How The Video Was Filmed (Photos)

This is a shot whilst filming the singer recording the vocals for the track,

what you can't see is the lack of space in the booth! We had to put the tripod

on a couple of chairs to get the lense high enough!

This one shows the chair method. We used this so we could get decent high

angle shots that overlooked the whole room while we were mixing to get a fly

on the wall kind of feel.

These three shots just show the basic set up of the session. We took them

to try to show the ways in which we filmed and positioned people, but they just

look like still shots from the video which they aren't!

Final DigiPak Product.

This is the final copy of the digipak. We went for a conventional rock theme, using the band logo as the main image as well as the bands rock themed font. Inside the case is a double sided picture of the band performing live.
We constructed the digipak using photoshop. We started by making the background using the band's traditional background.

We then went on to put the band logo in as the largest image. Below that we put the band name with the title of the digipak in the band's signature font.





After that we did the back cover the same way. Using the enlarged picture of the background as well as the same font listing the content.






Finally we cut a picture of the band playing in half using a tool. This made either side of the middle two plates.

Finished Website Link

http://www.wix.com/turningdays/online

Final Website Screenshots

When comparing these screenshots to the websites that I analysed earlier in the blog, I think that they look fairly similar, there is lots going on and all info needed is displayed. I think that there will be a few things that might crop up, such as a merchandise page that could be added, but for now (as there is no merchandise) this will be left.

Production Complete.

With the website and music video finished earlier, all that was left was the digipack. We finished that today which means we got all our production tasks complete before the deadline we set ourselves. This time management has helped us because it now gives us a full two weeks to complete our post production analysis and anything we need to blog.

Website Finished

The website is now finished, here is the link:

www.wix.com/turningdays/online

Changes On Second-Third And Final Draft

First things first, we took the logo, stuck it in Photoshop, cut the background, put it into Final Cut, layered it up again, went to motion, rotation, and basically made it rotate! I think this works quite well and is a nice touch.

A huge thing to note is that we now have the piano in the song! As you know, this was an issue for us because the piano player could not make it to the shooting. However, after research, I found that Muse- Starlight and Queen- Only The Good Die Young (at the end after Brian May swaps instruments) have piano in the audio, but not in the visuals. This gave us confidence.

A second change is that, after viewing more videos, such as one by You Me At Six, I can't remember the song, but it's off their first album, I think I've seen it in a Paramore video too where they have a black and white shot and bring all the whites up. I did this to all the black and white shots we have to try and make it look more professional.

Thirdly, I went through and literally went crazy on the colours of the live shots. My teacher took me through a live Led Zeppelin video, Good Times Bad Times and showed me the way the light and colours are used to reflect and enhance the performers. I basically made the colours stronger using the colour corrector effect and tried to make the shots look slightly psychadellic, and hopefully better.

Lots of changes to the second verse. Firstly, I brought the white of the background up to make it look as if there was special lighting being used and that all lights were on the band. Secondly I used two splitscreens, one showing all members in 4 shots, the other all members in 2 shots. I think these combined work really well together and make the second verse a lot better. It also creates a link between old fashioned out and out rock videos and more modern rock style videos, which links to the music because these two things are linked in the music.

I added a couple more performance shots in the second chorus, and a couple of sound check shots which link to the small narrative of the video which kind of snuck up on us. We had not planned much of a narrative, but due to all the locations and the way it builds up, there kind of is a really small narrative showing what it's like to be in this band.

I changed all the shots in the second breakdown, linking them all with the rhythm.

In the guitar solo I tried to make it a bit more creative by using the split screen twice more and once using an edge feather crop effect to make it look as if the guitarist is there twice.

These are all the changes we made and we are both happy with the way the video has turned out.

We will now be uploading it to Youtube and getting more feedback.

Finished Project

We have finished all the filming and editing of our music video before the deadline. Our personal deadlines and time management we set in preparation have helped us to now have a good amount of time to allocate specifically to the post production stage of our media project. Work on this will start first thing Monday and we plan to have this finished by the 12th of Febuary.

Second Draft- Audience Feedback

So after playing the second draft to a different group of people, the generallity of the feedback was better. There were still a few bits that needed sorting out.

Things that people commented on included:

Make the logo spin,

The second verse looks a bit dull in colour and shots could be cut down further,

The first verse looks good and matches the music,

Some of the vocals are out of time with the video,

The second chorus should be more based on performance not mixing work,

Colours of live footage could be stronger,

One comment stated that in the second breakdown part, the cutting of the clips should match the beat, and use more live/whole band footage in this part.

Now we must take these points in and churn them out into quality video making. As you can see, we have plenty to work on!

Roles

After getting half way through the editing process, we have assigned these roles to eachother:

Harry- digipak

Chris- website

Obviously we will cross over and work on both things, but mainly this is the way it will stand