metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is all to do with change and transformation of things its actual definition is about a biological process but overall it means change of things that could be from change in emotion like from sad to happy or from a physical change from a baby to a child .Metamorphosis can also relate to change in history as the different eras have seen change in clothing life style and rights. Metamorphosis is to do with the form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances. The synonyms for this word are transformation mutation transmutation transfiguration change alteration conversion variation modification remodelling this can be from a woman changing into a man or a some undergoing plastic this are all examples of change. it can be from a physical change like in appearance or a change in emotion like someone falling into depression.
this is a moodboard of all my ideas what metamorphosis means to me
1st idea
Human transformation
It will look at the different stages that you encounter going through human life it will capture physical change and emotional change and important milestone
The stages will include
· Baby
· Toddler
· Children
· Teenagers
· Adults
· Elderly
For the baby stage it will show a baby crying and wriggling about and also trying to rollover.
Then it will slowly be coming a toddler and start trying to walk and then it will show as it is trying to walk it trips and falls and also it trying to talk and learn different words and skills.
Then a child who is starting its first day at school and making new friends and learning abc and numbers. The emotional side as well as they don’t want to leave their parent to go to school. Also playing with toys and learning to share.
Teenagers
Learning to go through exams and studying and constant revision. Arguing with parents meeting new people. Looking at different career paths
More emotional side being shown for example like developing crushes an getting into relationship heartbreak. Stress from friends exams and peer pressure. Learning to also deal with knock backs. Getting in trouble in school and getting told off.
Adults -Finding a job and a career path as well, finding love , engagement marriage having a child Emotional change would be falling in love and heartbreak and determination
Elderly slowing down anniversary and getting grandchild retirement. Going into a care home.
swot analysis
strengths : i have experienced a few stages of this life as i have been through being a baby toddler and child and now i'm a teenager.There are a lot of sources that I can use as like the Justin Timberlake video and it is always good to have a few sources as you can get influenced by them and also i have people i can use for the different stages and i also know how to capture the emotion that I want to display. I also know what I want to do for this topic and having a clear idea is a obviously a strength. i know different events i can use like marriage for the adults and going to school. I can also use different songs for different stages depending on the emotion and this will show my ability to mix music which is another Media skill. I can show of a lot of skills and use different arrangements and use different colours and effects which is another advantage.
Weakness: i might not be able to complete this properly. I might not be able to complete the particular idea as I don’t really have too much time to create this and I don’t know if I could add the effects as well as I want to do with the colours and everything. Copy right might be a problem and also I don’t know if the idea will look as good in the video format I want to and if I can make it as well as the Justin Timberlake Mirrors.
I have some secondary information which is helpful as I have an inspiration and something I can base my video of this. I can also get some primary research and it will be easy to get info as people have experienced life and will have experienced some of the milestones in the stages that I am talking about in the video and also I have the equipment and the actor and actresses for the video so that is useful.
Threats- like I mentioned before copyright due to the songs I want to use and edit. I also don’t want I to look like I copied the Justin Timberlake video as that wouldn’t be my own work. Also I want to make sure that I made the emotion shown in the video and I’m not sure if I will succeed in it
This is some information about the royal baby and that they had a baby boy on St Georges day and it shows that a new life has started and this is related top my project as it is all about human transformation and in the cycle it does start with being a baby so this piece of news fits my topic really well as it is about growing up. The next piece is some news about school places for primary school and this was one of the milestone that i mentioned when talking about children. This news says that they found out about where the children are going to schools. The news mentioned some didn't get there desired places but many did.
About the video
Information about Justin Timberlake mirrors video
The mirrors video was directed by Floria Sigismondi . the music video was dedicated to his grandparents and this is show as it says it at the beginning of the video. They were married for 63 years as of 2013 when the video was released along side his suite and tie song. The video starts of with a elderly woman looking back at her life and it has two different sections it has the bit when the woman is with the guy she fell in love with and she is talking to a man and they look happy. It is a 60s theme and it shows their first date.
The source is a music video that is based on transition it is about a couple who are looking back on their life and all the memories. It shows the good and the bad times of the relationship. It is an olden day based as he dedicated to his grandparents who are married for a long time.
