A2 CHCHS Sam Crummey and Alex Connors

Our evaluation questions can be found on both our blogs, below are the links to our blogs if needed: Sam Crummey :  http://a2-chchs-sam-crummey-media-17-18.blogspot.co.uk/ Alex Connors :  http://a2-chchs-media-alex-connors-17-18.blogspot.co.uk/

Below is the link to Alex Connors' summer music video task which will direct you to their individual blog page: http://a2-chchs-media-alex-connors-17-18.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/ancillary-music-video-project.html

Here we present our final music video product; this video was created for our A2 coursework and is upload for educational purposes only. This video will not be making any money as the rightful owners of copyright have all rights preserved; we hope that you enjoy our music video as we wanted to test our editing techniques and skills for this course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=nGj_3SErX3o

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight our updated target audience transcript which highlights one of our colleagues to observe our music video; as we have finished the editing and rendering, and after we began to question him with new questions instead of just questionnaire questions. The implementation of new questions helps our group to receive more in depth answers that will encourage more detail thus easily helping us to fix and alter the music video to a high, professional standard.

We gained huge inspiration from the 1970s Cop TV show  Starsky & Hutch with their introduction of the characters by using a still image of the actor and the addition of text that displays the actors real name and their character's name. We believed the style and retro quality scheme easily  linked and matched our music video of 'Stayin' Alive' as both of them where released in around the same time of the era. The implementation of this style also portrays to the audience  exactly who is playing what role in the music video so they can easily identify  us with the costumes. Linking to the retro/futuristic style that became very popular in the 1970's, we incorporated the colour scheme from 'Miami Vice' (another popular American Cop TV show) thus creating the vintage overall artistic style that we intended to re-create and replicate in our music video. Stunts and action scenes in films; for instance "Dukes of Hazzards", became very ...

The purpose of this post is to illustrate our creation into our band's own website, as website building is usually very expensive and complicated to produce we decided to use the free website builder 'Wix' which is great. Wix was the perfect web builder for us because we wanted to create the most professional/ amateur band company with no budget; but also this website builder is easy to follow and simple so that even students like us can create a high standard and professional looking website. We decided to include the modern/ high quality images of American cities and buildings so play on the juxtaposition and contrast from the retro atmosphere that we incorporated into our music video, the modern-looking website helps our band expose and gain publicity for our target audience and it is easily accessible for the intended audience to view our media due to technology evolving.   As we are only making this band for our A2 Media Studies coursework some of the widg...

We have combined our digi pack with a modern pop and 70's funk album, this is shown through the vibrant colours which represent the 70's style and the modern style is shown through the use of the font and the images used. The woman's lips help reintroduce our idea of the album name of blue cherry as we photoshopped a normal cherry image from google and imported it by cropping and layering it into her lips, then we zoomed in and implemented the colouring tool and carefully coloured in both her lips and the cherry thus helping it to link back to the name. Our artistic decisions and intentions of minimalism which efficiently coincides with our overall band image that we wanted to create and produce a blue colour scheme. These are the samples of what our digi pack will look like once we have printed it, unfortunately the printer didn't have any coloured ink so it is in black and white but it still shows that the images we have used and the fonts work well toge...

Creating the advertisement promo for our band's album challenged our creativity and skills on Adobe Photoshop; we wanted to implement the vibrant colour schemes from retro 80's music album covers. The implementation of star ratings from very popular music magazine and companies help show the audience the publicity and attention it has gained for our debut album, thus creating professionalism in our work. The elongation of the band's name 'Funky Fros' contrasts to the titles and heading that many TV shows and other retro 80's artwork included. Furthermore, the addition of a shadow effect to the title 'Blue Cherry' displays a neon looking sign that was very popular for advertising shops on the streets such as New York. Due to the limitation in skill and technique in Adobe Photoshop we had to improvise and try to dictate how we can express our use of different tools and effects offered by Photoshop such as the shadow-like effect with the 'band name...

Each of these images show evidence of us editing our videos and deciding where to put them.

The image above is what we have created as our poster for our music video. To make this, we used Adobe Photoshop to do the editing which enabled us to make the poster look professional and attractive to our modern target audience. Since the time of year is around Christmas we decided to add a Christmas theme to our poster, which as you can see is the Christmas tree in the background with the star on top.

These images show us whilst we are doing our filming in the green-screen room. They show images from our first shoot and other shoots that we have done since then. They show us at work and what our filming looks like from behind the scenes to give our audience a better insight of what we have done to create our video and how. Reflection of a shoot is key as it helps visualize our past work and how we can amend and act upon our feedback and problems. As this is our first shoot as a production team there was many different problems that we faced and had to overcome such as the apporprauite lighting sources (professional lights as seen below) and costume addition. The idea of costumes in our music video aid to the portrayal of the characters that we wanted to highlight in our music video and help us effectively contrast to the 1970's codes and conventions of style and the stereotypes male figures applied to their lifestyles such as the growing of hair and facial hair which can also l...

We planned to start our filming on Friday the 24th of November but we ran into some issues. We asked some of our friends to come round to Sams house to help us video and be a part of it but a lot of them had to cancel due to their own personal commitments so we ended up with not enough people to do the video. Also, since it starts to get dark a lot earlier we had a limited time to do our filming outside and due to the bad weather that day we weren't able to do what we planned. This has now inspired us to change our music video but keep the same song. We discussed our options of what we could do and instead of planning to do the same video a different day we thought that it would be good to use the green-screen room in our school and use that to create our music video. We then researched some music videos that we were interested in and we were inspired by the song 'RAF' by ASAP MOB featuring ASAP ROCKY, Quavo and PlayBoy Carti. We thought that the use of green-screen in ...