Final Production

This our final production which we have uploaded on to Youtube. We hope to get responses from the public on our video. We are not quite happy with the quality of the final product but we could do nothing about the camera quality as we had no other option. We have still tried to make the best with it and have come up with the visual image we imagined although we would have liked to include more close-ups of Adam Lomas (the narrative) and more memories of the relationship running through out the whole clip. But these clips became unachievable because of the time frame we left ourselves and the actress we selected was not quite up for the role as much as we thought she would be so it set us back dramatically. And later on found it too late to replace her. But overall we feel we have made the best our of the clips we secured some of them being interesting and engaging shots for the audience.

Final Website

This is our final website, we havent adjhusted it much since first editing it as we all knew what we roughly wanted it to look like. It is clear and the picture represents the music video with the characters and the props. We are glad with the final product and are happy with how it looks visually and feel it portrays a professional image, although we wish we would have . It construction was on weebly which were all very keen of.

Link to website: http://neoncloudproductions.weebly.com/

Editing the website

This a print screen of us editing the website, we selected atemplate andf then added our own titles and pages and images. It is a simple software and was very easy and straight forward to use. The options were clear and had everything we needed to use.  

DigiPak

This is our final version of our digipak. We have spent allot of time research and analysing into other digipaks, to help to recognise features that we may need to include. Some of these for example are; bar code, writing on the spine, lyrics and most importantly a reoccurring theme. Which we have chosen as the iconic wall in our video and the black and white imagery. We used the black and white imagery in our film to represent the past. We feel this looked a more professional look for our Digipak as it kept every scene and picture looking very similar and could easily be identified together. We kept the guitar and the alcohol the centre of attention making them to spot under the CD in the middle of the pack, this is because we thought they are the most important and symbolic props throughout the whole video, this was separating the boy and girl on the album which symbolises what happens in the song and music video we produced. We feel this is a reflection of our music video and we are pleased with the final outcome.

Organisations of Actors, Cameras, Locations and Props

Actors

There are 4 charcaters in our music video; Dom clarke, Morgan Hunter, Adam Lomas and Rob Pinto. Dom is the main charcater the whole piece is about his life and how he copes with the trouble sof a relationship by drinking. It shows past and present, the good times with his girlfriend and the argument and then the continual drinking before. He is dressed like yourt average teenager in casual everyday clothing, this makes the situation and stroy seem more realistic and can relate to our target audience. he uses alchol, is a pain relief to hel;p him cope with his break up, we know he doesnt like the thought of it though as he smashes the bottle furiously in one part to show he no longer whats to be dependant on it.

 Roberto is Dom's friend in the pub at the video he almost intises Dom to drink alchol by buying him drinks by the time he arrives. He will feel under pressre to drink. He recieves a text to go pub, we know the friend is their to try to cheer him up and make all his worries go away temporarily. It is the only part in the film we see him being happy.

Morgan is Dom's ex-girlfriend she appears near the end of the film, we see him reminscing about happy times with her for example this shot of them smiling on a bridge. We have put these scenes in black and white as they are the past and he is remembering them, symbolising his thoughts. She is also dressed like a typical teenager in casual clothes.



Adam Lomas is the narrative in the music video we see him appear right at the beginning and around dom when he is drinking, the purpose is so he is telling the stroy as if it really happened to him, this situation that is being portrayed. He plays the guitar in time with the music so it seems as if he is telling a story. He is also dressed in very casual clothing to match the rest of the characters makes him blend in and seem as though he is just one of them. He witnesses the situation happening to Dom.

Locations

In our music video we have several locations mainly revolved around Dom's house.This is where we seem drinking and waking up it is an iconic location throughout the whole video. It is his on 'safe zone' whenever he is drunk and alone he just comes home and sits on the sofa or is in the kitchen. We have the harrier pub is another location, this is where he meets with his friends, it is obviously a great location to symbolise alcohol. We see Dom at his happiest here with his friends whilst he is drtinking and chatting, forgetting about his worries. Other locations are based outside near a lake and greenary, this is symnbolic of happy places which works well with his happy memories. Great location to portaray happiness and romance.

Costumes

The costumes all of the characters are casual and fashionable and typical clothes teenagers wear especially our target audience. They wear; hoodies, jeans, chinos, trainers, beanies etc. all look causal but not scruffy, showing a 'cool' look.

Props

The propse which we use in our video are shown on our digipak. These are the guitar, this is an important prop and we have many close ups of this, it symbolises our acoustic genre. It is also the instrument in the song so when adam plays it it goes with the song in the background. Alcohol was another important prop, this was used to show dom coping with his situation it is included in almost every seen with dome some with focus so we understand that it is important to him and plays a good role and how he is so dependant on it and it his way of getting through his problems. Another prop was a mobile phone, this was used for friends to communicate, the usal stereotypical way for teenagers. It was used to help change scenes from Dom's house to the Pub and to introduce the charcaters name.

Easter Holidays

Over the easter holidays we have completed the website and finished filming a couple of more clips. The websitewas made on weebly.com we found the software easyu to use and did not take long for us to understand how it works. The website is simple and clear to understand with the seperate links leading to different webpages. The opening picture is one from our digipak and is of all of the characters in the production. As we are called 'Neon Cloud Productions' we have used the neon colour for the seperate page links.

Actress Issues

We have been having issues filming as the actress has a busy time schedule and hasnt had the time to really film. She is not being ver cooperative but it is to late to chnage actors now. We have got most of the footage we need but will need to re-film a couple of bits we are slightly unsure about. We have looked over our draft and noticed some basic errors we are going out to correct these.

Construction

Over the past few weeks we have been filming different clips and have been trying to put our whole piece together. We are haven't changed our narrative and our still sticking with the break-up and how people may resort to different things to help themselves, in this case drink. We have chnaged some of our locations from our recce shots but stayed along the same lines, incorporating th epub location and outside shots with the girlfriend. We have also started to put together our digipack and have incorporated the main props in the picture using the guitar and drink, also have all of the characters on the pack. We are on track and still have a small bit to film to fill in a few gaps but its starting to all come together. We have all contributed ideas and different thoughts throughout the construction which has made the shots alot more inventive and different to what we originally planned.

First rough draft

In this draft we have very limited shots as most are still waiting to be edited, we are missing the break up with the girlfriend and plenty more drinking shots which we are going to be focussing on, in the next few weeks to perfect. This draft has allowed us to see what techniques we could incorporate into our work.

Weather conditions

Yesterday and Tuesday we decided not to film as it was the bes thing to do ragarding health and saftey and continuity. Thye whole local are and places we had considered to film at are covered in snow and ice, which has delayed our filming. But we are substituting this with working on our webpage and codes and conventions.

Filming

We have been filming for the last couple of weeks and our footage is all starting to come together. We have filmed several shots of the relationship now that we have got an actress that suits our criteria. We feel we need to add many more scenes to match the tempo of the music when editing so today we are planning to film a lot more shots of the main character drinking.

Filming Day 2

Due to the bad weather we have made the decision to film the inside shots. This is has been made based on our risk assesment.