Website Development

Using Wix.com I am currently designing a website for Strio which is up to professional standard, i have included the following so far:

Home Page
Information on Strio (Background Info, Future Gigs)
Contact Details and Booking Information
My Blogger (To Keep up tyo date on Strio Activity)
The Latest Music Video Release (Promotion of our Music Video)
Store of Fan Merchandise (For Fans to Buy Strio Designed Products)

There is still a lot of work to do, since it is aesythetically not quite up to standard and I want to make the website more interactive for fans and audience.

Final Digipack design

 Front Cover

 Back Cover

 Inside Right

 Inside Left

Example of finished digipack with spine.

The Finished Music Video

Rough Edit Screen Shot

This is an example of the editing process. This shows how we edit the video and it also shows the long and difficult process editing is.

Digipack Development

So far we have a first draft of our Music Digipack, since it is only black and white we feel that wec need to add some kind of colour to the cover, since we have some lightning strikes on the cover, I think that by adding light blue colour into the cover it will add some atomosphere and eye catching characteristics to the cover. For instance the picture below is both the perfect colour for our cover and since it is a smiley face it also links to our music video. If we do this with light (like the image below) all we need to do is lower the shutter speed on a camera and get someone to draw a smiley face using lights. It is a simple and effective way of creating an interesting and different CD cover. Or we will photoshop a smiley face into the wall on the CD cover. It makes a subtle and effective link between the music video and the Digipack.

Locations

Our Music Video is set in a school, the location is an important aspect to our video since it involves a school orientated plot. Our target audience is also teenagers to young adults. We found the location difficult to find because Hurtwood House doesn't look like a typical school since it in located in the middle of the Surrey Hills. The ideal location would be a large modern college in a town or city. We couldn't find the perfect location for our Music Video so we had to adapt and therefore used Hurtwood House as our school location, with the help of close camera shots I think we were able to hide the fact that Hurtwood House is in a forest. We did this by having close ups of the characters faces near bricks and walls so that the audience do not notice the trees and greenary.

Process of Editing

The editing is going to be a challenge since the music is very repetitive and fast. The beat is also unclear meaning that editing may take longer than other videos. Dubstep changes in pace, tempo and rythmm throughout the tracks. Meaning that editing to the beat is going to be difficult. I still feel though that with the editing we will complete a successful video which corresponds to the genre of music well and looks interesting enough for a large audience to enjoy.

Music Video (Shoot Day)

As a group we got all the costume and props ready for the next day. We also got all the cameras ready for the shoot, we couldn't set up in the studio because there was a music video the night before our shoot day and all the technicians were working on that shoot, meaning we had to wait till the morning to set up.

In the morning I was both excited and nervous for our shoot day, I was nervous because we hadn't set up everything due to the previous video. And I was excited because i knew that the video shoot day would be a completely different school day, I was also more excited by the prospect that we were going to make a successful music video.

We weren't able to be 100% ready for our shoot day but I felt we dealt with this problem quickly, we got into the studio in the morning and we setup the lighting quickly within an hour, we already had the cameras and props set up so we were able to shoot quickly, this was key, otherwise we wouldn't have filmed everything on our shoot day.

The studio was set up to be like a night club or a DJ festival stage, the key aspect was that we needed it to look like a performance stage for our DJ. I think we managed this well because we used a lot of lighting which flickered and flashed at a fast pace and since we used low angle camera shots we created a performance stage for our DJ well. I do feel we could have made it better by using different lighting such as circles or lasers to really create a performance stage.

We not only alternated the roles on our shoot day we also divided the roles fairly, with each of us using the camera, for instance I filmed some of the fight scene in the afternoon, I also became the directer for some of the day. We all divided the roles as evenly as possible but we knew that George knew how to use the camera better than Charlotte and I did, but we still voiced ourselves fairly and we all had a go at different roles on the shoot day.

I feel that personally I was best at directing because I felt I led the group well and as a group we worked well in creating the music video on the shoot day.

The biggest problem we faced was both timing and location, since Friday is the shortest day at school we had a very limited amount of time to shoot the whole video. Thankfully we were organized enough to have an idea the time it would take before the end of the school day. We had a tight schedule but we stayed focused and was successful in filming in time. The other problem we faced was the location of our shoot day. We left it too late in our organizing to find a perfect location for our shoot meaning we had to shoot all on campus. We knew that Hurtwood House does not look like a traditional school since it is in the Surrey Hills. We had to adapt and find a small Maths classroom and we also used a car pack for where the fight between our hero and the bullies would take place. It wasn't ideal but I feel that we were content with the locations we chose.

