Questions for the feedback

Feedback form for our rough cut

Please answer truthfully to these questions as it important that we know what you think so as to improve our video.

What do you think is the main theme of our music video?

What do you like the best thing about our video? 

What do you think we could do better in our video (editing wise)?

Is there anything that we could do to convey our theme better?

Do you like the video overall?

Thank you for having taken the time to watch our video and having filled in this form Ottavia, Genevieve, Tilly, Liza

Rough cut - Editing started

We've started the editing yesterday. Had a look through all the shots and binned them into bins such as "make up", "no make up" etc. Because it is crucial for the editing as our music video will start with the girls with make up on, and then they gradually loose it.
We also renamed all the shots for the convenience of it, so that we can easily find which shot of which girl we need.

Evaluation of Research & Planning

Website

We've started working on our website appearance and possibilities. With the help of Wix.com we will create our front cover. Here is what we've got so far. We need to add the pictures of the band, we are waiting for to have from our photographer Calvin.

Twitter & Merchandise

We've created a merchandising T-Shirts for fans of our band, and just basically to distribute them to the audience through the website in order to promote our band Reportage!
We will upload that to our website, to contribute to it image and appearance.

 Here is a twitter page we've done for  the Band:) This will provide the audience a very quick access to the news and what is going on with every girl from the band through the website. Audience can also find out about the music preferences of Reportage's girls, via looking at those who they follow.!

Music promo - Write up of shoot day

Clothing:

• The process of preparing for the shoot day took us a long time, as a very important aspect was to have everything to look like desired. We've previously ordered all the costumes (trousers, blazers) and asked band members to bring their own white shirts and high heels shoes. That was a necessity as we wanted them to look absolutely the same, to create an androgynous kind of look, as well as very high classy, that wouldn't be possible if they were wearing different jackets and trousers. However, unfortunately, we've ordered 5 trousers, only 3 arrived, therefore Drummer and Keyboard player had to wear their own ones, that look nice anyway! So, it worked!
• We also borrowed make up sets form Loz (theatre department) and a mirror ball, that we didn't use afterwards.
• Clothing rail was constructed for all the costumes to be managed nicely, as there were a lot changing and beautiful dresses that had to be stored accurately. 
• Make up sets were ready for Ottie, who was responsible for the make up, which is an important aspect of the shoot because girls are going to be gradually loosing the make up in the song, as it is initial point of the overall concept of the beauty.

Stage:

• We built up our stage and put up a white background in order for the girls to look brighter and contrast with a white back. Also, it would add to our initial idea of the photo shoot. 
• We managed to create the right look, and even better. 
• Cast list was a bang on for us. Camera loved all the girls and they knew what to do, and what affect should be created for the audience. We showed the a video of Robert Palmer's - Addicted to love, so that they understand approximately the level of sexiness they should have. It was a lot about the image. They successfully attained everything                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE   

Shooting:

• Every each of us took part in directing the shooting. We all gave suggestions and opinions of what we would like to see, and managed the overall process. Additionally, I personally was responsible for the music, managing the playback. 
• The most successful part is the image we managed to create. All girls looked perfect and beautiful. They all were tall and matching together. 
• One of our sets was impossible to be done (backstage shots with the mirror), because the mirror and all that set wasn't provided at all. We also couldn't do the proper look of the photo shoot we wanted, because we didn't have enough time, however we made some videos of girls posing, so that it will actually look like a combination of the backstage and the photo shoot. All the actors understood what it should be like, so that it was excellent!
• We took a lot of CU, ECU of different parts of the body of the girls, especially shoes, as they all were very beautiful, so that we can edit them anywhere in the final piece, without ruining the continuity.
• We have a very good detailed band shots, so that the editing process will be time-consuming, and we hope it won't going to look boring, as there are not much action going on. 
• However, the picture is very beautiful, so we think the audience will enjoy the video, as it is very appealing!
• We are looking forward to the editing, because it will be a challenge to combine both scenes together they way it doesn't confuse the audience
• Furthermore, we asked Calvin(AS student of photography) to make the pictures of us working and some pictures of girls for the CD Digipack's cover and booklet. 
• We all worked very good as a team, and didn't have any problems, finding each other very involved in the process and getting to the same goal. it would be good if we were a little bit more prepared in terms of time, as we didn't know we didn't have a lot. As we looked through the shots we've done, we can clearly see that our intentions succeeded and the overall concept of beautiful fashionista girls was achieved so that we don't need to change anything in our digipack or website artwork.                                                                         

Build Day

The Build Day took a lot of effort. We had to build the whole stage because that is the main set we have in the music video, make sure all the music instruments are on places, I personally borrowed a keyboard from my friend, that took some time. Then we sorted out the costumes, and brought them all in the studio, so that they are ready for the band members to be worn on the shooting day.
Main issues were:

• We covered the basement of the stage with big white pieces of the cardboard. Afterwards, in order to make the stage round, and two layered we added wooden half-circle pieces around it, that we previously painted with the white paint. It was a time-consuming thing to do.
• The mirror ball had to be put up, however we didn't really use it after in the shooting. The lightning was discussed and set for the next day!
• The clothing rail was put up and the costumes were arranged on it for the girls to easily change the outfits.
• Make up sets were borrowed from theatre department. Jewellery and make up was sorted for each member of the group, as well as personal red attributes every girl had on for the shooting to contribute to the overall image consistency.

