How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

From the beginning I wanted for the ancillary to differ slightly in theme to the music video, yet to still have that connection that people would recognise. Within the music video, the set themes within are Greek mythology and Alice in Wonderland. These can be seen by costume, make-up and the action of the artist turning into gold. Looking at similar products, the digipak does not necessarily use the same images from the music video. I still, however wanted to view the connection of the advertisement and digipak to the music video. Therefore, I turned again to the title of the song for inspiration such as I had done for the lyrics for the music video. With the title 'Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)' I turned to the idea of having the artist acting physically like a rabbit. Within the music video, the link was the artist's fear whereas for the digipak and the advertisement it would present the fear and physical form of a rabbit. When it came to colours, used for both the digipak and the advertisement, I looked again at the comparison of the house scenes and forest scenes of the music video. The life the artist lives in the video is surrounded in a dull grey, whereas in the forest scenes the new world is bold with colour. With reference of the colours and the trap of a boring life in the video, I wanted for the images used for the digipak and advertisement to reflect this. Therefore, I took images of the artist crouched in a rabbit position with scared expressions upon her face. When editing, the artist was highlighted in colour and the world around her blurred and grey.

Overall, the ancillary tasks differ from the main product, however keeping similar themes used within the music video, such as colour and the link to rabbits and fear.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Director Interview Script

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Tom: Hi, welcome to 'Wadlow and the Stars', I'm Tom Wadlow and today I'm joined with...

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Kerry Leeds, the director of the new Florence and the Machine video

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Tom: Now I love your video, I want to ask, how did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Director: Throughout the planning, production and evaluation stages I had to rely heavily upon media technologies.

For research of music videos, I viewed the Smirnoff Advert 'Hatter's Summer Night Dream' on television and Imogen Heap's 'Goodnight & Go' music video which helped for me develop the theme -

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- of the mix of ancient greece and alice in wonderland. With Imogen Heap's music video she had -

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- little dolls to represent her and her lover which are key in my music video. To document all my research I used a blog on which I also placed a Vox Pop. This helped to keep all research together to develop these into ideas for the final video. During the production of the music video, I used two cameras. This helped greatly for when the battery life expired in one camera so in the same day I could continue filming. For the band scenes, I used spot lights within a studio to highlight the artist and her band. With the lights I could show the connection between the two worlds, the forest world and the band. When the artist was turned into a golden doll, the lights in the studio allowed me to dim the scene of the band showing weakness in their new form. When editing the footage I used iMovie which allowed for me to alter colours in the shots. For the house scenes I altered the brightness, lowered the saturation and increased the contrast to create a grey like appearance to her depressing life. For the forest scenes I dramatically increased the saturation so the colours would appear brighter, a dramatic comparison to the artist's normal life. Using the iMovie helped me to give the band scenes the effect of a dream-like appearance. With the editing software I would not have been able to give the video a professional appearance. Also I would not have been able to create the glowing transition when the artist enters the new world. Throughout the process of the music video, all research, planning and evaluation have been placed on a blog. With this I have been able to keep track of ideas and the processes to form the music video.

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Tom: Well thank you for you time

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Director: That's all right

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Tom: And i look forward to seeing your next music video

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Tom: That's all for this evening. Join me next week when I'll be joined by the creator of the short film 'BEEP'

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Video Commentary

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Radio Broadcast

Magazine Advertisement

The same image used for the cover of the digipak I have chosen to place as the main image for the advertisement. With the artist's bold, blue jacket it will capture the eye of potential costumers of the digipak. Ratings have been placed upon the advertisement to give costumers the inclination that it is very much recommended and a music video that must be seen. Information about its release date has been made much larger, capturing the eye and implanting the date into their minds as to when they must purchase the digipak.

Digipak Cover

Here is a net of the digipak for my music video. I chose to have six sides in order to display the credits of those who hepled create the video. This makes the cover more proffessional. I also added copyright at the bottom of the back page like proffessional digipaks have.

Editing of Digipak Cover

Using an online image editor, 'picnik.com' I was able to alter the photographs that I had taken. To emphasise the artist trapped in a dull world, like that to the music video, I firstly made the image greyscale with the jacket and boots the only things in colour. I changed this to the artist entirely in colour as it is her that is a colour, a rabbit trapped in the colourless world, just her jacket and boots. I wanted to make the world around her seem somewhat distorted so I added a focus point so only the artist was clear. Using this effect allowed the the bushes and the net to seem like barbed wire, more menacing than before. Experimenting with effects, I decided to give the illusion that colour was being emitted from her. This was to represent how the character truely is. In the lyrics it says, 'look how the glamour fades', with the artist emitting colour it is to show the true woman in side, but not able to overpower this dull, modern world.

