Our Contact Sheet for our Digipak shoot:
This is our contact sheet for our digipak studio shoot, we wanted to achieve some good close ups to be potentially used for our front cover. I think we got a good selection of picture to choose from.
Photoshoot/Design Production Meeting Agenda and Risk Assessment
These are our risk assessment and PMA for our digipak studio shoot, there weren’t many risk involved as we did our shoot on site in the black studio. The PMA is like a form of communication, a document everyone in the group can access to know what they need to bring to the shoot.
Our Risk Assessment:
Our Production Meeting Agenda (PMA):
Branding Moodboard
Our branding moodboard of rap digipaks:
This is a moodboard of Digipak conventions, for our genre (rap). This moodboard shows the conventional mise en scene, typefaces, colour schemes, logos, graphics and also shows some album covers that are similar to the artist of our song.
Music Video Draft 3
Our 3rd Draft of our Music video:
Targets for improvement:
- Need to put more of our footage in and spend less time on what we already have.
- Try to play with the speed a bit, (eg speeding up and slowing down certain shots.)
- Add some close ups that better show emotion.
Things we are doing well:
- Pitch black background is very effective with the use of the spotlight.
- The part where the narrative and performance are faded is good.
Specsavers Feedback
During one of our lessons we had two professional editors come in to give us feedback and tips on our editing.
Lenny taught us all about adjustment layers, these are like effects you can make but instead of having it on a single clip you can drag across your timeline and apply the effect to everything. For example, we are doing our music video in black and white and in our draft 1 we were individually applying the black and white effects to each clip. But now we apply the effect to the adjustment layer, just once, then we can stretch this out and it will apply to every clip. This is a massive time saver.
Lenny also taught us how to use solids and keyframes, in our music video we use effects to make the backgrounds around our star darker because in the original clip there was a bit of light that we didn’t want. And from this, Lenny showed us how to make a black solid to just cover up the light we didn’t like but this also led to him showing us how we can mask these solids around our star to give off a spotlight kind of effect. Then with keyframes you can move these solids at certain times. For example, if your star is moving around in a clip but you still want to use one of these effects and want it to track on him, you can use these keyframes to individually move around the star at specific times, this led to me and Tyler finding a setting that will do this for you and make loads of keyframes at once so the transition is very smooth.
Music Video Draft 2
What we need to improve:
- Need to get more footage in and do a bit less tweaking.
- Play with the speed in some of the clips for example the one when he takes the thing out the pocket and scrunches it up could be slowed down then sped up again.
- More close up shots to show his emotions.
- Try to play with some effects e.g. duplicating the model.
Narrative Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment:
Narrative Development
Our Narrative Development sheet:
This is our narrative development sheet, this sheet basically shows what are narrative is, what we need for it and all of the features and components of it.