Filming - Thursday 13th December

The filming today had many more problems that we had to overcome and didn't go as smoothly as yesterday. We planned on filming the whole performance area of the video today, and we managed to do so, but there were a number of hindrances. There were many problems that we did manage to overcome.

Firstly, we were not allowed to borrow the drums from the school's music department which we had previously been promised. We had to get the drums that I had at my house to the school. Those drums weren't as good as the drums we could have got from the school but they were good enough to use. Secondly, when we arrived back with the drums we found out that we had been kicked out of the drama room that we were going to film in because we had waited to long to film and there was a club that had that location booked. Luckily, our school's main hall (Boothroyd hall) was available to film in and it was close by so it wasn't too much trouble moving all of the stuff over. We were also unable to get a mic or a mic stand but we just decided to leave this out as it wasn't too important.

Digipak - Final

All I have done to finish off my digipak is add the band's logo in the bottom-left hand corner of the front cover. I altered the logo slightly for the digipak so it fits with the sci-fi theme of the album. But I didn't change it too much so it's still synergistic with the website. Now my digipak is finished.

Webpage - Final

Today I made a lot of changes to my webpage. I changed all of the images to black and white to make synergy with the digipak. Unfortunately, the music video on the homepage cannot be changed to reflect this as it as a thumbnail from the video. I added in the twitter feed that I had previously created and I

also replaced the AC/DC logo with the band's logo that I created. After a few minor tweeks and resizes of a few things the homepage is now finished.

Twitter feed for website

I created a fake twitter account for my band that I could update and add to my webpage. I will be using this particular screenshot that I captured from the actual twitter feed on my webpage.

Logo

I have used a few things in the logo to reflect the ideals of the band as well as the conventions of indie music. Firstly, the word 'The' is an homage to a 1960s British band 'The Who' as it looks very similar to the 'The' in their logo. Since our band is a throwback to 1960s British bands I think the homage to 'The Who' will be a clear indicator as to the style and ideals of our band. Secondly, the black colour that has been used was directly influenced from my research into indie music as I found that the colour black was often used by indie bands. Thirdly, the compass has a denotation as well as a connotation. The denotation is that a compass is directly linked to the word 'Lost.' The connotation with the compass and the word 'Lost' is one of our band's ideals which is the idea of these young 18 year-old boys being at a point in there life where they are lost and confused. This also links with our band's target audience because the target audience are 18 year-old boys who will also be at this point in life.

Music video - Final

After finishing our rush cuts we used this time to make the finishing touches on our video before we could call it complete. We add a 'bad tv' and 'bloom' effect to the shots in the elevator to symbolise that he is travelling to a different place and that something strange and sci-fi is happening. We also added an 'echo' effect to the shots where the actors are coming and going from the elevator. This makes it look like they are materialising into a new place and gives it a teleportation type look. We also added an 'earthquake' effect at varying levels towards the end of the video as the music, the ASD and overall pace of the video picked up. Unfortunately, after we had done all this and dubbed the video as finished the program stopped responding before we could save it and we lost all of the days work. We had to go back and do it all for a second time but managed to get it all done to the same standard. We then added titles to the opening of the video. After these finishing touches our music video is now finished.

Progress to digipak and webpage - 8/2/13

Today, on my digipak, I edited the back cover slightly so that the dark edges matched the front cover. I also added in the album title and song titles to the front and back covers. I had to choose a font that fit the ideals of indie music which was simplistic and black. I decided to use the rockwell font because it fit these requirements.

I then went and edited my webpage and changed the font to rockwell as well in order to create synergy. I also changed the youtube video template (originally a Queens of the Stone Age video) to mine and Ryan's rush cut video. 

Editing - 6/2/13

Today we finished all of the rush cuts and have put everything in place and in order.

There are a number of things we still have to fix before our music video is finished. We have to make sure the aspect ratio is correct on every clip. We must make sure every clip is properly in sync. We must add effects to make the video look better. We also need to make sure that everything is the way we want it and that there aren't any alternative clips that are better. It's now all about adding the finishing touches.

Editing - 5/2/13

Today we carried on editing the video as we went. When we got the bass narrative part we ran into a problem where one of the shots lasted too long so we wanted to speed it up. We created a video explaining our problem and how we solved it:

Progress to webpage - 1/2/13

In terms of my webpage, I replaced the home picture with a picture of the band. I also added some more pictures to the bottom of the page.

Progress to Digipak - 1/2/13

Today I began my digipak and have made a good amount of progress to it. Firstly, I decided on what I wanted for the four inside panels and I decided that I wanted close-ups of the band members. I put these pictures into picmonkey (a picture editing software) and played about with them so they looked the way I wanted them to. I decided to make them look black and white and to remove the background from each picture. I made sure I put the same effects on each picture to make sure each panel of the inside was similar. For the outside I used pictures of the whole band and made them look rather abstract and blurry. This is because the title of the album is 'Lost In Space' and the blurriness of the picture fits the title. I also decided to use black and white to fit the conventions of indie music where a lot of it is associated with the colour black.