Ancillary Products - Magazine Advert

Ancillary Products - DigiPak

Blog Reflection Fourteen

This week we had continued to work on our ancillary products and we had only one product left, the DigiPak. The digipak had been a challenge as the font that we had decided to use was a graffiti style, and we could only generate the images through a copyright free website, so we had to use initiative and create the text that we needed, but remove the white background and use the text, this was successful as the font was legible, to add to the branding of the artist when laying out the digipak we had used an asymmetrical style and had been creative with the CD design, creating it in the style of a barbell plate. Also we had successfully taken appropriate screen grabs from our music video footage, and again I was happy with the finished DigiPak. 

Blog Reflection Thirteen

This week we had started our ancillary products; a DigiPak and Magazine advert. We had already created our flat plans (Magazine Advert and Digipak) in pre-production, so we had to create our products on the computers. This week we had focused on the magazine advert, although once again our actor had not turned up so that we could take pictures, so therefore we had to make a crucial decision to use screen grabs from our music video footage, this was difficult to get the precise image that we was looking for, but as the deadline for next week was fast approaching we had to fall onto the contingency plan of using screen grabs. Overall, the magazine advert was successful and I was happy with the finished product although It could have been improved if we had taken new images.  

Blog Reflection Twelve

Deadline Day! This week we had been working hard to get our music video ready for the deadline, we had cut all of our footage together making sure it was lip synced, this was a challenge due to the pace of the song although we had overcome this successfully. We had been refining the shots, adding all of the final touches, one last minute decision that we had made was to add the blue and red filters to the establishing shots, as the natural colours were dull and didn't add too much impact, so we had decided to add the red and blue filters to replicate a police siren to start the music video by "throwing" the audience directly in. Click here to see the FINAL MUSIC VIDEO. 

Blog Reflection Eleven

This week we had aimed to achieve a full timeline for our music video, due to the deadline next week. We had successfully achieved this, although some performance shots didn't look very appealing so therefore we had decided to use the white screen, this would add clarity to our shots.

The filming had worked out to be successful, considering the deadline that is approaching. We had achieved our target of getting lots of shot types and angles, through the use of multiple cameras on the white screen, one was a mid shot and the other a close up, in addition to this we had then taken a handheld scene with more energetic movements around and towards the actors.

After completing this we had started to edit the new scenes into final cut.

Blog Reflection Ten

The week we have started editing! We had imported all of our footage into final cut on the IMacs. We did this to amalgamate the footage we had gained over the half term and to see what we was missing and what we could improve. This had helped us as we have seen what shots we need to re-film and how we could improve shots. We had found a few issues with the footage that we had shot during the half term as our technique wasn't correct. We had only taken the shot from one angle and had not gained enough camera angles and that is an improvement that we had amended when re-filming, although we had started from the first chorus, as our establishing shots didn't have the desired effect as they were too slow and mundane, we then decided that we would work on those areas at a later stage.