Actors, Locations and Props

Presentation on 'What is Postmodernism?'

Ending Scene of 'Psycho' Interpretation

We will use the effect at the end of this scene (skull fading in) in our music video. 

Green Screen Workshop

We had a few difficulties with our green screen in that a purple outline of the person is seen. We intend to correct this in the future by ensuring that our actors don't wear the incorrect coloured clothing. 

We also realised that our green screen is not log enough to cover how space that we want to, and we will change this by purhcasing another green screen to make sure we have enough green screen material. 

Lip Synching Workshop

This is our Lip Synching (with added green screen) workshop.

We have managed to match the timings perfectly and we managed this through playing the song in the background so it could be easily sung along to.

However, we had a few difficulties with the green screen, and the picture being able to be seen through the shirts. 

We will correct this by making sure that our actors don't wear light coloured clothing. 

'Technologic' (Daft Punk) Interpretation with Stop Motion

This is our Stop Motion Animation workshop; we intend to use this in our actual music video. 

We found that our times were not matched perfectly and so when using this feature in our actual video we will make sure that the timings are completely accurate. 

The lighting in the video is also not as effective as we hoped because some words can not be seen.

This is something else we will fix when undergoing our actual task.

Storyboard

Here is our storyboard for our music video (with the comic strip sequence below):

Posturised Comic Strip Sequence:

   

Focus Group Video

This is our video for our focus group. It helped us to choose the themes, actors, locations and props for our music video

Costume Research

We carried out research on the types of costumers worn by members of rock bands to give us an idea of what the band in our music video should wear.

Above is an image of a costume based around the album 'Kiss'; we decided that we wanted our band to wear something subtler (demonstrated in the two images below), as that is more frequent among the rock bands of today.

Skinny jeans are the predominant form of trousers worn, therefore our band wore them as well. As well as this, makeup is thick and black which is another factor we mirrored in our band's appearance.

Semiotic Analyses of Album Covers

Semiotic Analyses of Band Posters

As you can see from above, the general theme of a 'rock' genred poster is that it is black, along with images that connote death, such as skulls. 

The name of the band is always the largest text and is usually in the font that the band normally has; the font is stereotypically block writing).

If it is a poster for a concert, then the venue and other details are given at the bottom, and are all in the same font (although not typically the same font as the band).

Finally, the name of the record company that the band belongs to is always placed at the bottom of the poster, as well as the band's website address.

Survey Results

We used Survey Monkey to create a questionnaire which was filled out by a sample of 20 individuals. 

This graph indicates that the majority of our samples came from males; this may have an impact on our results because they may have slightly different genre preferences, and different ideas on the conventions that symbolise those genres. 

A very high percentage of our sample were in the 17-18 age bracket which was ideal because this was our target audience, meaning that they would know about the types of conventions involved in genres preferred by our target age group.

We found that our sample preferred the indie genre most, with rock coming a close second. However, before we conducted the questionnaire we already had the intention of doing something in the rock genre, which is what we ended up going with.

Narrative and performance music video types were agreed on by the target audience as both playing a key part, and this is something that we agreed with because we wanted to subvert typical conventions by not just including performance.

The sample group generally agreed upon rock conventions which correlated with our ideas, and other research that we conducted; these conventions are typical and so we made the decision to include them so that our music video was easily relatable.