Devastated

Today we had to apply our print based texts onto a USB. When we did this we lost our work and could not be able to retrieve it. We were devastated with three days to go. We are beginning again and luckily we saved majority of the images and fonts and symbols, however some of it was deleted and now we are trying our best to re-create our ancillary texts within such short time.

Ancillary Texts

When we had completed our main media product we were very pleased however we had to think about completing our print based extracts on Photoshop. We had 1 week and a half and to be honest we were running short of time. we needed to plan and create.

In today's lesson, we decided that we would stick to our original theme and colour scheme within our CD cover and magazine advert. We searched the Internet to attain ideas. There were many images on google of adverts and digi-packs, however we wanted ours to grab the audiences attention;this is when the blog came to our attention as the screen grab that we had recently analysed and applied to our blog of Osman doubled, looked to the group as a brilliant cover of the digi pack as it showed us the theme we were trying to represent;a confused, lonely character who is stuck in a parallel universe as the black background represents a never ending black hole.

Peers passing passing commented that it looked very good and creative as they understood the concept. As a group we wanted to create a series of four panels which would want the audience to buy it as it reflected the nature of the song. Secondly, on the list of to-do was to apply the text. The text on Photoshop did not grab our attention,therefor we began to research different font styles. We came across a website, called; http://www.dafont.com/, we found that this website enabled us to use the correct font which corresponded to our music and style of genre. However, we had a problem downloading the text that we wanted as we wanted to apply the artists name and the song name. We took time figuring our different ways to do this but none of them seemed to work. We then transferred the font the Paint by print screening the page and erased the excess material which we did not need leaving just the font that we did need.We then applied this Photoshop in the top left hand corner of the image above. This was our 1st panel completed of our digi pack . Our next panel was also a screen grab which we used in order to compliment the 1st one . this had no font/text on it as it was just an image of Osman looking bewilded in the distance. The 3rd panel was an image of Osman with a black background however we did not just want the image we wanted the lyrics of the song inserted on top of Osman's white t-shirt in black font to contrast with the white costume. The fourth panel was the last panel which would be the back of the CD cover. This had to be typical of any CD cover as we had to apply certain conventions of CD back covers for example it had to contain a bar code and copyright details.

We also included within our back cover the other songs by Calvin Harris that would have featured within this CD.

Now that was completed we had to focus on our magazine, for our magazine advert we had to create ideas which would be different from our CD cover. We then research the original Calvin Harris to get some ideas. We found this image which as a group stood out to us.

We decide to use this image as a template and create our own based around our own colour theme balck and white. The reason why this stood out, is because the head of Calvin Harris has his techno glasses on and within our music video Osman also wears his own techno white glasses. This then helped us visulise the final product of our magazine advert.

We had now finished the production of our music video and we we had completed it before the deadline. We have to now think of ideas of how to begin our CD cover and magazine advert.

Today we completed our music video. We did this by finishing g the last two scenes of. We had to stay in at lunch and after college time to complete the music video as the deadline was looming the next day.

At the beginning we had two scenes left to complete. As a group we agreed to end the song we would leave Osman alone as there had been ideas to reunite him with someone to show that he is not alone, however we decided not to do this and leave the audience sympathising for Osman at the end of the music video. The journey towards the end of the song was Osman travelling up the escalators and into the food court. To correspond with the beat of the song we increased the tempo of the footage by x100.

Throughout the music video, Osman keeps looking at his watch as if he is waiting for someone we do this to fool the audience as at the end they expect Osman to be reunited with his friends however at the end of the music video we gradually decrease the speed of the footage on purpose so at the end of the video Osman fades out in slow motion.

We also added text telling the audience the name of the artist and song. We added this because it was typical of a music video to display this feature.

The next scene was Osman In Kro bar, looking at his watch as if he were waiting for someone, however top create an effect we placed him in front of the window, therfor we could watch the people walking past. We then increased the speed of the people walking behind Osman as it looked like the whole world was passing him by.

We were coming to the end of the music video. The three last scenes that we wanted to complete were Osman in the bus, Osman in Kro bar and then the food court in Manchester shopping centre. The next scene was the on the bus. Osman wore white glasses for a more techno effect. The glasses that he wore are the same glasses that Kanye West wore in one of his music video. This added to the effect of the contrasting mis en sen.On the bus, we increased the pace of the footage by x200. This helped tell the time of the journey and also the theme of our video Osman being alone throughout the whole of the day. It also corresponded to the tempo of the song as it is still quite fast and upbeat.

We also added a glow effect as when we took the footage the weather looked gloomy and we could see this in the window of the bus so we used a glow effect to fade away the look of negative weather.

The next scene was very important as it was Osman lip singing, we had filmed this a couple of days ago and had only got around to logging and capturing this now. We had to match the precise lip movements of Osmans to the lyrics of the song. We, as a group found this very difficult as looking back at the footage,sometimes the green screen was not put properly and corners of the classroom appeared in the camera angle,however When we asked for help, our teacher told us that we could change the background to whatever we wanted. Although as a group we decided that we would stick with the black and white effect as they were two very contrasting colours and we could use different effects to make Osman look lonely and confused. We used a chomer key to change the background to black, then we used a light ray effect and cross dissolve to smooth the transitions between the lyrics and the beat of the song.