Extended deadline

Today I have been granted an extended deadline of one week. I have spoken to my teacher and explained how much i have been struggling to get my band together all at the studio and have been unable to hit this deadline for my final video. I will have my video completed including filming editing and being posted onto you tube and my blog by next Friday.

Reminder for filming

Before I film tomorrow i thought i would text the band to let them know what the plan of action is and clear up any questions they have.

Today and past few days work.

Over the past few days I have been using tube chop to, cut out bits of my video I wasnt happy with to emphasise what I want to change, and what I want to refilm.

Tube chop

In This clip, the singer throws the mic stand down, as he does this the bassist and guitarist look at each other and begun giggling, this will be edited out, or dealt with when i refilm.

Tube chop

This was my biggest worry about my song and band, and unsurprisingly ,has been and, is being my biggest problem. The lengthy guitar solo. The guitar solo was going to be hard enough to frame as it is, but with a band who cannot play the song and have never played instruments before in they lives it was going to prove more difficult. I am still working on how to counter tho issue.

Tube chop

In this clip, again the singing and music are slightly out of sync. The problem here is that I have used the same shot from earlier in the song, it is the same lyrics but it's slightly different timing. I can solve this by slowing down my clip or re-filming with my singer singing at a different speed.

Tube chop

The problem I am highlighting here is obvious, my singer is no where near in time with the song. Looking through my clips there are extra clips of this same section where he is actually singing the right words at the right time, so i can simply switch the clips around and cut bits off before and at the end of the clip to keep the timing right.

Tube chop

Here I have used tube chop to cut up my video, I am not happy with this little sequence at the beginning of my video. The drums come in ever so slightly too late, this subsequently effects the timing of the guitar which also comes in late. This won't be to hard to edit out, and it won't require extra filming to correct it.

Todays work

As I am still waiting on my new footage to get filmed, to save myself from doing nothing today I have tidied up my blog. I have added labels to all of my posts, added an 'about me' a page views gadget and a mix pod so people can listen to music directly from my blog.

Todays work

As I still haven't managed to re-film anything for my video today I have been re-editing the footage I already have. The main problem was the lip syncing from my singer, but by sowing down some of the clips I already have and changing clips around I am managing to do a lot to my video which I didn't think I could of without re-filming.

Todays work

Today I have been looking through my video and the spare clips that I have to see if there are any adjustments I can make before I refill with my band.

Filming Reschedule

There has been a problem with my plan to film tonight. One of my band members car has broken down and we were relying on him to drive me and the rest of my band to the studio. So I have to reschedule my filming, I am currently unsure as to when I will be able to do this, hopefully sometime early next week.

Shooting schedule.

When i went and filmed my footage for the first time, I was relatively lucky with the footage i came out with, I seemed to fall to pieces as far as following any sort of shooting schedule was concerned. so for when i re film tomorrow I plan on using this schedule.

Front man walking on to the stage.
Front man walking off the stage.
Close ups of front man and all instruments.
Long shots of the whole band performing.
Mid shots of the band performing.
Mid shots of individuals.
Extreme close ups of instruments and bands members.
1 run through of the whole song whilst I move around stage, getting slightly random and disjunctured shots which can be used to fill in blank spots in my video.

This weeks schedule.

After last weeks highly succesul week I plan on near enough copying the weeks schedule.
Monday:Organise final bits, hiring the studio and times to sort means of getting there with my friends.
Tuesday: Go to the studio afterschool and film my video.
Wednesday: get footage onto the iMac.
Thursday: Begin to edit my video.
Friday: Finish editing and upload video to blog.

Refilming

Today I have booked the studio again to refilm the parts of my video I am not happy about, it is mainly just getting the singing in time with my front man and the track so another hour of filming should do the trick.

Changes to music video

I have only just finished my first draft of my muisc video, but already there are obvious problems which I need to change, there are certain parts where the singing of my front man does not sync up with the track at all.so this will need to be adressed, and the unavoidable guitar solo midway through the song. I have previously stated that my band are not actually a band, so this is difficult and I am currently working on a solution to this problem.

First draft music video

Editing

I have spent today and spent the whole of yesterday editing my video. I DL very impressed with the outcome. Apart from the animatic I made a few weeks ago, I have never used iMovie. Also none of my band members have ever done anything like this and none can play an instrument so I am happy about how I have managed to disguise this in my video with the editing. Below are done pictures of my footage on iMovie.

Getting my video on to a computer.

