similar artist's website

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is similar to our chosen artist so we have decided to analyse his website. The image above is his main page and is the first thing you see when you enter his website. It is very simple and clear which is what we aim for our website to eventually appear like.

This is the page of Ed's music + videos. We eventually aim for our artists website to have the same sort of page however of course with less music and videos.
Ed Sheeran inspired us with our website as we wanted to focus our website on presenting our artists star image effectively, which we felt Ed Sheeran did very well. He inspired us to make multiple images on our wensite s it would help build our artists star image. It also inspired us to make a merchandise page and a tour page as it brings the fans closer to the artist and also conforms with our genre, rap.

Account of editing so far

We have edited most of our video, however we still have quite a way to go. There has been both positives and negatives of our editing process.

An example of what has gone well is our teamwork. As a group, we have all come up with our own individual ideas of different editing techniques we could add to certain shots, for instance, changing the colour satuation. We all accept any ideas put forward, then test it out. If it looks good and relevant we keep it, if not, then we don't. This way, everybody in our group gets a chance at adding what they can visualise.

Another example of what has gone well is how well we have managed our time. So far, we have only had two sessions in which we have edited, and we are almost finished. This is because we make sure there are no distractions during filming, so that we can actually focus and concentrate primarily on editing and making sure it is the best we can produce.

However, there have been some negatives, albeit very few. One being that we had to learn how to use certain editing programmes in order to edit correctly and successfully. We now have the necessary skills to edit how we please.

Review of second filming day

After reviewing our first filming day, we realised there were some changes that needed to be made for our second filming day, as we still had a lot to film. These changes included our choice of location and camera shots.

One change we made to our location was changing it from Brixton to a local park. We wanted to film in a park as this is where our character spends a lot of his time, due to the fact that he is homeless. We filmed many shots in this park, ranging over many different locationswithin the park. For example, inside the play area, to emphasise that our character misses his childhood - when everything in his life seemed okay and safe. The next location covered in the park was behind a brick wall. This plain background helped bring all focus on our character. We felt this was effective because the audience would sympathise with him and really feel like they are being brought into his difficult life. 

Additionally, we added certain camera shots into this second day of filming as we felt there were a few important ones we missed out on in the first day of filming. An example of one being a pan shot. We used tools inside the play area to help us with this shot: the roundabout. Our actor stood on the roundabout with the camera and cameraman, whilst our other group member slowly spun the roundabout, producing a lovely pan shot of the park while the character managed to stay completely still. This shot was effective because it symbolises the world around our character growing and moving on, whilst our character cannot grow, due to his illness. Another shot we added to this filming day was a wide shot of our actor, expressing his surroundings: emptiness in the park. This shot was effective because it shows how our character is lonely and has nobody around him to help him throughout this depression, a sad reality of the life of many who are depressed. However, we did not add this shot to the final cut of our film as we felt it didn't fit in with the sequence well enough.

We were much more well prepared for this day of filming as we had learnt from our mistakes of our last filming day. For instance, we made sure the camera was fully charged, meaning we could film as much as we needed to that day. Also, we started filming in the early evening so we coud capture shots both in the light and in the dark. This was done to show how our character doesn't have a motive for his day.

Another factor which helped in making this filming day so successful was the fact that we managed our time so well. Every shot recorded was done in good time, leaving us with enough time to film the next planned shot. We finished at a good time too, meaning that nobody found any difficulty getting home.

Overall, this filming day was extremely successful and we now have a variety of shots which we can use in our final cut as we fully commence our editing process.