Everything Completed!

We encountered a few problems whilst editing the video as there was high demand on the equipment needed. However, it did get completed in time but one thing that we were aiming to do was not possible. We wanted to put the music in the background of the interviews. This did not happen for two reasons. We could not film the interview with the music playing in the background because the music was live. The second reason was because we could not get an MP3 from the band to play in the background to add in during editing. We could have taken the live music from another existing clip, but the quality was not impressive. Additionally, there was background noise from the pub that the interview was filmed in and this would have interferred with the film. The background noise helped to create the buzz about the place as it was shot after their gig so this could effectively rub off onto the audience watching.

Letter of permision to the band

This email to the band via myspace says,:

Hello,

My name is Rebecca Marrs and i am writing on behalf of my media group (Gemma Carden, James Giles and myself) to ask permission if we may borrow some of you music and photos from your myspace to complete our media prodject.

yours sincerly

Rebecca Marrs

becca1907@hotmail.co.uk

Evaluations blogs

Rebecca Marrs 30033431 Blog to be found at : http://becca1907.wordpress.com/
Gemma Carden's Evaluation blog: http://gemmamedia.wordpress.com/

Unexpected problem

Unfortunately, we have had an issue with re-shooting our footage, so we went back to the band and tryed to film again. However, a member of our group broke his hand and we were delayed further. We have managed to to re-film at a gig on the saturday before the due in date which will mean that we will have to concentrate our full attention into the project. On the monday morning we will have to upload and edit/cut the film to create an attractive and fitting promotion for the band's DVD of their latest tour. Maybe our organisational skills could have been a little better within out group and this is an aspect that we can work upon over the next few days to complete our work.

Bibliography of Technology used.

To create our media project we used allot of different technologies.
These technologies were:

• Mac computer (Construction, research, planning, production and evaluation)

• Camera (video and still photos)(Construction and production)

• Hard drive (Construction and production)

• Youtube (Research, production and evaluation)

• Blogger (Construcion, planning and evaluation)

• Wordpress (Evaluation)

• Paper and Pens / Scanner (Construction)

• Myspace (Reaserch and planning)

• Google (Reaserch and planning)

• Photoshop (Construction, production and planning (drafts of porter and DVD cover)

• Microsoft word (Proposal, pre-roducion, planning, deconstrction and reaserch)

Finishing touches

It is half term and our project is due in, on the 20th of april, leavin us only 9 days to complete our project.
This is where we a re starting to notice little problems including that we have alot of work spread over different computers, and we will not see each other again until the day of hand in. Therefore we have to take this into consideration, meaning that we have all decided to go into college for a few days over half term to catch up.
We are also making a few finishing touches to the blog, adding photos where appropriate.
We also need to download everything onto a cd so that it can be sent away to the examiners, which is proving difficult as everything is not in one place. This will mean that we will have to transfer all of the work onto one computer space and then burn onto disc.

Poster and Dvd Cover

We are now looking into our poster and dvd cover. We have looked at many screen shots of our filming and we have also emailed the band asking if we can use their music over the top of our promotional video and if we can borrow their photo as our plan of using a live shot did not go to plan. Additionally, as the band are well known locally, a few of their photos are recognisable amongst the public which can help to improve advertisement and attract a bigger audience.

Although our live shots were good, the lighting was not brillliant and when put on the dvd cover it did not look that appropriate, this means that looking from the eye of the audience it is less likely to sell.

For the DVD cover we had to look into the age limits on DVD's, when looking into them we dicided that maybe an age restriction was not appropriate but a warning saying "parental guidance" "explict lyrics" was required.

We also decided that it required a barcode and that the production companys name had to be written on it. We thought about creating a logo but we decided that writing the companys name was enough as it explained to the audience exactly who we are and it advertises the company as a business alongside an example of our work.

We have also created some pre-production work on the poster and DVD cover including drawings of the design of the dvd cover and poster, a dvd deconstruction and a poster deconstruction and a story board, to construct a plan of what we want to do for our production work.