After facing challenge after challenge with getting my video filmed I was incredibly happy to finally have it sorted, but then i had another bump in the road when trying to download my footage from the SD card to a computer or a mac. Firstly i tried putting my footage straight onto the mac, it put my SD card into the SD card slot in the mac, I then tried a similar method using an SD card reader which i plugged into the USB port on the mac, failing this i tried the same on pc. After these had failed I tried to put my footage on to the pc via the camera itself this did not work however when i tried to do this with the mac, miraculously it worked, this however was very time consuming and frustrating.

Downloading my footage.

After successfully filming yesterday today i have failed to download any footage on to a computer or mac from my video camera.

Filming

This is my band in the studio where we filmed my music video.

Filming

Today I am filming my music video after school, as i have previously said it has not been easy to get all of my band together and today one of the boys who was going to be in the video has dropped out, another problem on my long list of things that have kept holding back from filming, but i have asked another one of my friends to fill in so there will be 4 people still in my band how I had originally wanted it.

Filming studio

This is the room I have booked for my band to play the song. It is a dark practice room which I think makes the room look more full and fits in with the genre best as possible. I have looked at several videos which are filmed in white rooms or with incredibly pale backgrounds, videos from top artists and amature videos including A-Level music videos, and i did not like them as i thought it left way to much space present in the room, but i want the room to seem as full as possible. 

Filming

I am going to film my video tomorrow, this will be my first filming, it has been very stressful to try and get everyone organised and together in one place at one time, but finally I got it together.

Final digipak and poster

Band Poster

Below are my first draft and my final band poster. Directly below is my first draft and second below is my final poster, as you can see I have not made a vast amount of changes from my first draft to my final product, they are very minimalistic changes, I started by changing the font size, and made the band name larger than the album name but made it just as visible. I then changed a modest 7/10 rating from NME to a 8/10 as well as realigning it and making it smaller which was the same as what I did with Q mags rating. I decided to boost the rating as I didnt want it to be unrealistic but I wanted it to show the band are good, Kings of Leon's debut album youth and young manhood was given a 9/10 but also called 'the best debut album of the last 10 years' so I did not want to try and out do myself by making my band the best band ever, as it is meant to be an amateur band that is relatively young and new to the music scene but also incredibly talented. I then made the small print at the bottom actually small, as on my first draft it is very big. I have also chosen the release date 4/2/2013 as this is a monday and albums are usually released early in the week so they have a whole week to get as many sales as possible in the first week and try to make it inot the charts by the end o the week.

Digipak

The final change I made to my digipak was to fill the empty to panels, on one of the the top right panel I have copied the thank you list from the kings of leon's debut album youth and young manhood on which there was two columns of writing thanking all of the producers, engineers, technicians, studios etc that were involved in the making of the CD. On the other panel, the top left panel, I have added an element of disjuncture, I have written two columns of text again so it is similar to the opposite panel, but I have filled it with things that a band may do on a night out, and as the hit song on the album last nite, is about not knowing where you stand with someone and being confused I have added elements of this to the writing. below shows the final changes I have made to my digipak but also my final digipak.

Digipak

Here my digipak is almost finished, I have now emoved the template pictures of kasabian, but I havent managed to take any pictures so I have left the two panels where previously there were pictures blank. I have also moved the band name to the front cover as opposed to the inside panel, and the legal text and barcode has moved for the final time to the bottom left corner of the back panel of the digipak.

Digipak

On this screen grab I have moved all of the legal notice and text with the barcode to the back corner of the CD case instead of the spine where I had it before.

Digipak

Here I am continuing to make changes to my digipak, this is after I have changed the font over the whole digipak.

Digipak

I am now begining to make changes to my digipak, the first change I made was to change the font, as it did not fit my genre of inide rock well enough, The font I had used was fitted more between the rock and western genre. The picture below shows the first change I have made to my digipak by deleting the font on the cover.

Disjuncture on my digipak

After looking at the kings of leon album yesterday and deciding to do a similar style credit role on my digipak, it meant scrapping the images I was going to use. Doing this would mean I would be left with one blank panel. Having one plank panel may be okay had it been the panel behind where the CD would be stored, but it wasn't  it was the panel next to it. So I have decided to add an element of disjuncture. Following the same format as the credit role opposite  I have listed things that people might do on a night out all starting with 'last nite' the name of the album.

Kings of Leon

Today I was looking through some different CDs and came across the kings of Leon's youth and young manhood album. What I really liked about this digipak was what was on one of the inside covers, it was a list of credits of who had help make and contribute towards the album in a very formal two column layout, I have decided to do this instead of having a picture there.