I feel that that the most successful aspect to our video shoot day was in the morning, because we set up the DJ stage quickly and I also feel that it we were able to create an effective video. Our DJ also listen to our demands and also suited to our video and with the lighting and camera shots we made the studio look the best in our video and therefore they are the reasons why I think that the studio was the most successful part to our media video shoot day.

On the shoot day we did film in the wrong order of the storyboard, this was because we had the hero get changed into the hero costume. We did it in this order because we were in the right location for other camera shots and felt that it would be quicker and more efficient if we did this, what we didn't realize is that it had a knock on effect later in the day, and it slowed down a lot of our shoot day later on because we had more costume changes than we thought, I feel that better organization would have given us more time to shoot our media video.

I think that we managed the actors well because they listened to us, and also acted on our instructions. They were also very patient since shooting took longer than I had anticipated. I am very grateful for the actors we used since it was cold and windy and wasn't ideal shooting weather, but they stayed throughout the day, listened to our instructions and did a great job in my opinion.

I personally enjoyed the filming in the studio, one reason was because it was inside in the warm and was also the most entertaining to watch with all the lights and music, I could feel what the video would look like with the DJ performance. I am also looking forward to seeing the studio shots in the final edit.

Music Video Evaluation (Research and Planning)

Music Video Evaluation

Shooting Schedule

Shooting schedule from cembitmead

Album Cover Update

This is our first design of our Cd album, it isnt finished yet with colour needed to be added and the title may still change, but the font for instance will keep because we feel that the font (Downloaded from Dafont.com) matches the genre of music that we are selling. The font looks like a dubstep or gritty dance style of song. The picture will change until we have a clear star image to the artist.

We also added in the parental advisery seen because will sufficiant research we realised that most CDs with swear words or violent meanings have parental advisery and since our music is more for 18+ year olds we still need to make clear what the audience is expecting when buying the product.

Film Production Risk Assessment

Film production risk assessment form from cembitmead

Costume Error

Some of the costumes ordered we too small to fit the main actor in the music video, for instance the gloves were too small but we have found a substitute for this, with another pair of paintballing gloves. the cape is also too small but we feel that it will do for the hero. A big success is the blood capsules which we tested and work well in creating fake blood in the mouth. They will be useful in creating a gritty fight scene.

The costume is a big part of our video, since it shows a contrast of character from the victim to the hero. It flips the attitude towards the bullies. We also want him to look like a hero with aspects of an everyday student much like the film Kickass. He will also wear a black mask and a black hood to make his identity concealed to the characters but also to be obvious that the hero is the victim in the previous shots of the video.

Superhero Logo

CD Template

We are going to use these templates to create a professional standard CD cover, with these templates we can then accurately create a CD pack with the right artwork on the right areas and dimensions. With the right measurments we can get the right size of pictures for the album cover, we now also know that we need 6 differant images for the digi pack.

Changes To Our Blog

Since our main actor who would play the victim/hero has left the school half way through the development of our media video, we needed to act swiftly to get a second actor. Thankfull we found a student who fits into our character and will be free on our video shoot day. Another change is location, instead of going to the hero's room we have decided that we should shoot in the changing rooms. The reason for this was mainly becuase of time contraint. We also think that it will run smoother if we do not leave the school premise throughout the whole video. We have also decided not to include people in the studio which makes an easier simpler shoot since in the studio it will only be the DJ.

Artists Websites

I have researched a number of differant Artist's websites to see what they include, whether they used soundcloud to show the viewers any new songs, if they had contact details, their tour dates, information on band members, any items that people can buy online such as t shirts or the cd itself.

  http://killnoisekill.com/

Kill the noise is an american dj who plays both house and dubstep with his house music becoming increasingly popular. He is a young new dj who is rapidly growing. I looked on his website, and it was designed to look like an old retro arcade game with space invader style colours. It had many links to his youtube site, his soundcloud, facebook and twitter accounts for fans to view. It also had contact and booking details for promoters. Interestingly it also had a discography of all his own music and his mixes of other songs.

http://www.benga.co.uk/

Benga is one of the leading English DJs who is from south London. This website is very much differant to Kill the Noise website, because Benga's has a video of one of his singles which plays automatcially when you go on the website. Then in big font it has his gig dates, his twitter and facebook accounts, and also a music store. One thing that they all have in common is that they both clearly state who the artist is, what genre of music they fit into. They both have either a logo of the dj (Kill the Noise 'Skull with a flap cap) and Benga's website has a clear picture of him performing in the background. Benga's website is much more simpler in design as Kill the Noise has a lot more colour and links on his website.

