Thursday, 8 December 2016
Group Timetables
We highlighted each free and study room of each member of our group to see when it is possible to all film together. Where Alicia and Evan both have similar frees, Jono and Chloe haven't because of BTEC lessons, however, it appeared that all group members are free on Wednesday period 5 which is when the primary filming slot will be. Also, Alicia and Evan can also film together when necessary as Alicia is the artist (Tori Lorente), so it is important that we take every opportunity to film when appropriate.
Group Allocations
Before our group begins the evaluation stage of the music
video we discussed who would fit each question dependent on what they would
personally like to do and the knowledge they have behind each one. Over the
next two weeks we will continue to work on each question and post the progress
on the blog.
Costume Analysis
Stone Island
We included Stone
Island as it has recently been developed into the street wear fashion culture.
It was previously stereotyped as a football hooligan brand for the English fans
in the 90's which has recently collabed with Supreme. The collabs have allowed
Stone Island to expand its target audience and exploit new markets.
Furthermore, the red jumper allows us to stay continuous with our primary
colour scheme and the 'urban' feel can be consistent throughout.
"From the late 1990s the make has been popular among
football fan 'casuals' in England and throughout the rest of Europe. The brand
can also be seen in many football hooliganism based films, such as Green Street
Hooligans and The Football Factory."
Palace
Over recent years Palace has become a massive figure in the
streetwear community. Like Supreme the sought after items it produces sells out
instantly which creates 'hype' over the brand. Artists like Asap Rocky and
Kanye West who are also interested in the streetwear community have been seen
wearing it recently which has left fans becoming interested in the brand. The
variety of products they produce consisting of their 'Triferg' print,
collaborations with Adidas and vintage designs as examples mean that it has
their products have a unique selling point. We included both the Palace coat
and white visual tee within our video which one of our group members had. We
felt it was important to include a brand like this to keep the continuous urban
feel of the video as well as the demographic Alicia represents.
"Palace Skateboards’ “Tri-ferg” logo has fast become
one of the most instantly recognizable – and highly-coveted – emblems in the
streetwear world. Much like Supreme’s Box Logo and BAPE’s Ape Head, the London
brand’s icon has made its way onto everything from tees to duffel bags, with
the label winning over the likes of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky in the process.
Palace’s rapid success was, unsurprisingly, instantly met with derision from
keyboard warriors all over the globe; “it’s just hype” being the easiest way to
put down any upcoming streetwear brand making waves."
Tour Poster Inspirations
Below are images of the varied tour posters that we like and that we can use ideas from when it comes to creating our tour poster for our urban artist, Tori Lorente. Each poster is different in their own way but also very similar to each other.
Ella Eyre
Ella Eyre's tour poster interested me as I like how the whole image is the background of the poster. Also the font and colour of the tour dates and her name is the same and this creates an aspect of synergy and is actually very effective to most people without them subconsciously thinking about it. I like how the photography is also looked into. Her top is the same colour as the written information and this makes the poster standout, especially as the dominant colour is bright white.
Tori Kelly
With this tour poster, I like how the name of the artist is below her head shot as the first thing you see is the artist face and not her name. However, I feel as though this can only be done once the artist is a worldwide artist and people recognise her from her photo and not her name. Also, I like how the tour dates are written on a white background which is separated by each date. This keeps the poster simple but effective. Again I like how her top is black as well as the tour date font being black as this compliments one another.
Dua Lipa
I like this tour poster a lot as it is a bright but dull colour red which stands out a lot and isn't the typical black or white dominated coloured background. This shows the artist is different from pop artist and she will most likely be an urban or electro pop artist which is the genre of Tori Lorente. I like the colours red and white together, I think they compliment each other and the poster is eye catching and bright.
Birdy
This tour poster is similar to the ones above due to the font and the tour dates being the same colour and also complimenting the background picture which is a magic blue. I like how the title of the artist font is different to the tour dates as this helps the synergy of Birdy to stand out as this is her logo of her music.
Ella Eyre
Ella Eyre's tour poster interested me as I like how the whole image is the background of the poster. Also the font and colour of the tour dates and her name is the same and this creates an aspect of synergy and is actually very effective to most people without them subconsciously thinking about it. I like how the photography is also looked into. Her top is the same colour as the written information and this makes the poster standout, especially as the dominant colour is bright white.
