Final Music Video

I have recently posted our final music video, after watching this thorugh we have realised that it is very pixelated, we are on this issue now; trying to resolve it. We are currently redering it again in at a higher quality to try and reduce the amount that it is pixelated. When we sort this out we will post the final video again. Hopefully it wont take too long.

Final Video

Media A2 Project - E=MC Hammer Video from Greg wilson on Vimeo.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I began the A2 year aiming to make a trailer and therefore did lots of research into horror movie trailers; however my partner dropped the subject so I had to swap groups and join with Greg. A music video wasn’t my first choice however I have enjoyed doing this, I have enjoyed both parts; the print based products and the practical product. Due to the fact that I joined Greg’s group late meant I had missed most of the research time. I did some research and found that many music videos either had a storyline or were of the bands performing, when planning our practical project we decided to combine the two codes and conventions which is how we came up with the idea of the person being chased by something supernatural, then having frequent cuts to the band performing; this helped our product to fit with the codes and conventions which helped it to look professional.  However we did you quite a few effects on Adobe Premiere Pro such as the night vision effect, the colour change (in the band scenes – red and black) and the ghosting effect, these may not normally be used in professional music videos in the music industry, however we thought they gave a good effect and helped the audience to understand what the storyline was about. In some aspects however we have deviated from the normal codes and conventions of media products in our area as we have a used a strong red and black colour scheme which we hadn’t seen in our research, we found that bands in the metal genre used normal images with very little edits. However we wanted to emphasise the horror aspect to the band by using the red and black colours both of which have connotations of danger and death.  We included quite a lot of frequent cuts which sped up the pace of the video in order to match the speed of the song; if we were able to have more time we would have re-shot some band shots which would mean that we could add extra edits in at the very start of the music video, we feel like this would benefit us as it would grab the audience’s attention more at the beginning, however we feel that the amount of edits we have is okay and works well. We were very pleased with the font that we used for the magazine advert title and the digi-pack song titles, we felt like this developed the normal codes and conventions of metal bands as in our research we saw that some bands used similar fonts however not as intense as ours but we are very pleased with it and feel like it is very effective.

These are the last pages of our digi-pack, We used a font website to made the production logo as we like the font, this is the bit that says 'rory o haras suicide productions' we feel that the whole digi-pack looks quite professional and we are pleased with the fonts and edits that we have used.

Digipack continued again

These are the next 4 pages of the digi-pak the 2 filler pages are in the middle of the digi-pack with the remaining songs and back page coming after them.

Digipack continued

These are the next few pages of our digipack, we have had to make 2 filler pages due to the fact that a digi-pak needs to be a multiple of 4 and we chose 12 songs meaning with the front and back  page we needed 2 more pages, for these we got images of each band member and an image of their instrument opposite them, we think this is good as many digi-paks that we have looked at have filler pages.

Digipack

This is the first 4 pages of our digipak, the first song E=MC hammer is the song that we couldn't find the lyrics for so Greg had to listen to the song and write down the lyrics so they may not be completely right. However we got all of the other lyrics from lyric websites so hopefully they are. Also as you can see we have followed the red and black colour scheme and we used some effects on the text. I will post the edits that we used on our photos and the text after I have finished posting the digipak.

Magazine Advert

This is our final magazine advert, we are very pleased with it and are still working on the digi-pak, we shouldnt be much longer, just making some final tweaks!

Final Video

I am pleased to announce that we have finished our music video and we are very pleased with how it has turned out, we have used many edits which give good effects, we are currently still making the digipak and we only have 2 pages left, we have used a very good effect on the text of the lyrics which we are excited to put on our blogs, my next post will be our final magazine advert which will be followed by the digipak. This is just a short post as we are aiming to finish the digipak over this dinner time so it can be posted on our blogs tomorrow.