Oliver Turner A2 Media Studies

DAY 1: THETFORD FOREST AND NORWICH CITY 

Today we managed to complete two sets of our filming in one day at the two different primary locations. The filming we did went incredibly smoothly without any major hiccups along the way. The most crucial aspect that went well today - and was out of our hands- was the weather. It was a crisp, yet sunny, November day. This allowed us to utilise the natural lighting that we were gifted and we got some extremely well lit and effected shots that we will additionally use within our music video. What also worked well was the communication within the group, the top class actors that we casted but also the promptness of our media filming. This allowed us once again to take many additional shots with quality, but to also stick to our filming schedule that we had carefully planned. By taking extra shots as well, it would allow us to take extra care but less time spent editing when it comes to that process, merely picking out the better footage rather than having to re-film which would be a time consuming process. One aspect that maybe hindered our filming slightly was the camera's battery charge, yet this was not to our fault as we carefully processed all of our shots. As a result, we did have a slight delay, alas it probably worked out for the best timing and weather wise. In addition in some of the shots, members of the recording group do feature in the shots, yet we can either edit this out or use extra footage if needed. We feel that hardly any of our shots need to be re-filmed as we achieved such high quality levels of footage and thus no changes need to be made. By using our storyboards throughout, we could stick within a level basis of what shots we needed to complete, however with the creationists that we are, these helped us change or film an shots that we feel would be crucial to making our music video at the highest quality. Overall, I have to say that this was a fantastic and well worked out day of filming.

For the first time this year, we filmed parts of our a2 media coursework. We went to two primary locations that we are going to be using in our music video: Thetford Forest park and a view over Norwich city. On a crisp late November day, I managed to obtain some photos whilst we were filming. Enjoy!

Here are our overall storyboards for the linear narrative that we will use for our A2 media coursework. 

Before designing the Digi pack I have undertaken some additional research to help with our own design style. This is a design publication called "Little White Lies" which gives monthly information about artistic films and anything else film related.  I really like this graphic style and is something we would like to incorporate into the CD case as well as the poster. One thing I noticed in the design of the publication was the bright colours and impacting typography that was used. This really helps the audience engage with the design and would ultimately increase the chance of them listening and purchasing the music. The magazine also has very few adverts used throughout it as well as very high quality, artsy photographs which have been used to great effect. We can imagine that this magazine costs much more than typical magazines and would most likely have been printed using high quality printing presses such as lithographic or Rotogravure.



Each page is completely different and utilizes a range of colours and textures to help compose each scene. Another thing I noticed was how the designer had thought about how the scene would have an impact on the viewer in terms of both pages working together. So for example, in the image below we see the camera projector which is shining light on the woman on the opposite page. This only adds to the continuity of the design but this ultimately makes it more professional and striking as each double page is another piece