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| ELLA EYRE |
With this tour poster, I like how the name of the artist is below her head shot as the first thing you see is the artist face and not her name. However, I feel as though this can only be done once the artist is a worldwide artist and people recognise her from her photo and not her name. Also, I like how the tour dates are written on a white background which is separated by each date. This keeps the poster simple but effective. Again I like how her top is black as well as the tour date font being black as this compliments one another.
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| TORI KELLY |
I like this tour poster a lot as it is a bright but dull colour red which stands out a lot and isn't the typical black or white dominated coloured background. This shows the artist is different from pop artist and she will most likely be an urban or electro pop artist which is the genre of Tori Lorente. I like the colours red and white together, I think they compliment each other and the poster is eye catching and bright.
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| DUA LIPA |
This tour poster is similar to the ones above due to the font and the tour dates being the same colour and also complimenting the background picture which is a magic blue. I like how the title of the artist font is different to the tour dates as this helps the synergy of Birdy to stand out as this is her logo of her music.
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| BIRDY |
New Vision - Reflecting and Moving Forward
After receiving our Draft 1 feedback we realised that
everyone loved how our video looked visually but found that there was no
meaning to our video and they didn’t understand it. Our teachers have also been
brutal with us and told us that we would not be able to achieve the grades we
desire with the video we currently have. The majority of our feedback also
stressed that we were only working at a Level 2 (Basic 15-23 marks) which is
not what we want as we are all hoping to get Level 4’s. As a group we have discussed
why we haven’t excelled in the music video creation and have come to the
conclusion that we don’t feel a connection with the song, ‘Hold Me Down’, and
have consequently been unmotivated and haven’t been enthusiastic – meaning that
our video has lacked in creativity.
As a result, we have decided to recreate ‘Tori Lorente’ as
an Urban character in order to fit our NEW song ‘I Don’t Mind’ (originally
called ‘COLD’ by Urban Nerd Beats).
Our concept will involve the artist around the London Soho
area. The lyrics in the song say ‘I don’t mind if we think about you’ so we are
thinking about incorporating a narrative of the artist and a boy that she likes
but can’t have – he is drifting away from her but she is willing to compromise
her pride in order to make the relationship work.
The video will start with the artist being the focal point
and then transition into her mind with various shots of her and the boy (but he
will appear uninterested in her) and end with solo shots of Tori to explain
that her relationship with the boy is just a fantasy and that she is in fact
alone.
Tori, as an artist, will originate from Soho and have an
urban, streetwear style which will be inspired by posts on the Instagram
account ‘baesmentapproved’. We are also taking video inspiration from
Streetwear Lookbooks on YouTube that have been used in our new Steal-O-Matic.
Friday, 2 December 2016
Production Diary
Monday 3rd September
After a brief talk with the group we decided that we need to discuss an official date/s to film for our music video. However, due to outside school arrangements it made us all available for the following week, therefore we are going to discuss about avaliabiltiy on the following week on Friday. But, on a positive, the steal o matic, digipak and annotated lyrics were all completed and available to put individually on our blogs.
Tuesday 4th September
The permission of the use of Hold Me Down meant that we had to message Halsey discussing the reason behind the choice of her song. Jono continued working on the detailed storyboard whilst Evan, Chloe and Alicia looked at the fonts and colour schemes for the Tori Lorente album cover.
Thursday 6th September
Alicia found a radio live lounge performance of Hold Me Down as an Acoustic Version which she had a brilliant idea about a recreation. This meant that we went and spoke to the Music department about the possibility of booking in the music studio for tomorrow morning.
Friday 7th September
We all arrived at school at 8:20 in L9 Media room where we quickly prepared our tripods and cameras so we could get alternative angles of Tori performing. It was a great success as it helped Alicia practice performing and lip syncing, allowed us to work on how we can get the best shots with the lighting available and the height/frame of the shot.
Monday 10th September
After uploading all the footage from the 3 cameras on Friday this meant that we could start editing the Live Lounge footage. Evan took on the responsibility of Editing whilst Alicia started on the website and Chloe and Jono filmed and uploaded the storyboard.
