How are young people and teenagers portrayed by the traditional media? (aka - what is the identity of young people and teenagers contracted by the mainstream media?)

Troubled

Thuggish

Violent

Lazy

Hormonal 

Badly behaved

Anti-Social (society)

Out of control 

Alienated (separate from adults)

A2 Trial Exam Feedback

Q1a) 17/25

Q1b) 14/25

Q1 Total:

31/50

Q6 22/50

Drade - D1

1. Go over the comments and re write the answer in the past tense
2. Make sure to give specific information on each point made
3. Pick a few key examples and explore

Designing the digipak 3:

After making a digital version of how the digipak will look, I started to plan when to shoot the band and if anything was needed to purchase.

I have made a list of which equipment was needed to make this digipak:

• Coloured Powder
• Cult outfits
• Camera
• Box Lighting
• Studio
• Woods

I have searched online where I can purchase the coloured powder and I have found something on Amazon.co.uk

We can use the cult costume used for the music video. Also I will book the school studio so I can capture the photographs. In my spare time, I will travel to a forest or a park near by to get the image of the woods.

Designing the disgipak 2:

After we have filmed the music video, it was time to start designing the dig pa and the website of our band.
I was in charge of the digipak and Ben is in charge of creating the website while Lewis is editing the music video.

From my first research of digipaks, I have found there are many types of layouts which could be used, whether to have pockets or not and use of different colours.
For our digipak, it has been decided to have the outside of the digipak in black and white, very dull and dark then when the digipak is opened, it will be filled with bright and exotic colours. To achieve this design, I have used a 6 panel digipak template to hand draw on to get a rough idea.

In our digpak, it will include:

• An image of a fresh/trees
• An image of coloured powder being thrown in the air
• An image of the band (Front)
• An image of the band (Back)
• The list of the songs
• A CD
• Credit/liner note

The bullet points which has been highlighted in blue means these images will be photographed by me.

This is a hand drawn example of how the digipak will look like:

I have also included which background colour or an image each cover/panel will use and also the font colours if used.

This is an example of how the credit/liner note will look like:

Front

Back

This is an animatic example of how the digipak will look like (the images I have used are not of my own): 

I have made this digipak by using Adobe Photoshop and a template downloaded from this website.
By doing this, it will make it easier for me to edit for the real digipak.

Filming 2

After receiving an audience feedback with our first draft of the music video, it was said tat they wanted to see more of the main character on his own and doing a little bit more of performance, so I have booked the studio so we can film him alone with a plain background.

“At the moment, I can’t really tell who the main character or the singer is in the music video, so I’d like to see more of the main singer alone, performing” - Callum Maytham

“I don’t understand whether the cults are the band members or they’re just actors..” - Alex Knight

“Add in more footages that music videos include like where they're singing and stuff” - Rosie Johnson

“This is so good!! But I think you should have less footages of the cults because music videos are always about the main artists and I don’t really like a lot of narrative based music videos, they’re boring without the main singer!” - Georgina Wile

Filming 1

Yesterday, we have filmed our music video in Richmond park, surrounded by stick dens and trees which was so perfect and appropriate to use as the location to film. We met at 11am and finished at 5pm. The process of make up was quick. I was in charge of using a black coloured powder to draw a design on each actors face.

Lewis had set up his camera, using a red gel filter so when we add a black and white filter later when we are editing, the sky and the clouds will look very dark so it will have a dull finish.

After the actors were ready to begin, we decided to film using our storyboard to help us remember which shot is meant to last for how many seconds and what the actors have to do.

We have filmed the same scene about 5 times so we can compare which filming was the best. This also includes directing and trying to make the scene better. 

For example, in the first scene where the leader spreads his arms which indicates the cults to find the missing cult, there were some turning to the right, some turning towards the left. When we watched the playback, I noticed that this doesn't really make sense and looks unorganised. So I suggested that every cult turn in the same direction so it flows. 

Also, when we had filmed this scene the second time, we noticed that the camera frame did not fit all of the cults, so we spreader them out so every cult is in show during the scene.

Then we had filmed 3 more times so we can pick out the best scene filmed. 

I didn't do much of the filming as I was in charge of the directing.

Lewis had filmed the first half and used various equipments to avoid error. Such as a tripod to reduce the risk of shake and keeping the camera still. 

Ben had filmed the other half and used some of his technique where he has filmed the same scene from a different angle and shot sizes so we have more than one to choose from which will fit in likely in our Music Video. This is a good organisation as if the Music Video did not go in the order of our storyboard, we can have spare which might fit in and balance it out. 

For me, I found it easier to direct as the whole group was concentrated and knew what they had to do. 

Here are some images of the location: (Richmond Park)

Contact sheet:

Call Sheet:

Instead of making a call sheet, we have created a facebook group chat which will say what time we are meeting, who we need, where, what they need to bring and props.

here are screenshots of our communication:

Animatic Storyboard

The boys had hand drawn the storyboard so we briefly know what the Music Video will look like. 

After the hand drawn storyboard had been completed, I have uploaded pthe images of each shots and created an animatic storyboard so we know which shot is meant to be in the timing of the music so it will flow perfectly in time. 

How to make an animatic storyboard:

First as all the images were in a portrait angle, I had to rotate them to make it in a landscape angle and also crop the outlines. 

I have added in the music and then dragged the images from "All clips" whereI have imported all of the images from Lewis's phone, and drag them in the black box.

After finishing that, I had to minimise the time of how long the shot will be in show. In the image below, you can see where highlighted yellow, that there are some think and some thin space of the images. This shows different length of how long the film will be in the timing of the music.

I have tried to balance it out with the beat of the song and cuts after a sentence of the song. 

It did take a long time to create an animatic storyboard as it took some time to figure out how long the shot should be so it will all be fitted in time. First time, the length of the shots were too short so the whole images did not fit till the song had ended.    

My second go lasted till the song had ended by duplicating some of the shots.

Now it works perfectly and flow in time.                                                                                                                                                           


                           
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