construction of digipak

I started by making a blank template so that my picture was spread out equally. I used pictures that I took when I went to brick lane, I took an interest in the graffiti and decided I wanted to use it on my digipak. 

After creating the template I then got my picture and spread it over the three columns and then cropped the three different parts of the picture (side, middle, side) to fit into each box. 

 I knew what the album covers of my chosen band looked like so I decided to go along the same line and have something simple but also eye catching.

I like my digipak, I think it looks well structured and eye catching. Some people may not get the idea of the picture used, I will explain that I used this picture because it almost gives off that tourist vibe which is what my album is about and with the London underground logo it backs up my idea even more as you would get the idea that tourists are always traveling and going from one place to the other. 

constructiion of magazine advert

When constructing my magazine advert, I used Adobe Photoshop to do this. I used a picture of my shoes by the edge of the train track, to me this represents living life on the edge which is how I imagined my album being about.

I filmed my attempts on photoshop where aI experimented with some of the features. I wasn't fully confident using photoshop so this resulted in me only filming the start of my construction and then took a screenshot of my final piece.  At first I wanted to make my magazine cover black and white but i thought the picture I took looked better without being black and white because of how nice the colours went together.

I used images from google such as the itunes logo so that I could insert it onto my magazine advert to make it look more realistic. I then put two comments from Kerrang and NME and gave it some ratings using some stars.

I used Kerrang and NME because I knew that from

my research that Catfish have appeared on both these magazines

and they are both rock magazines and they both have radio stations

so they are well known. 

audience feedback

audience feedback
Create bar charts

editing the music video 2

The second time I edited the music video, I was a lot more confident and able to do it on my own. Due to the setback from the first time editing, I was under a lot more pressure to edit the video as I had very little time.

I focused on getting all the shots into place and matching the lip syncing to the words of the song and began adding transitions in to make the music video flow. I used Quicktime player to film an example of adding transitions to my music video but the quality of the footage isn't the best.

The editing went a lot better than it did the first time which I was happy about and made it my mission to have this completed as quick as I can but also the best I can.

editing the music video 1

Before I began editing my music video, I re-watched the footage and arranged how the video would go in terms of the patterns of the shots. I then had to download the song I was using for my video and that took a while as a number of the mp3 converter sites were either blocked or wouldn't let me download the song with out subscribing and paying money. Eventually I was able to get the song and start editing properly, to edit I used Adobe premier pro which is what I used for other videos that required editing.

 I found using Adobe Premier a bit difficult as it had been a while since I used it so it did take some time to get used to using again, I got help from class members and teachers in order to help me get used to editing on Premier Pro again. 

Overall the first day of editing took a while to actually make some progress due to the decrease in my knowledge on how to use Premier Pro. although that was the case, I was still able to edit some footage which is always a start. I enjoyed editing and learning everything again as It has made me more confident in editing again. 

Filming the music video day 2

The second day of filming, we went to Southend to film some more shots that would look more interesting and fun as there is a massive theme park there which we could use to create some really fun shots for my music video. We were filming there for about 4-5 hours just choosing good places to film some shots and making sure that they were suitable, once again the weather was perfect for filming but it did get very cold which meant I wanted wrap up and stay warm which meant what I was wearing for the video was covered.

During the filming we did not encounter any conflict, we stayed very focused and wanted to make sure that we were doing our best to produce good footage. When we got back from Southend, we sat down and looked at the footage and deleted footage that we thought shouldn't be used or wasn't good enough and narrowed our footage down to about 51 videos from 106 videos.

Overall our second day of filming was very good, it also gave me confidence as I knew I had some fun looking shots for my video to liven it up a lot more so it wouldn't look so boring. It did take a log time to get good shots as we didn't want them to look like they were just done quickly whilst we were out. Instead we planned what we were going to do in each shot so it didn't look like a vlog.

filming the music video day 1

the first day of filming, myself and cameron (the person who is in my music video) set off to a park in order to collect footage of us both having fun and messing about. We filmed various different things including wildlife in the park and each other. The weather was great for filming in which meant we didn't have to cut the filming short due to bad weather, after filming in the park we went to my house and began to film the actual lip syncing part of the video. I had Cameron use an acoustic guitar and had him sit down infront of the camera, with the camera moving around him and even filmed him from the side so that i had a range of different camera angles in my music video.

 Cameron struggled with the lip syncing as he couldn't remember all the words to the song. This stressed me out a lot as I knew I only had limited time but it also affected Cameron as I was getting angry with him which resulted in him not putting 100% effort in. We soon resolved the conflict between us and were able to carry on filming without any major problems in the way.

Overall, the first day of filming was fun even though there was a bit of a rough patch towards the end. I was able to collect all the footage I needed on that day and also tried out a lot of new camera angles and movements.

rough cut

After the change of idea we began to film the music video, halfway through filming we looked at some of the footage and noticed the quality of the image was not clear and had black lines going through the picture due to the lights that were on during filming. After discussing this with my teachers we agreed I should borrow a school camera instead to film my music video.

 To make it asier for myself to pick specific parts of the clip that I wanted to use for my video, I used the letters I and O in my keyboard. I is pressed to start selecting sections of the clip and you will know because a green bar shows up and when I have the section of the clip I need, I then press O and it will look the same as the image above.

I chose to layer the clips as i could keep adding different parts of each clip onto the same row when I needed to, this makes the process a lot more easier that keeping all the clips on the same row. 

People said that the lip syncing was really good in my rough cut but because its only a short sample they couldn't say much about it.