Evaluation

I am very pleased with my video and i think that i have learn't a lot on this project.I think my music video really keeps in with the themes of the genre and is the same style of the real Streets videos for example walking along the street talking to the camera. One the left is a picture of my video and the actor walking and on the right below is mike skinner walking along the street.















Another example is the locations that both have been set in on the left you can see the council flats that where mine if filmed and on the right is an council estate that the streets filmed in.




Another thing i took from the streets videos is that they talk staight to the camera.On the left is my music video and on the right the streets.



I think my promotional pack is quite good and it has the same style as the streets have. the album cover of the streets album and my digipak have the same themes. We both have set ours with council estates in the background. This really fits in with the genre of music. i think that my digipak and my advert are very closely linked to my video.




I learn't a lot from my feedback and the coments that i had where really good. I put my video onto youtube and one of the comments that it has on it is this. "The camera work and the cinematography is really good, especially on the long shots of the main actor walking. The connection between the audience and the 2 actors is really good as well. The only thing i'd suggest is that you could have played around with the colour levels or maybe a filter to try and detract from the 'hellish' background." This comment i thought was really good and fair comment but i chose to not play around with the colour levels as i wanted it to look like a natural conversation. I also put the video onto my facebook and some of the comments on that where "i like the flow on the video looks very good" and "some of the lib sinking is a bit out but the changes in the shots a really good" I think that these comments are pretty fair and give me something to think about next time. I also put my advert and digipak onto my facebook and also got some really good feed back for me to think about next time.

The technology i used was really good and made doing this project so much easier. We used Final cut pro to edit the footage we got which was really easy after you got used to it. I had used it a few times before so i picked it up pretty quick. Using this made it easier to the the footage together and hand have the track and visual different unlike Imovie. Also using the camera and tripod was very interesting and that was the first time that i have properly used one. I learn't lots of different things for example how to set all the levels for the camera and focusing the camera all stuff i didn't no how to use before. Using the tripod made it a lot easier to get the smooth shots that i wanted.

If i was todo the project again the things i think i need to think about are probley getting the shooting done as quick as i can and make sure that the timing is perfect so it seem realistic





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Finished Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpvhk1NzgPA

Advert

This is my advert for the album. I have kept the same themes with the pictures being in a council estate. I put this on my facebook and here are some of the comments that it got.

"I liked the use of different colours which really catches the eye which i think is really good."

"I like the fact that the video, digipak and advert are all liked and have the same themes"

" The Q 4 stars are really good and make the advert look real also like the costume that guy is wearing good style"

shooting schedule

These are the date and places of where i filmed.

Febuary 12th
Studio shots
Equipment
Camera
Tripod
Tape

Febuary 20th
Outdoors shots
Equipment
Camera
Tripod
Tape

Storyboard

These are pictures of my storyboard. Lots of my shots are medium and close up as i want my video to seem like the actor is telling it to the audience and its important to look like a conversation. I have chosen to cut between some studio shots and some shots in the estate. This ill help it give the right feel to the video.

blog 7

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0DnGj06WOfoNGUyYjRmYTUtZGFmZC00NGJiLWIzM2MtNGYxODBhOTJjNDE3&hl=en&pli=1

In this project i did a bit of everything probley the most i did was some editing as i have used final cut a few times before so kind of knew what i was doing but learnt a lot more which was really good. I did a bit of filming aswell to get used to the cameras and learn how to use them.

video analysis

The Streets Dry your eyes mate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVaLssMAgY8

the video represents him being alone and how he is sad that he had just come out of a relationship. The video shows him doing everyday things but with his dog. This could be seen as the dog is the only person that he has. I like the use of looking into the camera so it seems like hes telling you are story which he does in lots of his music videos and lots of his songs are story's. I think the video communicates a really clear meaning about being alone and the sadness of just coming out of a realtionship. The video and song are very closely linked and i think the whole video really works with the song and lyrics

The Streets dont mug yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAIHDGghP4

This video is also done by telling a story and the ways that mike skinner looks into the camera to show that he is talking to you really makes it feel like this. I really like how the scene just changes which shows that throughout the day he was always thinking about the girl he went out with. The song in its self has quite a strong meaning and i think that the video helps alot to push the meaning forward