Evaluation on the Script.

By Jordan Collibee, Harvey Muddyman & Jack Whiter

Script

  Within in my group is me Jordan Collibee, Jack Whiter and Harvey Muddyman. we have made a music video from a band called the script and the song is called The man who can’t be moved. we have chosen this song because the song is about a quite lonely person so we thought it would be simple just using one character.

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

  Our music video demonstrates genre characteristics for a indie/rock group very stereotypically. There is not much action taking place as the theme of depression and and loneliness is present. because the song is quite a slow song and we made it look like the actor is very sad we studied the video and thought about what the main character was doing in that video and we did the same thing. The lyrics are very contradicting towards the visuals. Some of the lyrics you are able to connect within the video I think we have made the video look very good to go along with the music because this is a lonely song and quite a slow song, and the video is based around all one character and we have made all the shots very slow and the character is never near anyone in our video so you are able to tell he is lonely and waiting for the girl he is looking for. in the real video the main character is the main singer for the script so we did the same just focus on one character and people watching the video will understand that he is the main character and the lead singer there is many close ups of him and all about him so the viewers will never lose focus of that character. our film has lots of shots that fade into each other and we have one particular shot where there is a shot of the actor and the camera starts to spin around and fade into a different shot. i did this because i think it cantos that his mind is going mad looking for this one person and the other shot goes into a long shot of a street and everyone walking past him trying to find her.

this shot has been faded and whilst its being faded the lyrics are talking about standing on the corner of the street finding her and this shot is

taking from a corner of the street.

this shot is relating to the lyrics again as the lead singer is singing this we have put on a piece of cardboard so the public and the camera can see he

is trying to look for her and letting everyone know

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

  these are a few more print screens evolving the lyrics and the visuals

This is part of the song where he is talking about being on the news for sitting there for

weeks and looking for this girl and we manage to get a microphone and made it look like he was being interview also put

breaking news at the bottom of the screen so it will make it look like he is on tv.

We took a close up of the main character and in this part of this song they are talking about standing the character’s ground until he finds the girl and we match these too together we

think its a powerful shot because he looks powerful and ready to take anything on that comes his way

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

  Our music video is about being lonely and sad and i think we have approached this pretty well in the video and the ancillary tasks. when looking at the real video for this song he is again like ours the only main character and on his own more or less through out the whole video. Our background on our magazine poster its like a basic background and very simple looking and goes quite well with the video because if you have something that has bright colours it would contradicted the video because within the video its very basic colours and the weather wasn’t as sunny day it was a gloomy dark foggy day so i think they blended quite well. The album covers are very much the same the front has a picture of him standing out on a pier with the mist and birds around him so like the video he is very much on his own and again the mist helped us out across the water. The back cover is the same its the last shot of the film with the actor holding up the name of the film with all the names of the songs along the side. I think this video and the song is aimed at all the people who likes indy and slow pop songs and people who are laid back. i think the social class would be C1 and B1 because there sort of in the middle of the social class ladder and they would be mainstreamers very normal people.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

These are our two completed album covers. They are very simple but effective covers which

displays the mood which the Album projects. We used these two picture as we felt they made the

main character stand out and be shown to be lonley once again. We applied a different colour

for the background, plus cut out his coat and stuck it over the top of him so it would make him

stand out greatly.

We also used images from the internet to help make our album cover and

background as realistic as possible, plus to help boost our mark.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

This is our magazine poster i think the background works pretty well if we used a loud colour it

wouldn’t of fit in the with video and the album covers so i used sort of an old coloured paper so it would keep it calm and the i cut out two picture of

him to advertise the main character in the video and we have made quotes from newspapers so people

would be dragged towards it.

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

  Within our video we used wide range of media technologies from final cut express, photoshop, live type. In all the programs we could use many different effects to make our film look better our album cover is just one of our many examples as you can see we made the colur all dim and lifeless, so we could make our main character stand out to make him stand we used a lasso tool. in final cut we only used one effect where from each shot we would fade one shot in to another, there is one certain shot where our main character is sitting on the bench and in the next shot we faded him out.

  Final cut express- With final cut express we done all of our editing on this software. We fund this very useful because the programme was very simple to use once you figured out your way around it. With the simplicity of the software we could edited our film very easily. The software suited our group very well because with it being simple but very effective we could do a lot more interesting cuts from shot to shot. This helped us a lot because our music video was a slow moving video with only some shots of the character or vehicles moving a long distance we could fade our shots into each other with smooth transitions between the shots.

This is the lasso tool that we used to cut out a normal coloured pictured and we cut out his gillet to put on the dim picture so the

main character would stand out

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

  People told we shouldn’t have many people in the film because it will take the spotlight about that one main character so we kept to that one character so he could be fully concentrated on by the viewers and with the album covers we got told to make sure he stands out thats why we cut out his jumper so he did. we got told to make all the shots slow cuts and fading with each other so it would fit in with the song. in one our shots there was an orange peel and we got told to re-film it but we couldn’t the day we filmed was a foggy day and this helped up add effect to our film but we couldn’t re-film because it would look stupid because that day wouldn’t have the same weather and it would ruin the continuity.

It doesn’t take up much space but you can still see it and it looks out of place this is why we got told so

many times to take it out.