The video is very romantic and shows the early stages. Most of the video is based on the woman looking in the mirror hence the song being called mirrors. The mirror has a different meaning in the case as it isn’t just looking at her physical its looking emotionally as well.
It was useful because I like the video a lot a kind of based my idea on this I liked the mirror theme and I thought I might use that theme. I want to also do the flashback method as they do this is in the video. It gave me inspiration. I also like that the director showed different stages of the couple. My video isn’t based on couples but the idea is very similar in terms of transformation
Britain’s Got Talent – Attraction
The video is an audition and semi-final and final of Britain’s Got Talent they performed an artistic performance in 2013. It is very similar to the Justin Timberlake Mirrors as they are both about relationships but they use a different style they start with a girl and boy dancing and enjoying theme selves and they show them getting married it is a sweet love story until it shows the man fighting in the war and he dies and his wife and child visit his grave that is where the performance ends. It id different as the mirrors one ends on a good note but this one doesn’t really end on a good note. It was useful as I could look at a different perspective of transformation but this is live performance and it also has a different spin on it overall. It shows a different type of love and it shows a bit more of human transformation as most people get married have children and everyone one day will die so it shows the realty of life.
Article about plastic surgery
This is an article/ fan news. It is about the celebrity Angelina Jolie and how many plastic surgery operations she has had which as of now it been counted as 50. It explains it as dangerous and strange. She has completed lip surgery, boob surgery and many more.
Its good as it may not be for the idea I’m going for as I’m not really looking into plastic surgery but it is similarly and people go through that in life (not everyone). But it is something that can happen in life and I might use this in my video but not fully sure yet.
https://youtu.be/libhGXuKKPA - celeb transformations
This is a YouTube video which shows how celebrity have transformed over the years it shows different stars like Rihanna and Kanye West and more it shows how much they have changed since they have been in show biz it shoes their picture and then shows the year. The change is very obvious. It is useful as it shows human transformation and it is the closet one to the idea compared to the ones that I have researched prior to this. It also helps with the idea as I thought I could add years to my one possibly as I like the idea they did. I could also show a timeline of all the picture from the stages of life.
i looked into all this different research as i needed some inspiration i looked into different music videos like Justin Timberlake mirrors it was really good to have and gave me a lot of ideas and also gave me an idea on how i could structure the video in terms of how am i going to portray my theme/ storyline in a short video. I looked in depth in especially the Justin Timberlake video as i like the theme of mirrors and how they used transformation using that object.
Target audience
Unlike like other projects that I have completed this one doesn’t have an specific target audience in other projects which I have completed like makeup it may have appealed to women more than men but in this one it appeals to but genders and all ages it might be better if someone with more experience watches it as they can reflect on their life while watching it. The music I use is manly more recent music and this would appeal to the younger generation. But I still added some older music and this would appeal to the older generation so I have a range. I am also using a different range of people like I am using young people and older people so it not just one group of people and I am using boys and girls in the video so it isn’t just either just girls or just boys. There is also a lot of different age range with the actors and actresses as it ranges from a baby to an elderly. It might appeal to specific people as people who like mabel might like this video as there are two songs that mabel and not3s song (fine line and my lover) and people that like Chris Brown as well as there are two songs from him if everything goes to plan.
this idea is changing the of technology it will show different milestones in the technology i mentioned about the first type of phones and how much quality it lacked compared to phones of these day. the first type of phones were very heavy and it wasn't like you could put it in your bag it was big and you couldn't move around with it. You had to wine to get numbers so like we would call dial numbers. then it would the the smaller phones still particularly the same. then moving unto the banana type phone they actually let you move around and then going into like the flip up and recent type phones
i would start with someone maybe sitting down and saying hello and then someone saying hello but this time with banana phone and then with a flip up and like Nokia phone still saying hello and then like a person on the blackberry and then someone with touchscreen (samsung) then with a recent i phone. This would show the different change of phones as well as phones i could show like computers and like show how the started as desktop and then to the small laptops you can carry to meetings and also like. Also the invention of tablets which are like a smaller than laptops
i want to show different techniques
This information is about nokia back in the days nokia was very popular and was screen as a big improvement. It had games such as snake and you could use a small keypad to type. some other information I got was from android the smart phone was touch screen and had many apps on it like camera play store. it was one of the phones which had a selfie camera as the black berry had a camera but didn't have a selfie camera. samsung was founded in 1938 by a man called Lee.
