Editing finished

Today after finishing the grouping of the narrative between the performance shots the cuts was sorted out and put into specific order and a tidier, straight line. When this was finished the music video was translated from proxy files into HD to really bring out the colors but also since this will make the video look so much more professional and bright.

When this was done we were introduced to the after affects program and our teacher taught us the basic and what we needed to do. So first of all the most important thing was to cover the green screen with the shots that were taken for this purpose in the scrap yard, and there was a lot of small details that had to be considered. But on the other hand the work with the after affects was really awarding since this gave a bigger insight of how the final result was actually going to look. We did some final touches such as putting some visual after affects such as gun flashes to make the shooting scenes more realistic. But we also worked on the affect of when shooting the car, the glass of the car was shot by an air gun but then we added some affects such as falling glass and bullet holes that we can see on the side of the car.

above you can see a screen recording of when we used the after affects and what we did. And below some pictures of the visual effects that were describe above.

I know that both me and Teodora have struggled and we had times were we thought we would never finished our the end result wouldn’t be as good as we predicted when planning the video, but today after starting the after affects we were really pleased and we also know that we worked hard to get the result that we manage to reach with our video.

I personally feel that this year has been a lot more pressure and struggle then when doing the thriller because I had a hard time with hearing the beat and cutting to the music, but even though I’m proud because I never gave up and I gave my best shot. The making of the music video was so much fun even though at times it was really stressful but I know that both me and Teodora are very pleased with the end result and I also know that personally I have developed my skills so much further compared to what I was working with before this project.

Hers is our final result, enjoy!

Digipak development

Today during the lesson, after we completed the music video, we started to put more time into our poster and digipak and we started to write down what was needed to be done and what things that we should do together.For our digipak, you can see breif/planning draft below, we are almost finished with the front page and the only thing we need to do is to put a promotion sticker like “#1 top seller” or similar to promote the cd and the band.

front cover, inside left, inside right

Then for the inside right we need to fade the picture so we can see the place where the cd is suppose to be and also uses so burn effect or similar that we used in Photoshop on the front cover to get that old rough texture and color.
The inside left is almost also finished but the colors needs to be adjusted as well, also from the audience feedback we realized that we had to make the concept about recycling the faces/mainstream people even more. So we decided to either use recycling arrows that are faded on the picture or round recycling arrows around the bin depending upon what would look best.

How we use the burn effect in photoshop

For the back there is much that has to be done and first of all we have to get a screen grab from the performance in the video in HD that we will use for the back. After that we will use the same kind of burn affect and get the right contrast and color of the picture. When this is finished we will put a bar code, the copyright logo and institutions name at the bottom of the back cover possibly also their logo. When this is done the only thing that is needed to be done is to put all the songs and so far we feel like we want them centred using the same colour and font as we did on the front cover.
So within a few days I think we will be finished with the digipak if everything goes as planned.

Back cover brief draft of our idea

Developing of poster

Today we looked at some final ideas for the poster and we decided that we wanted to use a picture of just the singer and then have all of the written information below the photo similar to the poster below of “the verve – urban hymns” poster. So as you can see on our brief plan below we want to include the band name “infernal”, the album name “I’m not like everybody else”, new album out on 11/11 2011 and then include “available at HMV, ITunes and palaphone.co.uk (institution webpage).

These different things are used in the poster to promote the selling of the album but to also make the poster look as realistic as possible. We also decided to go with the same font and color on the text that we used for the digipak and to also to use color burn affect on the poster as well

Here is our planning/breif idea of the poster

Editing part 2

After developing out first rough draft of the performance together with the narrative we made some distingue changes after having a group discussion. Me and Teodora felt that we had to give the narrative, the movie more time in the song but to do this we thought that the song was a bit too long and repetitive. So the first thing we did was to cut of 30 seconds of the songs since we recognized that this would make the end result so much better. After we had shorten the song we decided to group up the movie clips and make them more of a sequence, using the same type of skills as we did when editing our thriller, think about continuity and specific angles not breaking the 360 degree rule and so on. By grouping the movie narrative together we thought that this would make this would be a better way for us to market the movie since this is what this music video is all about, synergy between the products. The song “I’m not like everybody else” is a typical sixties song and could be referred to an action movie such as James Bond and since Bond and the Kinks are classified as typical English we thought that this was an important element to our music video. 

So after putting all the narrative in to big groupings and the band in between so creating;
narrative scene shots and angles – band – narrative scene with different shots/angles – band etc. This would help the audience to get a better grip of what is happening but we are also then able to create tension within the audience and a reaction to the thing going on then actually looking at the performance of the band.

As we can for example see in the video below this is a soundtrack for the movie “breaking dawn” and we can also see that for example in between 1.22-1.28 we can see different shots and angles of the movie narrative, methods we have used when creating our music video.

Editing part 1

During the last week we have been working on finishing our music video in the editing suite and there has been a lot of dedication and work involved. I and Teodora have been working on the editing outside and during lesson time and we are nearly finished. After finishing out first draft of the performance we started to pick the shots we wanted for the narrative and which shots that would look good and match well with the performance. And today we finished the first draft of the music video also including the narrative though there is a lot of clean up and things to look over before converting it into HD and to be absolutely finished.

Since me and Teodora don’t really get along very well with the editing and the program used we have been struggling and therefore been a bit slower than many other group, but this also means that we are very precise. I also feel that I have developed personally and I’m now much more efficient with using the program and my skills and my knowledge have really improved in the process. 

Picture of the final cut program