Final Magazine

Final  Magazine

Final Digipak

Final Digipak

Final Music Video

Final Music Video

Week 15 blog reflection

Week 15 blog reflection

This week was our final week in product. Our deadline was Thursday for our main product. Our main focus this week was finishing our ancillary products- Magazine and Digipak.
Our first decision of the week was making sure that we both knew what we are doing. We broke the two products up, Ella did the magazine and I did the digipak.
This week was hard as we didn't have much time to spend on our ancillary products meaning we had to rush them in order to meet the final deadline.
The week started with us taking more photo's of Ediz the artist, we used the green screen as we had the plan to have the artist walking across the inside panels of the digipak. However this didn't work out how we wanted it to when we started editing the pictures in fireworks. I felt that it looked too random in terms of the positioning, when i added more of him walking it looked to cramped. I then also had to decided between photoshop or fireworks. I chose fireworks because i have more knowledge with the program but i will use photoshop to edit the pictures because its much more easier.
I felt that making the ancillary product was harder than it looked as the editing on the images had to be very detailed in order to go on a background. Also picking the image to represent the artist was hard and finding a meaning. I decided that i wanted the artist to look sad as the album is about love.

I then used the pictures i edited to create the middle inside panel. I edited all the images of Ediz walking together.
I then had to make the decision of the colour scheme which i found hard. I had to make sure the colour were consistent and the colours appealed to my target audience. So i stuck with the red, black and white colours. Our main focus was to try and get all three products the same in order to appeal to our target audience. Overall i was happy with our final products when we handed them in as i felt they matched our genre. 

Week 14 blog reflection

Week 14 blog reflection

This week has been focusing on finishing up the music video to the standard that we wanted it after taking all the feedback that we got. We spent a lot of time out of lessons working on our product. We also had to think about our ancillary product and how we could match all the two ancillary products and the music video.
The main decision this week for the both of us was deciding what we wanted to do with the lighting. We decided earlier to have a red tint on the behind the scenes part and a black and white on the narrative scenes.

However the red tint wasn't consistent on all the scenes because the original clips had their own lighting. The red was a light red and our teacher gave us an idea to make it a dark red as the colour palette overall with our music video is dark.
This week we also tried to get rid of any missing gaps and change any scenes we didn't like after watching and re-watching the video. We found that we when we spaced out the clips on the timeline we had small gaps. We just extended both clips to see which one suited the gap better.
Overall i was happy with the timing of this week as we were on track and only had to start one day after school. I felt happy with the music video as well because the changes helped the work. 

Week 13 blog reflection

Week 13 blog reflection 

This week has been purely focused on editing. Our deadline was meant to be this week but it got extended meaning we had more time to edit and get all the bits together. Our main focus this week was trying to add transitions and get the lip syncing on point. In our Monday lesson we got group feedback from all the other groups. This helped me and Ella see what our target audience thought of our music video. The feedback we got was sort of helpful but not many people gave us things we could change. However Abir and Rianne said that some of the lip syncing needs to be put into different places, that towards the end of the music video it stops cutting to the beat.

The main strengths of the video that people gave us was good camera movement through out the music video, this comment repeated the most. People also liked the over lays we had with the lights, when Ediz was singing with the guitar. 

The majority said they like the miss-en-scene which is good because mise-en-scene is an important aspect to our genre. They liked the parts with the lights and the black background as they thought it was creative.

This feedback which we got really influenced our work, as we decided to get rid of some of the bad lip syncing scenes and we added another scene of the girl to make it clear about the narrative. However someone said that Ediz in the narrative doesn't look like a homeless guy which we agree with but me and Ella decided we were happy with what we have.

This week we learnt that getting people to look at your work is really helpful especially when the people giving feedback are in your target audience. The feedback helped improve our work and helped point out aspects me and Ella couldn't see. 

Week 12 blog reflection

Week 12

This week we have only focused on editing and getting our first draft done by Thursday which we did. We still need to include transitions and manipulate a few clips but overall i am happy with our first draft. I really want to get  feedback from class mates as they will be our target audience so we can change things that don't appeal to them. This will be done in Mondays lesson, giving us the other half to carry on editing. Our deadline is next week meaning the pressure is on to finish the editing. Our main decision this week was deciding if we wanted to keep a location in the music video as we didn't have enough shots of our artist in this location and we had too many locations in the music video. I left one clip of him in there so i can see what people in class think on Monday. We also decided to change the filters on the behind the scene clips. We went from black and white to red because we watched a few music videos and we saw that indie genres tend to had either a red filter somewhere in the music video or red lights. We also decided to make the narrative black and white so people knew which parts are narrative as we have the artist in both the narrative and performance. We got this idea from Ed Sheerans video as we felt it was more effective. 

Next weeks the final deadline to edit the music video which has come very fast but i fell like the music video is what i planned it to be like. I am happy with the clips and editing we have done and i feel that we have met the genre of our music. We will meet this deadline however we still have finishing touches to do such as the transitions and making clips more shorter.

This week also was easier due to the fact that i felt more confident with final cut and was able to edit the clips more easily making production time more effective due to the YouTube clip.