This is my final edit of my Digipak, I added the Twitter and Facebook logo to show that our artist DJ DES is a promoted artist as she is on social networking sites. I also chose to add a segment of copyright text as I believe this makes the Digipak look more realistic.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Media Presentation
This was the presentation in which I presented to the rest of my class as an evaluation of my music video
Monday, 19 March 2012
Evaluation Powerpoint
Friday, 24 February 2012
24-02-2012
Today we had our final music video screenings and showed the rest of the class our poster and digipak designs to get some feedback and see if there was anything we needed to improve on.
It was good to get some feedback on what we had added to our music video from the last time we showed it to the class. Also, it was nice to get some feedback on my digipak and poster just to see if it looked like they linked together. I have a few minor changes to make and then I think I have finished all of my pieces.
It was good to get some feedback on what we had added to our music video from the last time we showed it to the class. Also, it was nice to get some feedback on my digipak and poster just to see if it looked like they linked together. I have a few minor changes to make and then I think I have finished all of my pieces.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Screen shot of my Poster
This is the new edit of my poster that I have made, I chose to change the old one slightly just so there was more of a link between my digipak and my poster. I believe it is better to have a link between the two other wise people may not know the two are for the same artist whereas when they are quite similar a customer could just walk into a shop and know what they are looking for after seeing the poster. However, I do like the new version slightly more as I feel it is an improvement on the old one with the same colour scheme as my digipak. Overall, I am happy with the outcome.
Screenshots of my Digipak
I was playing around with the effects on the images and I got one that created a kind of silhouetted image and I decided to change the hue/saturation to create different colours so I chose green, pink and blue. I really like how these have turned out as they are all quite bright and the contrast works really well.
I really like how my digipak is starting to look as I decided to change it because there wasn't much of a link between the poster and the digipak after I made my poster so I decided to start from scratch again. I also chose to take shots from the music video to create the discs and kept them black and white as they are to keep a contextual reference to the music video. However, I changed the contrast to keep them similar to the other images with a high contrast.
For the front cover I have chosen to use my favourite out of the images I have used, another reason that I chose to do this is because this one is the only one that is quite close up so the others are quite similar, making the digipak look slightly symmetrical. I then chose to use the same font as I used for my poster with the album name and artist name.
For the back of the digipak I am writing the song titles in the font I have previously used but just making it smaller so it suits the style more and is easier to use.
10-02-2012
Today I managed to finish my digipak and poster to the quality I am happy with. I am happy with the overall outcome and the fact that I have included references between the two products and also references to the music video. Also, we added the finishing touches to our music video, ready for when we return from our half term so we can screen our final product to the rest of our class and maybe gain some further feedback on what we have tried to improve upon from our first screening.
Screen shots of my Digipak process
Here are all the screenshots that I made of the process of my digipak. I decided to use colours of the images as a theme of the digipak so I decided to make the song titles of the same colours. Also as you can see in the last one I decided to include the barcode and the Sony BMG logo to make it look more realistic. I'm quite happy with the outcome. There are lots of connotations linking the digipak to the poster and the high-contrasted images make the link to our music video and our idea of sleep all day and party all night.
Poster Edit
I made some edits from the last poster as I thought the alignment wasn't very good as 'DJ DES' was on the other side to the rest of the font. I thought this looked slightly odd so I moved the text all aligned to the left. I also chose to add in the Sony BMG logo although I had to invert this on Photoshop as it is originally white with black text. I am happier with this outcome as I think it flows better as the text has been adjusted.
Poster
These are screen shots that I decided to take of the process of my poster being made. I started off with an image from the photo shoot that we made to get sufficient photos to be included in our individual posters and digipaks. I wanted to make Emily 'DJ DES' to stand out so i got rid of the background and decided to make it completely black because I thought this would give the best effect. I then started to play around with the effects on Photoshop, I wanted to get a posterised effect so there was more texture to her face. I then added the text. I wanted to make the text quite bold by using bright colours as it goes along with our theme.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
I have chosen to take these screenshots from our music video as I want to include them in my digipak to make sure there is a variety in the imagery on my digipak. I think using these images is a good idea so there is a reference to something that is included in the video. Also I think I would like to change the contrast on the images so it looks more like a black and white image however, I am not going to add an effect to these images as they are meant to look like line drawings in the music video as they have already had an effect added to them.
Photographs from the shoot.
I've uploaded some of my favourite photos from the photo shoot that we made in order to get the best outcome for our digipaks and posters. I think I would be happy using any of these images. I would like to add effects to these images to push the quality even further and make them more colourful.