Although we were absolutely ready for the next day, we were absolutely exhausted and extremely thrilled. .

Red is the colour :)

Here are the things we are going to emphasis on. Red atributes for each member of the band :) They look NIIIIICEEEE 

CD Digi Pack Templates

Here are the templates for our CD digipack!

Letter to a record company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S-Curve Records

RE: Permission to use music track for student music video.

To whom it may concern,

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

All you need is now – Duran Duran, off the 2010 album All you need is now.

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Genevieve Corich Van der Bas, Tilly Guttridge, Ottavia Derossi and Liza Ievtukhova
Hurtwood House School

Album name brainstorming

What pops up in your head when you think of a word "Reportage"???

Here is the image of our spider diagram for the name of the album. The most appropriate one, we all like most of all, and which sounds good with the name of our band is Exclusive jealousy. Isn't that nice???  Reportage - Exclusive jealousy. Creates a connotation of something bad and sinful, however it is not an ordinary thing, it is exclusive, therefore makes the audience think of something untouchable and unreal. Only VIP has that. You are going to become one of them as long as you buy and listen to our band!

Clothing

We've decided to buy some of our clothes in order for our band to have that properly fashion and androgynous look, but not cheap. We have already bought black jackets, we are going to fit on the girls, so that they don't look like a borrowed once. 
http://www.clothingattesco.com/coats+jackets/f+f-basic-jacket/invt/br211074/

Additionally, shoes are one of our issues, as we are going to have a lot of shots of girl beautiful and skinny legs, therefore they all have to wear sane ones. We couldn't find or ask them to buy same shoes, so we will buy for them same ones  shortly. Here is the link of the shoes we might going to buy online, but we also went to Guildford to find some and found another nice heels, which are our potential twos. They are definitely will be black to match with the suit, and very high heels!
http://www.matalan.co.uk/fcp/product/fashion-to-buy-online/%3Cb%3E%3Cu%3EALL-FOOTWEAR%3C/b%3E%3C/u%3E/Pointy-Toe-Stiletto-in-Black/57993&resultsPerPage=100&attrList=Dept,brand




 

Inspiration for the album cover

 Mina's studio collection album cover was one of the covers that made us think about the perfect look of ECU of the face or a part of the face with the object for the beautiful object for the consumers to pay attention on. Also, that diamond thing emphasis her beauty and overall star image of a fate woman.

The Reminder album cover by Feist added to our desire to have only girl on the cover. The black and white colours look very nice, we might going to use them as well, as our media shoot will be with black and white colours as main.

Again, black and white albums 3 and Nouvelle Vague by Nouvelle Vague with only one colour bright pink and blue that makes a contrast with it, we might going to use it as well. An an interesting way they put the face on it, it is a photo, however with a special effect that makes it look more interesting and unusual.

The way in which the photo is ‘layered’ in Waldeck’s album Ballroom Stories creates an interesting effect that we might replicate in ours.

Le Grand Sophie - "et si c'etait" album has a combination of a photo and a painting, that makes it look fashion and art, that adds the interest to our fans, and especially creative people.

That image inspired us to have the front cover with the Polaroid image of the lead singer on it. We are going to take blank Polaroid slide and just photoshop it with the best images of  Sunshine(lead singer) and maybe add some drawing effects on top or around the Polaroid picture for the cover to be more interesting and creative! 

 

Album cover reasearch&development

This week we entirely dedicated ourselves, apart from theory lessons, to creating CD digipack image for our band Reportage! 

Here are the initial points we like the most and would like to have in a final piece:

• We don't want to have all the band on the cover (it can be just Sunshine-main singer or ECU of something we can emphasis on like a bow or tie, or whatever attribute our girls are going to have in a real shoot)
• We've changed our minds by swapping from the CU of the face thing with one part undone and the second with make up on as pretty much the same thing was in Bionic Chrstina's Aguillera album cover and loads of others as well.
• I've given the idea which was supported by all the rest of the group that we want to have all the girls images separately in the foldout booklet, with either lyrics of one of the songs, or a few thankful words to the audience with a signature underneath, so that it will make the audience closer to the stars, generate the fan base and therefore promote the album and make it more valuable.
• My another idea of the album cover was a Michael Jackson style thing. We can make Sunshine standing alone on the stage in the straw of the light on her, with either no other girls at all, or only their shadows behind.

 

Health & Safety checks videos

Risk Assessment & Health and Safety checks

Risk Asessment Table

Shoot Schedule Sheets

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Shot List

Shot List