Here are a few images of the feedback that was left. :)
Audience Feedback;
We had a lot of positive feedback from our audience.
Here are a few images of the feedback that was left. :)
Here are a few images of the feedback that was left. :)
Finished ancillary product;
To make our ancillary product, Mikey has drawn a front cover that is highly replicable of something done by The Black Dahlia Murder.
We are going to colour in the product, and edit it to make it look like a metal product.
Below are my ancillary products:
This is Mikey's ancillary products:
We are going to colour in the product, and edit it to make it look like a metal product.
Below are my ancillary products:
This is Mikey's ancillary products:
Audio;
The song we have decided to use for the music video is the song Tread Softly, by Catharsis Collapse. This is of course Mikey's band, so we don't have to use any permisiion from any artist or recording labels.
The song is roughly around 3:30.
Below is the song:
Catharsis Collapse – Tread Softly
Tread soft tonight my dear,
or you walk on my dreams,
This is all I ever wished for,
All I’ve ever hoped and craved
My fate remains unsure
But I’ll fight until the death,
These walls will never fall
I’ll fight till the bitter end
Tread soft tonight my dear,
For you walk on my dreams,
This is all I ever wished for,
All I’ve ever hoped and craved
Give this your fucking all
Pour in your blood and sweat
Give this your fucking all
And die with no regrets
My fate remains unsure
But I’ll fight until the death,
These walls will never fall
I’ll fight till the bitter end
I need to be set free,
Your pushing down on me,
I need to be set free
I feel you pushing down on me
Your energy
Your hiding
I’m twisted
I’m ready
I’m waiting
Antis-apating
Your wasting away
Free me
Your energy is wasting away
Free me
Your energy I hold to me
Free me
Your energy
Is wasting away
Free me
Free me
Here are two images of the band, these were taken professionally and we are considering using them within our ancillary product.
The song is roughly around 3:30.
Below is the song:
Catharsis Collapse – Tread Softly
Tread soft tonight my dear,
or you walk on my dreams,
This is all I ever wished for,
All I’ve ever hoped and craved
My fate remains unsure
But I’ll fight until the death,
These walls will never fall
I’ll fight till the bitter end
Tread soft tonight my dear,
For you walk on my dreams,
This is all I ever wished for,
All I’ve ever hoped and craved
Give this your fucking all
Pour in your blood and sweat
Give this your fucking all
And die with no regrets
My fate remains unsure
But I’ll fight until the death,
These walls will never fall
I’ll fight till the bitter end
I need to be set free,
Your pushing down on me,
I need to be set free
I feel you pushing down on me
Your energy
Your hiding
I’m twisted
I’m ready
I’m waiting
Antis-apating
Your wasting away
Free me
Your energy is wasting away
Free me
Your energy I hold to me
Free me
Your energy
Is wasting away
Free me
Free me
Here are two images of the band, these were taken professionally and we are considering using them within our ancillary product.
Screenplay/Narrative notes;
We originally went in to film something that was very similar to the "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse". We realised after completing the story-board and narrative notes that it may be too ambitious to carry out.
Our original narrative notes are seen below, as a word document. These were very rough ideas of what we wanted, as we wanted the video to have an element of spontaneity about it.
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We have completed the narrative structure, but we have decided to record the video completely as a performance video.
Our original narrative notes are seen below, as a word document. These were very rough ideas of what we wanted, as we wanted the video to have an element of spontaneity about it.
We have completed the narrative structure, but we have decided to record the video completely as a performance video.
Research and planning;
We wanted to make something that replicated a DVD and CD cover as much as possible.
Our research has shown us some really good examples, and from this we have produced a high standard ancillary product. Our front cover replicates that of a metal band such as Black Dahlia Murder.
It has similar artwork to our front cover, this is the front cover for Black Dahlia Murder.
We originally wanted to copy the conventions of the Black Dahlia Murder, we wanted to copy their video also but seen as this was a little too ambitious we decided against it. We have since shot the music video, and to make our ancillary products we have used replicas of the cover above.
For the back cover we have used an image of the band (see below). We have used this and distorted it a little because we feel that our back cover is well represented. According to Dyer (1985) this is presenting reality over again to us as an audience. Reality is mediated through forms of representation, and this has been represented successfully.
