Audioblog (Digipack Ideas)

Just a quick audio blog outlining what we are doing and how everything is going so far. We talk about what we are doing for the digipack and how editing is going on final video.

BLOG:Whats Next ?

So now the videos done we are onto our final product for the unit, this comes in the form of a digipack. We have had a great idea for this to do the digipack the same as the advert nearly. This was decided after seeing a advert and digipack cover from a band called elbow, We are currently looking at this and will be posted onto the blog.

Costume, Props and Semiotics

This is the original music video from stereo phonics that I analysed. I explained that costumes and the props that they have used.












This is a photo from our music video and I have analysed the costume and props that we have used in the studio footage.



Semiotics 

Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. This process of carrying meaning depends on the use of codes that may be the individual sounds or letters that humans use to form words, the body movements they make to show attitude or emotion, or even something as general as the clothes they wear. 

Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics] 

We used some footage of clouds for the time lapse in the music video. We used it to show the audience that time is passing. We sped the video up so we see the clouds moving across the sky. The main music video cuts to the footage of the clouds for a few seconds and then it cuts back to the video in the studio. 

Final Video

After taking into consideration all the feedback we received as well as the blog comments from our teacher this is our final produced video. This has been all created in Final Cut Pro and is exported in HD for youtube.

Below is the video (best watched in 1080p HD,

Class Showing

Today we did a little class showing of our video just to get ideas and tweak the video before it's final release. This was just put on a laptop screen and then we went round showing other groups. here is some of the feedback we received.

Joel
The video is overall very good but i think that in some places the video jumps to fast, this is mainly in the studio footage. I think you should have this slightly more smooth.

Ryan
I think the video is pretty good i like the jump cuts for all of the walking scenes, i don't though like your studio footage i think that this cuts far to fast and because the track is laid back this doesn't suit it.

Joe
I like the video very much i think though that the contrast between the two days is to much and needs something like an effect to make it seem more similar.

Our Response 
We agree with the feedback we have received, i agree that the footage does seem very jumpy in the studio footage so we will use some fades as well as look at what we have done to correct this. The editing pace we feel is at a good level and while not slow we feel that this is a good speed, there is however a couple of to fast cutting clips so we will look at this.

Lastly about the filter over the video we agree very much on this and we plan to ovally a black and white filter on the footage.

Time Lapse Editing

This was a time lapse made from 10 minuets of footage, it was then speeded up by around 7000x its normal speed making it around 12 seconds long. This is going to be used all  being well at bits in our final music video. This fits the title well of maybe tomorrow showing the time passing by.

The setup we used for this was a camera on top of a tripod, from here we then just left it recording to get the footage that is below.

BLOG: Narrative Progress 2 & Timelapse

Just updating that today we went out to Nantwich and Whitchurch to get our final footage for our narrative bit.  Now we have done this we can then move onto doing our time lapse bits, these will be done in Wem but on the way through to Nantwich we saw a loverly place called Audlum where we will get a time lapse video. We are also going to visit the same location in shrewsbury that we did the narrative at to get some footage.