Final Video

This is our final music video after editing the footage we filmed and using transitions. We started off with around an hour and half of footage to play around with.

Audience Questionnaire for Music Video

In order for us to do our evaluations, we need to get some audience feedback on our music video so far. We have very nearly completed it but there is always room for alterations and improvment. With the help of this audience feedback asking a mix of 10 open and closed questions, we can see what we could improve in our music video. We are going to hand this questionnaire out to 12 people selected at random at the viewing of media students videos at our school. This will be a mixture of girls and boys ages around 15-18 as the viewing is for both year 12 and 13 of sixth form.

1. What was your first impression after watching Vinyl Junkies - Dear Diary music video?

2. Did you feel a connection with the character whilst watching the music video?
Yes/No

3. Did you understand the storyline? Do you think it explained the lyrics well?

4. Did you think it was a believable storyline? Yes/No

5. Comment on the use of camera angles. Were they successful?

6. Did you think the music video showed conventions of a narrative based video?
Yes/No

7. Did the editing such as the use of transitions make the music video flow smoothly? Please explain your answer.

8. Did we manage to use lighting effectively? If answered no, why not?
Yes/No

9. In what ways could we improve our music video?

10. Overall, do you think we created a successful music video for our artist?
Yes/No

Digipack Analysis

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Final Digipack

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End of filming

Today we filmed the last shots we needed for all of our footage to be complete. This was the courtyard scene where the girls is looking out the window at social groups to show her isolation from society. We then uploaded this on to the Apple Mac we are using to edit. When we return to school after the Christmas holidays we will add in transitions and place these shots in with the rest of our edited footage.

Alternative Advert

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This is another version of our final advert. We experimented to see if we could improve our advert in any way. The use of the polaroid gives the advert an original, vintage look which suits the indie style genre of our artist. We have decided we prefer our other version as we do not like the overlapping text on the polaroid. Also, the logos and the star rating does not look as professional as the white background shows up on the polaroid. The colouring of this advert is quite dull and may not catch the attention of an individual as much as our other advert.

Digipack so far

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This is our digipack so far. We have very nearly completed this but we need to add a few more photos from the rest of our filming. We liked the idea of a black background as it represented the dark storyline in the song. Also, it contrasted nicely with the black and white image on the front cover. We have used polaroids to place the photos in as we thought this gave an original look. We feel we can improve this still with some finishing touches for instance we feel the artist name on the front cover should be bigger as it is the most important piece of information on our digipack . We have left the cd disc blank as we have not yet degined possible discs we would use.

Editing

We continued editing today and have edited everything we have filmed. We added the transitions between shots that looked jumpy and added in a sound effect at the end. This was a siren sound as this fits in with our storyline and leaves it on a cliffhanger. From the lyrics the audience can understand what is going on in the story, and the siren sound effect helps this.  The transitions we used were, cross dissolve, cross blur, cross zoom and fade to black. We used fade to black as the end transition as it fades out the shot as the song fades out. The siren sound plays as the shot is fading to black to create a dramatic effect and a clear ending.