Tuesday 11th September
Today was very important as we all needed to make sure our individual tasks were completed to make sure that we are not behind on any work when we start the filming procedure. Evan finished the editing of the live lounge, whilst Chloe, Alicia and Jono all prepared for the digipak production and created several shots that could be a possibility to use for our digipak. The live lounge was therefore posted on Evans blog for the rest of the group to embed.
Thursday 13th September
Chloe wasn't in today to film the MTV interview so Alicia, Jono and Evan needed to go and see if the interview room by reception was available for use. Evan decided that filming Alicia walking to reception could be useful footage for an introduction for the interview. We asked Tori a range of questions that were based on the upcoming music video, general life and her own opinions on a variety of topics. We found this very amusing and useful as Tori showed her vibrant characteristics that we will need throughout our music video.
Monday 17th September
Evan uploaded the edited MTV interview to his blog which is available for the rest of the group to achieve another blog post. One of our shots that we would really like to be in our music video needed to be practice so we know what props we need and where to film it. We had an idea of having alternative coloured water flicking up from a drum to create an interesting shot when the beat speeds up. We therefore went to the common room and recreated the shot which we found looked really impressive with a white back ground and a slow motion effect applied.
After a brief talk with the group we decided that we need to discuss an official date/s to film for our music video. However, due to outside school arrangements it made us all available for the following week, therefore we are going to discuss about avaliabiltiy on the following week on Friday. But, on a positive, the steal o matic, digipak and annotated lyrics were all completed and available to put individually on our blogs.
Tuesday 4th September
The permission of the use of Hold Me Down meant that we had to message Halsey discussing the reason behind the choice of her song. Jono continued working on the detailed storyboard whilst Evan, Chloe and Alicia looked at the fonts and colour schemes for the Tori Lorente album cover.
Thursday 6th September
Alicia found a radio live lounge performance of Hold Me Down as an Acoustic Version which she had a brilliant idea about a recreation. This meant that we went and spoke to the Music department about the possibility of booking in the music studio for tomorrow morning.
Friday 7th September
We all arrived at school at 8:20 in L9 Media room where we quickly prepared our tripods and cameras so we could get alternative angles of Tori performing. It was a great success as it helped Alicia practice performing and lip syncing, allowed us to work on how we can get the best shots with the lighting available and the height/frame of the shot.
Monday 10th September
After uploading all the footage from the 3 cameras on Friday this meant that we could start editing the Live Lounge footage. Evan took on the responsibility of Editing whilst Alicia started on the website and Chloe and Jono filmed and uploaded the storyboard.
Tuesday 11th September
Today was very important as we all needed to make sure our individual tasks were completed to make sure that we are not behind on any work when we start the filming procedure. Evan finished the editing of the live lounge, whilst Chloe, Alicia and Jono all prepared for the digipak production and created several shots that could be a possibility to use for our digipak. The live lounge was therefore posted on Evans blog for the rest of the group to embed.
Thursday 13th September
Chloe wasn't in today to film the MTV interview so Alicia, Jono and Evan needed to go and see if the interview room by reception was available for use. Evan decided that filming Alicia walking to reception could be useful footage for an introduction for the interview. We asked Tori a range of questions that were based on the upcoming music video, general life and her own opinions on a variety of topics. We found this very amusing and useful as Tori showed her vibrant characteristics that we will need throughout our music video.
Monday 17th September
Evan uploaded the edited MTV interview to his blog which is available for the rest of the group to achieve another blog post. One of our shots that we would really like to be in our music video needed to be practice so we know what props we need and where to film it. We had an idea of having alternative coloured water flicking up from a drum to create an interesting shot when the beat speeds up. We therefore went to the common room and recreated the shot which we found looked really impressive with a white back ground and a slow motion effect applied.
Monday 19th September
Today was the first real day that our music video ideas were put together to decide on a song. However, two members of our group Chloe sand Jono weren't in so me and Alicia had to come up with some personal ideas. As we both liked a previous music video that a student had one called East of Eden which had an interesting Indie beat as well as a compelling theme we would like to do something similar. After flicking through several songs we have found a few that we will discuss as a whole group tomorrow.
Tuesday 20th September
This was the first day as a whole group we could sit down and discuss what song we would like to have. As yesterday Alicia and I found a few we could become creative with yesterday we showed Chloe and Jono and they were convinced. However, we still felt from each song we discussed there was still a part of it missing for what we wanted. Therefore, later that night we discussed two song choices in a group chat which will be presented to the class for tomorrow.
