Work in progress CD design

In today's lesson I finished my CD front cover and began work on the back cover. I am pleased with how the CD covers are looking. I intend to finish the Back cover with the use of text and barcodes.

Work in progress CD Design

This is my current work on progress for my front cover for the CD I plan on making the broken effect much more random as well as adding a title.

Photographs we have chosen to use for our CD

Call Sheet

Pitch for CD and feedback

Feedback we received was that our research was very good, and the idea of using the blurred lights which links to our video. The imagery that we use must be the same as the video so that it is consistent. We had not looked much at the advert yet and this was addressed in the video which is something we planned out later on.

Three CD Mock up designs

This is our first idea that we have chosen for our mock up.

Back

Inside

Front 

This is our second mock up design

Back

Front

Inside

This is our third mock up design.

Inside

Front

Back

Team Meeting for print products

In today's lesson we talking about designs that we could use for our CD design pack as well as looking at existing designs that other artists have used, each of us created an idea for a design that we could use for our CD.

Case studies

Final Video - Memories by Ann Lan (Goblins from Mars Remix)

work in progress final editing stages

We have come to the end of our editing for the video, we are now stabilising and adding colour correction to the video.

Rough cut video feedback

Feedback we received from this was that the time lapse and effects used were very good with a clear story however some shots were very dark as well as being too grainy. In addition we could also sync up the music and video to make it look more professional.

rough cut of video

Editing lyric sing and clips finished

This is the lyrics clips all synced in and added to our final product. We have editing for non lip sync parts to be done.

work in progress Video editing

In today's lesson we continued working on editing our video coming close to a first final edit. More clips need to be added in and parts without any lyrics and just music need to be editing. Progress is being made in each lesson coming up with new ideas each lesson, which we can implement once our first cut is done.

Editing 8/11/16

In today's lesson we worked on editing adding in new clips and matching and cutting them so that they match the song. This was mostly done with the use of the razor tool

Planning on meet up for final video shoot

Team meeting 1st November

In today's team meeting we talking about final filming times as well as continuing with with editing. For our final shoot we shall be going to leake street and Waterloo in the morning as well as going to see the fireworks and film them in the afternoon. We have booked the camera for the weekend 

Filming session 2 forest shoot

Today we worked on filming for our second day, we successfully completed our forest shoot and managed to film some extra scenes. We filmed at 2:30 and finished at around 3:00, being able to get a variety of shots.

Music video first shoot

Today we worked on our first video shoot where we recorded our video. We successfully completed all our studio shoots along with our piano shoots. 

Planning and Research

Permission to grant access to our actor to premises

Story board

Made by Usman

Call Sheet

Made by Shivam

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment by Hasan

Release from of Studio LSC

This is an image of the release form allowing us to use the studio within our college.

Team Roles

Hasan - I will be managing time as well as making sure everyone is available for shooting dates in addition to actually getting permission or attempting to get permission to film in locations. I will also be operating the camera and ensuring we have enough shot to use.
Shivam -  Will be looking after equipment and ensuring that it is all returned without any damage, in additon he will also be in contact with our actor relaying dates of availability to us, so that we are able to plan our shooting dates more effectively, he will also be in charge of costume,
Usman - will be operating the camera mostly ensuring our actor is in shot and that we our matching our shots as best as we can to the story bored, he will also be doing a majority of the editing once all our filing is done.

Team Meeting Project "SLF" 04/10/16

In today's lesson Shivam one of our team members was not available, so we were unable to have a proper team meeting, however we did get lots of progress on the storyboard and we managed to get permission for the use of the music and have asked permission for the use of locations.

Permission Requested for the use of Olympic park and Leake St Vaults

Permission sought by Hasan

Permission given for the use of music

Made by Hasan and Usman

Lyric analysis (Memories New song)

Team Meeting 03/10/2016 project "SLF"

In todays lesson we were given new information that our original music video was too inappropriate to use for our coursework so we needed to change the song so that it was fit for our coursework.
The new song that we have chosen was Memories by Ann Lan and remixed by goblins from mars.

