Feedback from our 3rd cut of production

We had to show our third cut of our production today to recieve feedback from the class and our teacher on how we can make some final improvements:



After showing our 3rd cut of our production we recieved feedback from Mrs Allison and the rest of our class. Our feedback sheet above shows that our production is mainly in the proficient section but with some parts being excellent and still some in basic.

To improve our production further the things we need to do are:

1.  Although we have reshot the shoe scene several times, Mrs still doesnt think it is working. However, she said it is up to us if we want to leave it in or try something else because she personally doesnt like it.
2. At the end of the song, on the last line that Paige sings we cut her off to early before she says the last word of the sentence so we have to make her bit longer so she sings the whole line.
3. On the 2nd lot of masks we don't think the cross dissolve transition between the masks looks good and we want to change it so they are like the first lot of masks with us 3, with dip to black in between each person. 

Ancillary tasks draft 1

For our magazine advert we decided to use the first image that I took as we thought it stood out more and on the black and white one you can't see her pink lipstick and we thought this was an important part of it.
Our first draft of the advert is:

We are planning on changing the font at the top to match our font on the front of the digipack:

We also plan to add our production company logo and name and maybe some more information about the band. However we did intentionally keep the poster simple to attract attention as I think the main image of Maya says alot and we wanted it to be dramatic and eye catching.

For our digipack, we again wanted to keep this simple. We decided to keep to a colour theme of black, pink and white. We had a problem with editing the pictures for on the digipack so we put the pictures on as how they are for now to give an idea of what it would look like. These are the images:

We aren't sure whether we are going to keep these or take some more as none of us particularly like them, my hair is now back blonde which would be better as it matches to the music video and we also need to take a picture of all three of us together.

Week beginning 20th Feb

Baring in mind we had to show our third cut of our production and our first draft of our ancillary tasks in Thursdays lesson we knew this week we had to check over our production and begin to put together our digipack and magazine advert. Because Paige was in charge of editing the pictures and it is quite a big job me and Gabby were going to put together the ancillary tasks and do the writing and layout together. For our poster we wasn't sure what to use as the main background image, as although we had planned to use us 3 we wanted to be more original, so me and Gabby come up with the idea of using my little sister, who is also in our music video, on the advert. We thought we could make her up with lots of make up to make her look fake so it looks ugly, to keep with the theme that beauty is within and you don't need to look fake etc.
These are some of the images that I took of Maya to use as our main advert image:

Research on digipack

Baring in mind we have to begin creating our digipack over the next couple of days I decided to do some research on some famous digipacks. I decided to look at Sugababes as it is a girl group and attracts a similar target audience to what we are focusing on. I noticed on this particular one it hasnt used a lot of colour and is quite plain. This digipack also contains a booklet which we also want to include. Their booklet includes song lyrics, a large picture of each of the band members and their name. They also use a clear colour scheme of black and white all the way through. Which is similar to what we want to create but make it more colourful and girly by using bright colours.



Week beginning 6th Feb

During our production lesson this week we began our ancillary tasks. For both our digipack and advert we are planning on including pictures of all the band members. We all wore similar coloured clothes nude/pinky clothes so we all matched and looked stylish. We took pictures of each of us sat and stood in front of the green screen so then the background would be easy to change to what we wanted. We took pictures of us sat on tables and chairs as Paige said she can edit them out on photoshop and then use them to make us look like we're sat on some of the letters of 'Sugardolls' for on the front of our digipack. We then uploaded them to the computer and Paige began to edit the pictures. She is planning on carrying on editing the pictures over the next couple of days so we can get together next week and create our ancilliary tasks.

Week beginning 30th Jan

During our Tuesday production lesson yesterday we carried on planning for our anciliary tasks, the digipack and magazine advert.

The plan for our digipack is as follows:

On the front cover of our digipack we were planning to have white background with the name of our band on in black with us 3 small sat on some of the letters. Something like this:

We are also planning on having a booklet in our digipack, which will include a large picture of each of the individual band members, a quote from each of us, a page with our signitaures on and a picture of all three of us together on the back page.

On the back of our CD cover we are going to write the song titles and include a production label name and a barcode to make it look authentic.

Then the two ideas we had for our magazine adverts are:

and:

After doing this planning we also did some more editing on our production. This is how our timeline is looking now, as you can see we are nearly finished! All that is left to edit it is the new masks filmings we reshot.