Shot List

Album Cover

These are some of the ideas for our album covers for our artist. While designing these we had to take in to account the star image of our artist and how this related and linked to other album covers from artists in the same music genre. I found that when looking at similar artists covers they all related to the science fiction theme, which is what we tried to incorporate with these designs. Another important element that we had to involve was the star image, in particular a logo. This relates to the theme of our music video as well as promotes the star image and is a recognisable symbol.

Evaluating the Role of Storyboarding and The Animatic

Evalutating role of storyboard and animatics from cembitmead

Feed Me's New Song

The new Feed Me track is very much simillar to our music idea, with a quiet kid at home who decides to become a hero for a day, with a home made costume and silly string to fight off bad guys. The slight differance is that in the video he goes to a party as our video is that he fights bullys at his local school.

Exambles of Album Artwork Close to Our DJ

Scrillex is slightly differant to Strio in the fact that he makes much more aggressive Dub-step. The album artwork however is simmilar to other dubstep/drumstep album covers. This album cover called 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' has a sci-fi feel to it, with futuristic fonts and neon lights to give of almost a 'blade runner' theme feel. The colours and metalic background suggest a robotic almost mechanical style of music. Scrillex has a unique genre of music with very much robotic dubstep this is a link between the artwork and the music. The font is also large and imposing which suggests an aggressive style of music, which Scrillex again conforms too.

Skream's album cover is very much differant to Scrillex, they are still both in the same genre of music but possibly not in the same sub genre which Skream having more rythmm and vocals in his songs. The image is also very differant, it has a younger appeal to it with what looks like a house party of some kind, its very clear who the target audience is, which is the teens to young adults age brackets. The cover is much more grittier and urban, since it has no futuristic or robotic feel it aims towards a working class audience. The font is very bold again which will show the consumer that the music is likely to be loud and aggressive.




This Album cover is unique in most ways because it doesnt have a picture of the artist, it doesnt have many clues into what genre of music that it is, and the character is likely to attract children. The only indications to what music the album presents would be from the record label in the bottom right corner, 'Mau5trap' being on of the leading dance record labels, run by the globally famous 'Deadmau5'. The other indication would be the title, 'Feed me's escape from electric mountain' indicates that since it has 'electric' in it, the music maybe fast and bold. Also the character isn't friendly looking meaning the music will be aggressive and fast.

Animatic to Our Video

This is our animatic for our music video, they are a basic outline drawing of what we want our video to look like. They are a vague idea, which means from this point until the shoot day we can still change it slightly.

Star Image of our DJ 'Strio'

Our DJ 'Strio' will need a star image so that it is easier to aim towards a target audience. Since the song is drumstep it is a small niche genre of music which is aimed towards a young market.  On the Jicnars scale, Strio would fall between C2-E. The main scale it would fall into would be E since the genre of music is a young genre. Strio is a young male DJ who will often perform at large festivals such as Creamfields, Tomorrowland and Global Gathering and he will also perform at large clubs in big cities such as Fabric(London) and Gatecrashers (Birmingham).  He is also in a lot of advertising meaning that he enjoys the fame and glamour of being a famous DJ. Even though he is an up and coming DJ he still sticks to his youth, by having one of his songs 'Game of Chess' based on bullying and heros vs villians. It also stays close to his youth because it has a comic book theme throughout the music video.

Vals:
Strio will have a number of differant target audiences with 'Experiencers' because his main target audience will be young people between 16-25 who go clubbing and also go to these festivals looking for excitement and these people will hold a rebelious attidude.



Since Strio will attract a young adult audience there is more depth into teenage Vals. Strio's target audience Vals would be a mix of 'Rebels', 'Trendies', and 'Drop-Outs'. The 'Rebels' who want to remake the world in their image will fit into Strio's target audience because his music is agressive and new, meaning that he wants a shift in music popularity, it shows that he wants 'out with the old, and in with the new' music genres. The 'Trendies' will fall into the target audience too because Drumstep has become very popular and is still growing in market size with the age group of 16-25. This means that 'Trendies' will listen and like his music due to its growth in popularity.

