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Editing the Title Sequence

Today, I have been editing the title sequence and it is hard work!
Our music starts of fast but with no beat, and then a few seconds into it, the beat drops and the music becomes very upbeat. So I had to make sure the shots complemented the music to make it flow.

For the beginning part I would like to have slower shots and establishing shots, establishing what our news channel is about and what news we present. I want a montage of shots building up to the beat dropping which is the climax of our title sequence. This is what many news title sequences do, as they build up to the climax with a montage of various shots.

When the beat drops, I want a significant visual to go along with it to really impact the viewer.

After the beat drops, I want much faster shots of things very specifically associated with music, like we got a shot of a DJ so I hope to fit that in somewhere.


This is just my brief plan, I have to see how well our footage works with the music!

#RG

EarMunch Website

http://earmunchnews.wix.com/earmunch#!home/mainPage 

FILMING

Today we went to Camden to film and we got some good shots!
We started off by going around Camden and finding some inspiration. Every time we walked by anything to do with music we tried to film it.
There were some issues with people not wanting us to film their stalls and shops, so we couldn't get some shots that we really wanted!
We filmed shots of t-shirts with music artists on it, panning and tilting shots of headphones and shots of the general people walking.

We wanted to make our vox pops targeted towards our target audience which is teenagers and young adults interested in music, so we wanted to film teenagers to talk to. However, we could not find that many teenagers on the road who were willing to be filmed and participate. This made it very difficult for us but we perserved! We tried to find many people and ended up persuading a couple of people to be interviewed.

#RG

Location

We have a variety of locations we would like to film at. We want to film our vox pops at different places to get diverse and varied opinions and to limit bias.

For our recording studio scene we have many locations we have to choose from and here are some examples:


Harrow Open Studios:
We chose this because it is easy to get to and it is a community studio

                   
                     Roundhouse Studios:

                This is a more professional.             

For our vox pops, we are deciding to film in Camden because when we went there to film our title sequence, we realised that there are many teenagers and young people there. As they are our target audience we thought it best to get their opinion on our story. 

#RG

New Logo

We all agreed that our current logo wasn't suitable as it had low quality and in general; it wasn't easy to manipulate, so I decided to generate a new logo via a logo generator website that I've used previously. To be honest, it didn't take too long, and it was much easier to create using the website than Photoshop. I couldn't really find a font similar to the one we have currently but the team felt the new logo was perfectly fine. This is it:

We all felt this is right for the new logo, so I've scrapped the other one; I added our Earmunch monster on top of the logo the incorporate our brand image:

This is the final logo, despite all the other times we've said "This is our final logo".. THIS.. THIS is the final logo. Now we just need to put it on our blog, website and opening sequence.

#AB

Facts and Statistics

Sequence of Shots

VOICEOVER AND FILLER SHOT OF ARTHUR --> INTERVIEW ARTIST WITH CUTAWAYS AND FILLER SHOTS OF WHAT ARTIST IS SAYING --> VOICEOVER OF FACTS AND STATS WITH FILLER SHOTS OF GOOGLE --> SECOND INTERVIEW MANAGER WITH CUTAWAYS AND FILLER SHOTS OF WHAT MANAGER IS SAYING --> VOICEOVER WITH FILLER SHOTS COMPLEMENTING VOICEOVER --> VOX POPS --> VOICEOVER TO SUMMARISE STORY.

Planning Our Production Schedule

We are hoping to film soon and we need to plan what we want to exactly film.

• Vox Pops
• Filler Shots e.g panning shots/establishing shots of location/people
• Formal Interview of a Record Label Manager and an Artist; hopefully in an recording studio
• Piece to camera

• Vox Pops = For our Vox Pops we would like to ask our target audience which are teenagers. SHOTS: All vox pops should be filmed at the same height so it looks continuous and not unprofessional. They should be no longer 10-15 seconds. We would like a variety of opinions e.g 4/5. We don't want the reporter on camera as we think that would not be beneficial to us. Snappy interviews with interesting dialogues. Variety of interviews with boys and girls to get different opinions to appeal to all our target market.
• Filler Shots = SHOTS: establishing shots of location e.g Roundhouse Studios in Camden. A voiceover will be playing on top of these filler shots. We want shots of people going onto Google to download music, different bands in Concert that are of different genres. The shots back up what the voiceover is saying. The shots we would like to get are: Arthur (the artist) working in the studio, the manager of the record label working in the studio, a band performing and a DJ at work.
• Formal Interview = Getting a more professional and insightful opinion on music downloads and this will help give substance and evidence to our story. By having a professional record label manager giving his views on our topic it will make the story more believable. This will be longer than the Vox Pops and they interviewee will answer many questions. SHOTS: Filming the manager in the studio to make location believable. He starts off talking and we see him and then we can transition into him working while his interview runs as a voiceover on top of the clip playing e.g working on editing music.
• Piece to camera = From the filler shot and voiceover we will transition to the piece to camera. We want to film Riya outside. We chose this because it is relevant to music and isn't something random. ALTHOUGH WE ARE CONTEMPLATING WHETHER OR NOT TO DO A PIECE TO CAMERA.
• Cutaways shots =different shots and angles of artist/manager such as close-up of hands.

#RG

Advance Production Portfolio: Television News Package Proposal

Group Names: 
We are Earmunch which consists of:

• Riya
• Arthur
• Nicky
• Kaira

Proposed Subject/Story: 

Our story is based on  illegally downloading music and looking at both sides as to why people do it and why others do not. We will also be looking at the affect this may have on artists and the music industry. We will include the view that people may download music illegally because they can and if one can get something for free why would they pay. However this may be contradicted with where is the line drawn as illegal downloads are increasing which is affecting artists in many ways. 

Proposed Interview: 

Within this package we will be interviewing a record label manager who will express his views on how he music industry is being affected especially their artists. We will also be briefly interviewing artists themselves in order to portray their views on their music being illegally downloaded. Finally we will be interviewing teenagers as this is our target audience, questioning their views on why people illegally download and whether they do it or not.