some other information is
android have their own computer company where they have samsung laptops same with apple they have apple mac which are the big computers and laptops
if I did this idea i would have some saying hello and have the different phones appear it would show the change over time i could also show someone on a desktop first then a laptop maybe firstly like skyping and then show how now we use face time instead and this would also how computers have changed. I could also show how people used to use emails and now we can also used one drive and do face calls for like business. and how you don't have to always print things out as you could email across. I could also show someone online shopping as you don't always have to go into shops as people can now go online and pay for things. i could also show someone online banking as that is another development. I could do this with shot cuts and this would also signify how quick things have changed over the years and how new things and always coming up. At the end i could just say the word continued as things keep getting updated all the time and it never stops.
swot analysis
strengths : I have experience in using these phones like I had a Nokia phone at one point and now a nexus phone and I have different ones in the middle like a blackberry. I know how they have changed over time like from the small phone without the touch screen. I also have some of the equipment like i have a lot of these phones and can use some of mine. I know the similarites and difference and i could show that in this video. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do in this video.
Weakness - even though i have some of the equipment I dont have the rest of equipment like I dont have the banana phone even though I have researched some information don't think I have enough. I don't think I could capture the information in the video to well.
opportunities: the research is available out there and i can get the videos of YouTube to edit in if I want. I could change the black and white background in the section with the older day videos.
Threats : like I mentioned before the equipment is a problem and also I dont know if it will be amazing like the other ones. I think the others are better than this
3rd Idea- music and film
This is the explanation
my third idea is about music changed/ the way it is played. For example when music was first portrayed people played it with record players and this was the only way you could listen to music. Then it slowly moved to smaller record players. then it moved to tape sop i could show this change as it went from really big record players to quite small tapes. After tapes it moved cds this is a very small disc and people used cd players for this. now and days people use apps like sportify and deezer and you can download it straight on to your phone.
this idea would also include how films changed in the way they were presented for example it started with like like cinema and vcrs and this has changed alot it then went to Dvd and then now we use can either download videos online or you can have Netflix or Amazon Prime.
My idea would be having like a record player playing and then it slowly changed top a smaller record player and after that it moved to someone putting a tape on and playing the song off the tape and then them moving on to using a cd in a cd player and they someone using Sportify and listening to the music on their phone. I would use the same person for this whole section and use a clock ticking fast in the background to show how time goes fast and how technology keeps updating.
For the second section I will use a different person to start by using a vcr and watching a video/ film on it. Then it will switch to a Dvd being put in playing. Then i will lastly use show someone watching a film on Netflix.
This secondary information about a dvd it explains that it was developed in 1990s. DVDs were very different and a lot better than vsr. they were smaller and you could carry them alot easier than vsrs
Summary of three idea
My three final ideas are change of phones. The way music is presented. Human transformation ( in terms of a baby to an old person). I looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the three then I came to the last two which were the phone idea and human transformation and after careful consideration I decided that Human Transformation was best idea as I think that my idea is really good for It and it shows transformation at its finest. I have experience in this topic as I have completed two of the stages of life and I think it will be able to showcase my skills better than the others. The other two ideas were good but the phone idea wouldn’t be that good as I don’t have that many phones like I don’t have the old banana phones and I don’t want to rely on youtube for it as there are different ranges of phones I don’t have this equipment for the project and that is the same with the music idea as I don’t have a record player that I can get hold of or tapes so it would be too hard to complete with the idea I originally had. I did a lot of research into the three ideas and also asked people thoughts and they thought human transformation was the best idea. As well as the three ideas I have listed I had some other previous ideas which were plant growth and weather change but I didn’t go forward with these ideas because I did not really know how I was going to display the idea. The theme metamorphism (change) goes hand in hand with my idea. I want to show a baby growing up . In other words I will be showing the circle of life and how we progress in life from being a small baby to people an elderly person. I am going to show the emotional and physical growth in my project. It will be a video based on Justin Timberlake’s mirror. The good thing about this idea is that I have an inspiration for it. I watched the mirrors video and I liked the video a lot . It is all about looking back in time . In the video for his song it is based on a couple and they are looking back on their life. So I want to do something like that but not focusing on a couple focusing on different age ranges. The other ideas that I had I didn’t really have an inspiration and I think having one is a good idea. I wont copy it but I can pick some of the ideas that they included and some of the techniques.
