Video Rough Cut

We had some technical difficulties whilst making the rough cut. Due to the start being in stop motion the rest of the footage was out of ratio with the still images. This meant a lot of the footage doesn't fit. It was often hit or miss with the size of the footage as we thought we had fixed it but some of the footage still didn't fit with the ratio. We had to use the stills camera to film. We always made sure to have the settings the same so we are unsure as to why the size of the footage is so hit and miss. However it does have some positives such as it fits the genre with the types of shots being mirrored and the coloured filter over certain shots.

Website Rough Cut

The website is very bare at the moment as it is a very rough cut. There is a lot of missing content that will need to go into the site, such as the video, band images, articles and more background information. The overall aesthetic of the site will also have to be edited as it doesn't match the digipak. The pages all link and the buttons all work but it doesn't relate to the other content that we are creating which is a major downfall of the site.

We are hoping to have a product something like this in terms of the content on the yes site. We want to create backgrounds and have band images within the site a lot like this one. Its clear that the site has a ways to go before it reaches what we want it to be.

Digipak Rough draft

The first complete rough digipak. The design of the album cover is very fits within the genre that we selected as it includes bright contrasting colours and unusual themes. We decided to focus on the use of art on the digipak as the psychedelic rock albums that we looked at tend not to have photography of the band. The bright upbeat colours contrast with the dark underlying themes of graveyards, skeletons and possible depression. It also has some intertextuality with the tree and the skeleton. The digipak reflects Caravan's In The Land Of Grey And Pink witch uses bright colours to create a fantasy style scene showing run down houses and building but in a stylised landscape that counters the potential dark
themes.

We got peer feedback from a Nikki Letts on her thoughts of the Digipak

Digipak 11th November

Part 2 of the creative process within the video I create the right fold and inside right fold. I use the same tools as I did in the last video. The images I create are more concept art for songs that would feature in the album they are based on song titles which. It one I create is bones which the skull coming out of the grave to sing.

Digipak editing 10th November

Time lapse video of the creation of the digipak. In the video I complete the front and back cover and disc holder. I mainly used the brush tool and text tool. 

As you can see the idea has changed from the original flat plan as the idea for this Digipak stemmed from a front cover I created from the website that would go with an older album (Then there weren't three). My group thought that it was a very good piece of art that should be used as the main digipak and so the idea grew from that an I went with the theme of the colourful clouds and simplistic nature. I drew up and updated flat plan that can be seen in previous posts.

Filter test

 

Whilst editing the video we looked back at psychedelic music videos that we draw inspiration from and noticed the use of coloured filters so we thought before we use them that we would first test them. I find that the darker filters work better as its clearer to see that there is a coloured filter being placed on top of the image. I feel like it fits the genre and should be incorporated into the video one way or another.

Problem Part 2

We are still  having issues with the ratio. We have tried changing it on the camera but is doesn't seem to work. We have found a way to change the ratio in premier but there still seems to be issues with the footage when imported as some of it doesn't change to fit the ratio change and so we are still using creative ways to get around this.

BTS - Photoshoot

 

Behind the scenes of the photo shoot of shots that will be on the website. We wanted to get a range of angles that can be used on the site in the gallery and profile. We wanted to also use them to promote the band on social medias. The shots will be edited to make them fit more accordingly with the genre. We need to compose a wrap sheet for this shoot.

Problem with ratio

We ran into a problem regarding the editing process on the video. Due to the ratio of the stop motion stills the moving images are the same ratio so we need to find a way to fix this so the the things we record fit with the rest of the things that we have. We have yet to find a way to do this in Premier Pro to fix the problem. We are working on ways around this such as using the shots to appear and play parallel with each other.  

Wednesday 2nd progress update

 We filmed in the backup park location as it was closer to college. We managed to get som good shots of Max playing his guitar. We also got shot shots that can be used on the website and within tweets/social media posts.

New Digipak Flatplan

We change the design of the digipak based on an idea I came up with regarding the song that we were going to do as it is an upbeat song with darker sounding lyrics and the main theme of it being death so with that in mind we redesigned the digipak to fit that as it has more upbeat colours and dark undertones.