Filming!

When filming began I made sure I took photos as proof. Also you can see in these shots that we are using our own camera (which Lauren from our group owns). We decided that we wanted the best quality video so we decided to use her Fuji film camera as the quality of image was much clearer. Luckily the weather on this day was good, and no rain. There were a few occasions that we began to film, it started raining so we had to stop and go back on another day. We managed to get most of the work done on this day though, which gave us a lot of time to go and edit the piece together. 

Permission for song use

We got Dom to email the record label that defeater are signed to, and make sure we could use the song for our media piece. Above is the screen grab of that email and the reply. In some cases for bands they wont actually reply to emails (possibly because they get so many) so it was good that we were given permission for the track.  

Website codes and conventions

I decided to do some research into website layouts before we constructed our own. I went to band websites and tried to find common themes, and some codes and conventions that we could use on our own website. We found that most band websites had a photo of the band or the band logo on the home page. We then looked at the tabs the band had included on the website. we found most sites included:

Home
Ask
Gig/Tours
Videos
Music
Merch
Blog

we didn't have to include so many tabs in our site, so we decided to pick the ones we found most commonly, Gigs/Tours, merch, Home and music were tabs we managed t find on the majority of band websites we looked at. Also a common theme seemed to be promoting the bands new single (or album) on the homepage of the website. We decided that our music video would be the main focal point on the website and be large on the home screen. There are also links to the bands twitter and Facebook page on many home pages, which is something we considered to include.

Below is a screen grab of Bring me the horizons website. You can see all the tab links in the bottom left corner, and all the social networking links in the bottom right.
   

Recce shots

We went out and took some shots of our location for filming. We tried to photograph all the key areas we would be filming in, to try and get the best idea of how it would look on camera. This was the second location we selected, after the weather made it impossible to use the other (original location). We decided that this location would be best as it is incredibly open, giving us more scope for creativity.  

Questionare

Here is a small questionnaire we created in order to get information on what people think makes a good music video. We each took a handful of these and handed them out to people in order to try and get the best possible video. We tried our best to keep the questions fairly simple.  

Slideshow

Here is a copy of the slide share we showed to the group and got our feedback on

Digi pack codes and conventions

Digipack codes and conventions from raminnizami