prospal
I am going to do a project based on human transformation it will be based on the growth of human. At the start I am going to have a small slideshow of photos I want them to move really quick so it will be a quick flash signifying how fast life goes
I am going to start with a woman looking in the mirror and looking lost in her thoughts at this point the song will be no regrets but just the section where it says when I look in the mirror I don’t even recognize myself. It will then move to a flash back and it will show a baby crying and crawling and the song with be Royalty by Chris Brown. Then it will flash back again to the woman now sitting down and still looking in the mirror. The second flash back will then play and this will be a toddler running around and smiling and talking. The song which will play will be I believe I can fly by R- Kelly just the chorus that plays for that section. Then the video will change to the woman looking into a book and reading it and then show the third flashback to her as a child going to school and reading a book and writing. The song that I am going to use is ABC the chorus again will play. Then I am going to show her walking into another room smiling. The fourth flashback will then be played this will be her and a guy meeting and falling in love and going on a date the song that I will play will be My lover by Not3s and Mabel. The flash back will then change to her crying as the boy breaks up with her and the song for this will be End of the road by Backstreet Boys and it will focus solely on the chorus as she cries and he walks away. Then it will go back to her now and she will then be looking at a paper and then it will go back another flashback and she will be celebrating GCSE results. Then she goes back to the mirror and looking at herself and then the flashback comes back again this time to her getting ready and going to work. Then it goes back to her and she will be looking at her ring she has on her finger and then another flashback will come and this will be the man proposing to the woman and the song in the background will be Marry you by Bruno Mars. The next section will be then be walking outside and looking into the distance. Then next flashback will be her pregnant and telling her friend that she is pregnant and telling her husband. Then it will go to the present and she will be smiling and sitting down and grabbing a drink and sitting down relaxed and then it will show her last flashback of her sitting down drinking a hot drink talking to her friend this will signify her retirement.
I am going to do different shots for different sections . For the first section when she is looking in the mirror I am going to film from the back with the reflection of the mirror showing. Then it will just be an edited video. The next section will then be a long shot this is when the woman is sitting down. The a close up shot of the toddler running. The for shot 5 it is going to be a high shot so it will be a shot from above the head and it will focus on her looking at the book. Shot 6 is going to be a side shot the will be someone going to school and also doing work. Then the next section shot 7 will be a shot looking down. Shot 8 will be a close up / low shot.
Summary of research
I researched most of the information from either YouTube like for the one about human transformation like about the plastic surgery I watched the video about kylie Jenner plastic surgery revelation and I had a look for some ideas as at first I didn’t know what type of human transformation I was looking into. I also watched attraction video from Britain’s got Talent to see how the presented there idea although there’s was mainly through dance and acting and you cant see their faces due to a special effect I liked the stages that they showed in the video especially the first audition they show the reality of life. I want to capture the emotion they produced they made everyone emotional. I also liked the Justin Timberlake Mirrors video and researched that in depth a lot because I like the directors technique and thought it might be useful. I used it to help with my idea like I used the mirror theme in my video and I also used the flashback style. I looked at the words in the song to see how the fit with each scene. I took careful consideration into looking at different songs and the words to fit each emotion and scene.
For the other ideas I researched into the history so like the history of DVD and history of phones and found out some background information. I also looked at how they developed over time so from like the first phone and looking to touch screen and I phones.
Audio that I am going to use in my video
I am going to use at the start
and this will also be my base song which will be 7 years by Lucas Graham.
The next song will then be be Little more by Chris Brown this will when i show the baby scene
the third song will be i'm a believer from Shrek the musical
The 4th song is abc by Jackson 5
The fifth song will be Fine Line and then my lover this will be for the teen section the are two parts of this
the sixth song will be love me like you do by Ellie Golding
The 7th song will be Marry you by Bruno Mars
The 8th song will be Working 9 to 5 by
The 9th song will be baby by Justin Bieber
the 10th song will be I feel good
problems
I might have a copyright problem with the songs and that might mean that Youtube might take it down. Also there might not be enough time to do the video and I might be able to produce the content in the video as it is a big idea and project.
