Results

When looking over 26 completed questionnaires we wanted to blog about what we actually found and how this helped us. So for each question I have calculated what all the answers were or at least what the most common were.

This is what we've found from the questions we asked:

We can now refer to these when having to make decisions in the near future about peoples preferences towards certain things.

Questionnaires

I made a questionnaire and then got 26 people (13 Males and 13 Females) to fill it out in order to help us with this music video. Some questions were for general interest (E.g- Have you ever heard of 'The Summer Set'?). Others however were in order to help us make some decisions that we have not reached ourselves yet and felt that research into the matter would help (E.g- What special features would you want on a digipack?). Also some questions were there for extra opinions than just the two of ours (E.g- What do you expect pop-rock bands to be wearing?)

Here are 6 (3 Females, 3 Males) randomly selected, answered questionnaires to have a look at :)

Filming Dates!!

We've collectively decided what days we are filming, which is exciting! :) We have arranged to film the first location (Country side) on the 17th of December. We have chosen this day as it is our last day of term. This day the college only has half a day whereby all students leave after lunch. We have decided to take advantage of this opportunity to film in this afternoon. The reasons being, that weekends are often difficult for both myself, Danni and our actors due to weekend jobs and school work. Although us 6th formers (myself, Danni, George, Kris, Ben and Ellie) have free periods in which we could film during the week, our drummer (Will) is still in main school, so he has a full timetable and we are obviously unable to pull him out of lessons. So that afternoon, if the weather is kind to us(!), we will be filming the main performance extracts of the music video.

The second date we have decided to film is Wednesday 5th of January. We will be filming this part (the party scene) inside and round a friends house. We will be filming it early after the Christmas holidays, not only due to deadline but due to January exams. They will be fast approaching and the longer we leave it the harder, for not only us, but our actors to commit there time to it. We will be filming it on that Wednesday straight after school where by we will have our main actors and other extras in the background. :D

Marking Criteria - Our blog so far ...

We were recently asked during a Media lesson. To go through our own blogs and self evaluate them so far. This meant giving them a level and a rough grade. This was actually very helpful as it made us realise what still have left to do. So we went through each stage of the planning and research marking criteria and gave ourselves a rough level for each section to give us an over all level and mark.

• Research into similar products and potential target audience = Level 2/3 - We need to do more on our target audience. We are currently doing some questionnaires.
• Organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props = Level 2/3 - We have information on our blog about our actors. However, despite being on location shooting, we still need to write a blog about it as well as costumes and props.
• Work on shot lists, layout, drafting, storyboarding = Level 3 - We have put our scripting (lyrics), story boards and shot lists up.
• Time management = Level 3 - We have booked the HD camera for two dates where we will be expecting to film at the two different locations (Country side performance and at the party scene with narrative and performance).
• Care in the presentation of research and planning = Level 3 - We have taken care on our blogs to lay out stuff nicely. For example making sure when we embed a video from youtube it sits nicely within the frame of the blog.
• Skill in the use of technology or ICT in the presentation = Level 3 - We have made more effort with the look of our blog this year and found new lays of doing this via blogger - for example we used our own picture for the background of a crowd scene to give it more of that 'music video' feel.
• Communication skills = Level 3 - We have tried to communicate our ideas clearly for example uploading our notes written next to the lyrics.

We feel our overall level for our blog sits and level 3 and roughly is about 12/13 marks. However we will keep working hard at them to push for a level 4!

Guitarist

For our music video we obviously want it to look as realistic as possible. This helps if the band roughly learn how to play their instruments to 'Punch-Drunk Love'. With help from a 'band member' we have found a website that had the tab for the guitarist.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_summer_set/punch_drunk_love_tab.htm

Shot List's

We have now completed some shot lists. This will hopefully help us when we go out and shoot. As you can see we have not gone for any extreme shot types as we want to keep a realistic feel throughout our video. Also we had to be realistic in terms of what we can achieve. It would be great to do high angle shots but that would involve equipment such as cranes. Which clearly we cannot access.

Story Boards

We have FINALLY finished our story boards which will hopefully show you what we plan to do for the whole video. As you will see each shot corresponds with lyrics. We flick between a few shots at times, particularly during the chorus. These are indicated with arrows on the story board.