Noxa Facebook Account

For all of Noxa's fans who have facebook, we have made a page so they can see updates and events that she will be hosting. The fans can also get updated through notifications,

Noxa Twitter

This enables Noxa's fans to get hourly updates of what Noxa is doing and what songs/albums would be coming soon. they can follow her on twitter and see the tweets straight after she posts. As well as this they can reply and retweet which really connects the fans to the artist.

Here is a link: https://twitter.com/NoxaOfficial

Final Music Video!

After spending so long planning, filming and editing we have finally completed our music video! From the planning stage it is so good to finally see the final form of our video and the story of Noxa come to life. Similar to our original plan we follow Noxa and her journey through her purgatory but being unable to escape her past. We also kept many of the artistic shots that we wanted and the sequence is a balanced mix between narrative and artistic which was our original aim! So now after so much hard work we are ready to show our final product!

Shotgun Records presents Noxa - 'Narcissistic Cannibal':

Nearly finished!

The deadline is edging closer, and our music video is almost complete. being the perfectionists that we are, we are examining every detail of the final cut, ensuring that everything is right. We also still have a few minor gaps to fill, and we are thinking of rearranging a few shots, as we feel that the narrative is still slightly jumbled.

Shotgun Records Logo

We created this logo for Shotgun Records :)

Editing Continued

Today we edited.We are so close to the end..its unreal. With only a few more spaces to fill we are close to having a full timeline. However we still need to polish the shots and cut some to the beat to follow the feedback that we received during the screening. We will continue to edit until we finish!

Screening

Today we held a screening with two people from our target audience, that were interviewed during the first stage of development. As we had previously interviewed them on what they liked and wanted out of a music video we thought it would be a good idea to see their reaction to what we had made so far. We had them fill of an evaluation form as well as record their reaction to the first draft of our video:

Noxa Soundcloud

Noxa now has a soundcloud account, where she can post all her new albums and songs, which then enables the fans to add the songs to their own playlists and they can also follow Noxa's account to get updated on the newest songs she uploads immediately. This is a really good way of connecting Noxa with her fans because it shows how many views/likes there are so she can see how her fans react to the songs as well as comments at specific times of the song, so she can get feedback for her music from fans and they can also all discuss the music together creating a Noxa society.

Here is a link to Noxa's soundcloud account: https://soundcloud.com/shotgun-records-687390198

Bloopers + Gag Reel

During the editing process we found that many of our shots contained mistakes and laughter and decided to make a quick blooper reel on our 'favourite mistakes'. From laughter to an accidental 3 minute shot of nothing, the bloopers show how much we enjoyed shooting our video.

Audience Research

Over the course of making our music video we have been interviewing and collecting data from our target audience to get their opinion on our ideas and what they want and expect from our video. Our first piece of research was a questionnaire available for anyone to answer and we had five responses which were all taken on-board during the planning stage. This was to get a brief idea of what different people thought of music videos in general and their thoughts on our initial ideas.

LINK TO QUESTIONNAIRE BLOG POST: 

http://shotgunrecords3.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/auidence-rearch-1.html

LINK TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS BLOG POST: 

http://shotgunrecords3.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/survey-results.html

Editing Progress

The editing process is still on-going and we have made some more progress on the sequence. So far we have focused on the beginning of the sequence and we also started to fill in the end as well.

The shots at the end of the sequence are the edited shots that we created during the first editing session and will be put into the sequence at a later. We decided to include both artistic and lip-syncing shots but have decided to focus more on lip-syncing at the moment and then adding the artistic shots. We will continue to edit until we meet our deadline for the first screening.

Editing

As we have collected all of the shots we wanted for our music video we are are ready to start the editing process. We started by editing some effects onto the shots but decided later on that we wanted to edit the sequence in a rough sequence before we add all of the effects onto the shots.

