Evaluation question 4

This is my final evaluation question. I decided to do it on final cut pro as the images are displayed as i speak about a specific part of my process. It also shows the images we took whilst we was filming and allowed my to show exactly what camera I used and what effects I had to put into my video.

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation Question 2

I wanted to use a range of different softwares to show off my skills, however the video didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. I thought I would be able to get rid of all the green but unfortunately I couldn't this being said I am glad that I managed to get all the information that i needed to in there as well as showing off all my old digipaks as well as my new one.

I have learnt that next time i may need to move back from the green screen a little so the light isn't reflected on to me.

Evaluation Question 1

This is my first question from my digipak. i wanted to start off by showing my video whilst talking about the first question. It allowed me to show off my final cut pro skills more as well as my music video. I decided to keep the track in the back ground and play as it shows the lip syncing is in time with the music. I then turned it down so my voice was the main focus.

Digipak: Lyric Book

This is my lyric book for my digipak that will go in the top slot in the middle part of my digipak. This is what similar artist had in their digipak, for example Florence and The Machine so i decided it would fit well for my audience. It also enables them to learn the song by having the lyrics in front of them.

Digipak final

This is my last digipak. I decided to take inspiration from You Me At Six's album Sinners never sleep and have some photos that come out of the slots on the right hand side. I also wanted the audience to have a little added bonus for buying the album so there is a slot on the left hand side is a DVD documentary 'Rising Up' of how the band started up, showing footage of them playing in local pubs. This may convince the audience to but the digipak as they feel as if they are getting a present for buying the album.

Final Digipak Poster

This is my final digipak poser. I took feedback from Leanne and sinned as they said that you could tell that one photo had been stuck on top of another. I decided to instead use an existing image from when we did our digipak shoot and incorporate the same information on it from the last one.

Music video final

After hearing feedback from the class we decided to change some bit if the video in certain parts, for example some of the photos we put in didn't match and the tranistion between them didn't fit in with the cuts in the footage.

Editing

After hearing feedback from Leanne and the class we decided to edit some more of our footage. Changing the beginning chorus to a shot of the band singing as this was a convention that needed to be added in to fit better with the song. However we didn't want to repeat this shot later in the video so we decided to extend the shot of the band spinning around in danson park, which we felt suited better anyway. We also decided to add an old shot of the point of view shot of the cars driving past the artist. We then sped it up so it matched the pace of the song.

Editing: 26th November

Today  added some more photos into the montage of photos we have towards the end of the video. Theses consisted of photos that we took when we were shooting for our digipaks and some photos we decided to take up london.

I then exported it ready to show the class and gain their feedback tomorrow.

Editing

After talking to leanne we decided to edit parts of our footage that would match better to the beat of the song. For example towards the end of the song the tempo is increased so we cut some existing shots instead of having one for serval seconds. We also decided to put in more photos of the group throughout the song. This makes it more casual and friendly. 

I am very happy with the changes we have made with the video, I feel that it looks a lot better now and fits more with the conventions we intended to have in the first place.

Discussions about work

2nd draft

Editing: 7th February

Today we made some more changes to our music video. Changing the shots of us walking towards the camera to an old shot of us walking away. I chose this so the shots matched the ones that were more naturally orange. I then changed the speed so it fitted in with the beat of the music and fitted in with the following shot of the cars in London being speeded up.

We also changed the shots colours so that all the shots are now a more warmer colour and like the others have an orange tint to them. I feel this now makes the video suit better as before the shots we're more dark and a more blue colour.

Editing: 6th January

Today we edited all the footage we filmed from tuesday. We decided that the shots look a lot better than before and hope to show it to Leanne soon and hear her feedback

Filming: 4th January

This is our filming from the 4th of February. I am very happy with the progress with have made, we reshot all of the "why the hell it means so much to me" and "this is what i wanna be". We also filmed some 'selfies' as suggested by are target audience.

We are not completely finished with our filming as we are thinking of changing or reshooting some of our shots so that they fit in better with the rest of the footage.

