London Photoshoot

After the successful shoot at the studio, we've decided to head out to London where we could gather more photos with a scenery for the background. The old church at Dunstan's Hill was a great place as of the mix of greenery and cracked walls, whilst the skyscrapers around the River Thames were ideal for the double exposure effect that we took inspiration from. Foggy weather also helped add in a gloomy effect, which made it a good day for the shoot.

Studio Photoshoot

The shoot went according to plan and we were able to gather a wide range of different poses/shot types. Out of them all I've chosen these as my favourite to implement them into my individual cover.

Photoshoot Callsheet

We've planned to do the Photoshoot for the CD case and Advertisement cover this Wednesday. This way we can gather our photographs before the Christmas holidays on time for when we need to edit the images in the next term.

Digipak/AD Talent Release Forms

Digipak/AD Case Studies

AD and Digipak Pitch w/ Feedback

Advertisement mock

Today in our meeting, we've completed the pitch on Google Slides of our ideas on the digipak and advertisement plan and went on to do some more practice. This time, we each had a go with Adobe Photoshop to create our own, individual advertisements for the music video.

For my design on the top left, I gathered a few images from the web such as skyscrapers, Logic himself, the parental advisory label and a scratch effect to overlay the white spaces of the cover. As it's a mock up I might carry on the style to my final cover.

                  Aaron's                                 Spencer's                                 Mine

                                        

CD Cover mock

While we've been researching ideas for our single, music video cover, Spencer has been designing the outlines of the digipack. This included a sort of prototype for the front and back of the CD case, and with this we've got an insight to what it'll look like with the photographs and text in place.

TEAM PROGRESS - Creating our Pitch

After discussing our choices for what CD covers we should take inspiration from, we've created a presentation on Google Slides. with this, our pitch will consist of the CD covers we've looked into and have short descriptions beside them, connoting how and why it relates to our work as well as their features. This is my part of the Pitch:

TEAM PROGRESS - Researching CD Covers

Completing the Music Video we've gone to the stage of presenting the actual, physical CD as well as the case for it. We'll be creating graphic art and for this we started doing our research on what artists and covers we should take inspiration from.

FINAL MUSIC VIDEO: LOGIC - 5AM

ROUGH CUT with Feedback

A preview to the final outcome, the video is in full length however the editing is minimal and was rendered out from Premier Pro. We'll be finishing and adding in the final details to the video before next Friday.

This is the Feedback we got for the rough cut; receiving positive reviews as of our techniques used in the editing as well as the whole look and feel of the video. It helped us out because the reviewers are of the same age and experience and getting some recommendations such as making the cutting more consistent was useful to our final outcome.

Post-Production: Week 3 - Editing

Coming close to the end of our editing schedule, we've started to add on effects with the use of adjustment layers as well as Adobe After Effects. With these two we are able to enhance the look of individual clips with the use of tools in the software; including the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) levels and curves.

Post-Production: Week 2 - Editing

Continuing on with Premier Pro, we've taken turns on the seat to contribute with the editing of the music video. Progress has been going well and we've reached the halfway point; using other software such as After Effects for stabilization it has also helped enhance some of our video clips.

Post-Production: Week 1 - Editing

After gathering all of our clips from filming, we've gone into the stage where we have to combine them and sync it with the track. This is done on Premiere Pro from the Adobe suite, where it enables us to professionally edit our music video on the Apple iMacs. 

FILMING: Day 5 - Film Studio

For our final shoot, we booked a session in the studio to film for what we planned as a part of the intro of the music video. This consisted of the whole group as well as an additional of 2 others to gather round for the 'therapy meeting' with me as the therapist and the rest as my clients; whilst one recorded on the DSLR.

It went according to plan and because of the capabilities of the studio we were able to have an advantage over the controls to fine tune the lighting to get what we visualized on.

FILMING: Day 4 - National Theater

Continuing on with our film schedules, our next location was at the National Theater where we wanted an urban setting which included some iconic landmarks around London. This included the London Eye, the London Bridge and also the theater itself as well as some of the buses going by for our time lapse. The session went well and we were able to capture our shots even though it was rather cloudy, which just adds on to the effect.

FILMING: Day 3 - Leake Street revisit

Having to record more footage at our first location, we headed back to Leake Street to get more shots according to the rest of the storyboard. This time we were able to stay around longer and get better lighting as of the daylight in the early afternoon.

A2 and AS Reflection

FILMING: Day 2 - Sky Garden

With our tickets in hand we were able to go up to our filming location at the 20 Fenchurch commercial skyscraper. Everything went according to plan and we were able to shoot our video without getting in the way, however we didn't have time to film everything due to the one hour limit. Overall the clips that we gathered were visually appealing and fun to shoot.

Ticket to Sky Garden

Spencer has booked our tickets prior to our day of filming at Sky Garden which will be the 19th of October

FILMING: Day 1 - Leake Street

Our first session at the Leake Street tunnel was successful and we managed to film a lot of the scenes that we planned on doing. We also filmed some additional footage as we had the extra time, which we can use as a backup if we come across any issues as well as use some parts of it for the video.

TEAM PROGRESS - Whatsapp group

Creating a group on Whatsapp, we discussed times and where to meet for filming our first scene for the video; reminding each other on what we plan to do. We also had to set a time on when we were going to collect the equipment as it was booked on Aaron's name.

Emailing for Permission

Mark wrote an email to the track's Artist (Logic) asking if we could use their track in our music video, this is done to avoid any legal issues such as copyright.

Risk Assessment

These were created by Aaron

Call Sheets

Call Sheets created by Aaron and Mark