Friday 24 January 2014

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

Thursday 23 January 2014

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.

Thursday 16 January 2014

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.

Wednesday 15 January 2014

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.

Friday 10 January 2014

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.

Thursday 9 January 2014

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.

Friday 3 January 2014

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.