Digipak design.

Today we started our digipak design. We kept the theme of hands from the website and we used a close-up of a pair of eyes to resemble the stalker girl's eyes in our video. We also kept the colour scheme the same with red and black to coincide with our original theme that is within the website. We kept the same fonts as the website.
Here is a print screen of what we have done so far.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Website design.

Our headings for our website are to appear on the arms of a person.

This is what we have done so far in Photoshop. The top arm will have the name of the band on it and the bottom one will have links to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The other three will present either gig dates, influences or the music video we have produced. I will next paste this image onto iWeb to take up the whole page.

We chose to have arms as a theme as in our video the stalker girl cuts into her arms in the intro.

Siobhan :)

Today's editing.

Today I filled in a lot of the walking shots with performance shots as this was pointed out to us last lesson for being too long. Now we have cut down the walking a considerable amount and it looks a lot better.

This screen grab shows the clips highlighted in blue which are now, not just walking shots but performance shots too. This shows how much walking we have cut out and replaced with the bands performance.

Now the whole song is full of clips and is practically finished giving us a bit more extra time to work on the website and CD cover.

Siobhan :)

Audience feedback

Today in our class we were given the chance to look at each others music videos so far and evaluate them

We got mainly 'good' for music video with two 'basic' and one 'excellent' for each of the points on the evaluation sheet.

The comments were 'some shots too long', 'narrative wasn't clear' and 'too much walking'. 

We are currently working on the too much walking point and hoping to put in some performance shots to fill this up.

This week we have filled the whole length of the song with shots in a suitable order, so it is just a case of shortening shots down and adding more performance in. 

It was suggested to us that we should do a bit of extra filming to make the narrative more clear however this seems unlikely with Christmas coming up as many of the band members will be busy or away for the festive period and it will be very difficult to get them all together at one time. It also seems too late to film now as we only have 4 lessons left before the deadline in January- it has been extended as we missed a weeks worth of media lessons due to the snow- it will create a lot of pressure to get these shots edited and put suitably into the video in time. 

The screen grab at the top is of our video so far and the clips that have been highlighted in blue are the ones that are solely of the band walking, this is what we need to shorten down and add the bands performance in to. It is 6 shots worth of walking and next time we blog we will have hoped to have shorten this down considerably.

Siobhan :)

Today is the first time we've been able to edit due to bad weather conditions. As the college was closed all of last week, we weren't able to book out equipment to shoot new material. The deadline for our music video has been extended to the 11th of January, so hopefully we'll be able to get the new material.

In the lesson i've shortened some of the clips down to go with the tempo of the music. I did this by using extra footage of the band practice and pasting them between the previous clips.

Safina :)