This is the final cut of our music video. It features a complete rework of the shots used in the rough cut. We did this because we felt that the quality of the original shots could have been so much better. In order to do this we felt that a different type of camera would be more useful, so instead of using the small handheld cameras we used a larger, studio type of camera. Another thing we changed was the lighting, we decided to have a light show going from the beginning as the way we had the lights in the beginning made the finale difficult to see. So instead we just had one set of lights going with a spotlight on the band, as opposed to the original where we had too many lights which made seeing other lights difficult.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Digi-pak Case Final
This is the final design for our digipak. We felt that it would be ideal to have a stage lighting effect behind the band, to show a correlation between the cover and the content of the CD. We felt it necessary to put some pictures on the back of the digipak, as a way to explain the mystery caused by the shadowed band members on the front. The front cover gives the band a mysterious look and creates curiosity amongst the viewers. Whereas the back cover is more the reveal of the band members. Given that the song in the video is by Fall Out Boy, we felt that we should put other songs by the same artists on the back of the digipak to give it more of an authentic look.
Poster Final
This is the final design for our poster, it includes the 4th band member and ratings by newspapers that we know may review a new CD.
Lyric Sheet.
This is the lyric sheet. It was meant to be inserted into the digipak along with the booklet for the final product.
Question 3
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
RM During the early stages of this project we used Blogger.com to store all of our research and planning. Using Blogger gave us an easy and efficient way to store any of our important pieces of research or planning, as well as storing the drafts and the final designs for our digipak and any advertisements that we had created. We had used Blogger as a means of storing our work, as it is much easier than writing everything on paper and drawing all designs by hand.
JW It is also more effective then keeping everything on a single folder on the computer because it allows everybody in the group to gain access to the anything that we need provided that they have Internet access. Using Blogger also allowed us to embed videos from youtube to display publicly to anyone that came to the blog, these videos include actual music video that we had looked at for the purpose of research – studying the conventions used in the videos, the use of cinematography, mise en scene, etc – as well as our finished music video.
RM Photoshop was used during the construction of the ancillary tasks, such as the poster and digipak. They were made in Photoshop as it is an efficient and easy way to create images, and they can also be created in a format that can be uploaded to Blogger. Photoshop also allowed us to apply many different effects to any images that we had created, allowing us to make the digipak, poster, etc. more intricate and interesting to look at.
JW For the construction of the music video itself we used Final Cut Express. Using Final Cut was definitely an improvement over using iMovie. Final Cut was a little more complicate than iMovie to begin with but we quickly got used to how it worked and all of the features that it has over iMovie. Final cut provided us with an easy and simple way of syncing up the video to the audio effectively, if we were to do this in iMovie the process would have most likely been much longer and more frustrating to do.
RM In conclusion we that we have learned a lot from the new programs that we have used and it has broadened the range of programs that we can now use and has given us more experience overall in using new media technologies. We are also happy with how our final music video turned out but think that we could have made much improvement to it had we been given the time.
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