Friday 21st September
As apart of the shooting schedule and the availability of our group we collected all the equipment needed to film in Chelmsford town. We started to film at around half 3 in the afternoon which meant we could still film in the right lighting and to have enough time before it becomes dark. We had several settings which we thought could be appropriate for the different beats and lyrics throughout the song. Overall we were very happy with the footage we got and will give us several shots for the editing process.
Thursday 22th September
After discussion in our group chat we decided on 4 songs to pitch to the class which we presented on prezi. During our presentation Chloe was taking notes of people's feedback so we could use this to improve on our ideas and which song was most popular.
Friday 23rd September
In this lesson, we did the lip syncing task where Chloe and Alicia sang along to the song we have chosen which is Hold Me Down - Hasley. We then uploaded these videos to you tube and edited them together using Adobe Premiere. This task helped us chose who would look better as the performer which was edited on Premiere. We found that both Alicia and Chloe could perform equally as well which means that we could alternatively switch between the two throughout the song.
Monday 26th September
At the start of the lesson Alex was the last person to pitch his ideas to the class as we left him feedback for him to consider. Evan, Jono, Chloe and Alicia all continued to look at our lap charts to continue the planning and research chart of our music video production.
Thursday 29th September
Today we continued with the work that we got issued in our lap charts. Jono started working on the Storyboard, Chloe was annotating the lyrics for the music video, Evan started on the Digipak through the use of an Emaze presentation and Alicia was continuing with the still-o-matic.
Thursday 6th October
Today Jono and Chloe were looking at costume and make up ideas for the artist. Evan and Alicia were researching unique locations to film to suit our artist.
Monday 10th October
Today Alicia created and edited the steal-o-matic for our artist whilst Evan and Chloe made a list of the props we would need to use within the video as well as finalising the costumes needed for our artist, Tori Lorente.
Thursday 13th October
Today Jono and Chloe looked at Album covers from big artists to see what we could be inspired by for our own digipack. Whilst, they were researching Evan and Alicia continued to edit the still-o-matic.
Monday 17th October
Today Chloe was annotating the lyrics of our song 'Hold Me Down' and this helped us with a couple of ideas to add to the video. Evan and Alicia finalized the still-o-matic which also gave us a wide range of ideas we could use and Jono started the digipak.
Friday 21st October
Today we sat down as a group and put everything we had researched all together and started creating a storyboard as well as a shot list. The storyboard included a lot of detail and had many different varied shots included in it as well as the time of each shot. After this was done Chloe did a voice over of the storyboard and Jono filmed it.
Monday 24th October
Today we started filming our music video. We shot in the new Bond Street of Chelmsford and in the underpass in the Army and Navy roundabout. When we got back to school we uploaded these photos on our computer and looked at the footage we had. Evan then started editing these shots together and we were all happy with the result we got.
Monday 31st October
In the last week, we were filming every day in 3 different locations. We shot again in Bond Street in front of a mirrored fish look a like background, we also filmed in front of Hylands Park and then again on a stairway in Chelmsford Town Car Park.
Thursday 3rd November
Evan continued to edit the video and by this time we had over 2 minutes worth of footage. Alicia helped with the special effects on the video. Chloe then started to create a website for our artist whilst Jono was making another digipak. Also, the last couple of days we were updating our blogs and making sure we were organised with our video and the website and digipak suited our artist and genre of music.
Tuesday 16th November
Today Evan continued to edit the music video to the best it can be. Jono was researching merchandise for our artist. Alicia and Chloe went off and did a photo shoot for our artist so we could add the photos to the digipak and the website. When Alicia and Chloe got back they both started researching different magazine ideas to see what inspired them to come up with a magazine idea for Tori Lorente.
Wednesday 23rd November
Today we had a final video, final website and a final digipak to present to the class and we gained feedback from our video. It was only up until now that we had realised our video didn't work. The lyrics didn't match the visuals and the song 'didn't go anywhere'. We found out it was quite boring and it wouldn't get us the grade and feedback we wanted. Evan then came up with a curve ball to create a brand new video with a complete different genre, type of artist, new website and new digipak. From today, everyone in the group was focused and determined to create our new video within 3 weeks.
