REMember - Music Video

Ancillary Text 1

Ancillary text 2

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

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Ancillary Text Feedback

After receiving feedback from various people about my ancillary texts, I decided that the images I should use were the following:

Front Cover:

 Inner cover:

 Back cover: 

CD 1: 

 CD 2: 

I decided to use a black and white theme as this helped me to reflect the mood of my album to my target audience. I decided to use images of a flower and the field with the girl as this helps me to resemble what the meaning of my album is. For example, the song I recorded for my music video was about the death of somebody and I felt that using the rose - especially in black and white would connote death as this is commonly associated with funerals and graveyards.

Some of the feedback that I received suggested that 

Digipak CD's and Covers

Back of Eminem's CD Covers Ancillary Research

Eminem Ancillary Text Research 2

Eminem Ancillary Text Research

As well as this Eminem is also wearing fairly baggy clothing which consists of a hoodie, gilet and black jeans. This type of clothing is conventional of the rap genre which again allows the genre to be identified and recognised straight away by the target audience. 

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Editing Techniques

Planning our Journey / Filming Arrangements / Shooting schedules

Route from Sarah's house to Hessle
Foreshore.

Text Message arranging the first filming
day at Hessle Foreshore.

Booking out the Studio.

Me and Sarah booking the studio to film the lip sync.

Final REMember Music Video

Fourth Draft

After uploading this draft, we realised that we made a mistake with some of the clips and their timing. We intend to change these issues as quickly as possible.
When watching this back, we felt like some of the clips went on for too long which reduced how effective this looked as it didn't resemble a conventional music video. After showing this to our teacher. she confirmed our thoughts by telling us that she also felt like some of the clips were too long. She suggested cutting clips, replicating clips and having them consist of forward and reverse play. Me and Sarah both agreed with her and thought her suggestions were useful so we decided to take those on board and begin to change some of the clips. For example, in the clip of myself walking along the beach, we cut the clip into for sections. The first and third section where just played normally and the second and fourth were reversed. We felt like this helped the video become a little more choppy and fast paced which is a typical convention of music videos, especially within the rap genre.

Process of Editing Our Video

Location Number 2

We decided to use two major locations to film our music video. These two locations were Hessle Foreshore and the Studio.
At Hessle Foreshore we used several areas, these were; the main beach, the play park, a bridge and a tunnel. We used these locations to reflect a happy day out that the singer and his girlfriend had had while she was still alive as we felt like this place would be typical of a boyfriend and girlfriend to go on a nice date together.

Hessle Foreshore

The Studio

The Studio

Filming In The Studio

Day 2



Beginning to edit after the first day of studio filming

Day 3

Behind The Scenes on Day 3 of Filming

Filming Diary 3

For the third and final day of filming, we again decided to film some more lip syncing in the studio. For this, the costume consisted of a black and white checkered shirt hich was buttoned up to the top, with black skinny jeans. We chose this costume to emphasise the genre of the music video in a stereotypical way which makes it familiar and recognisable to the audience. We filmed some of the lip syncing from various angles e.g. mid-shot and low angle, with the singer both stood up and sat down. We did this to create variation within the video to try and avoid it becoming too repetitive.

Music Video Progress - After Day 2 Of Filming

Due to issues when editing the video, there is no audio for this edit.

Behind The Scenes On Day 2 Of Filming

Filming Diary 2

In our second day of filming, we decided to do some studio work and film some lip syncing so we were able to include a performance aspect as well as some narrative. We chose to include some of the lip syncing because this is a typical convention in almost all of the music videos - especially within the rap genre. Overall this lip syncing went well and will fit in with the overall message of the song and the mix of the performance and narrative will work well together which is one of the things we initially wanted to achieve. In the studio, we also decided to film a shot of a baby bump in reference to a lyric of the singer wishing that his friend had had a baby before he died so that he would have a part of his friend to keep with him and he would be able to tell the child about how good his father was. To show this baby bump, we used a mid-shot so that it showed some of the subject in more detail while still showing enough of the subject so that the audience feel like they're seeing the whole subject in the frame. The actor wore a baggy jumper with black skinny jeans to convey the typical male costumes that are most often seen within rap music videos.

Over the first two days of filming, we feel like there are enough good shots to edit together so before we begin filming again, we're going to review the footage and edit them together so we can see what our next steps are. 

Behind The Scenes of Filming on Day 1

Filming Diary 1

We decided to film some of the narrative for the music video first and we did this from the singers point of view as this allows the viewers to be able to fully focus on his memories and be able to clearly identify with the meaning behind this song. For our first day of filming, we decided to go to Hessle Foreshore. We felt like  this would be a good starting point to look back on good times that the singer and his girlfriend had previously shared together. Due to difficulty in finding cast with how quickly we were running out of time, we decided that my partner would film me. To emphasise that this was being filmed by the singers point of view, we included a scene where I was helped over a muddy puddle by the person who was singing. We did this by my partner filming me trying to step over the puddle and then she reached out her hand to help me across. From the position this was filmed in, her hand reaching out in front of the camera appeared as if that is what she would see from her point of view. Although the weather was bad and rainy, we decided that this would be suitable as it would reflect the overall mood of the song.

Why We Changed our Original idea

We originally had an idea of documenting a friendship between two males where one of the males had passed away, This initial idea on paper worked really well, however when it came to film, it didn't work as well as we had hoped as we found it a little difficult to convey the message that we had intended to show. As well as this, we had some casting issues which maybe made out idea more difficult to carry out. As the casting was unstable and we had people letting us down after telling us that they're able to film for us and with time running out to begin filming, we decided that it would be best to change our idea.

We decided that in changing our idea, we could do it from a 'point of view' of the singer who was looking back at an old relationship and memories they shared together. This idea was influenced by the music video 'Smack My Bitch Up' by The Prodigy which we saw in one of the previous media lessons.

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