have completed the final finishing touches to my editing of my music video, I will have to answer the following 4 questions successfully: 1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products 2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks? 3) What have you learned from your audience feedback? 4) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Rather than just creating a powerpoint and uploading it to scribed, myself and my group want to answer these questions in a more creative way in order to gain as many marks as possible on our creativity skills. I was looking for examples of evalautions which have already been uploaded to YouTube in order to give me an idea as to how to answer these questions successfully. Here is one which I particualrly liked and I felt they answered the questions correctly and precisely:

I just noticed my digi pack doesn't fit on my blog properly, so when I analyse it, I will upload each panel separately, that way it can be viewed properly!

Digi pack - Final version

Here is my completed Digi-Pack, finally! after editing the photos on picaza and paint, I was fianlly able to produce the Four sided Digi pack that is promoting my album - Pixie Mix Broken Arrow.

[anaylsis to be blogged]