Our Finished Video

Editing

Here are some of the edits we have used in today's lesson. After completing the music video, we decided to then use a different edit for each location to create a clear separation between the locations.

We used the "Colour TV" edit on imovie and changed the width so that the various colours were more striking and bold. We believe this suits our genre as it is conceptual and has many elements that suit the style of Daft Punk.

Here we used the "Newspaper" edit to make look more like a film as it follows a narrative structure. 

Here we have used the "Mirror" edit to make an interesting illusion of characters appearing from nowhere we believed this matches our conceptual theme.

We put a keyboard on the floor of the green screen and used "green screen smooth" edit to use the foil from the background of one of locations to use as the background for the green screen.

By Emma and Harriet.

Website editing 20/12

Cara.

CD cover final versions

From the most recent CD cover edit i used the same image for the front cover and added the text 'daft punk' to the record as before. Instead of using the pink font for the text, I wanted to echo the banner font within the CD cover. I also used part of the banner image and made it look tattered as I did on the website. In my opinion this CD cover is a better match to the website.

For the front cover we planned to use the image I have composed and now added to the back cover. We decided against this so that our digipak would be a better match to the website.

The way in which i made this image is shown below:

I took an extreme close up of Harriet's eyes, making sure i lit her well so that the colours were vibrant.

I then edited the image in Photoshop using the filter 'glowing edges' and increasing the edge width and edge brightness so that the colours appear vibrant.

I wanted to take the image blurry but because i needed clear, vibrant colours I used the motion blur filter horizontally. I then cut out the image using the magic eraser and placed it on the light drawing ball i made.

Cara.

CD Cover development

I wanted to make the CD cover and website look as much of a package as possible and so i tried using the same kind of colour schemes. However, we feel that these compositions are too simple and need more layers and complex imagery. Also, it doesn't differ enough from the website.

I like the fact that the pink spray paint on the floor is complimented by the pink splats on the back cover and writing on the LP.

Cara.

Feedback on our video

In today's lesson we were asked to watch each others videos, which was useful to find out what we were doing wrong and how to improve upon it.


Our audience gave our video excellent in every category, but picked up on the fact that the banana scene was too slow for the music and could even be put on double time rather than slow motion or standard. Other than that point, we we're told that our creativity and shot material was appropriate to our genre with varied shots.


Cara.

Shots from filming

For this filming session we used material to dance with. The screenshot below shows one of our dancers rolling up the material and flicking it towards the camera to cover the entire screen. We wanted it to do this so that all you can see is red at the end of the shot.

 This screen shot shows one of our dancers twirling with the material to create shapes in the air. The tassels on her outfit are ideal for this kind of shot as they are interesting to the eye when the dancer is spinning around.

The shot below is a close up of one of the dancers with their mask on. This is from a part we filmed of each dancer filling the screen with their head and going around in a circle. We plan to cut this up so that the head appears to jump from place to place and then add an effect over the clip.

 Below, the dancers have rolled their material up and flicked it out in different directions. This clip looks effective because the red material catches your eye all over the screen.

Cara.