A2 Media Studies- Ancillary Texts

Ancillary Texts 

Recently i carried out a photo-shoot with Francesca the main character within my music video, i took over 300 photo's and i had to cut this down to the two best. Now after much thought and the use of photo shop to capture the image i wanted to portray i have chosen the final two images:

The winner for the DVD cover:

The winner for the poster:

This isn't the final product for my ancillary texts, however they will be up soon so i hope your looking forward to it. Hope you enjoyed my post!!!

A2 Media Studies- Ancillary Text Research

Research into ancillary text content  

When looking at DVD covers there are many logo that are presented on the DVD covers and therefore i did further research into this in order to include this on my DVD cover. 

My music video is PG and this means Parental Guidance, the image below is what it looks like on a DVD cover:

 The reason why age ratings are placed on DVD covers is to ensure any underage personnel doesn't become distressed or upset from any inappropriate content that may be shown such as drug use, sexual content or violence ect.

My music video doesn't contain any distressing content therefore i have placed my age rating at PG, the reason it needs parental guidance is because it contains feature of moderate fighting and adult content. However, it would affect any person negatively

A2 Media Studies- Ancillary Text Content

Ancillary Text Content 

The image shown below is otherwise known as a bar code and it's on most if not all DVD covers in order for the retailer to know more about the selling content.  This, you can see on my DVD cover, I have done this in order to make my DVD cover to appear more realistic to the viewer. 

Also these logos below will be included on my DVD cover to make it more autehntic and realistic to my target audience!

 have also included this logo on the spine yet again to make it look authentic and realistic to my target audience. 

I have also included this logo on the spine yet again to make it look authentic and realistic to my target audience. 

This is an example of one of the DVD covers i looked at:

Hope you have gained more useful information from my blog and have a better understanding of my music video and DVD cover content!!

A2 Media Studies- Rating the Production

Rating the Production 

In any film or music video release it's important to rate the films in order for it to be suitable and appropriate for the viewer preventing any risk of distress. 

Below are the Ratings from the BBFC Certification: 

The BBFC are the company who make the film or video age appropriate for the viewer and the screen shot below is of there modernised up to date website:

This is the link to the website if you want to have a look for yourself:

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

A2 Media Studies-Change In Plans

Change In Plans

Originally i wanted to use a white rose for the music video....





However, after filming with the white rose and playing with the lighting a white rose seemed extremely dull and un-romantic. Therefore i decided to have a 'change in plan',which was to switch the white rose to a red rose.

I changed the colour of the rose because the red rose was more vibrant in colour and had a nicer flower within the light. Furthermore it was more romantic and more sensual to use the red rose as the colour gave it meaning and more passion between the two characters, which is what i wanted to portray with the my music video.

Hopefully the audience can see the message I'm trying to portray with the rose and much prefer ed rose effect on the music video, to see what happens you will have to watch the music video which is coming soon. Hope you enjoyed my post.

A2 Media Studies- Concept for Theme

Concept for my Music Video

After much thought and deliberation i have come up with a set theme for my music video to give it more of an edge.

Due to my location being at Bournemouth beach i wanted to tie this in with the theme of the over all music video. I wanted the sea (water) and the sand (land) to tie into what i was portraying within my music video.

Therefore i have decided to represent the characters in my music video Francesca and Fin as the land and water. 

I have decided to do this because water and land work together as one, who are at peace with each other. However, at other times they are at war with each other and fighting. This happens in relations, sometimes they are really good and other times they fight.

I want to show Francesca being the one try to restore the peace and giving a symbol which is a white rose representing the earth.... 

And fin placing into a glass of water showing that the earth and water are reuninted and are at peace with eachother. This relfelcting the characters and how they do love each others and there are small guestures that make all the fighting and upset just become yeaterdays news.

The image below show the water and a piece of the earth together.....

