Editing The Music Video & Feedback

We have almost finished editing the music video for our project. We have all the clips placed in the sequence timeline and have begun the rigorous process of adding effects to make the video perfect in every aspect.

In order to achieve the best transitions and effects in the video, we ended up placing clips into a total of 5 different video tracks across the course of the video to be able to make the transitions flow and the effects to be enhanced during the transitions.

The amount of effects we are able to use on Premiere Pro is huge and with that we have the freedom to pick and choose as we feel and that the chances of finding an effect which enhances the picture in the way that we want is high.






In addition to this, I have began requesting feedback on the current edit of the video from various people I know.



This was the current edit of the music video which I have shown people and they have responded accordingly:

I have begun using the feedback from these comments and the comments of my other classmates and my teacher in order to make sure the video is of highest quality.

One of the comments which I have acted upon mostly was that the video included too many fades as transition and that the difference between characters emotions weren't always obvious. Through this I have removed fades and have been using various effects to make the difference in characters emotion obvious with the use of luma keying and reducing the brightness in the depressed characters shots and the use of colour changing, colour correction, enhancing the brightness and saturation and using sharpening effects on some shots to make the emotions of the happy character evident.

Filming Days 4 & 5 (13-14/02/16)

We filmed for both Saturday and Sunday in order to film the remaining shots to finish the music video and to shift our project into the post-production stage. We filmed on the Saturday all the remaining shots on our storyboard for the break, build-up and both drops in the song in order to have enough footage to complete the video. On the Sunday we filmed extra shots in case some of the shots we recorded on previous days were useless. The shooting schedule for Saturday is here and for Sunday it is here.

We used the schools booking system again to make sure we had all the equipment necessary to record our music video.

Contributor Release Forms

In order to film our music video, we had to sign the release form in order to ensure all the credit for creating the music video. Brad's form, Matt's form and my form are all available on Google Drive. The terms of our release forms are:

Creating The CD Booklet & Album Artwork

I began designing the artwork for the CD booklet and cover in early February and since then I have progressed a lot on the artwork for the booklet and cover.





I have been going into detail on photoshop to make sure all the colours were exactly how I wanted them to be.

At times, I was changing the colours pixel by pixel to make sure the colours were as precise as I had wanted.







In addition to colour correction with the artwork especially. I began using various effects which Photoshop offers such as gradient changing, brightness and vibrance altering, photo filtering, changing the colour curves of the image and many more. I did this to make sure that all the images had a warm effect on them and to give them the slight sunset tint to each image in order to make the image look effective to the audience.






It also required a lot of time to superimpose the text of the front and back covers to the signs which I pictured when I was out recording the music video.

The content in the booklet was relatively similar to the artwork in the use of effects to make the image have a warm effect. In addition, the CD booklet content had to contain small text in order to fill all the vocals from one song on the page. In order to achieve that I used the stroke effect to give a white outline of the black text making it easy to read whilst it being small.





Using Adobe Illustrator I was able to begin piecing each part of the booklet together on a template which makes it ready to print in the size required to fit inside a CD case.

 

 

From the images we took when filming of some signs attached to a broken gate, we were able to create the idea for our front and rear covers for our album. With the effects and techniques above, we were able to create the front and rear covers different to its original sourced image. With the rear cover especially, it took time in order to remove the reflection of the sun from the image to make sure the rear cover was perfect.

Risk Assessment For Filming The Music Video

We filled out a risk assessment form to assess the dangers that existed when we were filming for our music video. From what we found out for the location scout of for the music video, we were able to accurately distinguish the dangers that were there when we were filming and we came to the conclusion that the risk of injury (minor injuries in particular) were trivial.

Copyright Request

We decided to email the management for Madeon in a hope that we are granted the rights to use the song in our music video. We are using the song for educational purposes and for non-profit purposes so we hope that they respond giving us the legal rights to use the song in this way.

Filming Day 3 (30/01/16)

We continued filming this weekend on the Saturday only due to illness cancelling the Sunday recording session. We have the shooting schedule for Saturday here.

Today we planned to record all the lip syncing shots in order to get a basis of what we need to record after to place in the gaps of the video. We recorded most of the lip syncing shots (and also made Brad very cold and murderous) in this recording session. This day was very productive as we were able to record the lip syncing shots with the aid of our storyboard. All we need to record now is the storyboarded shots for the video during the break, buildup, drop and outro of the song.

Again we used the schools booking system to ensure we had all the equipment necessary to continue filming our music video.

Character Profiles

In order to effectively convey the narrative of our music video, the characters had to be very well planned out and contrasting. As we opted for a narrative which contrasted two different moods throughout, the characters had to be complete polar opposites in terms of emotion and dress sense. We also plan to contrast them with the use of the weather when filming and effects in post-production.

Happy character:
This character is to be portrayed as the stereotypical teenager who's actions frequently suggest he has not got a care in the world.
The emotions conveyed through actions and facial expressions will be viewed as being overall positive.
The miss en scene (especially costume) will be presented in the most positive way possible. For example, his attire will consist of bright colours and will make him appear quite smart and well put together. (The colour and lighting may also be changed during post production in order to convey this)

Sad character:
In contrast to the only other character in this production, this character subverts from the dominant stereotype and is portrayed as a much darker, more morbid person. The aim is to convey the message that unfortunate events have caused this character pain and he is try in to deal with it in whatever way possible.
Similarly, the facial expressions and mise en scene play key roles The portrayal of this character.
The costume will consist of darker and more depressing colours and will attempt to be similar clothes to that which is stereotypically worn by unsavoury characters.