Editing COMPLETE!!!

Today my group 13A1 finally finished our music video. Yesterday, our teachers looked over our work and gave us some minor tips on how to improve our video. Today we managed to improve on these issues and even managed to spend a while before the deadline fiddling with the colour and brightness to help get the best possible effect for the clips in our video. 
We looked over it a few more times before exporting it and as a group we feel that the video has a good narrative with a shoving twist. Hopefully we will get a good mark for this video. Fingers crossed!

LINK TO MY WEBSITE...

http://olivia270894.wix.com/diamond-clark-music

This is the link to my website which I completed with my group member May Abou-Amer. 

Digi-Pack Completed!

Today I finished my ancillary product which was the Digi-Pack of our chosen star. I used a site called 'Pixlr' to complete this and edit the images. I found this part of the project really fun as some of the designed you could use were really effective! 

Here is my Digi-Pack....

The front cover displays our main Star 'Diamond Clark' with her image and name. It also shows the name of her album which we called 'One-Eghty'. I used edits and special effects on the picture to make it stand out and in real life scenarios increase its chance of sale. In the bottom left had corner of the front cover i used an effect that looks like a 'Spark' this is because the song we chose to do was called 'Sparks Fly' so I thought i would add that element to show how it all links together. 

For the second part of the Digi-Pack i used another image of Diamond Clark and a picture of a guitar as she is a country star! I used the hearts effect because I really liked the way the colours worked together. Originally I wanted to have an extra two pages here displaying the lyrics of our song 'Sparks Fly' however it turned out to be too difficult for me so I sadly had to abandon the idea! 

Then for the CD part of the pack I got a black CD template and again edited the image so it suited the theme of my Digi-pack. I used a Diamond looking background, using an edit with stars in it. This sort of links to the theme of Diamonds for Diamond Clark! 

For the back cover I wanted to display all the songs that would be on the album 'One-Eighty'. This was so it would look more like a professional Digi-pack as this is what most music artists do. I edited the colour of the picture again using some special effects so that it would again match the theme of the rest of the album. In the bottom right hand corner I added a 'Bar Code' because on professional products a bar code would normally feature. 

Overall I am really pleased with the outcome of my Digi-Pack as I feel for someone like me with limited computer skills, to be able to edit pictures and use them to my advantage in presenting the correct theme is quite good! At one point I started my Digi-Pack using 'Photoshop', however I found this far too challenging so had to look at other ways to be able to complete this part of the project.

Original pictures before editing - Used on Digi-Pack

Editing Progress

This particular shot was originally far to dark to use on our video. This was because we were filming late into the evening once so our footage seemed blurry and far too dark. However, as we were running out of time we decided we just had to work with what we had. So as a group we looked through the 'Effects' category on our editing site 'Premier' and found that we war e able to adjust the brightness in some of our shots. We started messing around and managed to make our clip look a bit brighter. We also used a special effect called 'Watermark'. By doing this we thought that this particular edit made it look like the narrative scene we had filmed was a memory, looking back on the struggling couples relationship.

In this particular shot we used a sharpening effect and a lighting effect. This was again because the original content was too dark to see and so the audience therefore couldn't relate to the characters as wells they couldn't clearly see their faces. This particular shot is a narrative shot of the couple getting along well. This was filmed at Josie's house with out male lead Daniel Dickinson. 

This next shot is where we see the first glimpse of a violent and abusive relationship and the first stage where the relationship goes wrong. In this particular shot we adjusted the brightness to bring up the colour. 

This is our main female character Josie in the bath. This shot shows the bruises her violent boyfriend has given her. For this bruise we used dark eye shadow and applied it to Josie's back.

This is the shot that reveals the BIG TWIST in our music video. Our female lead reveals that her character is pregnant. This creates a shock factor that would thrill the audience, who want the main star to be away from the violence of her boyfriend. Now, it means that she has yet another reason to stay with her abusive boyfriend.

 For may of our shots we used the effect 'dip-to-white transition'. This effect shows that a flashback is taking place of the relationship. 

In this particular shot we made sure that the lyrics had a relationship with our music video. (Goodwin's Theory). The line in the song is 'lead me up the staircase won't you' and as you can see we have our female lead walking up a staircase. When showing this part of the video to others they have noticed this relationship between the lyrics and video, so hopefully this means it has been an effective method. 

This particular shot links to our production company name which is WWSD. This stands for 'What Would She Do'. This is perfect in explaining the situation that our main character is in. Our group member May came up with this idea and I think it is brilliant as it also would make the fans feel personal satisfaction if they knew what the 'WWSD' shot stood for. Only fans of the star would obviously know this but for the people who don't, it would entice them into finding out more!

Digi-Pack examples...

Taylor Swift - Red Album