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Here is my finished advert. I showed the people in my media class and they decided that I should stick with this idea, rather than using fridge magnets as this one related to my digipak and music video more! I used photoshop and tried to copy the conventions of other music posters by putting 'OUT NOW' and 'ALL NEW SINGLE' to make it exclusive and must have. I also included a link to the bands 'twitter page' as modern technologies have huge influences on our lives now!

Final Music Video: Girls and Boys in Love

DIGI PAK

 

FINISHEDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have finally finished my music video! Looking back at last years, I think the process of filming and editing my music video was much quicker! Even though I was ridiculously scared of going out and doing it all on my lonesome I learned that maybe I could actually do it!
I would like to thank all my actors for being absolutely wonderful and being able to fit me into their busy schedules of life!

It's very odd thinking that I have now done media for two years, at the beginning of my A Levels I had absolutely no idea how to hold a camera or even what program you would use for editing, but since my preliminary I think I have come a long way and will miss being a media student!
Now its time for the evaluation, and then not long till my media exam!!
With the fun bit gone, its time to get my head down and study, FINGERS CROSSED!

Digipak: Creating Inside Front Cover

So on my design, this is where the drawing of the house would've been but instead I decided I wanted to add some lyrics.
So while I was filming my teenagers in the park I took a few pictures to put onto my digipak.
I wanted these pictures to feature as a piece of each age is involved in the digipak, obviously this represents the teenage years.
Here are some of the photos I took:

The photo I chose in the end was: 

I chose this because I thought it was quite artistic (keeping with the genre) and a nicely framed shot. 

I then chose the font for the lyrics, I wanted it to be quite simple, so I went for Ariel rounded. 

The only thing about this cover is that because the picture is so colourful it was hard to pick a font colour that would stand out. In the end I decided to go for black because it was easier to read most of the text. 

Final bit of editing!

So I'm finally back at school after my Easter break and I literally could not wait to do my final bit of editing for my music video!
As I expected, after looking through my old couple footage again I decided that I wouldn't be able to include the beginning interview  I tried doing it where I used jump cuts from line to line, but I felt it didn't work as well at all, especially as it wasn't filmed on a tripod.
 Here is a short clip of one of the takes:

So instead I decided that if I was going to have my older couple, I will only show them at the end of the video, so that my audience can follow the narrative of them being friends when they were younger, till the boy having to move away, and then somehow they grew old together. Because of the shots in my music video before told the story, this was able to work and having the tin at the end shows the association. The shot I used at the end of my video was from the shot at the end of the clip above. However, I reversed and slightly slow down the pace of the shot to make it look like the camera went from the love heart tins and then pan up to reveal the same couple just older. This isn't what I wanted at the beginning, but actually it works and I do quite like it!

Digipak: Creating Front Cover

When filiming my children I took a picture of the tin I used in the whole of my music video. This is when an idea cropped up, as the tin is so significant, maybe I could use this image but change the text of Love Hearts to "The Rumble Strips".

I then turned to photoshop...

To start with I cloned away the original text: 

I then looked for a similar text that was for the "LOVE HEARTS". I decided to use STENCIL. 

After I added the text, I edited the layer so it looked more realistic and like it was actually embossed into the tin. Changing the depth of the style and softening it, and also changing the opacity: 

To incorporate the stars from the font I cut out the stars using the quick selection tool and dragged it across to my edited tin and added them on: 

This is my finished project, which I am pretty impressed with! 

 

Filming: Old Couple

I also filmed my older couple today, the time I had filming them was tight as they were in the midst of cooking there roast dinner!

I had to make my sweet tin look much older, so I did a bit of tin wrecking outside in the back garden!
I chose to have them sitting on a sofa, just like in "When Harry Met Sally". I filmed hand held again, although I think it would have looked better if I had a tripod, as that fits the conventions of an interview more.
I filmed the couple saying the speech around 6 times as Marge kept getting the giggles!!

After the filming I looked back at the footage and realised that the sound wasn't too good, but also there was a clear run of them saying the lines with out a snigger or two in between. This might mean I'm going to have to change my music video slightly so that the older couple are not seen until the end!

I did however enjoy my roast after!

Filming: Teens

Alarm went off at 8.00 this morning in order to get up and film the teenage years. At 9.00am we all arrived to a windy, cold, but nicely lighted Thursday morning at Carvers play park. Ben and Effie seemed to have a lot of fun playing in the park again and made quite a cute couple! Again we filmed for an hour or so, I got a lot of footage to play with as it enables me to have many options for my video in the editing part. The bit I am happiest about is my roundabout shots where I took inspiration from Stornoway's music video. Effie and Ben both took turns pushing a very dizzy camera woman around the round about, but I think both shots worked really well!

New Script!

I have changed my script a bit to make it more applicable to my music video, enjoy!

SCRIPT Girls and Boys in Love Music Video 2

More Editing!

Today, as well as filming my teenage scenes, the school was open in the Easter holidays for media students to catch up on some work.

As we missed out on our Friday lesson due to good Friday I wanted to come in and make up for lost time. I got in and started straight away with sorting through all the footage I had filmed in the morning and then started putting it all together. As my story board for the teenage years was very rough I was able to add in a lot of other scenes, like them playing on the rope tower. I also did some all the lip syncing, and as the words in the song were limited, it proved quite easy. However, I did notice that Ben had sung the words wrong at one point so it looks a bit odd! 

The bit I was most pleased about was the sequence at the line "I let you go", here I have done a match on action of Bens hand pulling out from Effies and then him walking off into the distance. 

My music video is nearly done, all I need to do now is film the older couple tonight and then add them in!