First screening

Today was the first screening for our music video, we also presented our Digipak's and posters  to receive feedback which will help us improve them. Our music video has missing footage reasons for this consist of not capturing the images we need and when we edited some scenes they did not succeed in the quality and expectation we desire.

Digipak development

Here I have added my band members onto my digipak, I really like the visual symmetry it gives with two members on each side as you open the digipak. However, I am unsure on the handwritten typography for the track listing and feel it needs improving.

Filming and Editing

 Today we continued to film, I feel the day was successful because we achieved 3 more scenes. However, I feel my group may need to put in more time as the editing has been taking longer than expected we have less scenes than we had hoped for at this point. When editing the new scenes we were faced with a problem involving the speed of each clip to fit the pace of the music. Because our music is made up of hundreds of images we were unable to use the speed tool on final cut pro, instead we had to cut each image, one by one... when viewing the outcome the clips were to slow and out of sync with the music. Therefore we had to start the whole process again and had to recut each image.

Creating the band



Unfortunately my group has been unable to organise the photographing of four band members. The main reason for this is that we created the play dough men from our imagination without basing it on real people has made it difficult to find people which will be reflected through the play dough members. 
This is why I have come to the conclusion of drawing the members myself, to do this we photographed people based on height not appearance, this gave me the basic silhouette for my drawing. I then  blocked the photo out to create a shadow and then went on to tracing the basic lines of each person. Once I had completed the tracing, I scanned the drawing into Photoshop where I was able to experiment with colour. I really like the outcome because I feel the style represents the creative side of the band and also reflects the play dough throughout the music video.
I feel the inspiration for my design came from the band Blur and their colourful, creative design which doesn't show them as real people but takes an aspect from each member in order to form their own, unique, recognisable personality/ character.

Assigning roles and editing

Today my group assigned roles to each member of the group, Daisy was chosen as the location and props organiser as the majority of the filming takes place at her house. Nicola is the cinematographer as she has good knowledge about camera's and using the tripod. I was selected as editor as I edited our title sequence last year and learnt new skills on final cut pro; I now feel confident in using the computer software because I understand which tools are needed and when.

Digipak tutorial

Today I was able to receive feedback for my digipak development so far, I feel the discussion highlighted key aspects I need to improve on for example deciding on a target audience as a group and understand what they enjoy. I also feel I need to improve my typography so it stands out more. My next intension will be to continue improving my digipak and also research similar bands for inspiration into the layout and style of their digipak's.

Editing

Today I was able to edit the scene we had recently captured, I feel the editing is going really well and want to continue the speed at which we are working. The next intension will be to complete my digipak and finish the poster for ourfirst scene; I will be aiming to do this within the next week.