One page pitch

Hello everyone! So me and Anna have done out one page pitch video. We thought it went well as we got across the initial ideas that we had for the music video and the themes we wanted to create. We are excited to get the filming and ideas underway!! The video for the pitch is below

Filming update

Hey guys, sorry its been a while. We have still not managed to get anymore filming done yet! The main reasons for this is the weather and light, it has rained quite a lot over the last couple of weeks, and also it has been really foggy which hasn't helped with the light either. So as we was going to film at Ashover Rock we could not do this because of the light, as we were quite high up there has been a lot of fog which has meant we cannot film this section of the music video just yet. So i'll get back to you guys soon on how we're getting on with filming.

Post filming night 1

Hey guys so I got back from filming not long ago, and I think that it was a really productive session. We filmed pretty much all the parts we needed to from the part we decided to film today, which was all the scenes in the car. We also filmed some extra shots when and where we saw them. So for example, but without giving too much away; we saw were we were filming a bench and it looked quite fitting to our ideas and continuity from another part of our video and fitted in with the generic idea and purpose of he video. So we decided to shoot here and get a few videos which we may or may not include, but what we think are good to have there either to add or as a backup.

So we are not filming agin now until Friday, so ill be back with more updates on filing nearer then!

First filming tonight!

Hey guys so me, Annabel and our two actors are starting our filming tonight for Undercover Martyn. Tonight we will aim top film all the car scenes. However we know that we have the limitation of lighting as it will quickly start to go dark at around 4 o'clock. Meaning that we will have to be quick setting up the equipment and to start filming as many shorts as we can in the time we have, but we will not rush to get things done as this wont look as good as if we spend longer ensuring we get every shot right. So we may need to reschedule to come back to these scenes at another date.


So ill do another quick post later telling you all how we got on with the day and everything...


Bye for now!!

Storyboard for our music video

Hello everyone, me and Annabel have finished our story board. It does not have many frames as
the song is only 2:47 so it is quite a short song. Here it is for you guys!








PS, please excuse the really bad drawings!!

Album cover

Hey everyone. So me and Annabel have decided the album cover for our music video. Here it is...


If you guys are wondering on why we decided to call our album is called "Anarchy", we have created a presentation on our reasons for this.

Filming dates

hey guys so me and Annabel have arranged filming dates for our music video. Weather depending anyway, knowing our weather it will rain all of these dates!! So heres our potential and slightly optimistic timetable...
Monday 28th November
Friday 2nd December
Monday 5th December
Tuesday 6th December

We have not arranged what parts of the videos we wil be filming in these initial dates, so ill get back to you guys as soon as i know!

CD cover research

Hey everyone, I've been looking at some album covers for a bit of inspiration for the one we have to make as part of our A2 course. I have found two which I think are really striking and cleverly created.
So here they are for you to see...


1)

This is my first choice and probably my favourite album cover. I think that the artwork is very good and I just think that the album cover is reflective on the music on the record itself; flowy, easy listening and long guitar riffs.


2)

This is my second choice as I think the painting/ artwork is amazing. Also I like it because it keeps the highly recognised tongue logo in it which appears in a lot of The Rolling Stones work.

3)

This is my third choice. I do prefer more colour on album covers, however I like the idea of something impossible and unrealistic on album covers. On this cover it obviously being the "cosmic egg".
















These are my favourite album covers and will be what my group will be trying to create when making ours for our project. hopefully ours will stand out and have something as like these do on ours.

Cool album cover i've just found

Hello everyone, quite a while ago i posted about some of my favourite album covers. I have just seen an album cover which really caught my eye. I think that it is very striking. This is something that we could consider portraying in our album cover for our final piece. Here it is...


Gum - Flash in the pan
I like how this cover is so simplistic however effective. with the dull background against the colourful artist name. I also like how the cover looks quite retro and i think that it reflects the kind of music that Gum produces.

Textural analysis of Kasabian's Fire music video

Hello all, I have done a textural analysis of the music video for Fire by Kasabian! I have integrated both sound and mise en scene, then camera and editing. As i found that these both linked in well together in the video and both shared points. I hope you guys like it!!

Kasabian - Fire video analysis from connorsanderson

Appearance effect practice

Hello again everyone! the other day me and Annabel had a mess around with the appearance effect. So Annabel filmed me outside clicking my finger in different places so it looked like that it was that which was moving me around. This is an idea that we want to emulate in our final production as we think that it would fit in well with our chosen song.

Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

Hey guys this is the actual music video for the song we are doing for our video! Hopefully ours will be nearly as good as this! ;)

Email to Glassnote Records

Hey guys, I've emailed the record label! Just waiting for a reply now!!!

