Risk assessment

This is a risk assessment that we created to allow us to prepare for any risks that we may face during the process and so prepare for these and know how to avoid them, some of these are quite likely to happen and others are incredibly unlikely, however it is useful to consider every possibility so you are prepared for the worst.

Choice of actors and costumes

Our music video requires only two actors so me and my partner Alex have created a list of who we think would be best suited for these roles, and also reliable to film with. luckily we were able to get two well suited actors for each role.
Our protagonist will be played by Caius (left) who is well suited to the role as he has a beard and so will look older, and will be convincing to the audience that he is of legal drinking age. Our antagonist will be played by Joe (right) who is well suited to his role as he is tall and so will look imposing over Caius and so will make him seem scarier and more powerful to the audience.

                     

For Caius' costume we would like to make him seem placid, unimposing and just like the average British male to try to draw sympathy towards him from the audience. To obtain this preferred reading we will dress him in a plaid shirt or light coloured jumper (as seen in the photo), with black or blue jeans. For joes character we would like to make him seem powerful, shady and violent, so to achieve this we will have him wearing all black, branded clothes, such as a 'The North Face' raincoat and black jeans, wearing sunglasses to make him seem even more shady and black shoes.

BAD NEWS
Caius has decided to drop out of his role as the protagonist of our piece so we have decided to use another friend, Ruben, to play this role. Below is a picture of Ruben in his normal attire.

We will have Ruben dressed as I described for Caius or possibly wearing a denim jacket as opposed to a light jumper. The only major downside of using Ruben as our actor instead of Caius is that he doesn't have a beard so will look younger, however this is unavoidable. 

PHOTOS FROM THE SHOOT

Below are photos of our cast in their full costumes from our shoot day in Exeter and from filming greenscreen footage later on.

I think that both their costumes work quite well to portray their character effectively and also conform to the conventions of both alt hip-hop and alt rock.

Primary audience feedback on my draft ancillaries

Recently I asked Jack, who goes to my school and is part of my primary audience as he is an 18 year old male, to give me some feedback on my draft ancillaries. His insight was useful and he made some good points, for example the idea to add a production company and other logo's however some suggestions such as to add feathering will not be required when the actual project is finished.

Digipak first mock up

This is my initial first draft to my digipak, I only created this to allow me to visualise certain ideas and to see what may or may not look aesthetically pleasing. I will have to make drastic changes for my final ancillaries however, as they cannot use any images from outside sources, such as the Gorillaz logo, background, heads or the eyes.