I also don't know whether I can edit very well in terms of making it looking like it is a story and also the theme might not work as well as i want and where i film is restricted so i don't know whether the background might not make it look professional. These are all problems that you could encounter when doing video it is worth doing it as i do have a good idea but i might have some obstacles as there isn't that much time and also I am going to try and do some creative high level skills so I don't know if I will be able to complete this action.
Another thing is trying to use phtoshop i dont have any experince
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Feed back from peers about my ideas summary
We presented our work to the class and I explained my idea about human transformation and people with it and thought that it has great potential overall people thought that it was good and someone commented saying that I picked the best one out of the three ideas. They advised me to do a lot of research into the idea as with more knowledge they said that I could have a look at change in emotion do surveys as that would give me an advantage. They said that I should make sure I push my self in terms of adding colour and editing images as they know that I can do big things if I push myself. One other thing they said was that I should look into is different big milestones and make sure that I include them in the video like first day of school. They said that the target audience has a range and that is good idea as it doesn’t limit yourself and also that I mentioned that I will use several songs and people like that style as it engages all types of people and that it fits the different ages.
Joe my tutor said that my ideas is good as well and he thinks that I should look at techniques as he believes I am a creative person and this is where I could show case my ideas overall as I like editing a lot and learning about different effects.
I believe that this feedback helped and I’m glad that people thought that it was good and it gave me more motivation to do the project and the feedback on effects has made me think I will look at director x style and other editors as well as I want the project to really push me overall as I want to showcase of all my ideas and all my styles as I love editing music and this idea allows me to do it.
Some more research (secondary)
These are two mood board the mood board on the left is what I want to write when the effect I use is done. The effect I am talking about is the Justin Bieber effect on the mood board on the right. The writing that is on the mood board on the left is all different things you may encounter in life as you experience friends heartbreak and many more they all happen in different stages in life.
The other research I completed on the mood board on the right is Justin Timberlake mirrors I researched the video in depth and wanted the video to look a little bit similar because I liked the mirror theme.
The other one is about attraction that went on Britain's Got Talent they performed a stunning piece and I looked at the style as it fits in perfectly with the video theme I am going for.
The last one that I have
the picture of is a interview about a transgender celebrity who is name catalyin Jenner. It talks about change maybe not the same theme but similar. I could think about maybe using this.
Here are some of the test shot I have from my montage and some of them came out blurry whether that was to do with the lighting or to do with the mode I put the camera in and also to do with whether the person moved when I took the photo or if I moved when taking the photo their area variety of shots from close up to long shot to pan shot to medium shot as I wanted to have different type of shots in my project. I tested shots with all different people I tested shot with the baby to the adult I didn’t get many test shots with the elderly due to timing but I got quite a few with the others which is the most important thing overall.
some of them look good like the one of the child reading i just think that i could do better when taking the photos overall. some of them are not being taken on a white background and i didn't like that
The images are all different effects that I have researched some of them are to do with different camera shot and others are to do with editing techniques there are a range. Most of the pictures are from music videos because I love watching music videos and like looking at the effects and I remember some of them so I looked into them more. The first image I used the effect I was looking at was subtitles they are usual used for people who can’t hear or if it is in a different language and sometimes to emphasis a point. To create subtitles you can use premiere pro to do it by getting a title and then inserting it where you want and whether you want any effect. The next image is all about colour and how colour effects can tell an emotion.
Some of the effects I have put on my page I don’t actual intend to use but I am looking at a range of things and even if I don’t want to use them now it doesn’t mean that I will not use it in the future.
Some of the effects are from premiere pro some from after effects and some from photoshop.
For the text I you use is animate the text using key frames and you rotate it depending on whether you want is 3d. I watched YouTube channels to learn what to do because I am looking into doing this is in my video as I like that style and I liked the Justin Bieber theme where are you now and this effects is what is used to create the video and also when it says directed by Deborah I want have these effects.
