Ancillary Tasks

Along with our music video we also have to produce media products relating to the music video. This is called our ancillary tasks, we had to choose two products to design and produce. I chose the magazine article advertising the music video and a CD cover.

This week our group started to decide on the font, colours and logo we would use. This was tricky because we had to get the right mood across to the audience, because our music video is very sombre and is about heartbreak we had to choose colours that would suit this, mainly black, grey with a little bit of white. We had already taken the photos for the ancillary tasks so now all we have to do is produce these tasks which we will do over the next few weeks.

We had several different ideas for our logos such as:

This is the final logo that we all decided on

This week...

This week has been a rather busy week for the group. On Tuesday the 1oth January we did some more filming in our second location unfortunately Daisy wasn't able attend the shoot but me and Dean . This location for the music video is supposed to look like a club, so we had to find a location like this that we had access to and so for this we chose our school's drama studio but we had to make it look like a club so we covered the windows and mirrors to make it look dark. We had a single spotlight which would be on Katherine and we were instructed by our teacher to not include the floor in filming but do it from the waist up so it gives the effect of a club.

The equipment we used was a video camera, the dolly and the tripod. We encountered quite a few problems when filming such as we had been given a camera with only a few minutes of battery left so we had to find a charger for it but we couldn't film properly because the charger lead was too short so we had to find an extension lead but then that kept getting in the way when we were filming so Dean had to stand behind me and move the lead out of the way as i was filming. We encountered these problems but we learned how to overcome such problems in the future.

The next day on Wednesday the 11th January we decided to edit the filming we had done the day before, there were a few good shots that we used but it was a group decision that we would need to filming for that location to get more shots that we need.