Screen Test 'Luca'

We needed to screen test Luca who would play the part of the victim/superhero. The reason we picked him is because we feel that he fits the part and the video proves to me and the group that he is a good fit for the character.

Screen Test 'Walter'

We needed to find out if our cast members would be suited to playing the characters needed in the music video. Using a flip camera I have filmed one of the actors, who plays one of the bullys in school. I feel that he plays the right part for this character and the film proves this.

 

 

 

Prop List allocation

Name of Band/  Song:	What Props do I need to provide?	What Costumes including Jewellery and make-up needs to be provided?	What set design and Props does Dan and the Drama department provide?	Who is responsible for the props and costumes?	Have you got the band to practice the song & rehearsed this?  Are these casted and have they been screen tested?
Knife Party: Bonfire	ME: + FS700 Camera + Pioneer Decks + Strobe	+ Black hoodie + Black cape + Black trousers + Black boots + School White Shirt x5 + Black School Trousers x 5	+ Smoke Machine + Projector + Desks & Chairs + Speakers + Strobe/Lighting + Raised Platform	CHARLOTTE: + Key + Silly String + Logo Headphones + Utility Belt + Superhero Watch + Superhero Bag + Books & Folders + School Ties x 5 ANDREW: + Fake Blood + Glowsticks + 10 White Shirts	ANDREW: + IN PROGRESS

Target Audience for our DJ 'Strio'

The song 'A game of Chess' is a drumstep song which will appeal to a young male audience ranging from 16-25 year old. The music video is sdet in a school which is about bullying and a fight between good and evil, the bullys and the victims. We also have a superhero in the narrative which will appeal to a young audience rather than an older audience. The music video has a comic book theme which reitarates the younger audience.

Nero Target Audience

Nero a similar music genre to Knife Party have slightly differant music ideas, since Nero is just as dark and aggressive but includes more techno than dubstep as Knife Party include much more Dubstep. Nero also go to the same festivals as Knife Party since they share music genre interest. Nero uses a science fiction theme rather than a metal theme and this is one seperation between the two gorups. The music video to their track 'Crush On You' is set in a school and is about relationships between boys and girls. This conforms to the target audience of 16 to 25 year olds.

Target Audience for Knife Party

Knife Party are a young aggressive dubstep/techno group which have become popular in recent years, the members of Knife Party are also members of Pendulum. Knife Party's target audience would be a male with an age range of 16 to 25 year olds, it is aimed at a young adult audience because the genre of music is new and has become popular in recent years. Since it is a new genre of music an older audience won't know who they are and their taste in genre of music would be differant. Knife Party have a large fan base already due to performing at large dance and mainstream festivals which are popular for the younger age adults. The reason they will attract more males is because their music is dark, and the group were originally a metal band, which is why their images and clothing has metal fashion items. Their most famous track 'Internet Friends' is about the use of social networks, and these networking sites have become huge in recent years with the 16 to 25 year age group using these networking sites the most, this is a link to their target audience.

 http://knifeparty.com/

Evaluating Our Storyboard

Evaluating Our Storyboard

Email to Record Company

To JHO Management,
We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

Bonfire by Knife Party

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Andrew Irving
Hurtwood House School

Treatment four Our New Media Idea

Casting

Prop Presentation

Prop Presentation

Our Design Set

 For our music video we each drew four set designs of what we wanted the studio DJ set to to look like. Although some of our ideas will change, these are some basic sketches of what we want our music video to look like. We have covered the set design of the studio which we will turn in to a DJ set and we have also designed the lighting for the set. We have set out a basic idea of what we want the studio to look like aesthetically. By linking the superhero idea (narrative) with the performance element we decided to have large images of superheroes in the background of the DJ set.

Set Design Ideas (Lighting and Stage)

Prop List

Prop list:
Superhero costume
Ultility belt
Silly string
A golden key
Dj deck
Superhero Headphones
Books, papers and folders
Table and chairs
School bag with superhero badges
Superhero watch

Research for Casting

We needed to find two older women who were capable of being able to travel down for our shoot day, where they would race each other using two mobility scooters, the group and i found this difficult because we needed to find an older woman who could use the mobility scooters but also lives close enough to travel down to Cranleigh, we also needed to find the right price because we have a limited budget for our music video. We looked at a number of different casting agencies such as casting now and Casting Connection where we found two available actors for our music video but we thought that £150 per actor for a day was too expensive but we found another actor but she has yet to reply.

