planning- where we are at.

We have just finished editing our music video, it has taken around 2 months to complete all together including the planning, researching, filming and editing. Although it has brought a lot of stress onto the group it was definitely worth it as I am pleased with the final product.

Last week we received feedback on our video from the class, we had taken into consideration what everyone had said about our video and put their ideas into our final video. Now we have finished our video we have to finish the last bit of our website which is to put photos of our artist into the gallery and finish up our digipak in time for the deadline.

On Monday after school me and Rachel have hired out the photography studio where we will meet our actress to take photo's of her. These photo's will be used on the digipak and also on the website. We will take a range of different pictures so they are not all the same that we can put onto both digipak and website however we will not put the pictures we have taken for our digipak onto our website and vice versa.

planning- our digipak.

As we have finished our first draft and the deadline is drawing upon us, it is time to start shooting for our digipak. We need to find a time we can get our artist into school as we will be taking some photo's in the photography studio as we liked the white backdrop as it gave it a simple look.

We have been researching into digipaks previously and we thought we could use some as inspiration. On the front of the digipak we definitely want something we can show our artist off with, e.g a close up of the artist. Here is a digipak we would like to take as an inspiration for ours:

 

We like how simple yet effective this cover is with the silver glitter and how it is in black and white. We would like to do our own interpretation of this for our cover however it may be tricky to get it to fit with our genre as Demi Lovato's main genre is pop. In the upcoming week we will research further into different digipaks from our genre and then do a photoshoot with our artist.

As our song is called 'Red Lines' we could include something to link with that on our digipak as it then looks like we have taken our main song into consideration, however we are not quite sure what we could do yet as it is a unique genre and there are not many artists with the same genre who have digipaks.

planning- feedback.

Earlier this week me and Rachel finished our first draft of our music video and therefore thought we should get some feedback from it from our class to see what they thought. The feedback can help us make any changes people think we should make, as also the class is in our target audience category so it would help a lot to see what they thought and also aid us with our evaluations.

Here is some of the feedback we were given:

-The editing fitted well with the song; the cuts were on point
- Locations suited the genre of the song and mise en scene is good, especially the light bulb part
- Lip syncing works well and is on point
- Simplicity of the whole thing works really well
- Could have a wider range of shot sizes; ECU, Long Shots etc.
- Could include more camera movement
From this me and Rachel have taken these points into account and included them into our music video to try and make it look better.