Planing to Film - 1/04/13

Today Jade and I made plans to film the remainder of our 'bed room' narrative shots on the 1st of April as both us and our antagonist are available.

We have arranged to meet on location, at Jade's house were we will film our opening scenes. We plan to use natural lighting rather than studio for these shots unlike the soft studio lighting we used for our performance shots. We will use the DSLR camera and I plan to experiment with using a shallow depth of field to change the focus points of each shot.

I will have the camera on a tripod to ensure that the tracking motions are as smooth as possible.

Advert Post Feedback

After having received our feed back last week, Jade and I have taken aboard what went well, and what changes were suggested. Here is our outcome. 

Presenting Our Digipak and Advert Ideas

Recording of Written Feedback Video

This is footage of feedback we received from our peers during out screening when they were asked to fill out sheets with suggestions of improvements we could make to our project as well as what they thought 'went well'. I've taken quotes from the sheets and added them as titles in our first class feed back video.

Editing Our Feedback Videos

Today, I edited the footage with the feedback we received from our peers in last Fridays lesson. I also experimented with creating titles in Adobe After Effects, later today I am going to upload our footage onto our Youtube channel.

Self Evaluation

In the process of creating a successful final product, our teacher have arranged for us to have a initial screening. During this, our classmates and teacher will fill out peer assessment sheets and will be able to give us constructive feedback our current product. This will help us as our peers may be able to give us suggestions for improvements in areas we might have missed.

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Today, we were given the task of carrying out a self evaluation were we had to give ourselves marks, here are my flowing results;


19/40 Video

6/10 Digipak

7/10 Advert

Advert So Far...

 Here is a the current version of our magazine advertisement adjacent to our planning. Its clear to see that we had to make some changes such as the orientation of the artist's name which I thought looks better at the bottom of the spread next to the album cover as they are of equal importance. After having looked at existing magazine adverts, I thought that it would be a good idea to incorporate a strap line at the bottom of our advert.

Putting Together Our Digipak

 I downloaded template for a 8 pannel digipak as i didnt think that our original idea of having only 6 pannels was a realistic plan as all of the digipaks I have looked at have more than 6 pannels.

Back Pannel Design

Most of the inspiration for the back of our digipak has been taken from the artwork on a disk featured in pop artist 'Rhianna'. I like how the close up shot allows the artist, in our case Jade, to show her emotion and as we want to put across a playful and cheery tone with our album to appeal to a younger audience, I thought it would be a picture of Jade pulling a 'cheeky' face on the back.

Taken from 'Unapologetic' 2012

CD Cover So Far...

This is plan for the cover of our digipak and the version ready for our initial screening in the coming weeks. Although I did have to make some changes from our original plan the basic layout is much the same and looks how me and Jade envisioned it would.

 
One major difference is the textured background, to link with our original influences taken from the lyric video we looked at earlier on in our project. It is also the same background we plan to use the same background in our greenscreen shots in our music video.