MUSIC VIDEO TASK 8C

PERSONNEL LIST

ROLES:

Camera Operator : Christal Sirdine and Theresa Raj
Responsibilities:Operating and filming using the camera.
Experience: Film,producing,directing and editing music videos using a wide variety of camera's.
Main Skills:Filming.

Actress: Theresa Raj
Responsibilities: Acting according to planned story board
Experience: Is studying performing arts drama at college.Was cast as Cinderella in a Cinderella pantomime.
Main Skills: Acting

Actress:Christal Sirdine
Responsibilities:Acting according to planned storyboard and narrative
Experience: Featuring in past music videos
Main Skills: Self discipline

Director: Theresa Raj
Responsibilities: Ensuring filming goes as planned
Experience: Has created music videos in the past and is currently undertaking a media course at college.
Main Skills: Planning and directing

Director: Christal sirdine
Responsibilities: Ensuring filming goes as planned
Experience: Has created music videos in the past and is currently undertaking a media course at college.
Main Skills: Planning and directing

Editor: Theresa Raj
Responsibilities: Ensuring music video is up to passable standard
Experience: Has created previous videos using IMovie
Main Skills: Determination.

MUSIC VIDEO TASK 11

PRODUCTION LOG

Pre-production:  Pink-Blow Me One Last Kiss was my choice of music and the plan for my music video was to have a impressionist music video with a simple narrative. The narrative was set around a celebrities frustrating lifestyle of having to always be ''bossed'' around and have restricted freedom to do things.The celebrity in my music video is played by myself. The music video portrays by anguish and resentment for my job. It takes place on a runway stage where there are photographers,journalists, paparazzi's and designers watching me. There is a backstage scene where I'm surrounded by strangers touching me to fix my hair,make-up and nails. I feel suffocated and anxious and wish for them all to leave me alone. In order to portray the runway stage of my catwalk, a green screen was to be used and edited into the video.
Storyboards were drawn out in rough detail in conjunction with thorough camera shoots and movement intentions. Time scheduling was decided with other contributors of the music video whom would be involved.

Production: During production our plan went smoothly without any problems.

Postproduction  It was during the post production I came to face with many challenges such as the green screen editing , the including of the shoots and scenes.I had realised I had not taken enough close-up shots and narrative based shots to prolong my entire video and had to film again. Time being a huge cause of concern. During editing i included effects such as ''flashes'' to portray paparazzi camera's. I also ensured that during the chorus of the song my footage will be in black and white to make a clear distinction between the 'good' times of the narrative from the 'bad' times.

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MAGAZINE 2

MAGAZINE 3

I conducted a five question questionnaire and asked 3 students for their opinions. 

The questions were:

1.Out of the 3 magazine titles,which do you personally prefer ?

2.Out of the various magazine genres,which do you prefer the most ?

3.Do you like the colour theme of the magazine heading ?

4. What are your thoughts on the font ?

5.What attracts you the most to the title ?

Adam Spear's answers to my questionnaire went as followed : 

1.Out of the 3 magazine titles,which do you personally prefer ?

2.Out of the various magazine genres,which do you prefer the most ?

3.Do you like the colour theme of the magazine heading ?

4. What are your thoughts on the font ?

5.What attracts you the most to the title ?

TASK 1 Magazine Advert

There are three main genres when it comes to magazine classifications; Specialists, Lifestyle and Celebrity Gossip. These classifications are dependent on the audience's preferences. 

The Specialist genre focuses on specific topics such as travel, food, beauty, fashion, music, listings, games, t.v, films,technology,plants,home,d.i.y,knitting,sewing,crafts,art,wedding and motoring. 

Celebrity magazines such as 'Closer' contains content entirely based upon celebrities in the media and fashion industry . Like many gossip magazines, it includes many gossip and assumptions about the lifestyle of celebrities.Many articles are over-exaggerated and false. Photographs are often negatively photoshopped excessively.
Generally Celebrity Gossip magazines are targeted at females in their teens up to their mature years of 30.They are often interested in celebrities and models in the media industry such as actors , actresses, singers, dancers, billionaires. Popular celebrities that are often featured in these specialist genre magazines are Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Jennifer Lawrence, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and many more. Fans of these celebrities are often expected to purchase these magazines, purely to satisfy their own knowledge about their favourite celebrity .
Celebrity gossip type of magazines are always brightly coloured with neon orange,yellow,green,blue,pink and red to attract their audience and make the articles seem more appealing.
In terms of the text within the magazines, language is simple and easily understood. Paragraphs are kept short and straightforward as majority of the content is only stating opinions about a certain celebrity's weight,marriage, love-life, or clothes. A few quotes from '' sources'' are often mentioned which makes statements questionable in terms of their factuality.
 Another aspect of celebrity gossip magazines that makes it often untruthful are the pictures. It has been proved that all pictures in magazines have been photoshopped to satisfy the story it will be based upon. Celebrities are often criticized for their weight, be it them gaining or loosing weight excessively  .Photographs of them are exaggerated to make them look undesirably horrible and shocking. This is done to attract the target audience and in turn aid the magazine in earning more money.
Celebrity gossip magazines are solely picture based as in their pages are covered with celebrities quotes, rumors, gossip and pictures. Page layouts are extremely messy and unorganised. Spacing in celebrity gossip magazine pages are limited as texts are also written over pictures.
In general the context of celebrity magazines are often negative.Images and photographs of them are portrayed negatively while articles about them are rapaciously critical.

Besides celebrity gossip magazines falling under the specialist genre of magazines, another genre of magazines are also available.Lifestyle magazines are just as popular as specialist. Topics range from healthy eating,healthy recipes,celebrity opinions, fashion trends, exercise routines,tips on achieving a positive lifestyle and routine are all inclusive of a lifestyle magazine. Articles such as '' 10 ways to be happy'' and ''life lessons for father and sons'' are the type of topics covered in lifestyle magazines. 

Pictures,unlike celebrity gossip magazines are shown in a positive light such as celebrities in good shape,eating healthily, or even spending time with their family.  .Food are shown in great presentation and under bright light. Text is descriptive and sometime instructional depending on the article topic. For example exercise routines are shown step by step to make readers follow it in ease. The targeted audience varies from ages 20 to 50 years old.Lifestyle magazines are suitable for both the male and female gender depending on the magazine. The magazine shown above, SHARP is an example of a men's lifestlye magazine. Celebrities are included in lifestyle magazines however articles are not hypercritical and false but instead written in admiration and adoration for the celebrity. Articles are also true and reliable due to the article written on the basis of the writer interviewing the celebrity. Contrary to celebrity gossip magazines, celebrities featured in lifestyle magazines are illustrated positively in a mature and respectable manner.

In comparison, celebrity gossip magazines and lifesyle magazines are entirely disparate in all factors of magazine elements such as general interest,target audience,writing,use of images and design layout. Celebrity gossip magazines only write about celebrities and nothing else.Lifestyle magazines, on the other hand cover a wide range of topics, including celebrities but, however, articles are honest and not opinionated . 

MUSIC VIDEO TASK 11

Music Video Evaluation

I chose my music video to be bases around the song Pink- Blow Me One Last Kiss.My reason for this choice was because I wanted a song that had a hidden emotion which was reflected by an opposite feeling. Pink-Blow Me One Last Kiss is a sad song played with anger and frustrations.

In Style magazine is a woman's fashion magazine that can be foretold immediately by the cover's tag lines such as  ''128 New High Street Heroes'', ''Winter Style'',  and ''10 Perfect Work Dresses''.

It includes a celebrity interview with Drew Barrymore. 

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