Album Cover Analysis #2

Metallica are famous for not only their music but also for their album work, the font for Metallica has become very unique and famous, which will make it easier for customers to know who the band is and also in the imposing font also gives a clue to the genre of music that the band are into. The large hands in the corner holding the strings to the crosses represents a higher source, this will relate to religious meaning and the large number of crosses with the helmet on the side on a cross is a representation of the many grave stones of the world war two. This album has both religious and historic meaning. The title ‘Master of Puppets’ will relate to the meaning that we are being controlled by someone higher than us, this could mean through god or even down to everyday life such as laws and rules. The colour in the background near the horizon of the picture is a red almost orange which has a number of different meanings such as blood and passion or danger. The grass on the ground has a lack of green colour which would mean that the grass is dying or died which reiterates the many lives lost in world war two.

Album Cover Analysis #1

The Album London calling by The Clash an English punk band has a lot of intertextual and symbolic meaning behind the image. For example if we compare this album cover with Elvis you can clearly see a similarity between the two, with the same font and colours, in the same area on the cover. The image is slightly different with The Clash smashing the guitar on the ground, as Elvis is playing the guitar. By having a band member smash the guitar is highlights there attitude towards social media and other world issues, it shows a rebellious side, a modern rock n roll image. It highlights the ‘punk’ genre within the band. To highlight the similarities between both pictures you can clearly see that they are both black and white, this clearly shows that The Clash who became famous twenty years after Elvis did, the London Calling album has a clear aim to copy and then show no respect and almost an anger towards Elvis, but it definitely highlights the rebellious attitude towards music.

Video Timeline

Final Music Video Treatment

The song is called Anarchy, and the name of our band/ DJ is Strio which means War in Islandic. The video is based around two old ladies who, whilst going about their daily routine, spot one another across the street when on their mobility scooters. In an almost Tarantino style, an extreme close-up on each of the granny’s is pulled to show their reactions as they eye one another up. 

At this point both are waiting at a level crossing and the traffic light is red. This footage is all briefly intercut with scenes of the supposed DJ ‘Strio’ performing at a rave scene with a large audience. 

After the song builds up in pace where we introduce both of the main characters, we hear the drop and the traffic light turns to green and the granny’s speed off on the scooters. During the race they fight to take the lead, one of the granny’s then tries to overtake but is stopped by the other lady who is swinging her walking stick at her. 

The video ends with the leading granny pulling away and effectively winning this spontaneous race whilst the other one has stopped and given up. During this section of the video it will all be shot in slow motion at 50fps whilst the live performance elements will be shot at a regular speed of 25fps.

Music Video Pitch (New idea)

FINAL VIDEO PITCH 

Development of our Music Treatment Idea

When we discussed our initial idea treatment to Luke, he highlighted key points which will make oiur video verry challenging to film, Luke highlighted that we will find it very difficult to have the freedom to film in any location we want, he told us that it would be hard to find the right location for our video wsithout having to contact the owners or anyone who lives there, since we want to find a run down street, people who live there may be insulted by our representation of characters in the video. Also since we want to film a violent scene in public, people who see the fight may think it is real, and therefore the police could stop the filming. This is why filming in public locations such as streets, car parks and highstreets can become costly and difficult. In my opinion location is our biggest worry since we won't have a budget and we also won't be able to find the right location quickly. Another problem highlighted were the characters, Luke told us that we may find it difficult to cast the right characters from people at Hurtwood, which means we would need to look outside of school for to take part in our video.

One development of our treatment was the plot, instead of having on big fight, we have decided to add a narrative, where a small time dealer gets beaten up by three rival gang members/drug dealers, we then see this injured dealer struggle back to his house/safe house/ drug den, where his bos becomes raged with anger and vengeance agfainst these rival gang members/drug dealers for injuring his friend. The boss and others decide to go out and fight back against these rival gang members/ drug dealers, it then concludes with with a big fight at the end where the boss wins thew fight against these gang members/drug dealers.

The postives drawn from Luke was that this idea and treatment has the potential to be very good, but we face big obstacles to achieve this. We still have a lot to develop but I think that our idea can be effective and will be a successful music video.

