Thursday, 31 March 2011
Task 1






task 3 audience feedback
male
4
age
0-16 17-25
2 2
music
taste ska indie d and b jazz
1 1 1 1
make you listen
yes no
1 3
fav dance
uv nude laser
3 1
band dress
yes no
0 4
attractive singer
yes no
0 4
female
6
age
0-16 17-25
4 2
music taste
r n b/hiphop dance d and b rock
2 1 1 2
make you listen
yes no
4 2
favourite dance
uv nude laser
5 0 1
band dress
yes no
5 1
attractive singer
yes no
2 4
Q. What do you think the video was about?
Male:
‘main character making a video’
‘lead singer makes music video’
‘wasn’t very clear’
‘i didn’t think it was clear but was about lead singer making the video’
Female:
‘a guy editing a music video’
‘I don’t know’
‘the creating of the video’
‘the creation of a music video’
‘about putting together a music video’
‘the main singer was making the video’
Q. what element of our music video did you like the most? And why?
Male:
‘the special effects’
‘sfx were good and Felix’s and the bands miming were perfect’
‘special effects, set’
‘the group shots, the set was well constructed and looked good’
Female:
‘I liked the bit with the dancers with the uv paint because it looked cool’
‘I liked the special effects’
‘the beginning, I like when felix said ‘yeah’’
‘the special effects’
‘the special effects’
‘the fact that it sounded computer generated, went well with the video editing in the video’
Q. were there any aspects of the video you did not like?
Male:
‘the narrative was not strong enough’
‘clearer narrative’
‘I thought it was a really good video’
‘the narrative of the video wasn’t clear enough’
Female:
‘if the story was clearer would have been fine’
‘too many different scene changes’
‘didn’t really understand the story’
‘no’
‘there was too much of the guy editing and the parts with the band in the studio because they didn’t seem enthusiastic’
For our music video we created audience feedback data by a number of methods, we uploaded our video to youtube where we gained positive feedback: comments consisted of ‘love this. great effects and nice mix of media resources.’, as well as ‘Great video really well made. Is that a real band? and how do you do all those effects.’ And ‘Love the after effects, work really well with the video!!! Good job!!! . we also put our product on facebook and receive positive feedback. While carrying out the questionnaire, we learned that our narrative wasn’t as strong as we though it was. By carrying out these methods, we learned the strengths and weaknesses of our music video.
The aspects of feedback with made us the most happy was that the audience enjoyed the visual sets and the special effects in which we used. After effects and UV paint was the favoured aspect of out video by the majority of the audience. As well as this, we gained positive feedback on our lead singers lip syncing. This was really good for us as this is not easy to get right.
We received feedback which suggested that the narrative of the video was not as clear as we had hoped it was. Comments such as ‘the narrative was not strong enough’ and ‘if the story was clearer would have been fine’ suggested this weakness in our video. As well as this, one participant in the questionnaire said that the band ‘didn’t seem enthusiastic’. This was not surprising to us as we also thought this, particularly with the drummer
The encoding-decoding model comes from Stuart Hall. It is a theoretical model and is based upon the idea that the audience do not act as a ‘mass’, but rather as a group of smaller groups defined by social and ideological elements. Media texts are ‘encoded’ both consciously and unconsciously with the values of their producers, who are usually white, middle-class, men. the audience is not made up just of these groups but different groups are likely to ‘read’ the text in different ways. This ‘decoding’ process has 3 outcomes: preferred reading, negotiated reading and oppositional reading.
Our audience gave feedback of preferred, oppositional and oppositional , most of our feedback was preferred or negotiated readings as most people enjoyed the video and could see how it went well with the music.
We received negotiated readings as the audience understood most of the video but the narrative needed clarifying to them, they did not see that he was making the video even though they all said they enjoyed the video.
An oppositional reading is when the members of the audience disagree with the intended messages we tried to convey in the concept of the video. – we didn’t have an oppositional reading.
4
age
0-16 17-25
2 2
music
taste ska indie d and b jazz
1 1 1 1
make you listen
yes no
1 3
fav dance
uv nude laser
3 1
band dress
yes no
0 4
attractive singer
yes no
0 4
female
6
age
0-16 17-25
4 2
music taste
r n b/hiphop dance d and b rock
2 1 1 2
make you listen
yes no
4 2
favourite dance
uv nude laser
5 0 1
band dress
yes no
5 1
attractive singer
yes no
2 4
Q. What do you think the video was about?
Male:
‘main character making a video’
‘lead singer makes music video’
‘wasn’t very clear’
‘i didn’t think it was clear but was about lead singer making the video’
Female:
‘a guy editing a music video’
‘I don’t know’
‘the creating of the video’
‘the creation of a music video’
‘about putting together a music video’
‘the main singer was making the video’
