Bonus DVD

This is my bonus DVD. I have used the image of the bottle as my background and got my CD as a bottle top lid. There is a video to show how the DVD panel works.

How I done it?

Firstly from my collection of photos of the drink I took a the best photo and opened it up in photoshop. To keep the black and white theme throughout my digi pack i applied the image effect of black and white and played around with the brightness and contrast to make it slightly more dark to give it more of a rough feel to the image.

Bottle cap

This is the difficult part. I took an image of a Budweiser bottle cap and added it into photoshop , here I cut round the image and then added the bottle cap logo which I created and showed in one of my previous posts. Next I merged both of them together  to make it my background.

CD

With the CD I created previously I just applied that onto the panel photo and put it in the location it is want to be.

Overall

I am happy with this vs panel and I feel it follows my digi pack theme and style throughout with applying the colour red on the bottle cap. The idea of the bottle being the background and taking the bottle cap of as the CD works well and world well with the Other CD panel being the cigarettes. I feel this idea is a unique idea , being different. And that is something my band follows and the drink is a symbolisation of the theme and style of my bad. However the positioning of the photo is wrong as the DVD is too small so it need some work. I think I need to retake the photo again.

Back Panel 3 Final

This is my final back cover design I have created.

Firstly , from the feedback given in class from my peers. They brought up the focus of the image I used on my back panel. This image was taken not in focus , although i thought it gave off a more vintage and indie feel to the back panel , the research proved it didn't work as when printed off it wouldn't look right at all. However , the layout and design of the track listing was good which meant I can keep that design idea. This means all i have to do is change the image.

I choose this image of the band looking out London Bridge. I really like this image as again on the back panel I wanted the back to have an image of the bands backs looking or going somewhere. As with this being their first band album/digi pack. This is them walking / thinking towards their dreams. This image with london in the background establishes the bands background with them being a london band brought up in a familiar area. The costume are noticeable with the parkas and jeans establishes the inide image we are trying to get across. I made the image black and white so it goes along with the rest of the digi pack and music video , giving a vintage and indie feel to my digi pack. I carried the rest of the design over from the feedback given mentioning the digi pack is fine just the photo needs changing.

Overall , I am happy with this outcome as with the image being more clear and in focus , grabs the audience attention and makes the digi pack look much more professional.

BONUS DVD

This is my new and improved bonus DVD. The reason for the improvement again is because i have got the right idea , i am just not using it right. Like mentioned in my last digi pack , the image behind the bottle cap is not working due to the size measurement not adding up with the size of the DVD. This means that i needed to change the photo behind the bottle cap which i did so. As you cant see the image , the image is shown bellow but change to black and white. The reason i chose this image is it links in with the fact that when you take the bottle cap off , your drink froths up causing it to spill and in my opinion i feel like this suits my digi pack as its expressing the lifestyle of the band , and follows that theme throughout. I want my digi pack to be unique and difference something that the audince enjoy and get engage with , and i feel like this panel works in doing so.

Editing Music Video

 Editing the CCTV scene.

We used the adobe after effect do this and use this youtube video to know how to do this. We struggled in doing this as we didn't know how to do it but the access of youtube allowed us to do this. We had to get a CCTV background and merge it into this clips and We then uploaded the clips to final cut pro were we made the clips black and white to fit along with the whole theme of the music video. The point of the CCTV is to make it exciting and unique but also show voyeurism which is part of godwins theory.

Video Shoot 3: Crystal Palace

 Video Shoot 3 - Crystal Palace Park

In this video shoot we filmed our remake to the rocky running scene shown below at the bottom of this post. We used this as a reference for our music relating Charlie s training scene to being similar to rocky. We thought it would be a cool idea to remake the famous running scene up the stairs so the audience if they watch the film before , can notice the reference we made.

