Finished Music Video

After the 1st draft George and I both realised that there were some things that definitely needed changing. We changed one shot that was of the castle as we felt it didn't fit the mise-en scene of our genre. I changed it to another establishing shot of the car park to gather more awareness of the surroundings. The other thing we changed was the colour correction of the night shots so that there would be a noticeable change and that the clip wasn't too dark to see the character in some shots.
Now that our music video is finished we realise there are a couple things we could of done better but nevertheless we are very pleased the outcome.

Final Magazine Advert

This is the finished magazine advert to go with out music video, as you can see the image is different to the one on the digipack and is a massive change from the original image. I did the same thing with the advert as I did with the digipack, I took the original image and recoloured it to make it look image was at night and George added the text and the thought cloud. I think it turned out pretty well and is quite convincing.

Final Digipack

This is the final version of our digipack which I created. The images were taken by us and I feel it turned out well and is a believable digipack. I initially wanted to do a CD digipack but it was on a whole a much better option to do a DVD digipack.

Magazine Advert Speed Art

Me creating a draft version of our final Magazine Advert.

Editing: Colour Correction

A short video to show what kind of colour correction I used in the music video.

Editing: Split-screen

How to split the screen into half on sony vegas.

1st Draft of Our Music Video

This is the first draft of our music video. Upon looking at it there are some things we need to change to make it much better. There is one shot which doesn't suit the urban theme to the music video along with the colour correction on the night shots is a little too dark minimising visibility. These are the two major issues that are present from reveiwing the first draft. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSgKZw83Cbc&feature=feedu

Editing, editing and more editing!

We are coming to the end of the editing of our 1st draft. All the clips are in place in-sync with the music. All we have to do now is add some CC (Colour Correction) to make the clips look good because without it the shots are quite bland. The night shots due to the camera have a lot of noise gain on them which is quite difficult to remove.

Editing Our Music Video

Here are some screenshots to show how editing is going, as you can see we achieved the desired split-screen effect to connote the idea of day and night through our song using this theme.
I had to do several things to make sure that the split-screen would work well, one being changing the height of what's visible and then rendering out the clip. Once I have the rendered clip I then masked the extra black part on the left on the clip from previously moving it to the top so it wouldn't be visible when placing the night shots underneath. I will make a video tutorial on how to do it with a commentary over it.

The easiest way to do this to every shot, was to minimise the height of every shot and then put them all together and render them into one whole clip. I did the same to the night shots and then placed the day clips on the top layer and the night shots on the bottom layer. I also then applied the mask to the entire clip to save me having to go through every clip.

Typography

The typography part of our music video was the most time consuming. It took me around 2 hours to put the text in -sync with the lyrics with some more diverse transitions for some of the words. The typography was quite basic so it didn't take too long.

Editing has begun.

Time to edit! This is the part of our production stage which will bring our music video to life as most of our concept revolves around editing. Me and George are quite good at editing from past experience and we are quite confident that we can pull off what we want our music video to look like.

We will be using two pieces of editing software, one is Sony Vegas and the other is Adober After Effects.

Me and George decided that I will be doing the majority of the editing as I have a better computer and did a better job on last years AS film project.

 

Kid CuDi - Man On The Moon Digipak Analysis

Kanye West | 808's & Heartbreak Digipak Analysis

This digipak has a a simple theme that surrounds an image of a heart shaped balloon. The styling of the front cover is simple yet effective showing just a picture of an abstract heart. The middle of the digipak follows a simplistic theme by having a picture of the artist with the image from the front cover on his chest (the heart). This image follows onto the other panels in the middle section of the digipak with a wave of colours that are quite washed out. This connotes that the album isn't "full of colour" as the term goes.
The CD itself has the abstract image of the heart on it along with the coloured stripes from the middle panels of the digipak. This allows the whole digipak to have the same theme across it.
The back of the digipak has yet again a simple design with the track list being quite washed out along with the record lbale logo and the production information. There is also a barcode on the back which can  be seen on any digipak.

Filming - Day 2

We have now filmed all of the day shots and to achieve the effect of split screens one being day and the other night we have to film in the same locations at night. Lighting wasn't much of an issue in our locations because they  each had sufficient lighting for filming. Filming at night was slightly harder because we had to come up with new and creative shots different to the ones we got during the day, the camera also has a harder time picking stuff up at night causing the quality of the picture to decrease which is something you don't want to happen at night.

Me and George feel filming went very well.

Filming - Day 1

Today me and George went to film our initial shots for our music video. We managed to film everything we needed for our day shots and we are quite please with the amount we got. This will allow me to draw up and idea of how I am going to edit the video. George and I have to go back to all 3 locations and film again at night so we can have the desired half and half visuals of day and night to go with the song.
Below are a couple of images at location.

Actor Problems

Dan Lisle was our main actor and after having a talk with him, we realised that it would be hard for us to all be available at the locations to film. We decided it would be best to do it without him and so George took the role as main actor which in all honestly is much better because he knows the lyrics to the song and has a general idea of what we want the music video to look like.

Shooting schedule - Call Sheet

Schedule:

Day 1:

09:00: Filming at Location 1.

10:30: Filming at Location 2.

11:30: Break/Lunch.

12:00: Filming at Location 3.

13:00: Finished.

Day 2:

16:00: Filming at Location 1.

17:30: Filming at Location 2.

18:30: Break/Dinner.

19:00: Filming at Location 3.

20:00: Finished.

Location #3 - Footbridge over M4

Me and George feel that this location is quite unique and will fit perfectly with our genre and the style of our music video. The location is quite remote meaning we will be free to film whatever we want with no interruptions. Being so isolated we have to be careful and safe when we are filming at night.

The footbridge is over a motorway which is very dangerous so we have to be very careful when filming and remain safe at all times. Knowing all this we feel that this location is ideal for us.

Location #2 - Walkway

This location is ideal as the area fits with the genre of the music, it has a lot of space, and is symmetrical allowing us to use this location for the base idea of our digi-pack. The lights that turn on at night give a great effect which will look good on the digi-pack as well. The location overall is very successful.

Location #1 - Car Park Roof

This is the location me and George decided would be the best for our intitial shots as there is a nice view of Windsor, it will be clear which shots are day and night and is easily accessible with a lot of space. At night there is good visibility from the lights in the car park.

Music Video Sequence

Main Concept; Screen spilt into two, top half day and colorful, bottom half night and dark.

Intro; Establishing Shots

Beginning; Rooftop location, balloons on day half, none on the night half.

Chorus; Kinectic Typography over shots.

Middle; Walking down pathway, cuts interchange with singing shots. Maybe slow motion walking.

Chorus; Kinetic Typography over shots.

Middle 2; Bridge over motorway, Slow-motion shots and singing.

Chorus; Kinetic Typography over shots.

The End