Digipak Photographs

Here are the images that I took. Unfortunately I could not locate a concrete pipe in order to create my initial idea I had in mind. Therefore, I placed the artist into a wild garden, a place where a rabbit may wonder. Here I was able to take photographs of branches and thorns around her, trapping her like a rabbit. All images were taken spontaneously, inspired by what plants and trees were around the garden. I even used an old goal to experiement the shots I could take with the camera. The net acted as a trap that the artist was in, acting as the frightened rabbit.

Digipak Research Continued...

Here is a gathering of my initial ideas. With the song, 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It up)', I wish for the digipak to represent this. My thoughts first turned toward rabbits and then to the character Peter Rabbit. I want for the artist to be on the front cover, representing in someway, a rabbit. Having the artist in some form of rabbit costume would deter from the seriousness of the video and the band. Therefore, looking at the appearance of Peter Rabbit, I thought that perhaps the artist could wear a blue jacket, and light brown or cream clothing to represent a rabbits fur. Keeping to the theme of Peter Rabbit I thought that the front image could be of her in a cabbage patch,frightened, with her 'Rabbit Heart' rising in rhythm and speed. I then looked at perhaps not using the artist at all in the digipak cover, like one that I had previously looked at. It had used illustrations as the cover and thought perhaps, a rabbit could be drawn into a forest scene. The rabbit appearing small in this forest world. I then fell upon the idea of capturing a photograph of a wild rabbit in a woods somewhere, however felt that this would be very difficult to capture as animals are unpredictable. Thinking about the forest, I thought an image could be of her in a rabbit hole, with her sitting inside. To dig such a large hole in a hill would be difficult and therefore fell upon the idea of her sitting inside a concrete pipe. Representing her rabbit hole, yet the concrete would represent the feeling of being trapped in the modern world, as the music video shows. With this, I also thought perhaps using some elements of greek mythology into the cover, with the rim of the tunnel with greecian patterns. Moreover, with King Midas merged at the top as if looking over the artist and his slaves hording around her in the picture. To create such a pattern on the pipe would be difficult, so feel that this idea could not be developed furt

her. In conclusion I have decided to position the artist inside a concrete pipe, wearing a blue jacket, like Peter Rabbit.

Target Settings Spring Half Term

To complete blog : add necessary information to show the full extent of research, planning, development

Ancillary : Display research, planning, photography

Digipac research

A digipak should be reflection upon the music video itself. For my digipak I do not wish to use the same images from the music video as I believe this would give the narrative away. Therefore,I suggest representing the name of the song on the digipak. Looking at these examples of digipaks,it's interesting to see that they have used different aspects of the band to place in a aesthetic way upon the cover. For my digipak I wish to represent the band in another way to the promo video.

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Music Video

Here is the final edit of my music video. I am very proud of what I have accomplished even when I filmed the forest scenes in November. I would like to thank all those who helped make this video possible.

Artist: Harriet Titlow

King Midas: David Mackenzie

Prisoner: Callum Dornan

Creatures: Paddy Hornbrook, Zoe Dawes and Jon Titlow

Drummer: Matt Wilcox

Keyboardist: Bob Starling

Puppeteer: Vivien Leeds

Editing Forest Scenes

Initially, during production itself, I came to the decision that there was no need to alter the footage. However, when loaded upon iMovie, it became clear that the footage could very much benitfit, from the use of brighter colours and altering contrast. In order for the greenery upon the trees and the red of the apples to really stand out, I added the maximum about of saturation. The original footage taken was bleak, but with the increase of saturation and contrast, the footage became more defined, yet brighter in appearence.

I had decided earlier on, before the production itself took place, that the entering and exiting of the world was transitioned with a white fade. However, I wanted to do a similar effect when the two characters become the golden dolls. Recalling the day of the production, I had instructed my actress to show the the facial expressions of being confused as she felt odd as she began to change. Thinking about this, I splitted the shot of Midas' finger touching her head. With this I used a blur effect upon the scene, emphasising her conscious mind slipping. To add to this and make the transformation complete, from the shot of the two characters to the golden dolls, I added a blur transition. The same transition was applied to when they transform back individually.