Auxiliary 2 - My Final Poster

Here is my final poster for my second auxiliary task, there is also a draft saved on the blog aswell so you can see the brainstorm in comparison to the final result.

Final Website - Auxilary 1

Here is a link to the draft of my website, it is not completely finished as we haven't as yet finished the music video, and I would still like to get some more photos to add to the slidshow part of my website. But for the moment, this is what I have completed until we finish the video.

http://10mitchelljess.wix.com/hattiechadwickmusic

Homepage 

Gallery Page 

Contact Page 

News Feed Page 

About Hattie

Store and Cart Page

Evaluation - Question 1

I still need to add screen shots of my video and auxiliary tasks as evidence and will hopefully have this done in the next few days!

Evaluation - Question 2

Evaluation - Question 4

There was music playing in the back round but I don't think it was allowed to be used on YouTube die to copyright, which is a pain. But I will try uploading to Vimeo and see if that is any different.

Evaluation - Question 4 Scripted (easier to read)

Here is a scripted version of my evaluation for Question 4, it is all on the video I created but this is here as it may be easier to read.

Question 4 - Evaluation from j3ssmitch

Draft Evaluation - Question 2

Yet another update on progress...

Draft Evaluation - Question 4

Here is a quick mind map of my draft evaluation for question 4, I have as yet got to put my questions in some sort of technology, I am going to use a video podcast to present this question. I just need to find the time and a place to film when it is quiet! 

Final Day of Filming!

So Molly and I arranged a day in the half term that we could dedicate to film the final scenes of our music video! We spent probably not far off 3 hours shooting when we only needed a minutes worth of footage! Molly set up most of the shots as she hadn't yet filmed anything and then I simply pressed record as she had to be in the video herself. Overall, it was a really successful day and we got everything we needed to get and a lot more!

Here are some photos of the day -

Storyboard - Demons DRAFT

Here is a draft copy of my story board, we haven't yet finished filming so there are some blank spaces that will need filling with the rest of the shots such as when Hattie and her mum argue. Hopefully these will be filmed by half term so I can update this as soon as that is done and dusted!

I have put question marks in the spaces where there will eventually be shots of the argument scene. 

Analysing Professional Websites

Demons - DRAFT 2

DRAFT 2 -

Here is a second draft of our music video, it is still unfinished but Molly has been busy editing the rest of this whilst I've been busy doing the filming. Hopefully we will have the last minute of footage within the next few weeks and fingers crossed after that I can get on with some editing and we will have a finished video! I've also included the first draft of our music video in this blog too as I haven't yet uploaded it, so you can see the difference in the two drafts without having to scroll your way through lots of blog posts to find the first video!

DRAFT 1 -

Shot List 1 - Demons

Here is the first shot list for our music video. There will be a 'Part 2' of a shot list coming soon, We just need to finish editing our video so that I can screenshot some more shots. I used a random mug from the media cupboard as my fabulous model. Enjoy!

Final Cut Pro Lessons

As we are editing using Final Cut, I thought it would be a good idea to re learn some of the skills I learnt at AS Level in order to be able to edit effectively. And, of course; learn new skills that I can use in my music video. The first tutorial I looked at was a split screen tutorial, as we had a good idea of splitting the screen into four sections and having multiple action shots in each section. We got this idea from a past student video, and so I thought it best to learn exactly how to do so using YouTube tutorials. This is the video I chose to use. 

I also wanted to find out how to use slow motion on Final Cut, I had already learnt this last year but as I haven't used the programme for a while, my skills are a little rusty and needed to be learnt again! We wanted to try and use slow motion in some of the clips where the two girls are playing with the leaves in the park to help create a bit more emotion and alter timings. I found another really usefulvideo to help with this. 

Lastly,my final skill that I wanted to learn was to do with changing the colour effect of certain shots, to either enhance the colour, or darken. For example, there is a lot of footage that we wanted to use in black and white and other footage such as the forest footage that we wanted to be brighter and bolder to reflect the moods and feelings of the shots. Here is a clip that I used and found useful.

Hopefully,when we have uploaded all the footage we have got from today I will have another go at editing using all of these new skills I have learnt!

Draft Auxiliary Poster

Here is a draft of what my final auxilary poster will look like, I have added captions to explain why I am putting these conventions on my poster. P.s. Sorry about my drawing skills :)

Update and Filming Photos!

Hello again!

It's been a busy day today, Molly and I finally got around to finishing most of our filming! After a long, long wait, it is very nearly complete. All we have left to film is a few scenes with Molly and her family arguing, and a few shots with Maddie to fill in gaps and we should be good to go! I managed to get a few pictures of us filming our final clips and these are below as filming evidence. Also, I have completed Past Student Music Video Examples and these are up on the blog, there is analysis for 'Viva Brothers', 'Crash' and a video from another school 'Can't Hold Us'. I also managed to post my analysis of Past Student Auxiliary Tasks. I analysed all three types of tasks, although I did choose to do a website and poster after this. I had already decided to do a website but was still torn between a digi-pack and poster.

In the next few days I hope to have my draft evaluation up on the blog, although not my final answers. I am slightly behind on these I have been focused on my auxiliary tasks but I have completed both questions 1 and 2 and hope to have these up on the blog tonight/tomorrow; and will continue work on the last two questions tonight also. Also being put on the blog tonight is a shot list for our video and a draft of my poster, which I did do a while ago but forgot to put up here! Hopefully the final poster will be up by tomorrow too, so expect lots of blog posts in the next few days!

Finally, here are some photos of us filming our final performance scenes -

Analysing Past Student Auxiliary Tasks

From analysing these past examples, I have decided to produce a website and a poster and these are the most effective ways of advertising my video from my point of view.

Past Student Work - Can't Hold Us

Here is a link to my analysis of this video - www.rawshorts.com/animations/pea3OeFSTr7xVW2ErXh0GQ

Past Student Work - Crash