Before we started our video we thought it would be a good idea to brainstorm some ideas and in different colours to show who had contributed to the session started to write down some ideas. we looked at what Ed Sheeran had done in his videos and some of these ideas went down onto the paper which is understable as he has had so much sucess with his music.

when one idea went down on the paper another member of the group would expand on that idea and we found it lead to a sucessfull session because we where able to see what all of us were thinking and how we could start putting all the ideas together to make a video.

below you can see that each of us used a different colour pen to see who contributed to each part:

Here is a summary of what we found from our questions air's it, by making it a big sheet like we have it enabled us to see what sort of information our target audience would be looking for. It also meant that when it came to us making our video we would know what to include to satisfy our target audience needs and wants.

as you can see when we handed out our questionaires people filled them in incorrectly which left us with some results that were useless.

We now wanted to look at our audience and what sort of music they are interested in, so we decided to carry out a questionaire that would allow us to find out this information. We asked a mixture of opened ended and closed questions to see what sort reaction we got from people. 

 

 

Unfortunately we did hand out some other questionnaires but the response we got was irresponsible and we had to disguard these answers as they didnt help us in any way in deciding what to do with our video. After receving these reponses we decided to go and give the questionnairs out to different people as we thought that by doing this we would get a more responsible answer that would help us contribute to the video.  

 



We have also carried out two other tasks that involved us filming and using different camera techniques. Again these were done in groups. The first task we carried out was to produce a music video from any band that we wanted. As we were a group of boys we decieded to attempt to do One Direction - Thats what makes you beautiful - I felt this wasnt very good as the camera work was all shakey, to change this i would use a stand or a trolly that will allow the camera to be steady at the same time. I would also make sure that when we upload the video that the music stays in time with the video and not out of sync. Below is the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxda7mUI5uI&feature=BFa&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ

The second video we filmed was a script from Friends, it was a short film where each person took on one role. I again didnt think this was the piece of work, as the camera angles rarely changed and there wasnt really much emotion in the video considering it was a comedy it didnt come across as one. If we did it again I would make sure that the camera angles changed and that we choose a better place to film as in the classroom wasnt a good choice at all. I learnt that by planning it means that you are able to get a better final piece that you can be much happier with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFnETHKDs4Y&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=7&feature=plcp

This is an image of our group looking at similar artists to Ed Sheeran, we wanted to look at what sort of music he produced and similar artists so that we could see the best way to produce our work. We also wanted to look at how videos in the genre are put across so that we could follow this because as we have a target market it is important to consider what the target audience want and what they expect to see.
From the research we found that there is a mix of slow acoustic pieces and then they were followed by fast paced beats where in Ed Sheeran's case he occasionally raps.

This is good because it was good for us becuase we didnt really want to just have a slow song we wanted to have a bit of tempo to our video as it would make it more interesting for us to film. It also gave us some ideas about what our video should contain and how it should be laid out as we didnt want to move to far away from the genre so that we still connected with our auidence.

For the final production I am working in a group with Alex Sodimu and Bradley Stokes. The reasoning behind this is because, on our recent task where we had to create a music video, we worked together and worked really well. We came up with a number of ideas between us, and when we were filming the music video we started to think of ideas that we could use for our final piece even though we hadnt actually decided what song we were going to do.
We have decided on a  music video as we filmed one for our practise task and felt this would be the best way for us to get the highest marks possible. We had a brief to follow, bellow is the brief:

A promtion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video together with:

• a cover for its release as part of a digipack (CD/DVD package)
• a webpage containing and promoting the artist

The song we have decided to film is Ed Sheeran Grade 8. We looked at a number of  various artists and their songs to see what would be the best option and we choose this song because it is a modern artist and we are able to relate to his work.

The final task we carried out before decided on what we were going to do for our final project watch a film sweed or a music video. Our group decided to do a music video for the song 'Without You' by Mariah Carey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tdADU8zRo&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=5&feature=plcp
From the task I learnt that it is important to make sure you choose the shots you are using carefully as if you dont it can make the video look rubbish, it can also make it difficult to edit the video as you may need to use your character as a reference to what they are singing to put it in time with the music. It also allowed us to use more features of the i-movie software to edit the video. Another thing I noticed and will consider more seriously when it comes to the final task, that was that we must plan more in depth, this is because if we dont and something goes wrong or we are unable to film a particular shot, then we must be able to change it or have a back up.