Adding "awesome" to our music video 11:00

A few days ago the class got together in a discussion and we looked at some popular music videos on YouTube. The class have all been tasked with adding a more dynamic scene to our music videos. In our group we brainstormed and came up with a few ideas we thought would make our video more appealing to our audiences. As a continuous scene in our music video you can see a face of a random woman we found via Google and this is used to represent the lead characters loss of a girlfriend in the video; we thought we could create a stop motion of Dan ripping this up and replacing it with other faces. Another idea is to use a prop, we have in mind a life size Marilyn Monroa as photographed on the left (minus the fashion show banner) or a giant 3D heart we have access to (was also used in the Media Fashion Show). We would incorporate Marilyn Monroe in the video as an icon, or the heart to represent feelings. We are i the process of storyboarding our new scene to add to the video, I will post where we are going with this after we've completed storyboarding.

Client Proposal 10:09

Above is my proposal for our groups ident project, it's a proposal of our actions to the client, Miss D Raison of Park Hall Academy. It's a Google Document so if the above iFrame doesn't work, here's a link https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1q-BKG6-yTCv8hSKZyqXxhs9S1jl9m-SteI_WEsI9whg

Different types of communication 11:03

Communication is a vital part of human life, civilization as we know it would not be recognisable to how it currently is. Different types of communication include:

• Verbal Communication - i.e. Speech, video conferencing, telephone communication.
• Written Communication - i.e. email, writing a letter, SMS, Instant Messaging
• Electronic Communication  - (sub-cat) SMS, Phone, Email, IM, Video Conferencing
• Physical Communication - Body language, listening, repeating key aspects of speakers comments

Communication is important so things can get done. Communication is how we share and propose our ideas, how we make impressions and how we can build relationships. Communication can have an impact on people around us mainly through the form of body language (in-direct) and if you have good, readable, confident body language you can make a positive impression on those around you. A good communicator is someone whom is loud, clear, has good confident body language and can demonstrate emotion through their communication.

Communication in social situations:

If I was speaking to a friend then my communication would apear relaxed and not particularly stressed. My body language and verbal language would be informal, this may appear through the use of abbreviations, slang language, using a regional dialect/accent.

In a conversation with an employer my language would change drastically from that of speaking to a friend. My communication could perhaps appear stressed and nervous as this is a person I would have never met with before. My body language would be sharp and focused, i.e. sitting with shoulders up and back rested on the chair back and my verbal language would be pronouncing words in full to show knowledge as well as tuning my speech for this situation being careful not to offend the conversators.

Dialects mainly consists of vocals and pronunciations. A dialect could be a word that is not in the dictionary but is used in a specific region, or a word that is in the dictionary but is not said as it is intended. An example of pronunciation in the midlands is water, often pronounced "War-Ta". An example of a word used to represent something being good is "sick" where it's dictionary meaning is a physical or mental function. Vocals affect how we pronounce words but as people are so used to speaking this can cuase the mis-pronunciation of words, however, people can still speak in standard english as this is not a formality.

Accents are a regional case and are always specific to a region, these are caused by human nature, if you are raised as a child by australian  parents, living in the midlands, if you listen to both accent sets then you will have a mixed accent, however, if you were born in the midlands, and raised in australia then you will learn an australian accent. It is down to the sounds you hear, not a personality you are born with.

Filming Log 10:43

Our group has now finished filming the footage for our music video and are well in to the way of the editing stage. We are keeping as close as possible to our original storyboard, but since creation of the storyboard we have all had seperate ideas and we are all going to create an individual music video from the footage we have collectively gathered. When editing our videos we all realized how we don't really have any happy scenes in the video, mostly sad moments. This has made us decide to add another scene in the music video of Dan ripping up the picture of the mysterious lady in the photograph and replacing this with other girls whom could be his girlfriend, the idea is to let the viewer decide. A potential issue is if we do not portray this how we intend then the viewer may think that all of these girls have hurt Dans feelings in some way so we need to portray that Dan is happy when replacing the original mysterious lady with new pictures. The media we thught of using for this was stop motion, all the group has had good experience with this and it would bring an iconic scene to the music video.

Through out the filming process I have played a multitude of roles including directing the order in which the production process is going, I have played a role in making sure we stick to the story board as well as ensuring there

Questionnaire Findings 12:49

Below are the findings to our questionnaire.

We asked all of our class and the ident we decided to show was mine. We surveyed two females and twelve males.
Most people said the ident was good, a few said the ident was very good and one person said the ident was bad. 100% of our surveyed audience said that the idents soundtrack was ideal, that it represented the media department well, that they like the storyline, and that they like the characters. Eight people said that this could be the official media ident where six people said this should not. Twelve people in our surveyed audience said that the ident can be improved.