Completion

Well...

Over the last week we have managed to finish our practice piece, finish the covers and put it all together.

I believe that we have created a very convincing piece of media which could compete with real industry products.

Furthermore, the difference in the standard of work I've completed for this practice piece compared with my thriller piece from last year is astounding, I've taken more care over smaller, finer details such as the different types of shots I wanted to use, and how much care I spent making the music fit the way we wanted it to!

Lastly, we have finished an evaluation for our practice piece, using questions which will actually come up on our real A2 piece next year.

You can find that here: http://prezi.com/w4x0yqhpy6nc/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Daniel

STOOOOORYBOARDS!

Well, something else I found on the still camera were pictures of our storyboards, which, much like the behind the scenes shots, I wish to share with you!

Behind the scenes!

As I said a couple of posts ago, we managed to finish all of our filming within two days, but whilst we were filming, we let Jacob and Nicola loose with a camera, so it appears that we have a large quantity of photos from the recording sessions, and I'd love to share them with you!

Without any further ado, here they are!

-Danniey



Editing

Well, on Wednesday we began our filming for our practise piece, and due to the fact we knew exactly what we wanted to do, we finished our filming on the Thursday.

We then went back up to the editing room and checked all of our footage to ensure it was up to scratch, and realising that our footage was fine, we decided to mix the music so it fitted our needs.

As we were only using the first verse and the final chorus for our music video, we had to modify the music quite a lot so it sounded near-enough seamless, which the finished music is.

That took us to the end of Thursday.

When we returned on Friday, we began adding in all of our video clips, and editing them together so that the transitions occur when we planned them to, and to synchronise the lip-syncing to the music.

We also modified the colour-balance on all of the shots to represent different things, for example our piece consists of 2 main time periods, real-time, and various flashbacks. For the flashbacks, I created a preset which made the video clips more red and yellow, by changing the colour balance, and for the real-time I created a preset which made the shots more blue and green, to signify that the flashbacks were in happier times than the real-time shots.

Once we had finished adding the colour balance modifications, we made some finalising touches such as some glow transitions when going into and going out of a flashback.

Then, when we were sure that we had done everything we wanted to on this piece, we rendered the piece out, ready to be exported at our next convience.

Once we have done this, finished our CD cover and insert and back cover and finished our advert, we have completed the practice piece!

Getting the right consistency

Today we're working on finalising an advert for our practice piece, whilst keeping things consistent with our CD cover and insert.

Ways which we can do this are:

• Using the same colours for pictures, backgrounds, font etc
• Using the same font across documents, which we have done.
• Using the same image across all the different media pieces, which again, we have done.

By doing this we can create a consistent brand across different mediums, from CDs to newspaper adverts, and this allows consumers to recognise brands, songs, or media products, which leads to increased sales, and more people listening to your music due to a consistent brand.

You can see on our advert a consistent font, colour and picture throughout all the documents for our practice piece.