Evaluation 1

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 3

Music Video - Final Draft

Fourth Draft

Third Draft opinions

Overall what we found out from asking for improvements off of some classmates were....

- We need more of a performance element to be present

- We need to time shot changes to the beats more to make it more professional
- Include a singer in it but hide his face to keep the mystery

Third Draft

Digipak - Final

Magazine Advert - Final

Second draft

Magazine ad second draft

Record label logo comparison

To make my ancillary texts original and all my own work I decided to make the record labels logo that the Pixies are signed to: 4AD. I believe that my logo is very similar to the actual logo as I wanted to keep the realism of the of the band whilst still making it my own.

 < This is the original and actual logo of the record label.

This is the logo that I made to match the one above >

Logos made for my magazine advert

For my magazine advert I decided to create a music site to listen to our song on and also a social media page logo which people can go on to see the artists, I felt that this would make the magazine advert more unique as it would be all my own work rather than having the iTunes logo like most people would do.
This is my music site logo:

This is my social media page logo:

Task F part two - Hand-drawn mock up of a magazine ad

Ancillary text drafts peer assessment

Magazine Ad draft

This is my magazine ad first draft and it is a very different to my hand drawn picture as I realised my original idea would be difficult to pull off and many people might not get the meaning behind it which links towards the album, so I changed it to a simpler idea yet it still gives a dark and mysterious feel which the album creates in its songs.

First draft classmates opinions

Glitch work

Digipak first draft pictures comparison

Digipak - first draft

 For my digipak I wanted to keep a similar feel to the actual band, as they have no star image in their albums and only have images that represent what the album songs are like, for example Surfer Rosa is quite a dark album and based around sexual themes therefore justifying the topless woman and tghe dark filter over the top. However I am not allowed to follow the same theme to represent sexual themes therefore I have chosen the dark and mysterious route hence the lack of star image to keep him mysterious and the theme of neglect (the dead flower/ abandoned building).

Digipak background blur technique

Digipak sunlight editing technique

First Draft

Glitch effect tutorial

David and I were looking at different Adobe Premier Pro tutorials for effects we could add to our music video, we found a glitch tutorial which we thought would suit our scene where the man in the mask smacks over the camera. This is the tutorial video:

Letterbox effect tutorial

Letterbox effect

For our music video we want to create a letterbox effect on our shots as we have seen this in many music videos and we felt that it made it look more professional, here are a few examples:

 < Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

 Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See  >

< The Killers - When You Were Young

Digipak opinions

Pitch opinions

Song title overlay

David and I created a overlay for our music video displaying the title of the song and the band that it is by, the black background will be removed and placed over our shots at the start of the video. This is the video that we used to create the overlay using his tutorial:

This is the overlay that we created by using this tutorial:

Task L - Risk assessment

Task K - Schedule

The picture will be better as I need to make it into a proper table and import it into my blog, however this is all the information going onto it.

TASK O - Original images before manipulation

Task N - Prop list

Quick cuts inspiration

Task M - Camera movement practice shots

Task I - Costume shots

Task H - Storyboard

Task G - Draft of each ancillary text

 This picture will be like the one on the back of the digipak where the list of the songs on the album will appear. This is from the last time I went to the abandoned school and felt that its dark gloomy theme to it matched the themes of the songs on the album.

 The filtered picture of the one above.

 This picture has the same camera settings that I would like to use to capture my front cover photo so that the background graffiti is out of focus and there is a focus on the character in the center. However my character will only be showing himself from the chest upwards and dressed in the same clothing as the video.

This photo is very similar to the front of the inside flap, I would like a guitar to be in a wood and have leaves all over it. However the guitar might not be standing up it may be in a different position and the background will contain a lot more trees and landscape, also the background may be out of focus.

Task F part one - Hand-drawn mock up of digipak

This is my mock up drawin of my digipak, I will use the photos or similar photos to the ones on the ancillary text photos post (Task G).

Task J - Location reece shots

Task E - Pitch for lesson

Task D - Lyrics analysis

Oh - stop

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, koi, koy.

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

Oh
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

This line is referring to the singer trying to find himself as he does not know where his head is at, his "mind" is another word for his head where the conflict between his mind and body. It could also be referring to the stress he may be under as the tone of the song makes him seem like he is stressed and under pressure.
This line can have a literal representation of the singer being upside down as his feet are in the air and his head is on the ground, which could refer to his life being tipped upside down due to the stress of trying to find himself. Another representation could be that he is feeling low and sad as his head is on the ground meaning that he is literally and metaphorically low.
These two lines could show that the singer is feeling empty inside as his head is empty due to losing his head/mind, it could also be inferred that he is feeling flat as it says that his head will collapse and therefore can show that he is very sad because "feeling flat" is a metaphor for feeling negative emotionally.
The fact that the singer says that the fishes are talking to him when he is in the Caribbean shows that he is not very sane, this could partly be because he is still trying to find his mind therefore he is having hallucinations about these animals talking to him. 

Task C - Mood board

Task B - Letter of permission from the manager

We contacted the manager of the Pixies to show proof that he comfirmed that we could use their song in our music video.

Task 12 - Target Audience for Indie Rock (secondary)

Below is an embeded piece from https://infogr.am/Target-audience-research-analysis, here the relevant information that I need for my research is that the main target audience is around 16-25 years old students from the London area and dominated by white males at 68%.

who are The target audience?
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Final Task practise plot lines

David and I brainstormed a plot idea that we were happy with for our final task and we wrote it down chronologically, then we are going to put it in our future questionnaire and allow the audience to chose which they like the best. This is the plot line that we thought of: