today I edited some of the performance footage, I put in some of the bass body double footage and put some filters over the shots to make it look more edgy and interesting. I also cut down and put in the 'getting ready scenes' and made them fast paced to match the pace of the song, I then moved on to editing the club scenes and putting it into order.
After I had started to consider what digipaks were and what we should make ours look like, for the image and our target audience, I started to come up with some brainstorms of the ideas and develop them.
When it came to designing them, I switched some of the images around. The shot of the band is now going to be on the front, and the two rings are going to be on the inside. I then had to think about fonts, so for inspiration I looked at their original one and tried to find one that was similar, so we could represent them, but at the same time represent the image that we wanted to give them.
Original Logo.
The new font that we decided on for our digipak, with the new band name.
After I had developed all of the ideas, I began to design some of them. I decided to start with the back first and work my way across. The design for the back was bottles with an ashtray next to it. I started off by taking the photo. I took it in my back garden against a brick wall so that it looked abstract and replicated the 'rough, grimy' feel to our image.
This is the original image that I took. I was planning to edit these all the way along, I wanted to make it look more 'rock and roll' and abstract.
This was my second idea, I experimented with different tecniques like contrast and exposure. But I felt that I could improve with the edit.
This is the final image for the back cover of the digipak. We wanted it to look professional, so after experimenting with photoshop, I came up with this.
I put a black and white effect over it with glowing edges and also experimented with the saturation.
When it came to the text I rotated it and put the Opacity down.
After I had done this I put surface blur over the top of it, so the text looks like it is actually in the bottle.
When it came to deciding on what ancillary tasks we was going to do, we both decided that Katie would do the website and I would do the digipak. So I decided to do a analysis of a digipak so that I could fully understand how to incorporate all of our ideas, including the image.
In one of the scenes for the narrative, I start to hallcinate James as Andy, and also him holding my hand and fading into nothing. We had to experiment with these shots as we knew what we wnated it to look like when it came to our actual shoot. These are some of the ideas we came up with.
Today we finished shooting the last bits of our narrative. After this, I started to work on the construction of it, I started off by putting the track 'Halfway Home' into the audio timeline so I could put the scenes where I felt they fitted best in the song, I then started putting everything in order and cut what we didn't need. After I have finished this I will start to put effects over it so that it is ready to go alongside the performance.
We shot our performance video in the Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford. The photo on the left is of us setting up before the shoot, we didn't get a chance to take many pictures of each other filming as we only had two and a half hours to get all the shots we needed. When we had set up, we dimmed the main lights down and set up our LED lights so that it gave off a dark and gave our band more focus.
