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Teacher Feedback – Screencastify

Targets for improvement:

  • Don’t include unnecessary shots of the star in the middle of the narrative.
  • Try to include more of the ring and show close ups of it.
  • Try not to draw on shots and make quick cuts on the beat of the song.
  • Incorporate shade into our performance and see how this can emphasise our star.
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Shoot 2 Reflection

My Shoot 2 Reflection:

In our second shoot we shot the narrative part of our video and we shot the scenes for the performance where our star was wearing gloves, had money and had a bat.

A difficulty we encountered in filming the narrative was when we were near the edge, where we filmed there was a small drop (around 1 meter) on the left side of the screenshot above. The drop itself wasn’t the problem as there was railings up but the problem was that there was modern cars on the road where the drop is. Which obviously we couldn’t show in our video as it wouldn’t set our class gangster theme if we had a Fiat 500 in the background. Other than this I feel the shoot did well and we didn’t encounter any other problems and overall is was very happy with how the narrative shoot turned out.

We also filmed a bit more for our performance in the black room at school, when we filmed with the bat we had to be supervised in the studio which did make me feel a bit rushed for time although I’m still happy with the shots we got and think they came out well. Using the props, in my opinion, went very well. We got a nice variation of shots with the bat and the fake money. In this shoot we also got some shots of our star with gloves on and some shots of him putting on the shots, these were my favourite shots from our shoot as I feel like they really give that anarchic gangster message that we needed to incorporate into our music video.

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Design Skills 2

Color grading workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro CC

We used curves to have complete control over our contrast, the curves can be manipulated into giving you complete customization over your contrast. You can use the white curve or any of the three RGB curves but we only used the white contrast curve as we did ours entirely in black and white. The curves give much more control over the contrast slider we originally used. The control of colour is very important to our work, as it plays a big part in giving across our gangster/anti-authority message.

These are adjustment layers, they can be used to apply effects to multiple cuts at once. How they work is that you apply the affect to the adjustment layer instead of the clip, then you can put the layer on your timeline and stretch it as far as you’d like to. Therefore the effects will  apply to every clip that they’re stretched to. This plays a part with the contrast curve that I previously talked about, as we could use the curve on the adjustment layer to find the perfect contrast we wanted then apply it to the entire video at once. This saved us many hours of work and was definitely the biggest timesaver throughout this entire project.

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Digipak Draft 1

Our first draft of the front and back of our digipak:

Changes to make:

  • Need to start on our inside panes.
  • Need to make a track list, add copyright information, record labels, etc to the back.
  • We are quite happy with the front but want to make minor changes, such as changing the artist and album name, and maybe changing the picture a bit.