Monday 28th November
Today we found different shots from different music videos which inspired our new video ideas and Evan then made this into a steal-o-matic. From this, Chloe came up with new costume ideas, Jono started looking at unique locations to set this video and Alicia was helping Evan with the steal-o-matic.
Friday 2nd December
Today Alicia and Evan traveled to London to film the new music video in Soho. Whilst staying at school, Jono started on a whole new digipak to suit our new genre, Urban, of our artist. Chloe then re created a whole new website for our artist to suit the new genre also.
Thursday 8th December
Evan started editing the new music video and we all got a first look at the new footage which we were all over the moon about. Chloe continued to work on the website and also added pictures from the photo shoot taken in London to her website. Jono continued to edit his digipak with the new photos and it was all beginning to come together.
Wednesday 14th December
Today Alicia used our previous magazine research and created a magazine article to suit our new artist and her new genre. Jono got his first draft of his digipak finalized and Chloe worked on the merchandise store on her website. Evan continued to edit the music video as we only had a minutes worth of video within a week of the deadline.
Friday 16th December
Today Chloe finished the website of our new artist and made sure she gained feedback from her peers and her teachers. Alicia helped Evan edit the video and guided him on the special effects. Jono finished his digipak and made sure he also got feedback from his teachers and his peers.
Monday 19th December
Evan had nearly finished editing the whole music video with only 9 seconds to complete. Alicia, Chloe and Jono were there to help Evan if he needed it, in the meantime they split blog posts between them to help each other out with completing the blog.
Wednesday 21st December
Today was the last day of term before the Christmas holidays, Evan completed editing the music video and we were all very happy with the final result. As a group we worked well together and we helped one another out when needed and this is what made us a team. Completing two music videos as a group, two websites and over four different digipaks we finally completed our media coursework!
Today was the first real day that our music video ideas were put together to decide on a song. However, two members of our group Chloe sand Jono weren't in so me and Alicia had to come up with some personal ideas. As we both liked a previous music video that a student had one called East of Eden which had an interesting Indie beat as well as a compelling theme we would like to do something similar. After flicking through several songs we have found a few that we will discuss as a whole group tomorrow.
Tuesday 20th September
This was the first day as a whole group we could sit down and discuss what song we would like to have. As yesterday Alicia and I found a few we could become creative with yesterday we showed Chloe and Jono and they were convinced. However, we still felt from each song we discussed there was still a part of it missing for what we wanted. Therefore, later that night we discussed two song choices in a group chat which will be presented to the class for tomorrow.
Friday 21st September
As apart of the shooting schedule and the availability of our group we collected all the equipment needed to film in Chelmsford town. We started to film at around half 3 in the afternoon which meant we could still film in the right lighting and to have enough time before it becomes dark. We had several settings which we thought could be appropriate for the different beats and lyrics throughout the song. Overall we were very happy with the footage we got and will give us several shots for the editing process.
Thursday 22th September
After discussion in our group chat we decided on 4 songs to pitch to the class which we presented on prezi. During our presentation Chloe was taking notes of people's feedback so we could use this to improve on our ideas and which song was most popular.
Friday 23rd September
In this lesson, we did the lip syncing task where Chloe and Alicia sang along to the song we have chosen which is Hold Me Down - Hasley. We then uploaded these videos to you tube and edited them together using Adobe Premiere. This task helped us chose who would look better as the performer which was edited on Premiere. We found that both Alicia and Chloe could perform equally as well which means that we could alternatively switch between the two throughout the song.
Monday 26th September
At the start of the lesson Alex was the last person to pitch his ideas to the class as we left him feedback for him to consider. Evan, Jono, Chloe and Alicia all continued to look at our lap charts to continue the planning and research chart of our music video production.
Thursday 29th September
Today we continued with the work that we got issued in our lap charts. Jono started working on the Storyboard, Chloe was annotating the lyrics for the music video, Evan started on the Digipak through the use of an Emaze presentation and Alicia was continuing with the still-o-matic.
Thursday 6th October
Today Jono and Chloe were looking at costume and make up ideas for the artist. Evan and Alicia were researching unique locations to film to suit our artist.
