Album Cover Finished

Weve finally signed off our album cover and it looks really good. We were really pleased about the image on the back cover as it is a beautiful action shot. Intially we werent sure if we could make it work with the song titles and institutional information as there wasnt much space on the picture - but after alot of regiging we managed to make it work. I was also please that we got our logo, website and record company on the cover as it links the products together to help brand the band. I also think our logog looks very proffesional as it is simple but clear and memorable.

look at the top to see our finished product 

Ongoing Production Work

we are currently doing alot of intesive work on all three of our media products. the plan is for me and dom to focus on the album cover in our lessons and for wanda and claire to focus on the website in theirs. in addition to this we will each take it in turns to edit our sequence both in and out of lessons

us editing effects on our video

Album Cover and Website Photoshoot

our photoshoot went really well yesterday we got a wide variety of shots and everyones costume looked right (each in a different bright colour, fancy shoes). the aim is to use 3 pictures for the album and one key one for the website homepage. we also want to use a picture of each band member for their about us page on the website.

here are some samples from yesterdays shoot

the next step is to add effects like brightness and contrast to all shots to make them look proffessional

Ongoing Editing

As we've now gathered all of our footage, were going to make a rough cut of our sequence. We learnt from our prelim and research to create a whole performance only sequence before slotting in the narrative on top. with this layering effect we should get the best form both halves of our video.

Performance Shoot

Our performance shoot went really well and everyone gave lots of energy until the very end. we tried to use lots of moving shots to give us lots of variety and include a range of shots for all the band members. there was no problems with the playback and we decided to utilise our lights fully by having a blue background

pictures of us during and after performance shoot

Preparing Performance Shoot

Again we have used facebook to organise meetings with everyone involved and managed to get 2 helpers for hair and makeup

We have booked the seward studio for afterschool on tuesday, and are going to set it up our free lessons beforehand. We have been loaned equipment by the music department and guitars from a friend. Again we have made a shooting scheduale and shot list

Here is a picture of us with our planning paperwork including sketches of costume, calendar and mind map

Planning Performance Shoot

to contrast our homemade/guerilla narrative shoot - we want our performance to look as proffesional as possible. we have already sorted out the costumes for our band and plan those quite carefull. we have learnt from our theory to include plenty of extremes(wides and ECUs) particularly emphasising the instruments to signify our genre.

here are some shots of izzy and anguses planned costume

we are looking at similar style videos to look at  the choreography of the band while playing. in fact we got quite into rehersing the movement of the band