This is the final product of our back cover, we are going to tweak the product if necessary but so far we are both extremely pleased with the ancillary product.
For us to make a back cover which was this good, we took some inspiration off the Bloc Party album.
We have incorporated the same text with the same sans-serif font, but we have changed the picture to highlight that it's a metal band. I feel that the picture is a reflection of the band because the aesthaetics to the image are quite grainy and distorted.
In creating our media product, we had to meet the codes and conventions of being able to reach out to a specific audience. Our demographic audience for this band would be a 21 year old male who likes to socialise, go wild and likes heavy, fast music.
For us to be able to meet the verisimilitude expected from any metal video, we watched many music video's, in lesson and outside of lesson to enhance our knowledge of what should be expected.
There are shots in this video by the Dillinger Escape Plan of the band's performance, we really liked this so we asked the band if they could act naturally. We were going to create a music video of a complete performance, without any narrative structure to it because we can focus on the editing techniques on the video, and so far, the editing techniques are going to make the video what it is. A lot of metal video's have a subjective point of view in their video, with close-ups of the band playing their instrument or singing.
Again, as mentioned previously before, the excessive use of editing techniques are frequently used within the metal genre when producing videos, so we have used plenty of editing techniques within our video to enhance the verisimilitude of our product.
Our research has shown us some really good examples, and from this we have produced a high standard ancillary product. Our front cover replicates that of a metal band such as Black Dahlia Murder.
It has similar artwork to our front cover, this is the front cover for Black Dahlia Murder.
We originally wanted to copy the conventions of the Black Dahlia Murder, we wanted to copy their video also but seen as this was a little too ambitious we decided against it. We have since shot the music video, and to make our ancillary products we have used replicas of the cover above.
For the back cover we have used an image of the band (see below). We have used this and distorted it a little because we feel that our back cover is well represented. According to Dyer (1985) this is presenting reality over again to us as an audience. Reality is mediated through forms of representation, and this has been represented successfully.
This is the final product of our back cover, we are going to tweak the product if necessary but so far we are both extremely pleased with the ancillary product.
For us to make a back cover which was this good, we took some inspiration off the Bloc Party album.
We have incorporated the same text with the same sans-serif font, but we have changed the picture to highlight that it's a metal band. I feel that the picture is a reflection of the band because the aesthaetics to the image are quite grainy and distorted.
In creating our media product, we had to meet the codes and conventions of being able to reach out to a specific audience. Our demographic audience for this band would be a 21 year old male who likes to socialise, go wild and likes heavy, fast music.
For us to be able to meet the verisimilitude expected from any metal video, we watched many music video's, in lesson and outside of lesson to enhance our knowledge of what should be expected.
There are shots in this video by the Dillinger Escape Plan of the band's performance, we really liked this so we asked the band if they could act naturally. We were going to create a music video of a complete performance, without any narrative structure to it because we can focus on the editing techniques on the video, and so far, the editing techniques are going to make the video what it is. A lot of metal video's have a subjective point of view in their video, with close-ups of the band playing their instrument or singing.
Again, as mentioned previously before, the excessive use of editing techniques are frequently used within the metal genre when producing videos, so we have used plenty of editing techniques within our video to enhance the verisimilitude of our product.
Equipment used;
Certain equipment used to record the video was a Canon MD101. We bought two tapes from the media department, as we shot the footage plenty of times and to make sure the footage was enough, we shot everything twice with the different cameras. We had one on the tripod, and the other handheld to capture different shots.
This is the camera we used:
We didn't think it was going to be of good quality, but once the video was uploaded the quality was fine.
We experienced problems with the equipment used, this was uploading the video from the camera onto Adobe Premiere. The video was really pixelated and we thought this was a really big problem, but we managed to salvage the footage by uploading the tape using the same camera.
The other programmes we used during our task for production was Photoshop to create our ancillary task, we used Elements 5.0 in order to achieve this.
We used a Jessops tripod, which is pictured below:
We used this to capture still shots of a band member, as we wanted to keep the 180° transition line between most of the shots.
This is the camera we used:
We didn't think it was going to be of good quality, but once the video was uploaded the quality was fine.
We experienced problems with the equipment used, this was uploading the video from the camera onto Adobe Premiere. The video was really pixelated and we thought this was a really big problem, but we managed to salvage the footage by uploading the tape using the same camera.
