Welcome to my blog, my name is Emma Hagstrom and this is where I will be recording my research, planning and progress of my A2 Media Coursework. Hope you enjoy!

Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Evaluation Questions

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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products? Construction and research: this stage required a surprisingly large amount of technology to be used because we needed to go o the internet and find possible locations that...

Sunday, 17 July 2016

Saturday, 16 July 2016

Final Cast And Roles

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The final cast that we have chosen is Zoë and Tom. We didn't audition tom on video as we where planning to use Charlie but at the last minute he decided that he didn't want to do it so we had to audition tom quickly and he was actually the best male audition that we had which turned out to be very fortunate. We have chosen these two because tom had a very good audition and...

Shooting Schedule

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29th june 2016: This is the first day of our filming mainly because it is a Wednesday. We have the day off for an inset day at the school and we thought this would be a brilliant opportunity to do some filing because we want to do some shots in the city and as I said earlier we won't be able to film at the weekends at it is to busy so we are going to get up early and go up the city to do some...

Final Location Plan

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These are the final locations that we decided to use. In the end we decided to use nearly all the locations that we scouted apart from the local park as we felt there would be too many shots of them in a forest setting and not enough urban ones. We have also had an idea to get more shots from around...

Friday, 15 July 2016

Casting Auditions

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These are the casting auditions for our music video. From this we are going to pick who we would like to have in our video. straight away there were a few people that we know we didn't want to use and a few we would really like to use so it shouldn't be to hard to create a short list. We are also going to split them up although we auditioned them in pairs we are going to mix them up to get the...

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Final Plot Ideas

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Our final plot idea is nearly the same as the last idea we came up with. The idea is that a girl is in a classroom falling asleep which then cuts to her with a boy basically just spending tie together walking about sitting together. We re going to cut in shots of a band playing the song as well. one of the main shots in the video is of the couple jumping into a river through powder paint. We wanted...

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Lyrics of the song

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"Another Girl, Another Planet"   [Blink-182] I Always flirt with death I could kill but I don't care about it I can face your threats Stand up tall and scream and shout about it I think I'm on another world with you I'm on another planet with you You always get under my skin I don't find it irritating You always play to win I don't need rehabilitating Another girl, another planet Another...

Monday, 11 July 2016

Plot Ideas

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original idea: The main basis of the plot will follow both a boy and girl with intermittent shots of the band playing throughout. In the initial scenes we will follow the boy in a school classroom. By using crab shots and also a tracking shot we will focus on the boy as a central focus amongst the other students. We could consider using a shallow focus here to blur out the background and highlight...

Casting Ideas

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Before filming any of the film we decided to cast our actors as to decide who would be best suited for clip. When interviewing them we decided to ask them a range of questions based on our film including script and questions. The casting of our music video was very important for us to get right because we felt the song requires a certain kind of person to make it look the best, so when we where...

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Location Details

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Drew and ollie decided to scout some locations to do the filming in. The first place we went to was the forest behind the local park to see if there was any places that we could either put in the band shots or have our couple be doing some sort of activity. It was very wet when we went and so...

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Format of video

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Since our song is quite upbeat and energetic we decided that we wanted to have a mix of both narrative and live performance from a band. We decided it would be good to have a mix of the two because it breaks up the footage a bit and makes the video more interesting to watch. Another reason we decided...

Friday, 8 July 2016

Roles Within The Group

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As a group we have assigned individual roles for each person within the group. This is done to make the organisation and process of the task significantly quicker and mirror more of the real processes involved in producing media today. These are the roles each of us will carry out: Myself - Album artwork and Branding Drew Anderson- Editing Sophia Diaper - Blog posts and taking pictures Oliver...

Song Choice

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We have chosen to use Blink 182 "another girl another planet" for our preliminary task. As a group we collectively decided that this song best suited any form of music video with the idea of having both a boy and girl the two lead protagonists. Furthermore, we chose to use this because we thought...