Question 1.

David Icke.


I used this idea as inspiration for my main idea, although I used this idea I did not make a specific reference to it in my video, I think I could have developed the idea further in my final video by perhaps including David Icke propaganda or covalent messages.
Although I did feel I developed the idea a small bit by using reptile propaganda in my digipak and with a specific reference to the Babylon Brotherhood in my digipak. (BB)

Fallout.


I felt I used the game research I've done a lot as this helped me chose my main locations and persuaded me to use the scenes with the burn out derelict cars.
I think although I used this idea I used it in a way that was not so obvious as to be a copy, especially as its a different medium.

Question 4.

Online.


Blogger.
Throughout my project I have used blogger as a useful way to present my research and subsequent production tasks.

I found it really useful because it allowed me to keep track of my current work and I was able to access it anywhere with a usable internet connection, such as on my phone:

YouTube.
I used YouTube to embed my video into my blog and it allowed me to share it on other websites such as Facebook and the forum I used for feedback (28 Days Later).


 

Prezi.
I used Prezi to present my research and my pitch because it was a more appealing way to display my findings to the audience. I found it useful because it was a more hands on approach to presenting my pitch and allowed be to get my message across in a more succinct and precise manner.


Software.


Photoshop.

I used Photoshop to make my whole digipak and the matching poster.
It was useful that there was loads of tools that I could use such as the rectangle tool:








This meant I could give my ancillary task a professional level of quality.


Hardware.


Olympus PEN-PL1





This was my own camera and due to this I was able to use the camera to its full ability and had more control over how the video came out.
This was particularly helpful when filming a scene in my video, where I used an effect  to slow down the film and add a vignette.






Panasonic HD DV Video Camera.




This camera was really useful because it allowed me to film my scenes in High Definition, this gave my product an edge because of the high quality.
Overall it allowed my final product to look clean cut and professional.

Question 2.

My music video included bits of black and white which I feel gave it a slightly aged feeling.

I thought my digipak also felt a bit aged what with the rough edges and textures included, however I don't feel this was explored any further so was not very coherent as a theme throughout my work.

I used a black and white filter on my video in order to give it a vintage feel in keeping with the old and grungy house style of my project, in my ancillary task I gave the poster a tea stained effect which is stereo-typically linked with the style of old posters.

I think I could've linked them more effectively and made it more coherent by using things such as a static tv render and a film effect.

The font I used was the same across all my print production with maybe one different font used as a filler for details. This was not taken forward into video because there no text.

The font I used was pretty big and often white,red or black this was because it went with the political theme of propaganda.

I tried to keep the look consistent by using the same font for all the titles and main headings, but I kept each panel unique by using seperate filler fonts for the smaller details, which I think was effective because it keeps things interesting for the consumer.

The girl in the video was moving in a lizard like way, I feel this connects to my digipak as I have a girl on my digipak cover with scales as an overlay, it was also used in my poster with scales on the boy. 

Although its not a continuously reaccuring theme and was not too obvious it was definitely part of the idea and it lead me to use a face mask peeling off someone's arm at the end of the video, this was meant to signify the shedding skin of a reptile.

In our video an overlay comes up, its a political poster and it has our actor in the centre, giving a speech.

This ties back to my digipak as it is solely based on political style posters and propaganda. 

We considered scrapping this idea from the video, however we decided to keep it in as it made my print work much more coherent and consistent. I feel if we had not included it my work would have seemed out of place and random.

However we actually had much darker colors in the video than those that I used in my digipak, my digipak included lighter however more subdued de-saturated colours. This isn't consistent however to a point I feel the dark colors used in my video would have been inappropriate on my digipak considering it was supposed to be a propaganda theme.

The colors used in my ancillary task were all the same with the red and dark grey coloring.

 C 11% M 82% Y 80% K 2%

C 64% M 57% Y 60% K 37%

C 15% M 1% Y 97% K 0%

C 58% M 68% Y 62% K 55%

Overall I'm not sure my music video and print production look together as a package, Lizards and propaganda did not feature too heavily in the video so I think I've let myself down in the production of the video. 

One way in which I could have tied the two tasks together could have been to include the main character in the print task, this would bridge the gap between  the two and pull everything together.

Question 3.

I have specially selected people to use in my audience research, I have tried to get a wider range of people that normally I may not talk to.

• Kate.
• Alex.
• Chrissy.
• Laura Farraday.
• Clint. 

To help aid me in my audience research I have compiled some questions for my audience to answer, I have tried to make the questions specific, yet with more area to expand upon.

• What music genre do you generally like?
• Who is your favourite artist?
• What do you think happens in the narrative?
• What do you think the characters represent? Who are they portraying? Why do you think this?
• Can you relate to what the characters represent?
• Does it remind you of any other media texts?
• What do you think of the lip syncing and performance?
• Do you think its a memorable video?
• Do you think it aids you in understanding what the song is about?
• What specifically do you think is good about the video? Why? What? 
• Do you think the location is appropriate?

The Anomalies - Reptile Human

Performers & Casting.

Health & Safety.

UPDATE: Time Management

This is an update of my time management excel document. I still need to complete:

Costumes & Props and Performers & Casting, me and my partner were going to work on these together in our lessons but as he has left prematurely I will have to work on them myself over the weekend.

Audience profile.

This is our audience profile, we designed it in the style of that of NME's audience profile.

Shotlist.

FADE IN FROM BLACK.


