Sam: What i Did

One of my main tasks was the construction of our ancillary tasks, using a few ideas generated by the group I created both the digipak advert and the band website, then once we had received some audience feedback I was responsible for editing and remaking both these tasks.

During the construction of our music video, the responsibilities were shared between the group;  the filming took a few days and we all helped film parts of it, the editing was a long process with each one of us editing sections then getting feedback from the other two and generally building a really great video. As I am a perfectionist, I wanted to get the editing and cuts with the music, and ensure good lip syncing so that is what took up most of my editing time, using the others in my group coming up with really good shot orders etc. This was helped by the detailed plan made in our planning discussions.  

We filmed in a few different locations and I helped to organised the timings for filming and assisted in transporting the equipment when filming. When we first tested in the locations I organised test shots and ensured the lighting was in the correct position to give the most benefit to the shot.

For research and planning, I made several videos including presentations on:

• Music Video analysis
• Music Consumption
• Special Effects
• Creating the digipak advert
• Music Websites analysis
• Production Companies
• Planning Advert/Album cover

I added comments on the blog to most of the entries made and improved on those comments that had previously been added to the blog and took photos of some of our equipment. I also made some of the blog entries containing what we did on certain days. I also assisted with the wording of the letter of permission to the Arctic Monkeys.

Lastly once all the construction had taken place and we had our final products, we had to evaluate our work; this was a group exercise, i assisted in the making of a couple of the quesions, vocing over one of the videos individually and assisting with the others.

On the whole this project was successful due to the hard work put in by myself and team members equally, without such a well organised group with equal input this project woul not of been as much of a success as it has been.