Q. what element of our music video did you like the most? And why?
Male:
‘the special effects’
‘sfx were good and Felix’s and the bands miming were perfect’
‘special effects, set’
‘the group shots, the set was well constructed and looked good’
Female:
‘I liked the bit with the dancers with the uv paint because it looked cool’
‘I liked the special effects’
‘the beginning, I like when felix said ‘yeah’’
‘the special effects’
‘the special effects’
‘the fact that it sounded computer generated, went well with the video editing in the video’
Q. were there any aspects of the video you did not like?
Male:
‘the narrative was not strong enough’
‘clearer narrative’
‘I thought it was a really good video’
‘the narrative of the video wasn’t clear enough’
Female:
‘if the story was clearer would have been fine’
‘too many different scene changes’
‘didn’t really understand the story’
‘no’
‘there was too much of the guy editing and the parts with the band in the studio because they didn’t seem enthusiastic’
For our music video we created audience feedback data by a number of methods, we uploaded our video to youtube where we gained positive feedback: comments consisted of ‘love this. great effects and nice mix of media resources.’, as well as ‘Great video really well made. Is that a real band? and how do you do all those effects.’ And ‘Love the after effects, work really well with the video!!! Good job!!! . we also put our product on facebook and receive positive feedback. While carrying out the questionnaire, we learned that our narrative wasn’t as strong as we though it was. By carrying out these methods, we learned the strengths and weaknesses of our music video.
The aspects of feedback with made us the most happy was that the audience enjoyed the visual sets and the special effects in which we used. After effects and UV paint was the favoured aspect of out video by the majority of the audience. As well as this, we gained positive feedback on our lead singers lip syncing. This was really good for us as this is not easy to get right.
We received feedback which suggested that the narrative of the video was not as clear as we had hoped it was. Comments such as ‘the narrative was not strong enough’ and ‘if the story was clearer would have been fine’ suggested this weakness in our video. As well as this, one participant in the questionnaire said that the band ‘didn’t seem enthusiastic’. This was not surprising to us as we also thought this, particularly with the drummer
The encoding-decoding model comes from Stuart Hall. It is a theoretical model and is based upon the idea that the audience do not act as a ‘mass’, but rather as a group of smaller groups defined by social and ideological elements. Media texts are ‘encoded’ both consciously and unconsciously with the values of their producers, who are usually white, middle-class, men. the audience is not made up just of these groups but different groups are likely to ‘read’ the text in different ways. This ‘decoding’ process has 3 outcomes: preferred reading, negotiated reading and oppositional reading.
Our audience gave feedback of preferred, oppositional and oppositional , most of our feedback was preferred or negotiated readings as most people enjoyed the video and could see how it went well with the music.
We received negotiated readings as the audience understood most of the video but the narrative needed clarifying to them, they did not see that he was making the video even though they all said they enjoyed the video.
An oppositional reading is when the members of the audience disagree with the intended messages we tried to convey in the concept of the video. – we didn’t have an oppositional reading.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Monday, 29 November 2010
account of rough cut
We have completed our rough cut of we are rockstars, we made a narrative thought the video of Felix, our singer editing the video on minority report like screen, we cut this together with the dance and performance aspects of our video. We are workingh on green screen effects now, as all of our shots of editing will be from the green screen shots. The first cut that we made was a cut without any green screen shots, jusrt the dance and performance aspects, we were planning on adding the green screen shots in after we had completed this. We stopped this idea after a while though because it was hard to cut the green screen shots in, we then started from scratch using some of the shots we had already cut together but with a different feel, this is when we decided that he should be editing the video instead of looking for a girl at a party.
The basic idea of our new cut was that we would have felix at the green screen adding different aspects slowly into the viseo, so starting with the white performance room, then the black smoke room and the dancers shots. We had kept the beatmarkers already set down from our first cut and this meant that it was a lot easier to edit as we were cutting to the beat of the music or sometimes on off beats. Because of this however the shots seemed very fast and jumpy so we decided to elongate some of the preferred shots so that they spread out across the time more. We now have a variety of longer shots and groupings of fast short ones.
Now what we need is to do our after effects on the green screen room, making it look as if felix is editing the video on his own screen. This takes a lot of time and I think it will be our hardest task yet because of how complicated it can be. We had to have completed our rough cut before we edited the green screen room because the shots have to match up with the shots on his minority report like screen. When we have finished this it will add a lot more sense and flow to the video.
The basic idea of our new cut was that we would have felix at the green screen adding different aspects slowly into the viseo, so starting with the white performance room, then the black smoke room and the dancers shots. We had kept the beatmarkers already set down from our first cut and this meant that it was a lot easier to edit as we were cutting to the beat of the music or sometimes on off beats. Because of this however the shots seemed very fast and jumpy so we decided to elongate some of the preferred shots so that they spread out across the time more. We now have a variety of longer shots and groupings of fast short ones.
Now what we need is to do our after effects on the green screen room, making it look as if felix is editing the video on his own screen. This takes a lot of time and I think it will be our hardest task yet because of how complicated it can be. We had to have completed our rough cut before we edited the green screen room because the shots have to match up with the shots on his minority report like screen. When we have finished this it will add a lot more sense and flow to the video.
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