Hope you have a better idea of my concept for my theme and it is interesting to you :)

A2 Media Studies- Can't Copy Right Songs

A2 Media Studies- Asking Permission

Due to the Song 'Give Your Heart A Break' by Demi Lovato is a song that has copy right protection there i need to ask for permission to be able to use this song in my music video for A2 Media Studies. Therefore I sent this message to Demi Lovato fan page and now I'm just waiting on a response from Demi Lovato 

This is showing you guys that i have defiantly sent an email to Demi Lovato and I'm just waiting on a reply :D 

A2 Media Studies- Results from Poll's

Results from Poll's 

The winner's of my poll's are....... 

Music Video

Ans the song i will be using for my music Video is.......

Demi Lovato- 'Give your heart a break' 

Now i know what type of brief I'm doing and the song i can start to cast people and start thinking more about everything that will be included into my music video :)

Here is the video to recap the song and also a picture of Demi Lovato :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Hope you enjoyed my podcast!!!! 

A2 Media Studies

A2 Media Studies- Pitching Idea 

As a class we had to pitch our what our ideas were for our final piece for A2 media studies. We could pitch in any way we wanted and i did a powerpoint as it is visual and the class can see my idea and what i want to do, i believe doing something visual helps the audience to understand better the idea i have. Below is the powerpoint i did for my pitching idea, enjoy...

A2 Media Studies

A2 Media Studies- Music Video Ideas

Music Video Ideas 

I have got many different ideas that i want to incorporate into my Music Video. Lately i have been thinking of what to do for my music video and i had loads of ideas but nothing that went together just right, which got really frustrating! However last night i started to listen carefully to different music videos and all these ideas just came bursting in to my head it was like a light bulb switched on and i just started writing.

I took some pictures of what i came up with and i hope you can get an overall idea of where I'm going with a music video...

Here are my notes which I wrote up on Sunday night....

This is the Brain storm of the music video, this was the true part of my inspiration when writing the idea for my music video . 

This is the meaning behind the songs, these two songs are the two that really jump out at me and that I'm edging towards, however it more likely to be  'Give your heart a break' than 'I wont give up on us'.

These are some notes on the location ideas and the possible actors i have in mind for the music video. At the moment I'm thinking about my friend Francesca Montanino and Simone Mayer to be included in the film

These are the notes i came up with i hope you have a better idea of my Idea :) 

A2 Media Studies-Music Video Research

Music Video Research 

I have done this podcast to explain what is going on in this post: 

This first song is one of my favourites, its called 'give your heart a break' by Demi Lovato who is a very talented artist in my eyes. I like this song because its a very soft song and it is also emotional, making you feel something different and seeing something from a different perspective. Not only that this song makes you think about things, which is what i like in a song and i hope you like it too...

The next song I'm putting up on my blog is extremely special to me and its a lot different to 'Give your heart a break' because its by the Foo Fighters who have a completely different style of music to Demi Lovato. This song 'Best of you' by the Foo Fighters is special to me because i saw it live a couple of months ago and ever since i have seen it i have loved it, this song yet again makes you think about things and is a lot different to most songs!!! I hope you enjoy it as much as i do. 

 Another song which is really sad and soppy yet i really enjoy listening to is 'Wide Awake' by the amazing Katy Perry. This song is a lot different to 'Best of you' because it is a pop song and it is softer to rock which is the genre of the Foo's however i love this song and yet again it with the image i have for my music video. 

 The next song is by a new found favourite artist of mine its Jessie Jay and her song 'domino' i like this song because its extremely fun and it makes you feel happy. I think this song would fit in nicely with the vision i have for a music video!!! So tell me what you think... 

 This next song is such a fun song and i love the band All time Low, i have also seen them live and they were just so fun and entertaining and i would love to use one of their songs for my music video. the song i would use is called 'Just the way i'm not' i find this song really ironic and cool and i think i could make a really good music video out of this song, so here it is: 

 This last song is a very slow emotional song, but i think it so sweet and powerful at the same time!!! it is by the amazing Jason Mraz who i love and find his songs extremely inspirational and i think that i could really work with this song to make it different and unique. I hope you like it as much as i do :)  

If you could do the poll on the right hand side of my blog that would be great in helping to decided what amazing song to choose, hope you enjoyed the songs :)