Editing first draft

Today I finished editing the the footage from my film shoot the other day and have managed to put together my first draft. I edited the footage in Premier Pro as I feel this program is best equipped with what I need and i also know how to use the program well. For the moment the only editing done was cutting and putting the clips together to create cohesive video that will provide the basis for my other drafts, almost like a template. I also added the music audio to the video by downloading it and dragging it into Premier Pro. I then synced the audio to match the video in the way I envisioned it would play out during my planning stages. Overall I am happy with the first edit and the editing session went well in terms of what I wanted to achieve.

Here is a screenshot of me in the middle of the editing process for this first draft. At this moment in time I was going through the clips on the preview screen in the top left hand corner to check which ones I would be able to use and which ones should be deleted. This was also before I had put the audio in the video as you can see in the bottom right there is no audio there yet. Again i am happy using Premier Pro as my primary editing software.

First Shoot

Today I went out and filmed the footage that will be used to create my first draft. I thad to be a night time shoot as this is one of the main features of my music video. This presented a big challenge to me because it created a lot of lighting issues. To overcome this we shot mainly in places that were well lit so that the video had a cutting edge aesthetic to it. I had time constraints and so I have only filmed the scenes for the first half of the video and so I will need to go out and film again. After I have edited the video together and gotten feedback i will know if I need to re-shoot any of the footage that I have gathered today.

Main Issues with filming

One of the key issues that I am going to come across during filming is creating effective lighting. This is because my film is going to be at night time and so if the correct lighting is not used then the film will not look very good and will be too dim. I need to come up with some lighting techniques that will help ensure that my music video look look clear and good. I have learnt some lighting techniques from the film noir that we created in groups a while ago. These include using a primary light and then secondary light to create clear images and shadows which proved to be very effective. I can use this for the scenes that I am driving because it will help to make the scene more clear to the audience. One of the main struggles for filming at night is that the lighting needs to look realistic and not overexposed so that the audience can tell lighting has been used. To fix this I can use some natural light within the video for example street lights can be used as a primary light source for making the scene look realistic. To improve this I can set the camera to a narrow aperture so that the shots are sharp from the foreground to the background, ensuring that the image looks clear with the lighting.

Animatic

Here is my animatic that I have created from the storyboard that I have made. This will be very important to look at when I am going to shoot my video as it give me a brief idea of how the video will look if it does correctly. This also informs me on if I should make any changes to what I am going to be filming or not and at the moment I am happy with most of what I have got. This also allows me to know if the video will reach the appropriate time limit that is required for the video which mine does. I think some of the shots that I have thought of could be shortened slightly after making this animatic. 

Feed Back from Digi-Pack First Draft

Today in class we each presented our first mock ups of the ancillary tasks. I showed what I had done so far which was the front cover of my Digi-Pack. The purpose of this presentation was to identify what is good about the first draft and what could be improved upon.

The main strengths that I received were that the rain effect looked very good while the cover also had a good choice of font. People also suggested that it was visually engaging and that the contrasted colours worked together.

As for the improvements, people said that the text could not be seen very well because of the pink and black colours used. It was also suggested that I make the blue and purple colours darker to create a more dark tone which connects better with the music genre of Sound wave. People also said the maybe the road should be manipulated as it tails off so that it is not as clear to create depth.

For my next draft I will try to incorporated some of the improvements that have been suggested while also maintaining the strengths that are already there. This feedback was very helpful to me because I will now be able to further develop on my ancillary tasks.

Music poster advertisement first draft

This is my first draft of my Music poster advertisement ancillary task. I have decided to go with the approach of making it similar to the digi-pack/album cover because this will help my audience identify with the album. The text used is still a work in progress and I have placed these here just to get a template and idea of what I want the final product to look like. This includes the font style and colour of the font. At the bottom of the advertisement I have put the logos of the streaming sites Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music so that people know where to find the album and therefore make it and effective advertisement poster.

Location

Here are some pictures of my location scouting and where I would mainly like to film my music video.

This is the location where I would like to shoot the first scenes of my character getting in the car. I think that this car park is a suitable location as it provides good light sources which will be crucial in filming at night time.

This is the location where I will shoot the scene of me getting out of the car and walking away. I think this is also a good location as it provides very good lighting for a night time shoot. It is also a very quite road and so I will not be disturbed when trying to film here and I can film rather easily without too much struggle which will be essential.

Here is the location for the scenes of me walking around. Again these locations provide solid lighting for me to work with and so is a good location to shoot.