Thursday, 26 January 2012

Website Research

Digpak Production

After printing off and cutting out the template design for our digipak we created a design board to post ideas to show the whole group. The final design was brought together by Ashley who had seen a similar kind of digpak which "tells a story". The mood board gathered ideas for colours to be included, pictures and font of the text to be used. Here are some pictures of the first draw up.



Production Progress - 26th January

Today's lesson began with being provided with a list of tasks which needed to be completed by the end of the lesson to make sure we're on track with our music video production and the ancillary tasks. We began by working on the website research PowerPoint production, looking at similar bands websites for inspiration. We also produced a rough design for our digipak  from the website I discovered last week.

Monday, 23 January 2012

Second Cut Feedback

Very similar to our first cut feedback, the whole class gathered round the table to watch our production, providing more constructive criticism and to see whether or not we took our last feedback session into account.

Holding Shot Steady

  • Slow zoom - too unsteady.

Framing a Shot
  • Photographs no clear enough - need to flash into close up.
  • Also need to zoom into the tv, focusing on the crash scene.
  • Paper scene needs to be over Ashley's shoulder.
Appropriate material
  • Face clear Jams sequence - very disgusting, well done.
Selecting Mise en Scene

  • Car park  is a poor location - empty street needed.
  • Ashley horror face sequence - good - keep edits short.

Editing for meaning
  • More quick shots of car accident.
  • Different transition to dead Ash - gradual colour transition.
Varied shot transitions, caption and other FX
  • Some very good effects - face, airplanes, ECG monitor, leaves falling upwards and James's blank face.

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Production Progress - Thursday 12th

Carrying on with our ancillary task, we began research on digipaks and websites designs of similar bands to the song we're presenting. Whilst looking through the internet for ideas on the digipak I discovered a website which allowed us to download different digipak templates, becoming a very useful webpage for future designs of our digipak. Here is the link to the digpak template web page... http://www.duplication.ca/printspecs/digipack.htm During my research, Jon was focusing on the webpage by looking at different bands with a similar genre to ours. By doing this it will give us ideas on what we want on our bands webpage.

Production Progress - Monday 9th

Today we began the planning of our ancillary tasks. The first task our group decided to create was a digipak of the bands album, featuring the single our music video "Stranger things have happened". The second choice was to create a homepage for our band. As a group we chose these tasks based around our skills and ideas. After the tasks had been chosen, a mood board for task was drawn up so we could post our own ideas onto ito for the whole group too see. This would
then allow us to pick the best options from each of the sections on the mood boards.