Final Magazine advertisment

This is my final magazine advertisment after three attempts. I have finally achieved the look that i want, it is simple and quite minimalistic. It has a theme and style which runs with the rest of my digipak and music promo.

Final Digi pak

This is my final digipak, (from right to left) the pull out, back and front.
1st pull out, middle and 2nd pull out.
Just above is how my CD will look.

Creating my magazine advertisement

When creating my magazine advertisement I brought a large varieties of magazines so that i could research the style that people normally go for when creating one of these.

I found that the overall look was quite plan in a lot of cases, with this in mind i tried attempted to create my advertisement, below is my first draft.

This did not turn out how i had imagined and i some how could not get it to pull together and look like an advertisement, although i did like the way i had designed the album name 'Colour it in'

Below is my second draft of my advertisement, i liked the style of writting in this one and felt that it looked a lot more like a magazine advertisement but i realised that the colour i had chosen for the background would be more attracted to girls then to boys and that was not what i wanted to achieve. With both my drafts i decided to push them together and attempt my final magazine advertisement.

My contribution to other groups

As well as filming and creating my own music video i helped one of my class members in his video. I played the lead role in his film, in which we spent on one a occasion a full school day filming, not only did i star in his film i also gave him advice when i thought appropriate, i shared my ideas with him to hopefully give him a better final piece. 

Below is  a link to his film, where you can view the contribution i made to his film. 

http://joshyyyc911.blogspot.com/

Questionnaire

I put together a questionnaire for the audience that viewed my music video, the aim of this was to help me with my overall analysis and evaluation.

Questionnaire for First Love by the Maccabees

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Final Film

This is my final cut of my music promo for 'First Love by The Maccabees'

Please comment below, it would be much appreciated.

Cast

This is Sylvia and George, the location was their own house, and i tried to set it up so it looked similar to that of 'When harry met Sally'. they are dressed in their own clothes, this was to make it natural so that they were able to talk freely.











This is Imogen and Frankie, they are year seven sutdents that I used so that there was a variety of age groups to show love. They are dressed in their uniform to indicate their age.









This is Ellie, i used her to mime, this was quite controversial as the band 'The Maccabees', is made up of four boys.

This is Antony, he was dressed in his own clothes and i put him against a dark room so the eye would not move from him, i wanted all the attention on him. There is a sarcastic feel to this part of the film, 'Are you cool', because, he is not kool, he just thinks he is cool.

This is Romillie, she was used to show symmetry, and was again set against a black background so that the attention was only foccused on her.

This is Broden, she features alot throghout my film. In this scene she is the bride featured in the 'Let's get married' section.

This is Kay and Sean, they were used to show sexual love.

Again, this is Broden, i placed her in a field looking lost/confused/ sad to show 'Alone' i then flipped this clip horizontally.

This is Josh, and again Kay. They were used when the couple go to hug and then the boy dissappears and the girl in then 'Alone' Josh is a former A2 media student.

This is Brook, he is a former A2 media student. He provided the costume f0r this part.

This is me, i managed to film this myself, by standing infront of special stage lights and holding the magnifying glass against my face whilst filming with the other hand.

This is Ellie, we filmed this in my bedroom up against my window.

This is Ellie and Josh they were used in the bedroom part, with the slpit screen. Both of these were filmed in their own bedrooms.

This is me, i filmed this alone by setting up the camera on a tripod and with the use of special studio lights i got the required effect.

This is Broden and Murray the teenage couple used in my film. These parts were set in a woods/field.

Intertextual Reference

I wanted to add mroe depth to my music video so using the idea of the couple talkin which links with the film 'When Harry met Sally' worked well.

Editing in Premiere Pro

To create this effect of three strips of colour i had to drag the clip down into my timeline onto video 1, 2 and 3. I then used the colour changer to creae the desired effect.



I used this clip in the part of the film where it says 'Symmetrical' for the this i dragged the clip into the timeline four times and used the crop toll to make them line up accordingly.


Above is how Premiere pro is layed out, to the left is the full list of my clips which i recorded seperately from my film footage. To the right is one of the ways in which i added effects to my film, video transitions is used to blend the clips with the use of 'fade to black, fade to white'


Above shows a small clippet of my timeline, as you can see i used video transitions between each of my clips so that they flowed better.


This is a screenshot of my final timeline.

This screenshot is from one of the parts in my film where a girl mimes the song, before i edited the brightness and contrast on this clip it looked dull and boring but after editing i think it achieved a much more effective result.


Under the effects controls of this clip I added a shadow onto this clip and highlighted the red of the clip to make it a bolder clip.


I used the color changer on this clip but firstly i cut the clip into five different parts and then used the colour changer on each individual clip to it flashed different colours on the part of the song where it says, 'so crit-i-ca-aa-aa-al'

This is the clip of the elderly couple featured towards the end of my film, it is where the music fades so that the couple can be heard talking again, i done this by dragging in the audio effects into my effects controls for this clip and then set a point where i wanted the music to decrease.