Monday 10th October
Today Alicia created and edited the steal-o-matic for our artist whilst Evan and Chloe made a list of the props we would need to use within the video as well as finalising the costumes needed for our artist, Tori Lorente.
Thursday 13th October
Today Jono and Chloe looked at Album covers from big artists to see what we could be inspired by for our own digipack. Whilst, they were researching Evan and Alicia continued to edit the still-o-matic.
Monday 17th October
Today Chloe was annotating the lyrics of our song 'Hold Me Down' and this helped us with a couple of ideas to add to the video. Evan and Alicia finalized the still-o-matic which also gave us a wide range of ideas we could use and Jono started the digipak.
Friday 21st October
Today we sat down as a group and put everything we had researched all together and started creating a storyboard as well as a shot list. The storyboard included a lot of detail and had many different varied shots included in it as well as the time of each shot. After this was done Chloe did a voice over of the storyboard and Jono filmed it.
Monday 24th October
Today we started filming our music video. We shot in the new Bond Street of Chelmsford and in the underpass in the Army and Navy roundabout. When we got back to school we uploaded these photos on our computer and looked at the footage we had. Evan then started editing these shots together and we were all happy with the result we got.
Monday 31st October
In the last week, we were filming every day in 3 different locations. We shot again in Bond Street in front of a mirrored fish look a like background, we also filmed in front of Hylands Park and then again on a stairway in Chelmsford Town Car Park.
Thursday 3rd November
Evan continued to edit the video and by this time we had over 2 minutes worth of footage. Alicia helped with the special effects on the video. Chloe then started to create a website for our artist whilst Jono was making another digipak. Also, the last couple of days we were updating our blogs and making sure we were organised with our video and the website and digipak suited our artist and genre of music.
Tuesday 16th November
Today Evan continued to edit the music video to the best it can be. Jono was researching merchandise for our artist. Alicia and Chloe went off and did a photo shoot for our artist so we could add the photos to the digipak and the website. When Alicia and Chloe got back they both started researching different magazine ideas to see what inspired them to come up with a magazine idea for Tori Lorente.
Wednesday 23rd November
Today we had a final video, final website and a final digipak to present to the class and we gained feedback from our video. It was only up until now that we had realised our video didn't work. The lyrics didn't match the visuals and the song 'didn't go anywhere'. We found out it was quite boring and it wouldn't get us the grade and feedback we wanted. Evan then came up with a curve ball to create a brand new video with a complete different genre, type of artist, new website and new digipak. From today, everyone in the group was focused and determined to create our new video within 3 weeks.
Monday 28th November
Today we found different shots from different music videos which inspired our new video ideas and Evan then made this into a steal-o-matic. From this, Chloe came up with new costume ideas, Jono started looking at unique locations to set this video and Alicia was helping Evan with the steal-o-matic.
Friday 2nd December
Today Alicia and Evan traveled to London to film the new music video in Soho. Whilst staying at school, Jono started on a whole new digipak to suit our new genre, Urban, of our artist. Chloe then re created a whole new website for our artist to suit the new genre also.
Thursday 8th December
Evan started editing the new music video and we all got a first look at the new footage which we were all over the moon about. Chloe continued to work on the website and also added pictures from the photo shoot taken in London to her website. Jono continued to edit his digipak with the new photos and it was all beginning to come together.
Wednesday 14th December
Today Alicia used our previous magazine research and created a magazine article to suit our new artist and her new genre. Jono got his first draft of his digipak finalized and Chloe worked on the merchandise store on her website. Evan continued to edit the music video as we only had a minutes worth of video within a week of the deadline.
Friday 16th December
Today Chloe finished the website of our new artist and made sure she gained feedback from her peers and her teachers. Alicia helped Evan edit the video and guided him on the special effects. Jono finished his digipak and made sure he also got feedback from his teachers and his peers.
Monday 19th December
Evan had nearly finished editing the whole music video with only 9 seconds to complete. Alicia, Chloe and Jono were there to help Evan if he needed it, in the meantime they split blog posts between them to help each other out with completing the blog.
Wednesday 21st December
Today was the last day of term before the Christmas holidays, Evan completed editing the music video and we were all very happy with the final result. As a group we worked well together and we helped one another out when needed and this is what made us a team. Completing two music videos as a group, two websites and over four different digipaks we finally completed our media coursework!
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