Finished Digipack.

Here is our finished digipack. We are pleased with the result (:

Front:



Inside:

Digipack Production.

Here are some screengrabs of us editing our digipack. We completed the whole thing using Photoshop and a variety of different techniques. We manipulated a lot of the images to make them more interesting and also increased their suitability for our particular project.

We downloaded a new font to use on our digipack as nothing PhotoShop offered was what we wanted. We wanted a very cute, handwritten text, to make each digipack look like it has been personally written on by the artist. We feel this adds a much more personal feel to the digipack, which fits in with the theme of our video. The font we decided to use in the end was called 'Hannah's Messy Handwriting'.

Magazine Changes

We had to change the magazine advert because we did not have the albums name
'The Bird of Music'
We Also hadn't made the album release date clear, so we added,
'Coming Soon'

Magazine

Screen Grab

This is us working on our music video / digipack magazine. We are using photoshop, to create this and added images from Google into our piece and changing it slightly to make it our own.

Here is some examples of some magazines advertising bands and song release's we love the swirls and elegance of the second one we will use the idea of overlaying loads of images but make it themed like our band and link it to our digipack.

Examples of Digipacks

Here are some examples of digipacks, we are going to make one for our video and band. We will use ideas from the examples but make it our own, and relate to our song and band image.
We Especially like the last one, as its delicate and simple, and we love the small print used.

More On The Magazine

For Our Magazine We Got Images Like The Music Notes And Swirls Off Google Images. We Also Found Images From The Music Video And Mixed Them All Together Using Photoshop To Blend Them Into One. We Then Used The Font Off The Bands Page, Which We Have Used Through Out This Project. We Think Its Very Sucessful And Elegant, And Goes Well With The Song.

Response From Band

These are the real track listings on the album "The bird of music". We have added
"Where you go" the track we used in are projected.

Track listing

1. "The Lucky One" - 4:30
2. "Sad Song" - 4:07
3. "Fallen Snow" - 3:45
4. "I Couldn't Sleep" - 2:31
5. "A Violent Yet Flammable World" - 5:01
6. "Don't See the Sorrow" - 4:30
7. "Dark Halls" - 3:26
8. "Night Majestic" - 3:00
9. "Stars" - 2:58
10. "Lark" - 4:19
11. "The Way to There" - 6:49
    
12. "Where you go"- 3:27
    

Contacting The Band

We Have Already Mailed Them Asking To Use Their Song.
And We Got A Response..
Now We Have Mailed Them Again Showing Our Final Video..

GROUP 50 FINISHED MUSIC VIDEO

Q3-50 MUSIC VIDEO 2009 from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

Editing

Stop motion

When editing the music video we discovered when we did the first part of the video (stop-motion girl getting out of bed), that when we had to change the speed we could not change the speed of all the photos at the same time. Therefor we had to go through each individual photo and change the speed form 100 to 2500 after each of the photos had been individually cropped. This turned out to be very time consuming but gave a very effective result. Towards the end of the music video and the last scene where the girl gets into bed, we decided not to crop the photos but change the speed from 100 to 400. This created the same speed and same effect but took less time, although was still time consuming.

Stop-motion blur

When editing some of the scenes such as the mid-shot of the girl dancing around the trees in front of the sun, and the long shot of the girl twirling in front of the trees. We experimented with several effects to create a unique look. In the end we discovered that the stop-motion blur was a really good effect to use and fitted in well with our other stop-motion scenes without being as time consuming. This effect took the girl and copied the film so it looked like two shadows of the girl. This goes particularly well on the scene with the girl dancing in front of the sun set as the twirling gets more dramatic in time with the music. We also had a shot that was very long with the girl sat in front of the tree and just smiling while playing with her book. This scene was a bit too long and became too boring. Therefore we decided to put an overlay in top of the twirling and reduce the transparency. We all thought this effect was good and took away the boring factor.

Party scenes

For the party scenes at the end of the video we cut the footage, then we went from different shot to different shot and cut in-between to shots of Hannah spinning and of her miming the words with the plain background. We the faded between each of the different shots so that they faded in and out, we really liked the result of this.