Talent release form

Pitch for video Plus Feedback

From this feedback we have been given many ideas and changes that we can make to our video whilst shooting.
We have needed to change the choice of our music video as the lyrics were inappropriate, and we have replaced it with this new song. Some feedback we got was too look ar our case studies and use ideas from them, and to find any difficuties with the fast speed of the music video, which would be combated by fast cuts, people also said that our video may not be different, we will provide a different view on love rather than breaking a person down it builds a person up and can make them a better and stronger person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8l2Lykmnw

Possible shooting location photos (Recces)

Here are some pictures that we have taken of some possible locations spots where we may film our music video.

Photos taken by Shivam, Hasan and Usman

These pictures are from Leake street where we plan to film our video

I think that this will provide a darker tone to our music video and will move away from the scenic shots that we have so far.

We will also be using the Waterloo/ River themes area which will provde us with some scenic shots as well as a different perspective on london as it is a much richer area.

we will also be filming in a forest to provide some scenic shots of nature and show that she is alone and isolated.

Infinite Mix Trip

The Infinite Mix exhibition brings together audiovisual artworks that are soulful and audacious in their exploration of a wide range of subjects. In all of the works in this exhibition the interplay between moving image and sound is crucial. 

In this trip we walked through many different rooms that had different visual and audio effect to watch and listen to. They had many different ways of recording and showing a story visually in very unique and different ways.

Treatment in collab with Shivam and Usman

“Say It” revolves around the themes of love, temptation and the desire for past and present relationships. It’s also based around physical attraction.

“Bite me babe
You make me love the pain
Break my bed, to make me wanna stay
I can't...”

A mix of Performance and Narrative.

We will record the actress in a few locations and have her acting in others so she’s not lip syncing.

In our video we will have a female actress who will be lip syncing to the song.

Props; objects signifying love and heartbreak, for example roses or shards of glass.

Locations; Field, Forest, Studio, on the road/ alleyway.

Ethical issues: Explicit Language.

Audience: Our audience will be teenagers aged 15+.

Closer Chainsmokers - A2 Media

In this video we recorded a lip sync for closer ny chainsmokers. After recording we edited the video and added the music in to Adobe premiere pro and synced the music with the lip sync and added transitions into the video. This was recorded in the field in Leyton over the course of two lessons. 

Evaluation of Closer by Chainsmokers lip sync

Good – The music video had many different angles and shots included, it also includes some transitions to keep consistency and make the video look more professional. As well as some scenic shots such as walking past and the shot that was taken in the tree.

Bad – However the actor was not professional and had many scenes in which he was laughing or smiling which made the video seem unprofessional, in addition i think that if more time was spent on editing than the video would flow much better as well as having timed cuts that match the beat of the music.

Production Schedule

List of songs without music videos (as of 09/08/2016)

One Direction - Clouds
                        - Illusion
                        - Once In A Lifetime
                        - Change your ticket
                        - Act my age
                        - No Control

Ariana Grande - Be Alright
                         - Winter Things
                         - December
                         - Not just on Christmas
                         - True Love
                       
Sia - Sweet Design
      - Footprints
      - House on Fire
      - Space between
      - Move your body
      - Broken Glass

Hailee Steinfeld - You're such a

Let it go practice video

In this video we recorded a lip sync for let it go with Nayeem and Usman. After recording we edited the video and added the music in to Adobe premiere pro and synced the music with the lip sync and added transitions into the video.

Evaluation of Let it go lip sync

Good – The music video had many different angles and shots included, it also includes some transitions to keep consistency and make the video look more professional.

Bad – However the lip sync was off and the actor was not professional and had many scenes in which he was laughing or smiling which made the video seem unprofessional, furthermore some of the editing makes the video look tacky and very badly edited. 

Filming 101

In this session we learnt how to use a camera in order to record video, we learnt about exposure, FPS,quality and white balance which are key in order to maintain and create a great movie. We also learnt how to use a tripod correctly and how to mount the camera into it. 

Settings = 1080p 25FPS 

exposure= shutter speed is 59 

Aperture = experiment 

ISO= 100-1600

Picture style = neutral 

White balance = AWB auto 

Focus = MF/AF 

Q= quick menu