Preliminary Project + Evaluation - Sound Remedy & Savoy - Leaving You (feat. Jojee)

This is the 1 minute video we produced for our preliminary task, the aim of video was to illustrate a narrative, one being someone trying to find themselves. As a group, we all decided to go a little on the strange side of things and to proceed with a main focus of editing rather than the shots and with a result which may be confusing but interesting at the same time. We used a variety of effects such as speeding and reversing footage in addition to fades, feathers and keying. Overall, the video was a success but there were a few things that I believed could be improved on. Firstly the parts of the video during the main body of the song were slightly out of sync and if I had more time I would have polished off that part and made sure the movements were in time, overall about 90% of this worked but there were a few small parts that affected it. In addition the camera quality changes significantly due to us having to use various cameras rather than just one and this means in our main task, we need to plan ahead and make sure we can use the same camera everytime in order to maintain the use of it and create a video in the same quality.

The website was built using a website builder called Weebly. Although it was easy to use and had a simple user interface, I was some what unsatisfied with the result, not because of the content of the site but because of its lack of freedom and the advertisement of the Weebly brand unless we paid for the site and domain. The content on the website fits with the narrative and provides a house style for the album. In addition to this, the website contained buttons to digital stores and ways to view the music video on the site to make it easy for people who view the site to listen and view our music and to buy it if they enjoyed it. Savoy & Sound Remedy Website

This is our artwork for the album of the song we have chose. With the template and the style we chose we went with one side containing the protagonist and the other side being empty implying that the protagonist is searching for himself, this creates the house style between the video, website and the artwork. I think the album artwork was successful in delivering the house style as it contains similar connotations to the narrative as the video did and that it uses similar scenery. However, the time it took me to create the artwork was poor as I created various drafts which took about 2 weeks to do as I wanted to make it perfect. In addition to this I tested with 3D fonts which is what I used for the artists name on the front cover which also took some time, especially with the shadows. The font for the other text was not the best choice and I wish I could have used a more professional font or one which may have matched the narrative a little bit more.

Storyboard of Preliminary Music Video of 'Sound Remedy & Savoy - Leaving You (Feat. Jojee)'

This is the storyboard to the preliminary music video which is meant to be a minute long of a song called Leaving You by Sound Remedy & Savoy. The aim of this video was to have a boy and a girl go looking for each other in a chase for discovery but due to problems with actors we decided to change the actors to one person in two forms on a journey of self discovery.

Lip Syncing Practice of 'LVTHER - One Look (feat. Mammals)'

This is a practice of lip syncing, this is because music videos often illustrate vocals by singers or mimers. By this practice we edited video and sound together to make it look like I was singing. This will be useful in our preliminary task and our main task as we will most likely need to lip sync in the songs we will choose for our task music videos.

Brief for Preliminary Task

For the preliminary task, I will be working with Brad and Matt.

The task asks us to create a mini-package of a 1 minute music video, a website homepage and a cd front cover.

We have decided to create the package for an artist called Savoy, for the music video we have focused on the song of Savoy and Sound Remedy called 'Leaving You'.


We have decided to use a house style for which the music video, the cover and the website will follow. For the CD cover and front we will consider a variety of different designs of CD's to see which will be the best for our artwork, we will also use Photoshop as it is a professional program which will give us the tools to make an adequate cover.

For the website, we will use the web builder Wix to create the homepage which will show the artist off and show off the information that he wants such as dates for live shows, new music and news about himself and his personal life.