Location:

We got given a recommendation of a similar area in which looks like the stairs Rocky used. We need the stairs to look like the ones they used so the reference can be more clear for the audience to notice. We found the perfect stairs and they where the stairs at Crystal Palace Park( shown below). From our research of the stairs around our areas , it was torn between these stairs and the stairs at the Nation Art Museum. We chose these stairs due to their being a less amount of people , making it easier for us to film.

                                           

    


We got the train and the journey planner above shows how we got there and the route we took.


Equipment:

The equipment we used was the following:

• A Tri Pod
• A DSLR 600 camera

Roles:

Charlie: Actor

Charlie: Camera man

Harry: Camera man

Daniel: Camera man

Props:

None

Costume: 

The costume charlie wore was the same he been wearing in the whole music video. We wears a grey tracksuit as that is the training gear which is used when you do sporting activities.  In addition , the grey tracksuit helps with the recognition of the rocky scene as he is wearing a grey tracksuit too , making our rocky recreation more similar and noticeable.

Review of the filming:

Overall , the filming of re creating the rocky scene actually worked well. We had the rocky clip up on our mobile phones so it made it easier for us to follow how they filmed it as we filmed it from shot to shot. Of course , it was difficult to make it spot on due to when filming rocky they would of had the best equipment around so we had to work with what we had. For example , there is a close up of rocky running and the camera is following him. However , we didn't have a camera or equipment to be able to follow charlie smoothly without the camera shaking. But we done it to the best we could of and it turn out to look better than i thought it would be. We feel that this is a great idea for our music video , as music video do make reference , weather its from a film , other artist ect. So to fit in a reference , make the music video more interesting and fun for the audience when they see it.





Results:

We uploaded the rocky scene to the internet to get feedback and to see if people can guess the reference and as you can see from our results it went perfectly.

Video shoot - band peformance

This video shoot was for our first band performance.

From our research we carried out , we noticed that indie bands music video have some band performance in their music video. This is because I believe they want to share and show their skills they have as it's their music they sell not that much focused on their image like pop music. Therefor we wanted to have a band peformabce element in our music video. To decide who goes with what position , from the photos we took of us in different roles and the results we got back showed us that this was the Perfect set up.

Booking

This week we had to book the drama room and book the equipment from the music department bellow are emails conferming both we also booked it for an additional 2 more weeks infront.

In this music scene we just done the first verse as we feel it be easier to break it down by with each session with a verse.

We went through the song many if times as we wanted to get the verse done in as many different shots and angels as possible. Firstly we focused just on close ups of the lead singer and what heels is having the lyric and song playing for him on the imac. Next we done individual shots of the band members such as the drummer guitarist and base. We struggled on how to perform the instruments as we don't play them and we know it need to look realistic. We don't abit of research before hand but we still struggled but done it to the best we would but it was difficult. Finally we done wide shots of the whole band. The reason we done so many of everyone is because in band performance scene they are cut short to be exciting and fast paced to go with the music , they are a band so they need to show everyone , so we had to cover the performance in all aspects and angles.

Location 

Drama hall

Equiptment:

Drums 

Base

Microphone

Guitar

Tripod

DSLR

IMac

Costumes:

Skinny jeans ,

White t shirts

Shirts

Jackets

Shoes

Tattoes

Overall I am happy with this performance I feel like we done the best we could be being it is our first time we could do better next time , as we was wasting time in trying to figure what shots to do. We looked at music videos as we was there to give us more ideas so that enabled us to work better next time as we got a more undertanding. The drama hall was perfect as it was black and had the lighting so we played around with that to give it the best effect we could.

Inside Panel

This is only a slight change but I added the social networking sights . After looking at my digi pack and then looking at real life ones , i felt something was missing. And i noticed i haven't got no fan interaction links for them to check out. With my target audience being young , i felt it would be a great idea to put the bands social networking sight in their. This allows the fans to check out the social network pages and either like or follow them to interact and gain the band more recognition and also a chance for the public to find out more.I also got the images/logo to be red so it goes along with my red theme.