Blog Reflection Week 13

This week we carried on with our digipak making more amendments and looking at other examples to give us some inspiration to what we could add on some of our panels. We used Kings of Leon as a main example for both digipak and magazine advert because they went for a simple look which is what we were heading for. 

 This digipak is very simple in design but supports the artist by it's images and this could represent the band and their songs. 
For the magazine advert we did our design first and then decided to add the rest like typography and small detail at the bottom like retailers where you can buy the album and information on where you can find out more about the artist and where the songs that feature, all on his website.

As you see from this advert we've done the same by putting our image as our centre piece and the title of the artist standing out at the centre top. At the bottom we had the name of the album and other details like a website, a logo of itunes to say where you can buy it through. We kept our aspect of the leaves and the guitar because they are both main aspects of our music video.

Blog Reflection Week 12

 At the beginning of the week we added our extra shots that we filmed over the weekend. The shots turned out to be really good and fitted in well with the rest of the video because we got a contrast of location because before it was mostly just based on one throughout so this helped it break up the video. We then recieved feedback and we were told that storyline flowed much better and is more interesting to watch because there is some sort of storyline now and the shots are more interesting to watch. We then managed to sort out most of the shots and watched it all to make sure that it flowed well and we really were pleased with how we edited it. Also we added in the rest of our effects and started to add our title on the beginning of our video. We changed our ending because we wanted to edit in a manner that just finished off the storyline. At the end of this week we started our digipak and magazine advert and we took all our ideas together to come up with each panel. To also help us we asked people what they would expect to see in adverts and on a digipak. These are some screen shots of our progress over the week.

Digipak Draft

In the digipak we are also going to add a message from the artist and maybe a picture of the artist. We are still planning on the two panels and will be looking into other artists and the ideas they had for their own digipaks.

Magazine Advert Draft

Draft music video: Carl Hauck - Windjammer

Blog Reflection Week 11

This week we recieved feedback from our peers and what they think about our video. This feedback helped because people were for our work and really were intreged to know about how we filmed certain shots and how we added and changed effects to make it look the way it did. We also were told that maybe we could add something in between the video give more of a storyline rather than the artist just being in the forest. We have the idea of showing more of our artist being rejected because that is what the video is about. The artist is suffering in the inside of the industry but when he is out in the open he is free to be the artist he wants to be without anyone telling who he is and who he should be. We are planning to film the rest of these shots over the weekend so that we can add them all on the following week and come to a climax of our video. These extra shots will make the storyline clearer for the audience to understand and should give it that extra lift to make it more exciting to watch.

Blog Reflection Week 10

This week we came back to school and started editing our shots. We uploaded our footage on to final cut and started to cut our intro to the beat. Whilst putting shots onto our timeline, we experimented with different effects and changed the colours in the background to make the video feel like it is set in autumn time. We managed to get half way through the video by the end of the week and plan for other products, the magazine advert and digipak and what and where things were gonna go and when we were going to do it around our schedule of editing. Overall the week went well to start off with our editing and we plan to finish it before the deadline so we have some time left over at the end to go over and make final touches.

Blog Reflection Week 9

This week we filmed in Hainault forest for our music video and we managed to film a lot of the video in the day. We had one of our friends who was going to feature in the video, he arrived late due to delays with transport but when he arrived we filmed more shot of him with our artist. The day overall went great as it allowed us to experiment with shots and because our song was based on nature it was a great location to film on. When filming naturalistic objects we tried to capture different angles and tried to get in the sun so we would have a flare running over the top of the shot. Throughout the day we managed to shoot all our shots and even extra shots that we could have added whilst editing.

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