Final Viewing.

This is our final finished Music Video. This thursday we got given feedback. There wasn't much only to improve on the lip syncing and add the titles. The problem with the lip syncing was that it was fine on final cut but when it got exported it wasn't as good and it was slightly out of time. We have sorted this now and it looks much better. We also made sure to add the titles. All this was done after the final viewing. We were incredibly happy with the response and all three of us felt very proud.

Editing

After we filmed on Tuesday we decided to take a head start on the editing process as it is incredibly time consuming. We had many issues today including the images being saved as CR2 files which weren't recognised by final cut pro. this made the editing process last even longer due to the fact they all had to be saved individually as JPEG's and with 300+ photos needing to be converted we lost a lot of time. Even though it took a while to finally edit these scenes we had filmed the results are worth it and we are all pleased with these individual scenes.

Filming

In today's lesson we took to the music room to attempt to get a few filler scenes filmed for our Music Video. Part of the feedback we received once the music video was shown to the class was that they wanted to see more and so we literally have been trying to film as much as we can to keep the Music Video looking interesting. Other scenes we need to film are a couple with the men but also we need to film more with the actual band as that is our closing scene. We should be done on time if we stick to what we have to film and when and if it keeps going to plan. The scenes we shot today included a microphone getting wrapped up but a head phone lead, two head phones going head to head and a part of the drums slowly moving up and down. These scenes which don't include the men will be just before we have a shot of the actual band playing in the music area.

Feedback - First Screening

The feedback we gained through the first screening of our Music Video and Prints media was both good and bad. All the feedback was well received and meant that we now have plenty to work on and improve before the due date. I am able to understand the comments on the Music Video and i agree with everything that was said but now one of my main focuses will be the print media. My problem was that it did represent the indie genre although i tried hard to add colour consider the name of the album'Colour Spectrum' and the creativity of the Music Video. I plan on keeping different colours but toning it down and maybe add some less vibrant colours to represent the genre.

Editing and Filming

We had a very successful day of filming and editing. We found plenty of objects that we were able to use in our animation. We found an old turn table which we used and plenty of switches we could use to create more fun interesting scenes for the stop motion. After hours of filming we went back to school and edited it all in a fast amount of time.

Digipak Feedback

This is the feedback I got for my digipak. The things I need to do now I have this feedback includes changing the background I have created and changing the colours. I need photograph more of the band members and finally I need to play around with the panels changing what I put where and making sure it doesn't promote one song more then the whole album.

Thursday 21st November 2013 - Animatics feedback and viewing.

In todays lesson we did a screening of our animatics. The feedback we received was mostly positive which was incredibly pleasing for us. Most people said to us that they liked the timing and the pace and also they really liked how we included most Goodwin's Analysis.

Group Meeting/Feedback

In this lesson we were set a task to create the animatics for our music video. We completed the task and I found it a successful thing as we now know the timings and we have a rough idea a to what the music video will look like.

The second things we did in the lesson was have a meeting with Leane to see what parts were up to in the flming and also to make sure what we are doing is right. Leane gave us plenty of helpful feedback and now we know what we need to do to  carry on, on the right tracks.

Changing the target audience!

After we pitched our idea for the Music video to the class the feedback we was given was that we needed to change the target audience as it was previously too broad. Now we have changed the target audience to teens and older teens. The response we got is that we should stick to teens rather then the older generation.

I feel that teens would probably work more compared to an older generation because our band is made up of four guys in the Indie genre who represent 'having fun' and also the 'coolness' of being British. I feel like Four males who don't take themselves too seriously who don't really care what others think of them would have a target audience of teens and older teens because stereotypically all they really care about is drinking and having fun.

Lesson Journal - 4/11/13

In todays lesson we had planned to create a digipak presention to present to the class but as we were a group member down we have delaid it until next week. Instead me and Nicola ventured over to music to photograph some instruments for our digipaks.

Story Boards

Presentation and feedback.

This is our presentation to the class.

Track Listing

In today's lesson our group thought about what we need to do in the future and also we thought about our track listings. We sat down at the table and discussed our future plans and what we need to do in order to get together our individual digipaks.

Feedback with Leane

I was unable to get hold of the video which was recorded with the one on one with Leane but the feedback was roughly that I needed to post all of the posts I hadn't posted yet due to them being saved as drafts. Label each of my posts correctly and finally go into more detail when putting the posts up onto the blog. I have gone through and done everything Leane has asked. Hopefully I am now up to date and I will carry on doing her advise so I don't fall behind on the blog.

Brainstorming

In todays lesson we have filmed ourselves brain storming ideas for filming our music video before we come to story boarding.

Monday 7th October

In todays lesson we planned our digipaks even more, we all got handed a piece of paper to fold into six and to draw out and plan roughly what we would like to include in our digipaks. I have a rough idea on what I would like to include in my digipak, I'd like to keep it simple and not have it too over whelming.  after planning the digipak and drawing it out I found myself with two spare squares so I plan to do more research into other digipaks so I can gain a rough idea on what I would like to fill my final squares with.

In order to complete the digipak here are the things I will need to do in the up coming weeks:

- Photograph males for silhouette images in an appropriate location
- Photograph plasticine and play dough
- Make text out of plasticine and play dough.

30th Septmber - Lesson Journal

In this lesson we went through other artists digipak's and analysed them closely taking in what we would like to interoperate in our digipak's and what we would like to steer away from. I analysed numerous digipak's including artists such as 'The Beatles' The Maine' and 'Beady Eye'.

Throughout the two hours of our lesson on Monday morning we filmed ourself on a green screen to help analyse some of the digipak's. I chose one of The Beatles digipak's to analyse on the green screen.. It was a productive lesson as we had to use the green screen and fit out image of the digipak behind us as we spoke. I am currently in the process of editing it and it will be posted soon but I do have my image ready and my piece of analysis filmed.

Tuesday 17th September - Lesson Journal

In today's lesson we created a quick presentations in our groups to show the rest of the class our ideas and to get suggestions from others. Through doing this we managed to get a clear understanding in out heads about our plans for the music video. Also we were given some ideas from other students which will help us in the future when it comes to planning and story boarding our music video.

Monday 16th September - Lesson Journal.

In the lesson today we learnt that a digipak normally includes...

• A front Cover
• The CD
• Songs
• Lyrics
• Band pictures
• Images relating to song.

After putting some thought into what I would like the digipak to include our group came up with a brainstorm and these are some of the things we would like it to include...

For the final task we had a think about similar artists to our band and some of the things we got inspired by whilst thinking about them and here are the few...

• Foo fighters - We thought about how they have a similar styles of music to our band, we felt as if they had a similar styles and we really enjoyed their creative funny music videos. 
• Blur - We picked Blur because of their artistic, cartoon like album covers they have. We really liked this and we felt we would like to interoperate this in some sort of way on our digipak's and music video.
• Oasis - We thought their style would help represent our band as when we picture our band we feel like they are casual males who don't take too much care with the way they dress. 
• The Verve - We felt as if they have an incredibly similar music style to 'Tonic' plus we thought they had a similar appearance too.