The little mix music video for black magic where they all like blowing blow effects and drake hotline blink and was directed by Director X I did a lot of research about him prior to this unit and found out he likes the theme of boxes and tweaking them he also did this is the little mixs touch video.
The effect of the man blacked out is from the music video mama by Jonas blue and I liked this effect and I thought it might look good for when I have the teenagers having fun as this could show the clubbing style. The fade effect of where the man and the woman are standing and the man is fading away could be used for like death to show someone leaving someone dramatically.
The flashing lights in the background in Rhianna video might be good for another clubbing effect as it will actually make it look more realistic and like they are actually not in a club. I could do this with either using lights in the studio or editing it on premiere pro.
The animation side minions is another style although I am not looking to actually to do animation as that is not the theme I am going for but it might be a possibility as it could show kids life.
Another one is stop motion this image is the one to do with the Lego that it another style and I looked into this technique as it is a common style but I don’t really see myself doing this for my project but it is always good to broaden my knowledge. Stop motion is done by moving an object while filming it in different sectors the programme that I could use for this is JellyCam.
Some other techniques I have looked at are to do with camera shooting I showed a pan shot which is a shot that it is a moving shot it can be done at an angle for effect. I want to use this for maybe when someone is walking down the stairs to walk or school.
Another one is a long shot I want to do this for when the couple are walking together and holding hands and then I want to use an effect to have a love heart round it. A long shot is far shot and capture things from a distance.
Other effect I have a picture of is from black panther I watched this film and found it really interesting and thought that the effects were amazing the one I picked is when the hero transforms other my project isn’t really focused on it I still think this style is good and could be used in a different way if I do choose to use it in my project
Risk assessment
some basic research
This is the website that I am going to use to edit and merge my music together I have used it previously in work that I have done outside of college and it is free and reliable and works well and doesn’t really have a limit to how many songs you can have. I am going to trim any audio I have that is voice on here as well as I will record and change it to mp3 if it isn’t in that format already.
This is another form of research as i needed this to complete and action for the fmp. It is an audio tool that i am using and i have started using it with the song 7 years and mixing it with little more Royalty
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Research about other directors and editors
Director x
He's a music video director
Has real name is Julien Christian Lutz. He was born in October on the 31st (1975). he was born and raised near Tornado and Ontario.
He attended Mayfield Secondary School and North Park
He worked with many celebrities including Kanye West, Little Mix and may more
As well as music videos Lutz has also had experience in filming and in fashion and modelling consultancy. He also has a fashion clothing line
he also was a film director for
2005: Rhythm City Volume One: Caught Up
2015: Across The Line
2016: Centre Stage: On Pointe
He's first music video was in 1998 which was Ignore of his most recent video was Little Mix's Touch
His trademark is tweaking the letterbox format instead of using black bars
Some awards director x has won and been nominated for
Atlantic Canadian Award Best Atlantic Feature Film
Across the Line (2015)
BET Award Video Director of the Year
Best First Feature Across the Line (2015)
Background information about attraction
They are a theatre group who are Hungarian they rose to fame in 2012 Olympics and then came Britain’s Got Talent.
They for the first performance acted out a piece based on a couple and some of the essential things that happen.
Their semi final was based on a Mother and Son the mother dies in sons hand and at the end the girl he falls in love with tells him she is pregnant.
The final was dedicated to the queen and the royal family.
The members of the group are:
· Katalin Torda
· Alexandra Tóth
· Norbert Fehér
· Andrea Lakatos
· Zoltán Szűcs
· Csaba Szentinek
· Flóra Szabados
· Janka Kántor
Black panther
The director for the movie is cooler. The director grew up reading comics and got some of the ideas from that.
Design
He decided that he wanted the film to be a historic opportunity for there to be a black superhero. He wanted Wakanda to feel like a country not a city.
The filming
It began on the 21st of January 2017 it took place in various places and including EUE screen and museum of art and even south Korea. When they filmed the car chase which is a section in the movie it took 150 cars and 700 people.