The other programmes we used during our task for production was Photoshop to create our ancillary task, we used Elements 5.0 in order to achieve this.
We used a Jessops tripod, which is pictured below:
We used this to capture still shots of a band member, as we wanted to keep the 180° transition line between most of the shots.
Filming;
We have decided to shoot the video at the band practice room, which is Get Sorted in Rotherham. 
We were originally going to follow the same story and narrative of the Black Dahlia Murder video, but we realised this was too ambitious so we decided to keep the video within the band practice room.
Problems we had with the filming was mainly the battery in the camera, it had to be constantly on charge but we shot enough footage to capture shots that were really good to use in our video.
We used two tripods, but we had a "hand-held" approach, as this looked better within the video. We cut these shots, and edited these frequently within our video so we represented a metal video as much as possible.
We also decided to turn the video to black and white after filming. We thought this looked better because it follows the same convention of the video "Set to Fail" by Lamb of God.
Above is a picture of Randy Blythe. This is an extract from the video of Set To Fail. We had the vocalist of the band (Jamie) looking into the camera with the mic, pretty much the same as the image. We showed Jamie the picture and video, and asked for him to try and copy Randy's moves as much as possible.
We also asked the other band member's to try and demonstrate "metal" personas as much as possible. They were all fine with this, and demonstrated this really well.
We showed them two videos, including War Ensemble by Slayer. Below is the video, we watched it carefully and grabbed some shots and showed the band what we would like them to do to make the video of ours look as real as the Slayer video.
These are the pictures we used to show the band how we'd like them to perform.
These are just two examples of screen shots that we showed the band, as we also showed them the video of Day 69 - Decapitated. Below is the video, and again there are many shots in the video that show certain shots we'd specifically like to use.
After watching other several videos, ranging from Meshuggah to Black Dahlia Murder, we realised that all of the metal videos we watched and researched showed that the genre of metal, specifically in their videos, use excessive editing techniques. There were many cut-aways and high-angle shots used. When the video was recorded, we made sure that when we were filming the band with the hand-held technique, that they were filmed at a low-angle so the member we were filming looked dominant. This is a common interpretation, and high-angle shots represent dominance, and as the audience we are the sub-ordinates as we are subjected to watching the video with the dominant figure.
We produced our call sheet, which is below:
We were originally going to follow the same story and narrative of the Black Dahlia Murder video, but we realised this was too ambitious so we decided to keep the video within the band practice room.
Problems we had with the filming was mainly the battery in the camera, it had to be constantly on charge but we shot enough footage to capture shots that were really good to use in our video.
We used two tripods, but we had a "hand-held" approach, as this looked better within the video. We cut these shots, and edited these frequently within our video so we represented a metal video as much as possible.
We also decided to turn the video to black and white after filming. We thought this looked better because it follows the same convention of the video "Set to Fail" by Lamb of God.
Above is a picture of Randy Blythe. This is an extract from the video of Set To Fail. We had the vocalist of the band (Jamie) looking into the camera with the mic, pretty much the same as the image. We showed Jamie the picture and video, and asked for him to try and copy Randy's moves as much as possible.
We also asked the other band member's to try and demonstrate "metal" personas as much as possible. They were all fine with this, and demonstrated this really well.
We showed them two videos, including War Ensemble by Slayer. Below is the video, we watched it carefully and grabbed some shots and showed the band what we would like them to do to make the video of ours look as real as the Slayer video.
These are the pictures we used to show the band how we'd like them to perform.
These are just two examples of screen shots that we showed the band, as we also showed them the video of Day 69 - Decapitated. Below is the video, and again there are many shots in the video that show certain shots we'd specifically like to use.
After watching other several videos, ranging from Meshuggah to Black Dahlia Murder, we realised that all of the metal videos we watched and researched showed that the genre of metal, specifically in their videos, use excessive editing techniques. There were many cut-aways and high-angle shots used. When the video was recorded, we made sure that when we were filming the band with the hand-held technique, that they were filmed at a low-angle so the member we were filming looked dominant. This is a common interpretation, and high-angle shots represent dominance, and as the audience we are the sub-ordinates as we are subjected to watching the video with the dominant figure.
We produced our call sheet, which is below:
