Band photos

This is a collection of photos of our band showing who they are and their names.

     

 This is the lead singer  :

Gracie- Lou  Freeman 

Age 19

This is drummer

Adam Davidson

Age:21

This is our second singer and guitarist

Lucas Shilling

Age: 19

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Costume ideas

MoodBoard

Music video ideas chloe and ryan

We realised we needed a lot of ideas for our music video and we thought the best way to appeal to our target audience was to ask their opinions on what they thought we should include in our video, we believe this will bring us closer to our audience and we hope this will make us more successful.

Conventions of Dream Pop Genre.

Here me and a friend worked on the conventions of the dreampop genre, we looked at real media texts and used this as inspiration to use , develop and challenge the genre. By looking at these videos we could analyse and see in detail the aspects of the genre conventions and how to create them.

Audience Reactions Chloe and Ryan

We thought that the only way we could see if our song would be successful is to ask people what they truly thought. It became challenging as the camera made people shy and not want to show their true reactions but everyone seemed to agree that the song was catchy and made them feel either calm or escaped from reality , which is what we want our audience to feel.

Analysis of Song Lyrics

Our song choice has very few lyrics so we know we're going to have to be really creative with our ideas and do a lot of filming. However we feel our lyrics have a lot of connotations that we can use to spring ideas from and hopefully if we put them all in a concept based video we think we may be able to achieve a really good music video. We feel like we can really understand the song and find the right shots for it as we are young people and the song is aimed at a younger audience who want to escape from the pressures of life while they still can. The chorus is repeated 5 times and we don't want the chorus to be the same shot every time we want it to be individual and we even plan to do a scene setter before the song starts and end the same way but in between we want to show the artist going on a weird dreamlike journey. Our audience should watch our music video and feel as sense of escapism.

Music Video Pitch

This is our pitch for Bora York. Unfortunately our group has changed since then, but we are hoping to take some of Kayleigh's ideas on board with our song and we hope that our ideas will work well with the song.

Music Video Pitch

This is our pitch for Bora York. Unfortunately our group has changed since then, but we are hoping to take some of Kayleigh's ideas on board with our song and we hope that our ideas will work well with the song.

Bora York - Let Loose

This is the song we have chosen to do.

Our digipak trial

Media A2 Playing with music video editing

Teacher assessment - general

A Level Media Progress Check - Chloe
	Assessed by		NSE - Teacher
Focus of assessment		General
Relevant assessment criteria		Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed
Evidence of progress/ evidence of meeting criteria		A range of work uploaded, with some reflected on in a basic way.
Areas to work on next/ ideas to consider		You need to ensure all work is uploaded onto your blog, including all the parts on the list in the pink folder in 212. Your production diary needs to be on there, as well as reflections for all work and labels. Ensure you use web 2.0 tools wherever possible to make your blog more interactive.
Additional comments

Teacher assessment - summer essay

A Level Media Progress Check - Chloe
	Assessed by		NSE - Teacher
Focus of assessment		Summer essay
Relevant assessment criteria		There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.
Evidence of progress/ evidence of meeting criteria		Good summative paragraph, considering what changes have occurred over time. You have looked at different videos and have been able to apply media theory.
Areas to work on next/ ideas to consider		If you could directly compare videos, considering their purpose/effect and use a wider range of theory.
Additional comments

Music video's over time essay

Reflection of AS work essay

 Although i struggled with this essay, by looking back at my AS work i could see what i needed to do different this year to improve my work.

Music video analysis essay

 

This type of essay writing helped me to get a better understanding of analysing music videos and will hopefully help to make mine original.

Music Website analysis

Teacher assessment - website analysis

A Level Media Progress Check - Chloe
	Assessed by		NSE - Teacher
Focus of assessment		Website analysis
Relevant assessment criteria		There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.
Evidence of progress/ evidence of meeting criteria		You have considered the homepages of x3 different websites from different genres.
Areas to work on next/ ideas to consider		You need to ensure that you also look at the generic conventions of websites in detail and use more screenshots to identify what it has taught you about websites, as this is a little basic.
Additional comments		Well done for using a new web 2.0 tool.