The process of creating my advert...

So I am now about to begin to start making my advert and I have no idea what font I should use. What I have done is, I have visited dafont.com where there is a huge selection of fonts to choose from, so I have selected the ones I like the most and then asked various people for some feedback on what they think that I should use. This is what my feedback thought...

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All about editing...

Here are the screen shots of my editing my video, I have spent hours and hours editing the video and I have been modification after modification. I have enjoyed this process although it has taken me a while...

This is the video I had made originally when I was featuring Tauhida, during this process is when I realised that it wasn't going to work. They didn't convince me that there was any chemistry what so ever, this is my fault in the sense that I asked two people that didn't know each other to feature meaning that there would have been a sense of awkwardness but I still went along with it.

Editing proved to test my patience, I had been suffering from the mac behaving erratically which was rather annoying, occasionally the mac decided to even delete some of my previous progress. I resolved this situation by consulting an IT department worker in my school, who then updated the computer and it has been better since.

Here is me editing my video, this is the video I created the second time round featuring Katie. I felt that by making the decision to go with Katie was a good one because there was no tension or awkwardness between her and Alex. This really reflected in the video which was a big thumbs up!

I was going to put an establishing shot in the video but then I though that it wasn't really appropriate, as well as that I didn't like the way it looked, maybe that it because personally I don't think that Ware town is very aesthetically pleasing. As you can see here Im coming to the end of editing although I'm sure it's not the end. I will be ganging feedback along the way and hopefully I will produce a video that you will al like!

2nd draft

I was intending on posting my sec don draft but it seems to be taking longer to load than I had expected. Once it has uploaded I will load it straight on to the blog!

1st draft feedback

Those who I asked mentioned that they like it but they feel as though something is missing but they don't know what it is, taking this on I felt that the feedback didn't help me much so I went on to ask some people out of school who I felt would give me a more genuine opinion and they came to the conclusion that:

• Editing is too slow
• Not very interesting to watch
• The establishing should should be removed
• Concept is good
• try something with the editing

Taking this into consideration, I will make the modifications accordingly...

1st Draft of the music video

Here is the first draft of the music video which I shot in Ware, using Alex Trufanov and Katie Hoban. From making this draft I was able to gain sopme feedback in order to know how I can imporve it next time.
The feedback that I recieved was very useful and hopefully I can exercise them in my next draft that I will complete. Some of the advice that I was given was to edit the footage to the music and attempt to use an element of repetition due to the song being repeated here and there. 


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Storyboard (Revisited)

My storyboard has changed and I would like to explain why it is different to the one I had originally and also mention why. The reason as to why I have altered my storyboard is because I felt as though the original idea wasn't as effective. I gain some feedback and the one that stuck out the most was from my teacher mentioning that a song within my genre has a stereotype of being rather repetitive (which it is) therefore I plan to use this to my advantage. My new story is heavily focused on that 'boy meets girl' scenario which is very common but also fits in with the song choice.

Album artwork moodboard

Here is a selection of some of my favourite album covers. We feel these different covers stand out and would attract an audience to look at it. Although they  artists vary in genre, popularity and target audience, they all seem to have some conventions that are the same. For example, mostly don't seem to have the artist or a person on the cover at all. Both Drake (nothing was the same) and Gym Glass Heroes (as cruel as children) have the album title linking in with the picture but in a clever way, for example, Gym Class Heroes have a child getting laughed at by over children but he is also joining in however the child is in colour such as blue, green and pink and the children are in yellow, it is also in cartoon and makes it quite lively as it is in the Pop genre.
When deciding on our digipack and album cover, we will take into consideration what real artists have included. For example, as most haven't used an actual person or the artist, we will consider using different people or locations to make our digipack stand out. 

 

 

Hey guys I have now began the process of filming and editing my coursework I shall be posting screen shots and updates of my progress through out. I will kick off the process by asking my friends if they are willing to participate in the music video and scheduling time where we are all be free in order to start the shooting process.

Possibles layouts for our digipack

I have sketched some possibilities. In order to do this I analysed the cover of the original and then went on to see how I could make a clear link to the video as well as the style that we have chosen.

This layout displays both Lana Del Ray as well as James Dean. I have drawn a flower which is withered because it's alive but it's dying, this makes a link with the title of the album.

With this layout I have used a city landscape on the inside three panels as I feel that is very aesthetically pleasing. Having the landscape there helps set the setting of the video as well at the song. If anything is to change in terms of the location then the photograph will be of the location that we will be using so that there is a link between the two.

This layout also has the landscape with a alndmark in the middle the image may not have been neccasarily photographed like that it has placed on top which can be carried out on photoshop, the artist isn't significantly featured apart from in the smashed photograph. I feel that this emphasises the story of the album as opposed to the song that I am creating the video for.

The inside has the landscape and the outside has three different pictures all being relevant to the album as a whole. Lanaisn't featured on the inside of the digipack as I felt that this was not entirely neccesary because she is featured on the outised. You can find some digipacks where the artist is not featured on it at all although in that case there would be a distinct relationship between it and the album.