Editing Our Video

So far we have come up with this. We spent an hour on one part of the video because the lip syncing wasn't fitting in with the music for the video. We finally got the timing right. We then decided to edit the clips and we found an effect that we liked- we did this by using the effects on iMovie.

Asking Permission To Film

We wrote an email to our teacher asking if she could seek permission to the other teachers around the school as we had no way of doing this. We have till Tuesday to decide on another person we can film if one of our chosen choices say no. 

Filming

We was going to film today (5.12.13), however, the weather has turned out to be very window and we don't feel like we will be able to get good footage as the tripod won't be able to stand on it's own without support. So we have rescheduled the filming shoot for tomorrow as we looked at the weather and it indicates that it's going to be sunny from 9:00 am - 14:00pm. These are the times when we will be going filming.

Editing

This is the first part of our video that we have edited. We have played around with the editing techniques to create an old looking effect on the first part, this signifies the idea of memories in the video and I think this works well with the song. The effect also goes with setting, the old fashioned building along with the effect that matches. We have put together the bits of footage we have and looked at how we can get them in time with the music. After editing this clip of the video we have found that some of our footage is out of focus, therefore we have set a new filming date in order to get some better footage. This is important to keep the overall quality of our video up.

Editing Continued

We carried one editing the footage that we had today. We used the skills that we've already learnt through making movies on iMovie. We learnt how to make sure the footage was in time with the song. We also found that we might need to film again and when we can do this. We have also planned dates to finish filming and finish editing so that we can make sure our video is finished in time for the hand in date. We should whilst editing that playing around with the effects on iMovie will make all our footage come together and look as professional as we can.

Editing Our Video

We have started to edit our footage and play around with iMovie to get used to working with the footage. We used this video to help us edit our track so our lip synching and timing will be precise. We also played around with different clip effects to see what looked good and what would fit in with the genre of the music. 

Final Product- Digipak Poster

This is my final poster that goes with my digipak to promote my artist new album, 'The Another Love'. When creating this poster I tried to make it as simple yet eye catching as I could. This is why I included a bold dark title as this would get my audiences attention. Many artists albums will have a dark background and maybe a green screen with just a close up of the artist, I feel like my digipak is different and works well as it's the artists in the whole picture with the setting used in the music video I created- this gives my audience an insight on what to expect. I used Pages to create this advert because I felt comfortable with the skills I had for this program and knew I would be able to create this poster with every understanding I needed. I played around with the effects on Pages to get the light/mysterious contrast as seen above. I changed the opacity on the bottom advertising the album on iTunes, although it has faded in with the background, it is eye catching with the white faded background. This will prompt people to go and have a look for the album on iTunes. I chose to advertise the album on iTunes because that is a common software for people to download their music, compared to something like Amazon. I chose not to make a poster full of information and make it look busy, as this would make it look messy and I don't think anyone would be interested in looking at a poster full of information as they would have to hunt for the information they needed, e.g. where to buy the album. 

Final Product- Digipak

Here is my final digipak. I have also included a flipped version of my digipak to show you what it would look like once it has been printed. I feel like I have made a digipak that shows the genre that i'm trying to go for which is indie pop genre. I feel like I have succeeded this through the use of nature and light effects. I am pleased how all the pictures are different and in different locations however they go well together and blend in. They don't look odd and don't match. I stuck to my plan through out making my digipak however made some changes due to the fact I was able to experiment and mess around with photoshop and the effects in pages. I felt like it was easier to edit the photos in pages as I could have the exact effect I wanted by changing the settings of the photo. I decided to include a message from the artist to show his appreciation to his audience- this would make the audience feel good about themselves as they would feel like he is reaching out to then specifically as they are reading the message on the digipak that they have just brought. I made sure that I included his twitter name and main website because media and social network sites are most probably the best way of advertising himself. This could help sell the album more as a lot of teenagers use the social network and in order for them to go on the website and enjoy what they see, they could also share this with family and friends which would make the album well known. When I researched indie genre songs and digipaks I seen that most of the artist have a personal meaningful message within their music or on their digipak. This is why I included a short summary of him thanking his fans and showing his gratitude, to show how much his fans mean to the artist. 

Making My Digipak

                                                                  Front Cover

This was the final edit I decided to choose, I like this effect because it looks wintery, and thats the effect i'm trying to go for within my digipak. I think the background colours have good contrast as it goes together with the chosen font that I picked, it also goes well with the colour of the background. 

              

                                                                   Back Cover

I found it really difficult finding a colour to go with the font. It was hard because most of the colours I had chose complexed the whole picture- you couldn't see the font through the brown leaves. After playing around I noticed that the brown went well, however, from looking at the contrast and colours a few times, I realised that it doesn't go with the 'wintery' vibe i'm trying to set. From this, I decided to play around some more with the colours, and chose black and white. This works well with my genre as it's 'indie' and these are seen as typical indie style colours.

                                                                        Inside Flap

With this flap I found it difficult as I couldn't find a background for the writing that would match with the background as everything was blended in. I edited the photo to be a soft yet dark colour, I then chose a different font to what I have been using on my digipak to make it stand out more and not be to repetitive. I think the black and white worked well together as they are the opposites yet stand out and to look too out of sync with my background.

Inside Flap

I decided to choose a simple background for the inside of my CD, I had to choose a background that would be effective and work well with the other pictures so I decided to crop some of the nature out of the photos I took. I then went onto edit the trees to be more of a lighter colour rather than a green- this fitted into my digipak as it had the same effect as all the other photos.

With this photo I decided to keep it short and simple, I didn't want too many photos of the artist as I would loose attention and focus with my target audience. I found this photo the easiest as all I needed to do is edit the photo to the effects of all the other photos in my digipak. Then I decided to move the writing to the bottom left- this is different to the other photos in my digipak as they are all centred in the middle or on the right, this gives more of a boost to my digipak. I had the same problem with this photo as the last, the font and colour didn't go with the background, so in order to make this work, I tried a lot of different coloured fonts and then I tried using a background with the font. I realised that none of these was working with the font I chose originally, so I had to change my font, which was a really good idea as I found that the font fitted in more with the chosen picture (as the background). I then changed the opacity of the font to make it blend more into the picture, this works well as it looks more settled in with the whole image.

As I have chosen to have a lot of photos in my digipak I knew I had to make one photo different. So with this photo I went on photo shop and edited it on there, I decided to choose the effect above as I thought it was different eye catching. Not a lot of digipaks will have this effect without making the whole digipak like it.  I think I made this look effective and blend in my editing the picture to be the same colour and contrast as the other photos. 

Making Digipak Poster

This was my first session designing my digipak poster, I tried different types of colours and contrasts until I found the best one I found stood out and looked different. This is the outcome of the effect i'm going to use on my main digipak poster.

I decided that this didn't look right so I made my digipak first to get more ideas for my poster, I changed my whole idea completely by changing the image and changing the colours and contrast on the photo.

I liked this idea for my digipak poster and thought it went well with my actual digipak, however, by the time I was done and finished with this there was too much blank space and there was nothing I could put in the space to make it look okay- without making it look too busy and packed with pictures/settings.

This is my final digipak poster. I edited the picture to look the same as my digipak- this would appeal to the audience more as when they seen the digipak they would be able to know who it is through the simple lay out of the poster. I changed the subheading and logo to be at the top as I found it looked too messy before. This worked well as it is now more simple and not all over the place. I then added information at the bottom of the photo to let my audience know where they can purchase the music.