Narrative theory;

Narrative is a story also known as a sequence of events, plot, or the way the story is organised.
Elements of the narrative
- time; how is it organised.
the earliest possible time etc.
real time: covers one hour etc '24', this period of time covers the film.
thrillers however will sometimes cover the past also 'flashbacks.'

- Closure; how you end it.
ties all the lose ends up , and everything gets resolved.
This satisfys the audience.
However sometimes a film will not have closure so that it can lead onto a sequel e.g. Harry Potter.

- Enigma; problem.
problems in a story cause to make interesting, and gives it drama as without the audience will find it boring.
Problems have to be solved to reach closure.

advert;

we have started to make our poster and picture for our digipaks, we came up with a variety of ideas, however we decided to use a photo of lead boy and girl with the boy looking in the mirror and seeing the girls reflection, then underneath the same photo but reversed.
Our backgroup is a location shot.

research into digipaks;

here is a picture of a digipak and some details of digipaks;
A digipak is an original style of a compact disc or DVD wrapping with reference to its trademark holder.
Its used to describe a CD case that consiosts of a plastic tray for discs with a folding case made of cardboard. The give the feeling of a higer quality and they are often used in conjuction with text, images and colours to give a proffessional appearance. They can also be used for DVD cases and not just CDs.

magazine adverts

here are a few magazine adverts i have uploaded and analysed.

1. this magazine advert is good because it shows all details that a fan would find necessary, for example it shows the
2. - band name
3. - the album name
4. - the date it is release
5. - an award that the album won
6. - what critics have said about the album
7. - the other forms it is avaliable in
8. - and gig dates & locations.
9. - and it also shows a picture that represents something for the fans/group.

this magazine advert is good because it shows three contrasting adverts that will attract different audience, this is affective because the three different audiences for the different bands will be attracted to their band, and then see the other band adverts and could be attracted to them also, therefore creating a larger combined audience. The 'massive attack' poster is also effective because the picture is actually of a person who appears to have been attacked.






This magazine advert is again similar to the one above, different adverts attracting different audiences, will bring the different audiences into one larger audience, benefiting all the groups advertised.












This advert yet again shows multiple artists and their adverts, it shows one larger group that would attract a large amount of attention due to the fact they are popular mainstream artists, then also shows other groups that are not as possibly not as heard of, this could attract the audience to them, they could be of similar sound and therefore share the same audience as Coldplay and Snow Patrol are of similar sounds.

This advert is good because it gives details the fans of this artist would be interested in such as

- the artists name

- the release date for the artist

- the album title

- and quotes about the album.

It also shows a picture of the artist that could be representational to the fans or from the artist herself.

our video;

my contribution;

In our music video i believe our whole group contributed equally,

however Jess and Nichola did more editing than myself slightly as i was at work a majority of the time. Regardless of this we always discussed as a whole group what we would be doing to the video and what effects we would have on the video.

We also chose what we would film as a group.

I personally contributed a variety of ideas such as the shots and transitions when editing, and shots we could film, for example my favorite scene in the video is when Jess is in the park on the swing, on of the suggestions i made is that i suggested and we agreed to make a shot of the whole park, and also to film the empty swing set.

finally!

our video is actually finally finished.

we edited and edited and edited.

and re-filmed.

then edited then re-filmed.

but our video is finally complete, and all that work was actually worth it.

i am really proud of our final piece of work, and believe that to some extent it looks rather professional, we worked really hard with all our individual input to the video, in the form of ideas, filming and editing.

all we have left to do is complete our blogs and then this project is complete entirely!

more editing & filming!

What was filmed yesterday in romford was edited today.

We placed it into the video where we though it fitted and did what our desired affect was.

Our added lip syncing looks hugely better than it did before when we started with our first video. We believed that, due to what sir advised us on, that starting from the beginning again and come up with new ideas. We did do this, however we decided to also use scenes from our previous video. We did a lot of editing today in lesson, then Nichola and Jess had a free lesson so again continued to edit. We decoded that we want to spend as much time as possible editing our video so we can get it to the best we can, tomorrow if the weather allows us to we want to film the roundabout scene in valence park, then after school the girls are going to continue to edit whilst i go to work :(

the video is actually looking really good now!!! :)