Shots 1-4 Establishing shots of Abandoned Building. (00:00 - 00:06)

Shot 5 Long, Distance Shot of Performer walking through the woods. (00:06 - 00:07)


Shot 6 Point of View (Reptile) High angle shot of performer. (00:07 - 00:10)

Shots 7 Low Angle Shot, Looking up at abandoned building. (00:10 - 00:13)

Shot 8 Extreme close up of performers face. (00:13 - 00:16)


MUSIC BEGINS.


Shot 9 Close up of the door. (00:16 - 00:17)


Shot 10-14 Close up of small building features. (Doorknob, House name, Cracks in Wall, Moss) (00:17 - 00:21) 


Shot 14-15 Medium shot of door opening. Light spilling through. (00:21 - 00:23)


-Zooming into the light- (00:23 - 00:24)


Shot 15-16 Light spreads to cover screen. (00:24 - 00:26)


START FLASH BACK.


Shot 16-20 Quick shots of George as president giving a speech.  (00:26 - 00:30)
- Close Up
- Medium Shot
- Extreme Close Up
- Long Distance Shot


Shot 20  Birds eye, Aerial shot of Jenny strapped to a hospital bed. (00:30 - 00:33)


Shot 21 - 24 Quick shots of Business Man. (00:33 - 00:36)
-Medium Shot
-Close up of Cash
-Close up of his expression


Shot 24 Panning, Dolly shot of a classroom of children nodding. (00:36 - 00:40)


Shot 25 Extreme close up of pupil nodding. (00:40 - 00:42)


Shot 26 POINT OF VIEW. "Bring the war to your doorstep" Army man at the door. 
Quick pan down to the welcome mat. (00:44 - 00:46)


END OF FLASHBACK.


Shot 27 Nurse welcomes rapper into house. (00:46 - 00:50)


Shot 28-29 Camera pans up her body. (00:50 - 00:55)


Shot 29-35 Dolly shot, following rapper as nurse pushes him through a corridor of lots of doors. Various extreme close ups and focus pulls. (00:55 - 00:70)


-Shot 35 - 38 Different angled shots of our performer rapping. (00:70 - 00:80)
Shot 36 Close up of performers mouth gag (00:72 - 00:73)
Shot 37 Cut out to dancers dancing lizard like. OVERLAY OF PERFORMERS FACE ("ANIMAL MAMMAL REPTILE HUMAN") (00:75 - 00:77)


INSTRUMENTAL.


Shot 39 Point of view (high angle) of Lizard Girl (Jenny) watching performer (James) performer. (00:80 - 00:82)


Shot 40 Close up Performer looking around to try and see her. (00:82 - 00:84)


Shot 41 Close up of Lizard Girl turning to run away. (00:84 - 00:86)


Shot 42 Medium shot of Lizard Girl running down the corridor. (00:86 - 00:90)


Shot 43 Handheld, Long shot, Low angle of Performer creeping up the main stairs. (00:90 - 00:95)


Shot 44 Handheld Point of view (Lizard Girl) looking from around the corner to see performer. (00:95 - 00:96)


Shot 45 Extreme close up of Lizard girl peeling off her skin. Slow Mo. (96 - 100seconds)


Shot 46-50 Handheld, Disjunctive Extreme closes up of performers (James + Jenny) Upside down, rotating, really trippy. (100 - 110s)
Shot 47 "ALL I WANNA SAY IS WHAT I'M SAYING.." Really extreme close up of performers mouth miming the words. (103 - 107s)
OVERLAY: Shot 48 + 50 Flashing on and off Jenny turning and tossing on a hospital bed, like she is having a fit. (Turning into a reptile) (103 - 107s)


END OF INSTRUMENTAL.


PERFORMANCE.
Shot 51 Low Angle Performer rapping down to the camera, with two reptile dancers behind him.
(107 - 110s)
Shot 52 High angle shot of performer rapping up to the camera. (110 - 113s)
Shot 53 Performer sat in wheelchair rapping. (112 - 113s)


Shot 54 "Well, express yourself!" Low Angle, tracking of the president giving a speech miming the words. (113-118s)


Shot 55 "ANIMAL MAMMAL REPTILE HUMAN" Extreme close up of lizard girls lips miming the lyrics. (118-121s)


Shot 55-70 Series of short takes and disjunctive shots of suburban areas and abandoned buildings, things that show the world as broken and dead. (121-140s)


Shot 60 Close up of propaganda poster "The Anomalies" (130-132s)


Shot 71 Medium Shot - zooming to - Close up. Businessman (George) sneaks out the front of the building. (132-137s)


Shot 72 Performer sees him and chases him out. Tracking shot. Behind view. Handheld. (137-142s)


Shot 73 Pan down. Tilt shot to see business mans suit on the floor, has melted.  (142-146s)


Shot 74 Performer heads back in. Tracking. Handheld. (146-150s)


Shot 75 Extreme close up of performers face. (150-152s)


Shot 76 Performer (James) runs up stairs, into room. Tracking shot. Handheld. Following behind. (152-157s)


Shot 77 Aerial shot of girl being tied down, doctor (George) trying to administer syringe. (157-164s)


Shot 78 Extreme close up of doctors face. Shocked. (164-166s)


Shot 79 Extreme close up of Performers face. Angry. (166-168s)


Shot 80 Extreme close up of lizard girls face. Scared. (168-171s)


Shot 81-86 Series of short takes including a low angle shot of fight between doctor and performer. (171-176s)


Shot 86 Extreme close Performer unties girl. (176-179s)


Shot 87 Extreme close up of there held hands. (179s-180s)


Shot 88 Slow motion, long shot of them running out the house. (180s-184s)


Shot 88-98 Series of short takes of war and violence. (184s-190s)


END OF VIDEO.