Wednesday 14 May 2014

WELCOME TO MY BLOG // PCoK

"Dear moderator, welcome to our blog. Please use the labels on the right hand side to navigate our work. Work has been split into three main categories; Research and Planning, Product, Evaluation and where work has been produced by just one group member it has been labelled with their name. I hope you enjoy reading through our coursework journey."

Monday 23 December 2013

Saturday 21 December 2013

Friday 20 December 2013

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?


EVALUATION QUESTION 3

Question 3 What have you learned from your audience feedback?



EVALUATION QUESTION 2

How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?


EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 


Wednesday 11 December 2013

Inspiration for Evaluation Question 1

In order to express my answer for evaluation question 1, I am going to imitate a letter that Coldplay and Co. sent to 'Mr.Trevor', who accused Shynola and Coldplay of copying his video off of youtube. This is a creative way to show how my media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. Shynola produced Coldplay's Strawberry Swing video and were promptly sued by another artist for 'copying' their video. Shynola very kindly wrote a letter explaining why they hadn't.




Saturday 7 December 2013

Evaluation Q3


Evaluation Q3

Name: _______________
Age: ________________


Who are your Favourite Artists?
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When you look at PCoK’s Digipak, what do you think of?  
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Are their any similarities of PCoK’s Digipak to existing ones?
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When you look at PCoK’s poster advertisement what do you think of?
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Are their any similarities of PCoK’s advertisement poster to existing ones?
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When you look at PCoK’s music video ‘Hear It In The Cans’ what do you think of?
________________________________________________

Are there any similarities of PCoK’s music video to existing ones?
________________________________________________

What genre would you place PCoK in?
________________________________________________

Evaluation Q1 - Draft


Friday 22 November 2013

RE-FILMING DATE

WE ARE RE-FILMING SOME OF OUR SHOTS ON TUESDAY THE 26TH NOVEMBER AT THE YELLOW BEAN STUDIOS AGAIN. 

Feedback and Improvements for Final music video

Below are the comments and feedback made by Mr Smith, my teacher.





I have taken onboard this feedback and constructed a storyboard (excuse my horrendous drawing) which contains each shots that will be re-filmed in order to improve the grade of our music video when we complete the final version next friday.


I have taken on board the main comment of playing the instruments at the right time (Note that the irrelevant drumming clips were only used as fillers in the draft). I have matched up each instrument to each part in the song and have drawn and described each shot to match the song and to improve continuity. I will also be re-editing my half of the video in order to improve the slight framing issues. And finally the slight lighting issues can be corrected post-filming whilst we are editing by altering the brightness and saturation of the footage.



Feedback Analysis - Annotation and Checklist



Checklist;

*change drum to drum pad. (re-film shots)
*add microphone to emily shots
*film shots which can be used to break up dancing
*closeups re-filmed and positioned left/right of camera
*visual interest added to some shots
*sort 1:29 where george is not singing

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Digipak marks/Improvements

Mark: 10/10 no Improvements needed.


Mark: 10/10 (If I shrink the text/images at the bottom of the page). 

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Friday 1 November 2013

Feedback (2) - Matt De Jong (Professional Creative Designer)

Matt Dejong is a professional creative designer who specialises in record sleeves, digipaks and album/tour posters for a huge range of large scale bands. These artists include 'The Maccabees', Jack Penate, The Vaccines, Tyler the Creator, SBTRKT, Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink, Purity Ring, St Vincent, Cat Power, Deerhunter, Vampire Weekend, Willis Earl Beal .... and many more.


He can be found over on http://godejong.tumblr.com.

I have decided to contact Matt in regard to feedback on my draft Digipak and Poster. As good as Mr Smith's feedback is, I feel a few pointers from a professional who's products I either own or admire is a lot more valid. 

Matt currently lives in New York after moving from London this meant communication me be more difficulty in school hours. I have been following Matt on my personal twitter for a good few years now so I decided contacting him via that means of technology was best. He quickly replied to my request and gave me his email to speak further on the matter. 
(our twitter conversation, below) 


emails which followed below ...... 



#villa







Music Video Draft Part 2. Presbyterian Church of Korea - Hear It In The Cans

VIDEO DRAFT PART 1

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Filming Day - Images

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VIDEO, a set on Flickr.