Copyright email to Glassnote Records

Hey guys, this is the email we will be sending to Glassnote Records which is the record label for Two Door Cinema Club. We will have to email them this because we are using and making a music video for one of their artists song. Hopefully they will reply to me, however Mr Welch said that hardly anybody on the course has ever got a reply! I'll let you all know how it goes!





 'I am writing to you to request permission to film a music video version of your song Undercover Martyn. This forms part of my OCR A-level Media Studies course where my task is to record a music video to a song of my choice. It is only for assessment purposes and will not be used for any commercial or profit seeking purposes. I acknowledge your copyright of the material and will not use it for any other purpose than that stated above.

If you require any further information or clarification regarding the use of this material for educational purposes please contact my teacher Mr Welch (welchch@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk)'

Morozov PowerPoint

Hi again, we have recently been set the task of creating 1 slide on a section of a We media and democracy. the section I had to cover was about Morozov, here it is for you guys!

Morozov from connorsanderson

We media and democracy

Over the summer we had to research the media and democracy within the media. This is so we could reflect on the ways that we access and look at news. Also it was for us to think about was whether the ways we were accessing media were trusted. We have since then looked at the sub types of news myself and others tend to be more interested in and how others access news, additionally how often they look at it. These are the results of research I carried out and conclusions we can draw from them.

In the ‘my news’ section of the BBC News app it allows you to pick which news categories you want to read and hear about first. In this section I chose to look at; Derby, football, cricket, music, television and media. This shows a quite wide variety of topics.  However I think it also portrays that I do not pay much attention or interest to political or international matters. However as I have the Derby section within my categories, this could show that I take an interest in local matters and news. I tend to check the news about once a day on average. It is also important to make sure the news that you are reading is legitimate. So the ways you access media is from trustworthy source. For example the institutes I trust are BBC, ITV and official Facebook pages.

My results are different to others however. For example in my research into other people’s media I found that one person finds their news from social media, newspapers, radio and online. This shows some more traditional methods of viewing news stories. As not as many people will read newspapers to read about the news, especially the younger generation who are more technologically gifted. One of the people was 41 years of age, their chosen categories to read about were Education, Brexit, Syrian Civil War and migrant crisis. 5 of the stories he knew about were; grammar schools being put into place in the UK, Donald Trump vs Hilary Clinton and also the Colombian peace deal. Another thing that was different to my results were than this person checked the news 5/6 times a day. They also read more than the headline often as opposed to me only sometimes reading more than the headline. Compared to me they also collected their news from a range of different places, these were; BBC, Radio 4 (generally not a radio station that younger people listen to), channel 4 and also The Guardian. This person also said that they trust all of these institutions and also trust The Financial Times. I think that these results are very different because of the age difference between me and the other person I asked for their opinions. As they were essentially looking at more important world topics. If you compare two, one was about Theresa May wanting to introduce more grammar schools into Britain. Whereas one of the stories I read was about Ryan Sidebottom signing a new 1 year contract at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. This shows that the other person is older and has more of an opinion of world and national matters.

I do not think that it is a bad thing that the more traditional ways of accessing news such as newspapers are becoming less popular compared to online news apps and websites. I think this because you are essentially reading yesterday’s news with newspapers as they get printed and dispatched mostly throughout the night. Where as with apps and websites you can be kept right up to date with news as it happens and lets you see breaking news. Which I think is better as you are better and more quickly informed. This is another reason why the media now is more democratic than it used to be. This backs up Dan Gilmor’s theory on we the media

I also think that the media has changed in a different way through advancements in technology. In the sense that before it would be a journalist who would get the first story on a case. Nowadays it could be any random person who is passing by where a story could potentially occur. I think that this is also a good development in media as stories will be less farfetched and fantasize cases. This is another point to back up Dan Gilmors theories in we the media.

Overall I think that the media on the whole has become more democratic. I think this because people have made ways to make news more accessible. Whether this be by blogs, apps, websites or social media. It is also now easier to make your own news, by videoing or commenting on a certain event. So it is not just the big media companies that can be the first source of the news headlines, it can now be any person. I also think that it is younger people who are accessing the more modern ways to view the news such as online newspapers, apps and websites. Where as older people who still use the more traditional ways to access the news that they want to, such as newspapers, news channels, radios etc. This could be the because they are more set in their ways and do not want to change the way they view the news themselves.

The history of indie rock

The history of indie rock music from connorsanderson

1 minute piece

Hey guys, this is Mine and Annabel's 1 minute video to Blue Veins by The Raconteurs... enjoy

Cd cover front and back

My introductory post

Hi guys i'm back, this is my new blog for year 13 and my A2 media project, the music video! so I'll be posting quite a lot soon on music video history, inspirations for our video and lots of other things hopefully. See you all soon!