Visual effects
Visual effects were created by: Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) with help from Virtuos, Stereo D, and Scanline VFX; Double Negative, Luma Pictures; Mammal Studios; Method Studios; Perception; Rise Visual Effects Studios; Torm Studios; Trixter Cantina Creative; Lola VFX; Capital T; Exceptional Minds; Technicolor VFX; Rodeo FX; Imageloom VFX Anibrain; Method Pune; Bot VFX; Pixstone Images; Futureworks; Vertigo Visual; FX3X; and Yannix Thailand
table of scenes
forms
Evaluation of test run
I think that the video that I created for my fmp wasn’t that good I didn’t like it that might much as I thought that I could do a lot better and I thought that I could re edit better. I think that some of the effects were amateur especially the words that I used for the words I thought that the spinning just looked too basic and I could do a lot better overall. I also don’t think that it shows enough of my skills. I like some of it like I like how I edited the songs together as I think it flows very well. And I also think that the theme is good but I think that I could involve effects that I researched in detail like the Justin Bieber effect from where are you now. I also think I could add an effect that I found in a trailer for Who killed Tina. I found out they used green screen but there is another way to this which is from photoshop and premiere pro. I like the flashing effects as well with colours. I think that I could edit the stuff with the mirrors I didn’t use this as it would make it make sense I believe and I think that it will look good overall. I think that I might re think my idea and tweak some of it. Like I think I should change it into like a trailer for a movie as that will give it more drive overall. I also think that I could add a bit more drama so change the genre of the whole thing. I will also some subtitles to make it look more real.
Reflective practice overall
First week
Upon finding the topic was metamorphosis and I have found out it true meaning and I found out it is all about change and transition and from there I started exploring different ideas and from there I developed my three ideas I decided on the development of phones, change of music and video and how they used to be presented and how they are presented now e.g Netflix. My third idea was human transition ( baby – elderly) so I would show key milestones like walking and going school.
My targets are to :now explain those ideas using mind maps and mood boards and explore the ideas using some research mainly secondary for this.
Second week
I have now completed mind maps on all three ideas I also outlined what I wanted to do for each idea and I also did detailed mood boards so I explained in terms of pictures and also had a look into each idea in terms of research I researched specific areas like looked at who created the phone and how they changes I also looked into some videos which maybe had the same kind of idea for human transformation I found the Justin Timberlake which could be a good potential secondary source and I can use this in the video
I also decided that I want to do the human transformation and ideas as I got some nice feedback on it and people think that my idea is better than the other three.
My targets are to now do some more deep research into the idea of human transition start looking at different effects people use in different videos.
Third week
I have now researched in depth human transformation and I had a look at different videos to do with like I looked at attraction video and got some ideas from it I might do the love heart thing that they did in the video. I also looked at several articles that looked into milestone like schooling (People finding out what schools their kids are going to.
My targets
I am going to start the proposal and writing a detailed one and also start story boarding
Fourth week
I have no completed a long proposal and this idea I am glad with it and I think that It will work and I am going to show different emotion and big milestones. I am going to use a lot of different effects as well.
My targets
I am now going to start filming and editing the video
Fifth week
I have filmed all the scenes I haven’t really started editing I will start that next week I filmed in several places for example in the college studio I also filmed at home and filmed on a field which is near the college.
Targets
I am going to start editing using different that I have researched and I am going to have the final copy.
this is a small section of the video that i have from my video it shows my transition and my effects that i did in my video
primary research
Primary
Following the responses I got I have understood some of people views and the best thing about the responses various age groups so I get a mixture of results. I asked some in depth question and some people will think that they are intrusive but I made sure they were optional like the one I asked about your deepest regret in life most people answered this question.
What did I find out from the results?
· I found out that a lot of people enjoyed their childhood as most of them wanted to go back to primary school or early secondary school so in my work I might make it that I show happy emotional when the person is a child and I might also show teenage life to be really good for the first half as that would be very realistic
· The people that answered my survey believed they have had a lot of experience in life which is important as they would understand the idea I want as I am talking all about experiences and milestones that happen in life like when you learn to count and when you fall in love.
