A Few photos which we used to make our anamatic

These are just a few examples f the shots in which we choose to enhance in our finally music video.

Our Animatic For Our Music Video

Screenshots of our storyboards

Audience Task

For the chosen song, Pixie Lott- Use Somebody our audience is mainly aimed at young teenage girls. I have written out a profile of our audience.
Name: Sarah Williams
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White British


Sarah is a student in secondary school studying for her GCSE's , she along with her mother shops in there local supermarket ASDA where she loves to buy the ingredients for her favourite drink, Oreo Milkshake. and apart from food shopping Sarah spends her time reading books, watching chick flicks with her friends and of course loves to shop. She doesn't read newspapers unless its the metro which she reads on the train to school every morning and rarely reads magazines unless its her friends or has accidentally took it from the hairdressers. in magazines she is mainly attracted to the fashion section of Look magazine which the next day she will travel to her favourite stores such as Topshop, H&M, River Island and New Look. Her favourite gadgets are her laptop, blackberry and her Ipod all in which she received for her birthday and Christmas.
Sarah would like to in the next year visit Spain with her family to get away from the cold English weather.
I would describe Sarah as a Aspirer, because she loves the latest gadgets, her parents buys her most things she wants and relies on others. And the reason why she likes pop and Pixie Lott is because she wants to be just like her and pop genre is young and youthful and fits her age group really well.

Pixe Lotts Lyrics

"Use Somebody"

Oh whooaa oh oww [2x]

I've been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces fill the places I can't reach
You know that I could use somebody yeah
You know that I could use somebody yeah

Someone like you and all you know and how you speak
Countless lovers undercover of the street
You know that I could use somebody yeah
You know that I could use somebody yeah

Someone like you whoaa ow whoaa ow [2x]

Off in the night while you live it up
I'm off to sleep
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat

I hope it's gonna make you notice yeaah
I hope it's gonna make you notice yeah

Someone like me ohh whooaa oh
Someone like me oooh whoaaa whoow

I'm ready now [repeat]

Someone like you
You know that I could use somebody yeeaaah
You know that I could use somebody yeaeah
whooa oh

I've been roaming around up
Looking down at all I see

Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp (1895 - 1970) was a  folklorist best known for Morphology of the Folktale, a structuralist analysis and fundamental work on the theory of narrative.
His Morphology of the Folk Tale was published in Russian in 1928. Although it represented a breakthrough in both folkloristics and morphology and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, it was generally unnoticed in the West until it was translated in the 1950s. His character types are used in media education and can be applied to almost any film or television series.

Narrative Structure

Vladimir Propp extended the Russian Formalist approach to the study of narrative structure. In the Formalist approach, sentence structures were broken down into analyzable elements, or morphemes, and Propp used this method by analogy to analyze Russian fairy tales. By breaking down a large number of Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units, or narratemes, Propp was able to arrive at a typology of narrative structures. By analyzing character and action types, Propp concluded that there were 31 generic narratemes in the Russian folk tale. While not all were present, he found that all the tales he had analyzed displayed the functions in unvarying sequence.

Functions

After the initial situation is depicted, the tale takes the following sequence of 31 functions:^[3]

1. A member of a family leaves home (the hero is introduced);
2. An interdiction is addressed to the hero ('don't go there', 'don't do this');
3. The interdiction is violated (villain enters the tale);
4. The villain makes an attempt at reconnaissance (either villain tries to find the children/jewels etc; or intended victim questions the villain);
5. The villain gains information about the victim;
6. The villain attempts to deceive the victim to take possession of victim or victim's belongings (trickery; villain disguised, tries to win confidence of victim);
7. Victim taken in by deception, unwittingly helping the enemy;
8. Villain causes harm/injury to family member (by abduction, theft of magical agent, spoiling crops, plunders in other forms, causes a disappearance, expels someone, casts spell on someone, substitutes child etc, comits murder, imprisons/detains someone, threatens forced marriage, provides nightly torments); Alternatively, a member of family lacks something or desires something (magical potion etc);
9. Misfortune or lack is made known, (hero is dispatched, hears call for help etc/ alternative is that victimized hero is sent away, freed from imprisonment);
10. Seeker agrees to, or decides upon counter-action;
11. Hero leaves home;
12. Hero is tested, interrogated, attacked etc, preparing the way for his/her receiving magical agent or helper (donor);
13. Hero reacts to actions of future donor (withstands/fails the test, frees captive, reconciles disputants, performs service, uses adversary's powers against him);
14. Hero acquires use of a magical agent (directly transferred, located, purchased, prepared, spontaneously appears, eaten/drunk, help offered by other characters);
15. Hero is transferred, delivered or led to whereabouts of an object of the search;
16. Hero and villain join in direct combat;
17. Hero is branded (wounded/marked, receives ring or scarf);
18. Villain is defeated (killed in combat, defeated in contest, killed while asleep, banished);
19. Initial misfortune or lack is resolved (object of search distributed, spell broken, slain person revivied, captive freed);
20. Hero returns;
21. Hero is pursued (pursuer tries to kill, eat, undermine the hero);
22. Hero is rescued from pursuit (obstacles delay pursuer, hero hides or is hidden, hero transforms unrecognisably, hero saved from attempt on his/her life);
23. Hero unrecognized, arrives home or in another country;
24. False hero presents unfounded claims;
25. Difficult task proposed to the hero (trial by ordeal, riddles, test of strength/endurance, other tasks);
26. Task is resolved;
27. Hero is recognized (by mark, brand, or thing given to him/her);
28. False hero or villain is exposed;
29. Hero is given a new appearance (is made whole, handsome, new garments etc);
30. Villain is punished;
31. Hero marries and ascends the throne (is rewarded/promoted)

Reflection Of Lip Synch Tutorial

These two pictures where taken during our lip synch tutorial task. The task was to create a video to a given song (my group's song was 'Ain't no stopping us now' by McFadden and Whitehead). We had to make sure that whilst shooting the video we were singing along to the song so that when it was time to edit it we would be able to put the backing track behind it to create the whole lip synch idea.

We used final cut  pro to edit our final video. My group however had a little problem because we forgot to shoot a scene all the way through to make the editing easier. But we eventually manager to make do with what we had had and create a video. We used markers on the soundtrack's timeline on a particular beat and lined it up with the same point as the lip synching so that it was in time with the music.

The photos above are just a few that we took whilst doing the project. The first is of Bridie and Marilyn who were reviewing a clip we had shot previously. The second picture is the actual brief for the project itself which included everything we needed to do and some useful tips on how to get the best results for what we were doing.