Editing Complete

We have now finished the editing process and have completed our final music video. This was on schedule as we collectively allocated ourselves the deadline of the 4th February to have all editing completed.

Even though editing was completed to our allocated date we did experience difficulties. The main obstacle that occurred was the contrast of colour in scenes. Some of the scenes we had filmed had a blue tint present this was due to one of the cameras being set to night shot mode as apposed to day mode. As one of the cameras wasn’t set to the correct mode (night mode rather than day) it resulted in a contrast in colour throughout. Therefore the quality of the video was to a poorer standard, as a result a time consuming process had to be undertaken when editing the colour of scenes.

It can be easily established from the shot comparison bellow the colour correction in the shots from the left in comparison to shot on the right.

Shot Comparison - colour correction

Risk Assessment

The risk assessment was carried out prior to undertaking the filming process, however due to technical difficulties uploading onto the blog it had to be uploaded at a later date than planned.

Reasons for the alterations to the storyboard from final video.

In regards to our animatic we made drastic variations to the order/scenes which we had collectively decided upon as a group. This was because we decided on more suitable alternatives for the video. Some have scenes we have originally storyboarded for e.g. the hairdressers which was not to a high enough standard of filming, this was due to the camera operator being present within the shot along with equipment e.g. tripods. This was because the mise-en scene of the establishment had lots of mirrors and as a result this proved hard when filming the scene. Therefore we as a group made the decision to cut the scene and replace it with another. Some other scenes we decided upon were also cut this was due to their being more suitable alternatives than originally planned for. This will result in there being a change from our storyboard to our final music video.

The reason the storyboard and animatic were uploaded later was due to experiencing technical difficulties. It had been completed before all other work e.g. digi-pak etc was created.

Animatic

Storyboard

Digipak Cover - Latest Draft

After creating a template that is to the correct scale of a digipak - we are able to work with actual sizes; letting us know what works and what doesnt.

We spent longer creating a front cover that would meet as many of the conventions that we wanted.

The lights in the background are supposed to connote dancing, discos and up-tempo music - perhaps the business of lots of people on a dancefloor. (as many people are shown in our music video)
The colours are bright, as we wanted, and again are used to represent the fast music. It was also supposed to give the cover a crazy, exciting look....

The bold font is used to make the artist name stand out. This anchors the close up of the 'singer' - allowing the audience to easily link the two.

The name of the album in this version of the digipak is ''footloose''. Suggesting that the song is the main or most popular song on the album tracklist - which is a typical convention often used by many artists.