Filming party scene

We had loads of confusion as to when we could film the party scene as we where running out of time and needed a group of people to help us out. We ended up filming the party scene when we stayed behind on Tuesday 10th for an editing session. To do this we gathered some people from the media class's and went to the photography dark room. Then we switched on the back-light and shot us all dancing around. This shot is much more shaky and less quality then the other shots. This was the effect we where trying to achieve because we wanted the shot to fit in with the miss-en-scene and have the shaky camera work fitting in with the party. We also used a still and clear mid-shot for the part where the girl walks through the scene to create variation.

problems with filming...again

We where due to film on Sunday the 8th, but problems with our actress meant that yet again we where let down. Therefore we decided to again change the actress and use a member of our own group, Hannah, to ensure that we could get the filming done in time. It took a day to film from several different scenes, including Emma's bedroom/house and fields. In all we had both film and many photos for the different stop-motion scenes. We chose to film from different angles so we had choice because of the time scale we where working on, we knew we did not have time for error because we would not have enough time to re-film.
Other problems we had with filming included not having a suitable tripod. Therefore we had to move shelving around the house to achieve a steady shot. We had a small tripod that we used in the fields resulting in all the shots being from a low angel. Although not planned this worked out extremely successful as it had a great shot using the dazzle from the sunset.
Also as it took so long to do the stop-motion that it became too dark to do the street scenes and the station scene. We therefor decided to cut these bits out as we already had enough footage and didn't want the video to become too busy and random.

stop mation notebook

Today we shot the scene for our stop-motion notebook. To do this we used a G-clamp attatched to the camera and the table. We then connected the computer and the camera to enable us to use the I-stop-motion on the Apple Mac. This made it easier to create an affective stop motion without the image jumping too much as we could see where the previous shot was. We then added the stop motion notebook to the track. The shots where first roughly 30 seconds long, so we decided to cut the stop-motion using Final Cut, we cut at the end of the sentence and the page turnover shots. Therefore we could slow down the appropraite shot to fit in with the words. We are pleased with the final result of the notebook and think it fits in well with the theme of our music video. Especially as we added small images one of a heart and the other was a small stick boy and girl with a heart in the centre.

Editing timetable

Due to our late final filming we have decided the only time we have left to edit will be in the week of the deadline. To ensure we have enough time to film we are going to stay later between 4.10 and 8 on Tuesday and then also possibly Wednesday break time if we are still behind with our editing. These extra sessions will be as well as our three weekly lessons. If we still have not completed our final music video by Monday 9th (deadline day) we plan to come in after 12.20 to finish our editing before the end of the day and the end of the deadline.

Stop Motion Examples

This is an example of stop motion that we will be using in our video.
We made this using the 'I stop motion' Programme on our school mac computer.
We will use it to create lyrics and cute little parts of music video.

problems with filming......yet again

We had planned to do the filming for out final cut music video in the half term holidays. However complications meant that the actress we was going to use could not make the date and we where left again without any appropriate footage 2 weeks before the deadline. We have now chosen to change the actress to use our other friend Ellie and will hopefully film later on in the week.

roughcut peer feedback

Our peers went round in groups to watch our videos and then leave comments on the following questions. This was the feedback that we had from the other members of the class:

1. What would you rate as strengths of the music video?
Effects of the music video are good, for example the speeding up of the town scenes. Also the concept of the idea fitted well with the theme of the song.

2. what do you think are the areas for improvement?
The editing needs to be more faster. There should also be more scene variety, it was also noted that there was un-professional giggling and smiling from singer and background extras. There is also the possibility for more performing.

3. what do you think the group should change?
There should be more shot types to improve the video. There was also a comment about the lighting of our video on how it almost instantly goes from light to dark, this was not intended. We where also advised to keep the length of the videos same as lyrics.

4. what has the group still got to do?
We should use more footage and locations and complete the end of the video as it was an unfinished copy of the rough cut and ends abruptly.

We have taken into consideration the comments and ideas given from the other groups and are likely to incorporate these ideas into our final cut.