Meeting schedule and Shooting schedule

This is our meeting schedule:
DAY PERIOD WEEK
Weds - p4 - 1
Thurs - p 1 and 2 - 2
So far, we have meet up to discuss our ideas and planning in and out of school at the times named above. We have had the opportunity to expand on our planning in lessons, in particular, our music video teacher.


This is our shooting schedule:
DAY PERIOD WEEK
Weds - p4 - 1
Thurs - p 1 and 2 - 2
We will also meet at lunchtimes and after school so we can use the schools facilities, as we can't use them at school. This specifically includes the OHP as it belongs to the school and we aren't allowed to take it home. The real life part of the music video will be shot out of school, our location is in a garden and street that Roxxy lives on.

[M.I.I] Myspace

Myspace is an example of a social networking site but has special features which make it slightly different to it's competitors, such as Facebook and Bebo. It is based in America, Beverly Hills more precisely, owned by Fox Interactive Media and was founded and launched in 2003. Myspace became extremely popular in the US in 2006 and developed into an international website.

Over the six years it has been altered with new designed layouts and new features to improve its purpose. The feature of being able to select an emotion - a cartoon face or object which covers your certain mood was added in July 2007. The picture below shows this:

When you create your profile you can write about yourself in the boxes provided, including, "About you", "Interests", "Who I'd Like to Meet" and so on. It is similar to a blog which you can update but it's like a journal blog. The user can also add a profile picture which can be a realistic picture of oneself or any other picture. Extra security is used for when you want to edit your profile, by having a character (letter and/or number) typing question.

Another feature is MyspaceIM (instant messenger) where users chat online to their friends - similarly to Facebook's IM feature. They both alert users when they receieve new mail, comments and so on too which is useful.

Myspace also has seperate services for their Myspace Music and Videos. Myspace Music is a whole service dedicated to music artists and bands whether they are signed or unsigned. Users can search for an artist or band, for their profile pages, so it is a method for the artist/band to distribute and market their music. Many artists and bands have been discovered through producing and then distributing music across Myspace: Lily Allen, Kate Nash, and The Arctic Monkeys. It is easy to discover new music when it is this accessible and available to anyone. Focusing on the Pop genre, you can see how many artists and bands are in that particular genre, who have profiles on Myspace as it keeps a record of the amount, at the moment it is 723,426.

The Video service is very alike YouTube with different channels, for example, T5M which appears to be focusing on Fashion and design whilst The Hook Up seems to have clips of interviews and the makings of music videos. By signing up to Myspace Video , you can keep a record of your favourite videos because it's easier than searching again. There is a Top Video chart which calculates the amount of users who view particular videos. A user can embed, copy the URL, comment and subscribe to the channel or creator.

If you are signed up to Myspace, you can find your friends, invite and find new ones through the chat forums and searches. Myspace's forums, like others, has multiple choices of topics which users can choose to participant in or just read other user's opinions.

Myspace is one of the original social networking sites alongside Bebo, but has had competition with Facebook, losing some users (not fully but they concentrate more with others). Personally, I use Facebook the most out of the three mentioned as most of my friends have Facebook accounts. However, when it comes to finding music artists and bands, Myspace is the clear winner for its usefulness.

"Aw"

Here is our developing imagery of the wood, with the autumn trees, grassy ground and woodland creatures, including the bird, squirrel and main character himself, the Wolf. Despite the poor quality of my phone camera, you can see the basic idea of what the final imagery will be made up of.
We are going to be using stop-motion animation (taking photographs and moving objects) to create the first animated part. Once that is completed, we shall begin shooting the real-life part of the film (shown in our storyboards).

Storyboards

Our GENIUS idea of using a OHP! (Experiment 4)

Here, we are cutting our stencils out which we then place on the OHP which is in the image below.
We had the brilliant idea of thinking of another sort of projector, and came up with the OHP, which was exactly what we needed. The first type of projector we used gave the screen the white grid-like appearance, or lines, which we hadn't expected. The OHP has neither these, but we will have to wipe the screen and lense to ensure their are no marks that are then casted onto our final image...


The OHP allows us place our stencil on the base, which then reflects our images onto a wall. The long arm can be adjusted to create a blurry or defined image, depending on where you place it.




This is an example of a tree using the OHP. We were very happy with the outcome, so this is definitely our most successful and most likely our final method of creating our shadow puppetry.

The few more images are the stencil which have to bands name and the song name, amongst the trees and stars.

We will continue to make stencils, to create the images we want. For instance, the woodland with its trees, bushes and animals.




Our one concern is that there is a strange mark or something in the middle of the image- here (you can see it more clearer in the last image)- it looks like the flash of the camera, but it isn't...

[M.I.I] Audience consumption of Pop music (investigation)

Below is the questionnaire which I handed out to my sample of ten participants. The sample is unbias with five males and five females to produce fair results. I asked participants who are young teenagers to young adults (15- 25years) as this is the "young market". My research was carried out during two days and evenings, using open (self-explanatory) and closed ("yes/no") questionnaires. The aim of this questionnaire was to gain knowledge of how popular the Pop genre is amongst young adult markets and how they consume music the most, through the use of old or new technologies. (Click on below images to see closer...)