Some of the effects that we put onto the sequence include a lens flare effect over the footage to give it a dream-like effect:

This adds to the theme of our character being in purgatory (a unreal, dream-like state) that will be present throughout our video. We also played around with the three-way colour corrector as some of our shots were brighter than others. We decided to make it a faint green colour for now but this will likely be changed after we have edited the order of the video.

We will continue to edit the sequence over the few weeks to meet our deadline for our screening and we hope to start adding more effects similar to the ones above.

Forest Shoot #3

For our last shoot on location we had to make sure that we collected as many shots as we possibly could so we would have a lot of choice when the editing process begins. To show the footage in screenshot a quick 30 second powtoons has been made to show off the clips but only in screenshot form to not give to much away:

(IF THE POWTOONS IS NOT WORKING PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW)

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/elkSrJmO4uM/forest-shoot-3/#/

We hope to start the editing process within the next week so we can meet our first draft deadline. We have discussed as a group the best ways to edit the sequence will on our shoot which should make the process a lot easier.

Re-Filming With The Canon XF100

We recently decided to re-film some of the drama room scenes with a Canon XF100 camera to get some more expressive shots. We were pleased with the results as the camera quality made the shots more impressive and will bring up the overall look of our video. The image below is a screenshot taken from a piece of lip-syncing, it shows the dust particles in the air which makes the shot seem less empty and have a cool effect to it without having to edit it in:

The next image is a screenshot of a piece of footage that contained lens flare. The camera turned a typically yellow/white lens flare into a beautiful blue and green which will look great when added into the sequence. The lens flare also brings out the character a bit more or turns her into a silhouette that can be picked up by the camera which is something that we were aiming for when filming.

Overall we were all really pleased with these shots and cannot wait to film more with the camera and add these particular shots to our sequence when we start to edit.

Risk Assessment: Drama Room - Canon XF100

As we have decided to re-film certain scenes in the drama room with the Canon XF100 camera we have to write another risk assessment. We have to use the camera carefully as well as keeping all of the other risks in mind as well. This is likely our last shoot in the drama room so we had to make sure that we got all the shots we needed so we needed a more detailed risk assessment as we have more expensive equipment that we will be using for a long period of time.

Forest Shoot #2

As we have recently returned to our forest location we have filmed more shots. Many of these shots were originally planned our for our storyboard but as we had lots of time we filmed a couple of unplanned shots so we have more choice when we come to editing the sequence.

 

This prezi is a brief presentation on what we filmed while we were on location but there is still some missing shots which we will have to film within the next few weeks if we hope to meet our deadline in time.

Filming & Photography

Today we were able to film more shots in the forest area. While doing so, I was able to take a few photos, and I am hoping that we are able to use these shots for their Noxa's digipaks and/or website. (My personally modified versions of these photos, which are tailored to suit my suited style, is on my individual blog.)

Risk Assessment: Forest #2

As we are heading back to the forest for our second shoot on location we have written up another risk assessment to show that we have identified and now how to avoid all of the risks at our location. Similar to our other risk assessments we have assessed the level of risk and how we can work our way around these risks.

Drama Room Shoot #2

Yesterday we had our second shoot in the drama room and this time we decided to make a start on our artistic shots. We wanted to use masks to create the effect of light and dark, good and evil by having one white mask to represent innocence and purity and one black mask to represent darkness and evil. Through several different shots we displayed the transformation of Noxa turning from innocent, with the white mask, to becoming hateful and vengeful, wearing the black mask:

We will be editing a short sequence with the footage that we filmed in the drama room to see if it all works together. We have also decided that some shots will be played backwards and others in slow motion to add an extra effect to certain shots. The final edit will be posted on this blog when it is completed.

Lucy's Edit:

Risk Assessment: Drama Room #2

As we will be going to our drama room location tomorrow we wrote up a risk assessment to make sure we had identified all of the risks when going to this particular location with the equipment. We have written the level of risk and ways to avoid them to make our shoot a bit easier when setting up the equipment.