These three images are the ones I chose from the photoshoot to edit and I created this silohuetted image. I do like these as they are high in contrast making them quite bright and stand out. |
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Sunset Video
This is the first attempt at the sunset clip that we want to include in our video. We are hoping to reshoot this but we want to include it in our video for now to see what it looks like, we want to make it into a timelapse video by speeding it up.
Friday, 27 January 2012
27-01-2012
In today's lesson we were making space for the other bits of film that we needed to include. Also we decided to continue with the split screens and line effects. To develop this further we chose to multiply the same image over and over again with more and more colours. I think this gives a great effect whilst making the music video look quite professional at the same time.
Sunrise and Sunset
After taking in the feedback we were given on Monday we decided to film the sunrise and sunset. We are planning to film the sunrise and sunset to begin and end our music video. We began to research into the times of the sunrise and sunset for our area over the next few days so I got this one which is quite a detailed table. I'm going to go out and film the sunrise hopefully tomorrow morning . I would like to film a video and do a photo animation of the sunrise so we have more choice when it comes to putting it onto the video.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sunrise/Sunset
This is the shot that we got from the first sunset, we have now researched across the internet for official sunset times for our area as we want to get accurate information ending up with a better shot. However, I think the composition of this shot is really good. I love how the buildings are all silhouetted as it emphasizes the sunset which is our aim as the sunset is the subject of the video clip.
Photo Animations
Here are the photo animations that we created, we thought this was an interesting way to incorporate different ways of showing the imagery we wanted. We have edited this into our music video and are quite happy with how it has turned out. I think the best one is the Shoe animation that we have created. Also we have planned for the animation to go with the flow of our song choice.
Monday, 23 January 2012
23-01-2012
Today we had our first screening of our first edit of our music video so far. We had feedback sheets being filled out about our music video. We had a few different responses about our music video,various and constructive feedback. Jack and Leanne gave advice on the types of shots we have and how we can change bits of our video for the better. Also, they gave us advice to add in a sunrise and sunset to begin and end our music video as the ending wasn't as strong as we would like. I think the time lapse of a sunrise and sunset will give a good effect, this is a good element to have in our music video as it reinforces our idea of sleep all day and party all night. We will then begin the music video with the sunset to reflect this point. Also, I think its a good idea to have this in the music video as it is one of our original ideas as we wanted in our first planned video.
23-01-2012
Today we had our first screening of our music video, to get feedback from other members of our class, Leanne and Jack. We got various, constructive feedback. There were many little changes we could make to our music video to make it better and easier to understand.
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
14-01-2012
Period 5 yesterday we decided to shoot the clips of the projections. Emily bought in her spare clothes and bright trainers and we went over to the gallery in our Art department which is a big white room, we borrowed a projector and had two images to test out for projection but neither worked. Although the images are quite bright the projection did not reflect this. So we all decided as a group to stay behind school on Thursday to take photos for our photo shoot of Emily as DJ DES then wait until its dark outside to be able to film for our projections as it will be of a much better quality if the images are shown up. It is hard to project images as our room has a lot of daylight through windows etc. so we are hoping it turns out better after school.
New footage.
On saturday we all met up at Daisy's house and decided to start filming more bits of DJ DES getting ready to go out. We decided it would be good to have stop motion animations incorporated into our music video. We decided to line up Daisy's heels and add a pari for each photograph so they appeared one by one.
I think this technique works really well, we decided to use this technique throughout our music video as it works well so we decided to use it with different things. Also, after putting it onto the video we found that it works well with the beat of our songs as well. I think our music video is working out really well at the moment.
Friday, 13 January 2012
DES
We decided to make a search whilst we were searching for images to project. We are planning on projecting images onto the wall and having DJ DES stand infront of them. We were searching and I put Des Graffiti into google and these were from the outcome. We are planning to project these images. We think we will need a white room because if the image is dark and we decide to project onto a dark wall it wont work.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Lip Transfers.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Text.
We wanted to include some text within our music video like lyrics popping up throughout the video. We took inspiration from Rihanna's videos as she uses quite a lot of lyrics in her videos. Then Daisy and I were searching for a text we like and we all decide we like this one so we put these up to show the kind of effects we prefer and how we want the text to look and the kind of colours we would want them to be.
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
04-01-2012
We've decided to change our song because we weren't happy with our previous idea. Our previous song was 'Do Your Thing' by Basement Jaxx and we didn't feel it was much of a dance song and wasn't putting the message across that we wanted. We decided to change it to a song from the 80's called 'Pump up the Jam'. We are finding it easier to film to this song for our video, we just didn't feel that the last one was working out properly. However, we feel this one is much more upbeat and we are all happy with the new song choice.
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