· Most people had watched the Justin Timberlake video and that Is good as I am kind off basing my video off that whole theme so people will understand it and that would help as if people hadn’t seen it then people wouldn’t really get it and would think that it is a bit confusing
· For the question I asked about what you think is the best thing you have achieved in life I got a range of answers from school awards to gcses and having kids I will try and show this in my video by showing all the milestones when trying to show the good emotion
this my test shot video it was a trial and i like some aspects of it but some of it isn't up to standard and i think that i could do a a little bit better.I feel like i could do more effects
Evaluation
The planning
Overall planning the project was good and I enjoyed doing it I did it in different ways storyboarding mind maps etc and I thought that my planning benefited me a lot and helped me produce my plan I think that I planned well enough and it showed all my ideas I like doing mood boards more and I think that expressed me more than the writing. I showed different effects I wanted to do and I also tried to tell a story with the images as well I think this part of the project was easy in some ways than making the video and i found doing a long proposal hard at times even though I knew what I wanted to do
Making the actual video
Making the video started of ok the actual filming I found good and I managed to do that quite well if filmed in various places and I had enough shots which I was happy with and I had enough cast to do with and the right equipment and the right background as I wanted the videos to have a whit background and I achieve this and I was happy with the photos and videos I had some were blurry from where I changed setting and where people move sometimes when I was trying to take the photo.
The problems came with the editing I didn’t really like the first copy I produced as I though that it was very amateur level and I could do a lot better than that and I also thought that I could add more professional effects and this was the main issue I got some feedback and some people believe that I wasn’t tapping into to my full potential and they thought that there wasn’t any good transitions which I agreed on and I thought that I could use smoother transitions and that if I didn’t it would look jumpy and might cause my grade to be lower so I didn’t think that the video was up to the right level. I also didn’t really like the format and the video was far too long and it didn’t have much quality but more quantity which isn’t really the important thing here it is the quality and the effort I also thought that I could use more colour as I looked into director x video and he used colour and I really like this so I thought that I could do something very similar.
In the end I decided on re editing the video and this was the best option and I looked at some more of director x videos and that made me re think my format I added some colours for different emotions and for different sections in the video and then I added pictures as well form the internet and that made it look brighter I mainly used the photos for the younger generation and I also changed background and increased and decreased the speed on some of the videos to show different effects. For the photos at the end I made sure that they flicked through quick signifying how quick life goes. And I used writing in some of the video and also added the cast list at the end as I didn’t do that in the other video.
Overall doing this project had its up and downs and thought me a lot of things and I learnt how to do a lot of effects
As for the finished copy I think that I did a lot better than the initial one and I portrayed my idea more than before and many people I asked agreed with that point. I think just the one song was better as when using too many songs it just got really confusing and the message wasn’t passed across as well.
I think that my product meet my target audience requirements and that is an advantage I believe I captured every moment clearly and used my video to tell I story just like I wanted to overall and this was the most important thing for me.
What relevance was the secondary research
· Director X is my inspiration and I like his styles with colours especially in the touch video I like how he uses colour to define emotion and style and different atmosphere and I tried to embrace this in my video I used that in the transition of my video.
· For attraction’s video I didn’t necessarily copy the effects I embraced the theme of change and showing vital stages as that is what they displayed when they were performing they focused more on a romantic story where as I did a more human growing up style I still embraced their style as much as possible.
· Where are you now video for Justin Bieber I did some elements of the style instead of actually doing graffiti I just used text but I did it in a different way. They appeared during the section where the baby was and the section of teenagers.
Why did I change what I did in the video
I changed it to be more focused on the topic and I need to make sure that I don’t have an amateur stuff I did the spinning writing some people thought it didn’t look professional but I liked and I thought that it was similar to one I had seen in a video I watched I liked it I didn’t do it as much as I did in my initial video
Also I thought that the end look really good as it looked like a time-lapse of human change and the effects looked good and they worked well together
Peer critique
Some quotes
I thought the colour transitions were really good and they flashed through the times and I thought the video is amazing and it reflects everything really well.
The video is appropriate for the target group you wanted
I have had life experience and this is like a story
The cross fade is amazing
The change of speed pus emphasis I believe
The song is really good and it works really well and I think that it makes the video even better
The images at the end are beautiful
I like the background effects
If you did the video again it would look better with more of the Justin Bieber effect
This is feed back I got from various people who watched the video and I think that the feedback is helpful. I acknowledged all of the comments that were made
Highlighted are the ones which are relevant. This is a college project so it wont actually cost me money but if i would do this in as an outside project this is how much i would have to pay to use this equipment.