OS - New Footage

With the footage Nathan caught on Friday, it looks like the drama studio went better than expected and we have some really nice shots and idea such as the screenshot of the two characters layered over each over in red and blue to contrast each other.

NW - Editing 22/11/10

Today I have worked on the shots I took on Friday and worked on the first idea we had that was the overlay of the two actors which i have successfully been able to do as the shots I used were took specifically for the overlay and made it a lot easier for me to edit.

I have also gone through every shot I took and taken out everything that I could use and is now on the timeline, however Premiere crashed so I had to do all of this again and did not have enough time to cut down each of the shots. That will only take me a couple of minutes as many of them are the completely usable.

NW - Reflections on Drama Studio Shoot for Narrative

Afterschool on friday the 19/11/10 we used our drama studio to take a series of shots for uses in our narrative, we have decided to included these shots in the drama studio as it will create a deep sense of them being alone as it will be completely black and the only light will be provided by a spot light.

I was able to take the shots that me and Owen had planned on doing and they have come out as I had hoped and have been able to do the overlayed image shot that I had seen in The Script video.

The shots that I took will only make up a very small amount of actual screen time but it allowed me to use the lights in the drama studio. After I had finished with the shooting of the planned shots I decided to experiment with what could be done in there in order to get a clearer idea of what we will shoot when we do the band shots in there.

The only problem with the shoot was Owen had to go to his dad's birthday meal which meant I had to shoot this on my own, but this did not cause too much of a problem as me and Owen had discussed thoroughly beforehand what we were going to shoot and have been coming up with the shots for the days prior to shooting.

After shooting at Camber Sands it was much easier to Direct the two actors as this wasn't the first time we had shot together which allowed everything to run much smoother and the shooting was done much quicker then before, this may have also been down to the fact we were shooting inside and we weren't worried about the harsh winds that we experienced at Camber Sands.

This is a short clip of some of the shots that I took in the drama studio.

OS - Digipack Progress

This is the digipack template I used and have edited with to  create a proper mock up of our digipack. As you can see it still looks simplistic as we have yet to complete the photoshoot however three are images that look similar of Midnight on there page. I have played about with colours and I like the idea of having each track name a different colour as it looks good because of the colour contrast between it and black. I need to decide on a font though as i have been playing around with many to see which font looks best on the digipack. We have kept the idea of having a poster as a lot of digipacks have some sort of added extra to make the album more interesting.

OS - Editing

Although Nathan is the lead editor I occasionally help with it and have saved a copy of a version I have created. In this copy I have altered the start of the video with more walking scenes instead of the initial band shots. The band shots then came after about 20 seconds however i also edited the cutting rate to be quicker so it is more like a music video. Furthermore i looked at the saturation and how we could use this effect to create flashbacks in our video.

DRAFT - NW - Advert Ideas

The advert that I am going to create would run in NME magazine the sizings for this would be 245mm x 305mm. My initial idea was very simple to have the band standing very casually against a red brick wall with a minimal ammount of information around the most likely just the; alubum name, band name and the release date. This will allow the advert to remain very simple but still get across the information and not confuse the advert with information that is not strictly needed.

The image above shows one of my initial ideas for the advert, it features the 4 band members up against a brick wall. They will be wearing clothes similar to those they will wear in our music video, the brick wall will also show the band as very cool and just a very down to earth band, this allows the audience to relate to them adding to the star persona and band image.

The reading line will take your eye across the band name then along their faces and you will finally read the album name and any extra text at the bottom.

NW - First week of editing

Over the last week I have been editting the camber footage and looking through all of the workable footage I could get from our first shoot, we have found that we will need to reshoot a few of the shot in the drama studio as we needed some more footage and felt that using the drama studio would add more depth to the video and give us more then just the one location.

I looked into changing some of the RGB levels of the shots as it provides us with a richer depth of colour in some of the shots and allows us to cleerly show the difference between the memories and what is happening "now". We have done this by slightly desaturating the memories and slightly changing the brightness and done the opposite in the other shots by increasing the saturation. With the RGB we will uniformly change it throughout as we have changed this simpley to get a richer depth of colour.