peer review

After some peer review on my ancillary products I am now making further development and I am now in the process of making a second version of the tour date poster so I can compare the two and see which one matches the codes and conventions of a tour date poster the most. After the research I have conducted and the peer review that I have received i'm confident that my prodcuts are heading the right direction.

tour date poster development

This is the development of a tour date poster as part of my ancillary products. This is the type of poster that is stuck up in areas that attract a lot of people for example stations, in shopping centres, on phoneboxes etc. There is some detail yet to be added mainly near the top

Filming...done!

These are some of the photos we took in London which consist of us filming on the train, on the train station and in London

Filming update: London done!!

On the 21st of January Team Go For Gold went to London to the main section of filming. We managed to find a boy to play the other main role which was great because finding a suitable boy was an issue for our team for quite a long time but once we sorted everything out filming went well apart from one problem. We encountered a problem at Bexleyheath train station. As we were filming the scene on the platform we were approached by station staff asking if we had permission to be filming. We resolved the problem by explaining that we were filming for educational purposes and that they should contact the school to clarify.

After that minor incident we went ahead to London and following the filming schedule we were able to go to all the locations and film varieties of different shots before sun down. Travelling around London was quite nerving as we had the camera out and was trying to get everything down before it got dark but we managed time well and was able to get to Trafalgar Square, the last location, and it was still day light.

London Calling

In two days Team Go For Gold are going to travel to London to do the main part of our filming. We have experienced some problems with the filming. The main issue was we have been able to find a suitable boy to be in the video. This was a big issue as the boy was supposed to be the the other main character but luckily we have found a reliable person to film and we are very grateful that he is giving up his time to help us. Another issue that is slightly worrying is that recently a school camera was broken in a accident and as we are going to London accidents may happen because it can be busy etc. But by using the risk assessment we are confident that everything and everyone will come back in one peace.

Band T-shirt research

Still unsure about the second ancillary task I have been conducting research into t-shirts. If I design a t-shirt it will be advertising the Only by the Night tour.These t-shirts are usually sold outside venues after the show of a band. As I attend gigs regularly i have a few band t-shirts of my own and the conventions of the t-shirts are very similar. The most common one being the dates of the tour on the back and perhaps an image of the band or an album cover on the front and I plan to

incorporate these conventions into the version I will create.

I looked at a range of different t-shirts on the web. Here are some examples

Following the research into band t-shirts I have decided to focus my poster on tour dates as this is an important conventional aspect of a band. I will incorporate a similar idea on the tour date poster as I will on the back of the band tour date t-shirt if I decide to create one :)

Video Conventions

As part of further research I decided to look at exisitng videos to see what conventions would make our video look more conventional. As Kings Of Leon fall under indie/alternative rock i decided to look at some videos of the same genre on youtube. 

This is one of the videos I looked at by One Night Only called "Say You Don't Want It" This video was shot in New York City which is a busy city which is like London. The band shots establish the location. The band shots were quick cuts and mid shots which I think is an important element to use as the audience focus should be on the narrative of the video. The front man in the band is also the main focus in the video. This was something that we had to contemplate as we had great difficulty finding a boy who was avalible to shoot for us so we was going to use on the boys from the band we used for video.