Filming and Editing

Filming


As I was now acting in our music video due to our actor being unavailible I didnt have the opportunity to film as much as Shaneece did. To make up for this I made sure I filmed most of the shots that I wasnt involved in and I gave as much direction to Shaneece as possible when I wasnt filming. Whilst filming we came across many problems such not having enough light , actors not wearing the right clothes , forgetting props and the weather. We had to over come all these issues whether it might postphoning filming to another day or just doing what we could.

Editing

When it came down to editing I didnt really know how to use Adobe Premiere Pro whereas Shaneece did , despite this we tried to divide the eidting between us with me doing more of the simplier stuff. Shaneece then taught me to do other things such as playing around with the sound and splitting clips into 2 and speeding up&slowing down clips, this meant that when Shaneece was ill or wasnt in lesson i was able to carry on editing our video without any trouble.

Website Draft Edit

To design and create our website Shaneece and I used Macromedia Dreamweaver 8. Dreamweaver was new to us both so we watched many tutorials on you tube to help us learn the basics.

The first thing we did was decide on a colour scheme , we decided on a colour scheme of white , black , red and blue to match our digipack.

Me and Shaneece both worked on the website equally with us discussing everything together before we did it. We decided on the main features of our website which were the banner , ‘recent news’ box , the navigation bar , a picture advertising the bands new single , and the music video we made. We also spent time discussing which font to use.

We decided to put the video in the middle of our website as it is our main product and we want it to be center of attention. In the top left corner Shaneece edited a picture of Shaun to make it look like a Polaroid with the writing ‘Sing Sing out now’ underneath. This is to help advertise the dig pack. Shaneece also made this image into a rollover image.



Me and Shaneece both linked up the different pages on our navigation bar so they go to different pages when you click on them.

I feel that we could add loads more to our website to make it look more professional , we are going to add a section for social networking , some more roll over images and a media section where you can listen to the bands music from the homepage.

CD Draft Edit

Me and Shaneece decided on a 6 panel dig pack , the template for our digi pack is below ,

To collect the images for our dig pack me and Shaneece took turns of taking different pictures of Shaun in front of the green screen. We then went through our images and decided on the best one for the front cover. The main picture on the front was took and edited by Shaneece where as the design behind the picture was thought out and done by me. I thought the messy blue and red stripes gave the cd a more rough and edgier feel.

Both of the images on the inside panels where shot and edited by me whereas the middle picture was shot and edited by shaneece. I had the idea of having a picture of an above shot of Shaun holding the megaphone for the middle panel as it has the same shape as a cd which is clever as this is where the cd would go.




I think this is a good for a first draft but we have parts we need to improve for our final product such as adding more pictures.