Music video ideas #1

Name of Artist: Enter Shikari, Constellations
Star Image: They are a UK based band which have now become national known for there mix of heavy rock with some hints of electronic beats. Many of there songs also have messages which they want to portray by using the lyrics in the songs. The messages are usually on the lines of the environment, drugs and world peace. This will increase there star image because it shows that there band has a purpose and its not out there just to create music but also to help people and to spread the knowledge of world problems. In there latest album they have introduced more electronic sounds into there music, which could be a decision to diversify into different mix of genres and therefore a wider and greater fan base. Enter shikari are similar to Fight like apes and Flobots. Most of their songs are about society and world problems.

The song is quite simple since the lyrics clearly set a scene and mood which could be literally portrayed on the video, the song is also called constellations which are stars, this song is a metaphor for someones journey through there life where you will meet other people and you joinery through life won't be on your own. This song is also one of the more meaningful and slower songs that Enter Shikari have released and this could be why it isn't one of their famous ones because it is untraditional in it content compared to the bands other songs.

When I listen to this song i can really picture in my mind what the band are trying to convey, i imagine the setting of the video in a run down small train station, with only a few people waiting at the station. The song is a narrative which means that the song has a story and characters and emotions. I also imagined using a certain grain to add a gritty/ depressing feel to the video.

Packing the last few shirts into a bloated suitcase (
The last glimpse of comfort and the ticking clock face 
I swear those hands move faster every day 
I'm more confused than ever but I don't beg or pray 'cause the 
Sparkling light from the morning sun 
Is all we should need to feel one. 

I reach the station with just minutes to spare, 
I glance at my watch time's going faster these days I swear, 
Eyes focus up now to the train time table board 
There's only two platforms to be explored, 
And it's then that I admit it to my self, 

That I am lost so lost 
But your the constellations 
That guide me 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/enter+shikari/constellations_20987087.html ] 
There's a train at 12, destination disaster. 
It's running on time as time runs faster 
On platform two it's destination sustainability 
It's delayed though it was suppose to arrive at 11:50. 
Platform one it says stand behind the yellow line 
But I sit on the platform edge and just gaze at the time. 

My mind wanders back to our oblivious existence 
I'm all choked up now with the threat of distance 
As the train bound for disaster chokes up to the station, 
I don't board it cause I decide that it's the wrong destination, 
But the train bound for sustainability is nowhere to be seen 

And I'm lost so lost 
Where are the constellations 
That guide me? 

And then I realize that 
We need to use our own two feet to walk these tracks, 
And we have to squad up and we have to watch each others backs, 
With forgiveness is our torch and imagination our sword 
Well I'll tie the ropes of hate and slash open the minds of the bored 
And we'll start a world so equal and free 
Every inch of this earth is yours all the land and all the sea 
Imagine no restrictions but the climate and the weather 
Then we can explore space together 
Forever 

And I'm lost so lost 
Where are the constellations And I'm lost so lost You are the constellation X5

Initial Group Idea

Idea #1
Our first group idea was 'Bonfire' by Knife Party, the genre of music is Moombahton/ Dubstep and a blend of Electro House. We discussed many differant treatments, and we decided on Bonfire because we all agreed as a group that the treatment for this song was the most creative and exciting compared to the other treatments. Our idea is set in a run down street which has very little life. We want to show a conflict between two rival gangs in abandoned streets. Maybe through drugs or territory. Using smoke machines and a brown grain in editing we want to create a gritty urban warfare. We would also use slow motion cameras to highlight the movement and emphasise facial expressions. We want to have two gangs fight each other either because or drugs or because of territory, we will have people fight each other with blunt weapons wearing masks or balaclavas to cover their faces. The two gangs will also wear differant colours to tell the audience the differant sides they represent.

The following video is a good example of the style of video we want to create but our iudea will be on a much smaller scale, this video is also using a high budget which we will not have, but it clearly states what our idea aims to look like.

The Year Ahead

What is expected of me?

A2:
20 Marks- Research and Planning - Blogs
60 Marks-Coursework
20 Marks-Exam evaluation
100 Marks- Summmer Exam

Advanced Portfolio:
This involves the producing a main artefact (music video) and two ancilliary artefacts (CD cover and magazine cover)

Critical perspectives:
An exam which i need to show an understanding of media theory towards the cases studied.

The following is a previous music video made by Hurtwood House students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnR1uOxC-M