Peer Feedback - SMART Target

Ryan and I showed what we had done so far to the rest of our group in order to receive peer feedback. They set us a SMART target which was to add some effects to the narrative part of the video in order to differentiate it from the performance. We were going to add effects on the shots after we'd finished but we decided to try it out beforehand since they'd suggested it to us. We tried experimenting with different effects to see what could make the narrative look more 'dreamlike' without going over the top. We tried many different effects but have yet to find the one we want to use. At least now we know what not to use.

Editing - 29/01/13

Today we started structuring our video and adding in our narrative. We're working through our video chronologically as we believe that this is the easiest way about going about it. At the end of the lesson we are a minute into editing the narrative. What we have been doing is adding in the narrative in the order that we want and then cutting it away at certain points in order to add performance. So far we are just doing rough editing to get it in the right order and to get the structure correct. Once we have done this we will go back and polish up all the shots, add effects, etc.

Editing - 23/01/13

Ryan and I have been editing our music video for a few weeks now. So far we have been syncing our video of the performance with the audio. It is taking quite a while because we are trying to sync up 16 video tracks as accurately as possible. One problem with this process is that each time we sync up a video track we have to render the video which takes a few minutes each time. Despite this problem, we are almost finished and will move on to adding in the narrative and editing the performance soon.

Shot by shot music video analysis - The Killers

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Progress to webpage - 18/1/13

Today I made a good amount of progress to the 'About' page of the site. I added the first pictures into the website and wrote biographies for the band and a couple of individual members.

Progress to webpage - 11/1/13

Today I worked on my webpage for the band. I took the template that I had previously created for the home page and began adding the content into it. I added the content for the 'latest news' section, the 'about the band' section and the 'latest cd' section. I also added in hyperlinks so specific texts can link you to the different places on the website and changed the background of the website to black to match other indie band's websites. Once we have done the photography (which we plan to do next week) I will be able to begin replacing the placeholder pictures with the actual pictures that I am going to use.

What we have left to do as of Tuesday 8th January before we can edit

So far we have all of the footage from the performance and most of the footage for the narratice. Unfortunately, due to circumstances we were unable to film the footage for the bassists part of the narrative and still have that left to do. We are currently in the process of arranging the location for this. We also have to film one more part of the elevator shots where they all get out of the elevator at the end of the video. We have to arrange two more days for filming for each of these parts.

Also, this isn't required before filming, but we also have to take pictures for our digipak and we will have to organise a day to do this.