Rough cut feedback

This is our rough cut of our music video. After finishing the rough cut we decided to show our class to then have constructive criticism on the video. Our rough copy didn't have all of the clips in, so there were still some big gaps in the middle of it. The only comment that was made was regarding the editing towards the end of the video. At the beginning we added in jump cuts to the beat of the music. This rhythm comes back towards the end of the video an it was suggested that we should go back to cutting the clips like that. I think this would work really well and would tie the whole video together. So now we will go back to editing the final parts to our video and add in the last clips, then we will have finished our video. 

FINAL Digipak and Poster

These are our final Digipak and Poster designs. To finalise the poster we added the sold out signs and also the final album front cover to the bottom of the poster. This links together the two products and typically a band will go on tour to promote a product. Below shows the final layout to the album cover. We are really pleased with how it has turned out and it is good to see all of the different elements work together. 

Roles within our Digipak and Poster:

-Photography: Esther and Anna

-Typography: Ella

-Design work: All three of us

-Editing: Ella

Digipak editing-CD case

This is going to be the front cover to our album. We felt that the cover should show the star, so when we were filming the performance section we took some photos that we could use for the cover. We used a lightbox that was in the studio to carefully light Miles face. 

These four screen shots show the use of light painting for our album cover. The two on this row will be inside the album and the two screenshots below are of the spines of the case. I think that the light painting works really well as a background because it is quite simple yet effective, so it doesn't distract any attention away from the star.

These two screen shots are of both of the CDs for the album. We wanted to keep the CDs really simple because we felt that colours and photos should be used in the covers. 

This is the back cover for the CD album. We took this photo when we were filming the performance section to the music video. The writing seemed to luckily fit perfectly between their faces this is just a list of the songs. 

Digipak editing-Poster

For our poster we chose a image that we shot when we were filming our music video. The lighting worked really well as it wasn't too bright, the lighting really helped us with reinforcing our genre. We didn't want the font on the poster to be too  complex because we didn't want there to be any attention taken away from the star image. We added the dates around the face as this is a normal convention of a tour poster. The poster looked a lot more professional after we added the bands names and a image if the CD cover as this relates to the music video. 

Editing-High speed clip

There is one part in the song where the music seems to slow down ever so slightly. It is a transition into the chorus, and we felt that we should place something effective in the gap. To match this weirdly paced section, we felt that we could group a set of shots together and then speed them up. The duration of this transition is about 3 seconds, so the clips would have to be quick and equal. We chose the clips that we used at the beginning of the video, this therefore acts as a flashback to what had previously happened to the girl. After speeding the first 5 clips up, then having the last one at a normal speed, the overall effect was really good. It fits with the music really well and leads into the next performance section effortlessly. 

Editing-Slo-mo and Colour Correction

These are some screen shots from our editing on Final Cut 10. We have decided to add some slo-mo into the video because it fits a lot better with the beat of the music. The slo-mo also makes the clips seem more dramatic as it puts more emphasis on them. We wanted the clips to match the colour theme that we have running through the whole video, we had to desaturate the colour. 

Planning for Evaluation Questions