Music video first draft

I am happy with the way our music video has turned out, i am hoping that we can re shoot some shots like some of the dark ones. I also agree with the feedback that everyone said

Digipak 7th draft

I haven't changed much on my digipak, i added a shadow on the text to make it easier to read and to make it stand out more. However i am still not sure about the white text contrasting with the black text, as only one pannel of the digipak has black and the others have white. I will ask my target audience of their opinion on it and if it isn't a problem i will keep it as it is.

Print advert

This is my third draft of my digipak. i changed the typography so it is all the same colour and added a shadow to the text to make it easier to read. I also changed the colouring by putting the screwed up paper effect that i used on my digipak on to my print advert. This makes the two match more and go together more.

I showed this to Leanne and Sinead today, they suggested changing the kerrang review to NME, as it would be more suited for our type of music and genre.

Editing

Today we edited the clips from yesterdays filming. We managed to get all the clips to fit in and luckily didn't have the same trouble with having to speed up the singing to fit in with the lyrics like we did last time. We tried editing the shots that looked a little too dark, however some shots like the last few of us running were too dark to try lighting them too much as they would look too flat. We are trying to make it far with everyone editing at different times and the others putting in suggestions on what could be done to make the shot look even better.

Filming

We met after school to film at megan's house. We decided to reshoot some of the shots we had already filmed, for example 'why the hell it means so much to me' when the lead singer hayley sung this we felt it didn't fit in well with the other footage. We are much happier with the out come with it now.
We also decided to film the shots for the instrumental in-between the versus and the chorus were we are walking towards the camera and the following shot when we see cars driving past. We filmed the shot were we are running towards the camera, however it was a bit too dark in some parts so we are not sure if we are able to use it or are going to have to reshoot.

We had decisions about changing our intertextual reference to something that may be easier to convey to our particular audience. One idea that was brought up was to recreate The Beatles famous walk over the road, we feel this will be suitable for our audience as we are a british band, like The Beatles. We are still planning to film on sunday up london and have arranged the places to meet and times and we meet again on monday to shoot the shots that need to be done at my house.

Editing the footage

Today we edited the footage that we filmed yesterday. We had quite a lot of shots to look through which turned out to be a good thing because some were not suitable. We added them to the other footage and now we have one full chorus and other footages as part of the verus'.

However, we changed a bit from our story board as we found that we had not count some of the extra 'suddenly i see' which we then decided to fill with a mid shot of the guitarist signing a back ground part. This looks better than what we had planned as we had planned to have me and megan as the background singers to begin with. We also discovered that although we did film quite a lot of shots of the lead singer miming along to the lyrics that some weren't right so we will have to reshoot them tuesday in order to make the clip look better.

We also found that some of the singing was too slow so we had to increase the speed slightly so it was in time with the music. We feel it fits in better now that the orignal clip.

Filming

Today we went back to danson to film a bit more of our music video. I feel happy with the progress we have made. We managed to film most of the singing parts of the video, including the close ups of the lead singer (Hayley) and the shots of us sitting all together.

However due to the weather we couldn't film the whole things we needed to film, therefore we have planned to film more on tuesday, again at danson and wednesday at megan's and my house.

The finally part of the filming will be done at london, which we are hoping to get done the following weekend and film as much as we can so we can edit in tuesdays lesson. There will only be about 15 shots to do at this point so we will experiment with angles and different shots and test them with the rest of the footage to see which one suits better with the whole piece. Hopefully everything will be done before the first screening in February.

Results

The first idea only got one vote, this was the idea i was least happy with. I found an image online of a scratch effect and put it over the image and turned the opacity down to make it look like the images had scratches on them.

I continued to did this with the others. The second idea again only got one vote which i found disappointing as i quite like that one as i felt it gave the digipak a more vintage look.

Finally, idea three got nine votes and 81% liked this one the best. This is the image that has the screwed up paper effect on it. I am pleased that this is the one my audience chose it was one of my favourites and i have decided to keep the design of it and just make a few minor changes to make it look even better.