Digipak- newer ideas

When we had to think about the digipak properly we re-thought our ideas about the colours and even layout of the album cover itself, we were going to use a theme of black and white with a four pane front with each member of the band in a separate box and then it would be made humorous by giving them each a different type of moustache, this would give it a playful feel and would show that they are young at heart and want to have fun with their music. 

We have decided to change this idea and have a block colour background, we had different ideas on colours and depending on what colour we use it means a different thing or could give a different message to the audience. Black could mean that it is angry and quite hard metaly type of rock music, light pastel colours would not match the genre of rock at all, because they are too soft and would not match the type of music that is on the album. 

We have decided to use either red of orange, this is because it's bright and will match the type of music on the album, its all quite fast and loud music, and not depressing and slow, if it was slow and depressing love songs then it wouldn't match the genre and the colours used on the digipak would be duller as then it would more likely match the music, and matching the colours used in the digipak to the music in the album is a very important part of creating the digipak, this is because that way the audience will know what they are buying when they see the album cover. 

We have decided on changing the layout and complete idea of the album cover because we didn't believe that our initial idea of the moustaches would come across to the audience in the right way, i believe that the kind of idea that we were thinking to use, of using black and white in the way that we wanted to and the four boxes with each member in one could appear more indie to rock genre. This is because the whole look of it would appear not very rock looking compared to existing rock album covers. 

 

Feedback from rough cut

We got feedback from our class and also from the AS group, the feedback is below.

1. Good singing - lip synching

2. Good mise-en-scene

3. Good editing between the performances

4. Good lighting

5. Quick Cuts

6. Good close ups of the main singer

7. Like the close ups of the instruments

8. Variety of frames

 

So overall all of the feedback was good, apparently we have no ways to improve the video itself, so apart from the things we already know that we need to do we don't have to do anything else, this will help us to get on with the digipak once we have finished the video. 

 

 

Rough cut of video

This is the rough cut for our music video, it is not yet finished, we have to add some narrative in and speed up some of the shots, but other than that it is almost done, we are going to get feedback from other members of our class on the video and what we could improve.

Editing

Today i started to edit the music video, as me and Danny had already favourited the best clips it meant it was easier to go through the clips and select the ones needed for specific parts of the song.

We started off by uploading the music track into Final Cut Pro, we had to buy the track off of Itunes so the track was in the library and then import it into Final Cut Pro, this means that we have the track in the music video and now we have to put the correct and suitable clips in the right places.

We started by selecting the clips for the first part of the song, the first verse and dragging them into the event, then cutting them down so that we only had the part of the clip that we needed and that fitted with the music.
Once we selected any clips, before cutting them down we had to make sure the audio from the clip wasn't playing over the song itself, to do this we either had to detach the audio from the clip and then deleting the audio or turn the audio down by clicking on line in the clip once dragged into the event and the line has to be dragged down to the bottom of the green tab, this will turn the audio down, it is just temporary so this may be the better option as detaching the audio and deleting it is permanent and to get the audio back i'd have to put the clip in the slot again, from the file into the event. The audio may be needed to match up the lip synching.

First we did the start part of the song which has the beats at the beginning, we chose the clip that has the drums in it and the bass drum is being hit on the beat of the music, this clip fits perfectly to the music, this is good as it will look good, if it didn't match it would look tacky and not very good.

Uploading the footage and Selecting favourites

Today I started to upload the footage with my group, we had to upload all of the footage onto Final Cut Pro and then select all of the different clips that we had filmed before christmas off of the two different cameras that we used to film. We uploaded it all onto one persons computer as we are going to edit it together as a team. We will take it in turns so everyone gets a go and gets to put in their efforts, this way everyone can say that they did something towards the final cut. 

Once we had uploaded all of the footage. Danny and I went through all of the different clips and watched them all through, we then selected all of the clips we knew that we would be able to use at some point and favourited them by pressing 'ctrl' and 'f' together, this put a green line at the top of the clip so you know its been favourited and then all of the favourites go into one file, so when we are editing we can go straight to the favourites file and take the best clips from there, we then went and selected the rest of the clips and put them into the 'cutout' file, this means that if we need to put a little bit of a clip in anywhere, we might be able to take little parts of the cutout clips and use them.

This is the dropdown at the top of the files that appears, this is where you can switch between files, the different files are where all of the shots are kept, we will most likely be using the favourites files the most as this is where we have saved the shots that we know we will be using the most. We may use the all clips file when it comes to finding a cutout file that we think would fit in nicely that we didn't originally think would be suitable.