Alan Skawina

A-Level Media Blog
by Alan Skawina
(RESEARCH) (BTS) The Photoshoot
All these photos, including some more that I had taken but not posted in here, were of the purpose to create emotion as in the emotion...
(RESEARCH) Planning for a Photoshoot:
When preparing to plan for a photoshoot a lot of things have to be taken into consideration to make sure it all goes accordingly. In...
(RESEARCH) Codes and Conventions of a Website for an Artist:
When it comes to an artist ready website it has to catch the audience‘s attention instantly and what better way to do that is then a high...
(RESEARCH) Creating a Logo for my Artist:
This task consisted of me creating a logo for my artist. To do this I began my journey by going on a website called dafont.com and...
(RESEARCH) Defining my Perfect Audience Member:
If I was to define my perfect audience member for this music video they would have to have these characteristics: - Lively - Determined...
(RESEARCH) Positioning of Artist Logo and Title of the Song:
In the final piece I want to have the song title and artist names appear in sequence fashion directly in the centre of the screen. This...
(RESEARCH) Three Things I Will Be Considering During the Production:
One thing to consider is that I need to make sure I do all of my filming in one day because things over the course of a day may change...
(RESEARCH) Greenscreening in After Effects:
The task for this was to add to green screen effects to a video that we had previously edited. I took the ”cutting to the beat” video and...
(RESEARCH) Getting A Better Understanding of The Script:
”Breakeven“ is a very interesting music video portraying a romance and love story. The reason I like this music video because it uses...
(RESEARCH) Stock Footage in After Effects:
This was a part two of another project. This is the continuation of “Cutting to a Beat” where I took the video and played with FX...
(RESEARCH) More Music Video Practice:
I was assigned the task to take these three clips and edit them to this song. The biggest challenge of this edit was the lipsync since...
(RESEARCH) Cutting to the Beat:
The things that went well during the editing process of this was that it was easy for me to gather all the clips and edited them...
(RESEARCH) Sony Music Entertainment History:
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(RESEARCH) How to Lip Sync:
As a task, we was given “Happy by Pharrell Williams“, specifically the first minute, and the task was to create a draft music video of...
(RESEARCH) Analysing Pop Rock Music:
Hymn for the Weekend - Coldplay Hymn for the Weekend produced by the Coldplay and it’s an extremely popular song pulling in over 1.7B...
(RESEARCH) Developing Understanding of my Song’s Genre:
My song choice is Hall Of Fame by The Script ft. Will.I.AM. It is an Indie Rock song that focus and aims itself at personal growth and...
(RESERACH) Mood Board:
This is my Mood Board for my preparation to the music video. This is a more visual representation of what I might include in the video to...
(RESEARCH) Music Video Analysis: Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"
This music video "Baby One More Time" presents the artist, Britney Spears, as a school girl that is looking for teenage love. She depicts...













