Evaluation: Creative Arts Evening

On the 20th March, our school held a Sixth Form 'Creative Arts' Evening which allowed the Sixth Form of the school to exhibit their creative work to a hall full of guests.
Showing our video to a wide audience of varied age groups, meant that audience feedback could be obtained not only from our peers. To do this, a 'video feedback' booth was set up on the evening to allow guests to be filmed whilst they spoke about their opinions.
Above is the final draft of our video as well as the feedback obtained. This video has had a few adjustments made from the recommendations made on the night.

Opinions:

'The use of a love story is brilliant! The mise-en-scene is perfect however some issues with lip-syncing but nothing major. The editing within the video is captivating and makes you want what the couple have (happiness)'   Jessica Morris 'A-level Student

'Happiness, joy and fun! Three words which sum up this video perfectly. A true joy to watch. The motif of the dip to black and also the cross fade works wonderfully. Brings me back to my youth.'  David Spencer 'Father of Year 12 pupil

Evaluation: Learning from the Filming Process

Over, the course of the project, the group and I have planned and filmed a large amount of footage. However, although we did film a lot of footage that wasn't actually used in our final video, making sure that we learnt from the mistakes that were made and carried our knowledge onto our next batch of filming - obtaining a smooth ride. As said in previous blogs previous filming did not go as planned however this meant that learing from our mistakes this would hopefully not be the case again.

Final Ancilliary Tasks

(Promotional Poster Number 1)                                      (Promotional Poster Number 2)

(Promotional T-shirt)

(Posters Pictured Togther)

(Union Jack motif)

(Conforming to conventions)

(CD Front Cover)

(Booklet and CD)

(CD disk)

(Booklet)

(Back of CD case)

(Spine)

(Thank you note within Booklet)

(page 4 and 5 of booklet)

(Page 6 and 7 of booklet)

(Page 8 and 9 of booklet)

(Page 10 and 11 of booklet)

(Page 12 and 13 of booklet)

(Final pages of booklet)

As you can see here is my final ancilliary tasks, on a later post I will evaluate and compare my print work with exisiting products. 

Development: Shots

Faith (below) uses a hand-held HD camera to capture the band performing. This hand-held approach to filming allowed us to record footage that had a degree of movement attached to it - particularly effective against our non-diagetic song choice, 'Thinking of Me'.

The shots above were taken on a white-screen background, however manipulating the images using Photoshop to adding the sepia effect and also the different lay-out techniques. This has given the alternative feel which I aim to use within the CD jewel case.

Filming the Narrative

As an essential aspect of the mise-en-scene, we used several props during filming; pictured above is the daffodil that we used to enhance the love and fun of the characters in our narrative - we used this daffodil as a running motif throughout the video. To enforce the love, we added an effect found in the effects on Premier-Pro; this addition of lens flare during the editing process only added to the joyous nature of our narrative.

We gathered many props for our carefully constructed mise-en-scene.  To ensure we recognised every aspect of the mise-en-scene, we made sure that the set/setting in which we were filming was housing the conventions that we wanted to be included in our video.

Development: Images for Ancillary Tasks - White Screen

The strengths of research meant that I knew exactly what types of images to capture to convert with the conventions already exisiting. As a group we decided on White Screen shots in a studio and also landscape shots to create mise-en-scene.

T-shirt Production

Embarking upon promotion I decided T-shirt's would be a great venture. Howver after drafts and research I realised I did not have the skills possible to create T-shirts so decided it would be a wise choice to create posters and a Digi-pack as my skills will mean a professional product will be developed.