My Plan of 2nd Day of Filming

Today, I am going to film the classroom scene with my brother after school. In this scene, my brother and his friends are going to be sitting in a classroom. My brothers friends are going to be messing about and throwing paper in the background and my brother is going to join in, then on a close up of his face, look sad. I'm also going to do an over the shoulder shot of him writing: "does she like me?" I hope to use a range of shots to portray my brothers emotions as sad.

Kitty

Messing About With the Camera

Last lesson, I went to the park to test out the camera and get some shots of the park in the sun. I did get some and here is an edit I made to test out the shots against the music. Here is a link to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpZLnnfkjo&feature=youtu.be

As you can see, the editing side went quite well. However, I faced a lot of problems when trying to use the camera. When I set up in the park, the camera started to record for about two minutes and then would say: "this automatically stopped filming". I called my teacher but she couldn't figure out what it was, so I took it back to school, uploaded what I'd filmed and deleted everything off of the camera. But it still continued to 'automatically' stop filming. So we went to the Specialism Team and they worked out that it was a problem with the memory card. I didn't have that long left to film as my lesson was nearly over so they kindly offered to lend me their memory card. Eventually I finished the filming for the day and edited it together to make this.

So here it is.

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My Animation

http://www.youtube.com/user/grewtube#p/u/0/Z2gn6UMftdc

Here is a link to my animation, the music doesnt start for a few seconds so fast-forward to 1.16

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My Shot List and Music Video Plan

Here is a brainstorm of my ideas. I brainstormed each one of my ideas and explained the details of each individual idea I had.

Here is a list of shots that I plan to use when filming my music video. Next to some of the shots is an explanation as to what I'm trying to show by filming these particular shots.

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Finished Digipak

So there is my completed my digipak. I took a picture that originally looked like this:

In the original there is no colour and it means the panel is lost to other bolder sections. However i really liked the image itself and its connotations so i decide to edit it. I went on to the hue and saturation and enhanced the red/pink colour of the image. Enhancing this colour meant that it matched the autumn feel of the other picture with mac miller, it helps to give an overall theme to digipak. The idea of autumn is in direct juxtaposition with the happy vibrant party of the front cover. This helps to show the range of emotions in mac millers songs.

Kitty

Conventions of a Music Video

In the video, 'Best Day Ever' by Mac Miller, TreeJ used some conventions of music video. For example, he used non-synchronus sound, like in the beginning of the video, there is a short clip of Mac Miller rapping when he's younger. There is also a slight narrative, throughout the video, he's walking through the park and sitting down with his friends. This really follows the theme of 'The Best Day Ever', just a relaxed day out with his friends, a typical nice day. However, he doesn't only use narrative, he also uses as-live, when walking through the park, he walks along the park mouthing along to the song, it flicks between narrative shots and shot of him singing. Overall, he conveys the atmosphere of a happy day. I hope to take influence from this in my video as well as putting my own spin on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbV-Q6tz4B8

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Bottom Left Panel Finished

Only one more to go. I put on 'It's All Disney' in disney font. I got it off this word generator:

http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Walt_Disney.htm

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Taking Pictures

Today, I went to the park to take some pictures for the inside of my Digipak. I've faced a few obstacles in trying to do this. The first was the weather, sadly this is something that could not be controlled. When asking around, people seemed to concur that a sunny day was the best pathetic fallacy of happiness. Unfortunately, waiting for a sunny day became very tedious and caused me to miss the first deadline. I decided that on the weekend, I would go and take pictures wind, rain or shine. Luckily for me, Autumn is a very colourful season, so although I ended up with a different image than I intended, it still turned out okay. The second problem I encountered, was the camera. I planned to use a Cannon 550D from the school. But when my friend Jamie was using them, he ended up loosing the case and lense causing Ms. Flavell to put a temporory 'ban' on use of the cameras out of school. This meant that I had to use a different camera. But again, it all turned out okay, I just used my own and now I'm going to transfer it onto the side of my digipak. When I came home, I put the pictures on my iPhoto and flagged about five that I was considering using. Here they are:

I decided to use this one:

I'll post the edited version later.

Kitty

Progress

Today, I have been working on the back cover which will be the tracklist page. It looks like this:

I decided to use a blackberry barcode because I thought it would appeal to a majority of my audience.

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Quote Page Finished

Problems I faced and how I solved them:

• The picture was the wrong size, I tried to copy and paste some of the leaves to the bottom but because of the different tones and lighting it looked amateur, so I decided to stretch the picture and crop it. As you can see, this was a good solution.
• The 'It's All Disney' Was too dark. So I highlighted each bit individually and made it a light blue, which actually ended up making it better.

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Front Cover Finished

Well, finally, I've finished my front cover. I've faced a few problems. I downloaded a Digipak template and transfered my front cover onto it. The issue I faced was that theh picture was rectangle but the Digipak front cover template was a square. I decided to add a black box on the top and use a smudge effect to melt them together. I used a word generator website:

http://cooltext.com/Download-Font-Larson

Then I added the title onto the top of the picture, so again this was another idea that changed. When I pasted the song name onto my page, it blended in to the background too much for it, so I decided to put a glow effect on it and that helped to make it stand out. And here is the finished front cover:

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Beginning To Create My Digipak (1/11/11)

Yesterday I began to create my digipak, I think it was inevitable that I was not going to stick completely to my plan. I decided against using a picture of Mac Miller that another photographer had taken. I decided instead to take a screen shot from one of his videos. That way, I could gave a picture of Mac Miller but be a bit more original. I began the lesson by print screening different bits of different Mac Miller videos. After about half an hour of doing this I looked through the screen shots I had saved. I decided I liked this one the best:

I opened it up on photoshop and decided to incooperate my earlier ideas by drawing colours around the figure of Mac Miller. I created a new layer and used the brush tool to draw around it in the light colours I said I would, like this:

Then I began to add on layers, like this:

I played around with the colour pallet to find lighter/happier colours like I'd planned, I liked using the pallet because it was easier to change the tone:

A shape began to form and after an hour or so, it looked like this:

While I thought that this looked nice, I realised that this was not enough to write about in my exam. So I decided to blur the people in the background. I did it by highlighting the background and using the blur tool, then changing the amount of blurriness.

So after those few hours, this is what I had achieved.

Next lesson, I hope to explore photoshop tools more and widen my range of knowledge of photoshop.

Kitty

Digipak Plan

I decided to create a digipak for the song: 'Best Day Ever' by Mac Miller.

His album cover looks like this:

I intend to put a different spin on the album cover. I want to have a picture of Mac Miller on the cover surrounded by colourful, candy, bubble writing in a speech bubble that says:

"Best Day Ever". Like this:

I decided to have the tracklist at the back in the same type of writing, possibly against a picture of the sunrise in Clissold Park. I decided to do this because there are many angles of the park that look really beautiful at sunrise. I think that a sunrising would be a good representation of what the song is about, a fresh day. On the inside, I decided to have a contrast on the inside of the Digipak, I decided that the first section of the Digipak would be this quote from 'Best Day Ever'. In gold italics against a black background i'll write: "It's All Disney". I think that this is a really nice quote and again, sums up what the song is about. In the middle page, I want there to be this quote at the bottom of a collage that says: "The Best Day’s ever? The days that roll real smoothly like, and a bunch of stuff happens one day and its all like, you know like, everything goes right" And the last part of the digipaks would have mentions and the details of the album and company. I think that this is a good plan and represents the song well and I'm exited to get started.

Kitty