Poster

Album cover research

Originally for the digipak front cover , the idea was to use pictures of the band on the front cover , but after researching the band digipaks we noticed that they dont require the actual band on them .The majority use symbolism, logos or different concepts so after realizing this we chose to design an album which has a concept .

digipak

Digipak ideas

Band names

The band we filmed were not an actual band and the song was not done by an unknown artist, so we had to get a name for the band.This was very hard and took us a while because we couldnt think of a name which suited the image of the band.

But we finally came up with some names and they are the following :

The Riot
Revolt
Revolution
Rampage
Rage
Destruction
Disturbance
Deranged

Red Lion

The Reverb

Animatic process

The animatic took us longer then expected to do ,Most the drawings were done in lesson time but sarah accidently lost most of them which delayed us. But she then replaced them with a new set of drawings she had done herself .After the pictures was done sarah took photos of the pictures and we transferred them onto the macs to put in finalcut. The animatic was a good exercise for editing because we found it hard to get use to keeping the pictures in sync with the song .Plus we were dealing with drawings, so we would have to get better to deal with moving image .

Animatic

Here is our animatic, sarah did the drawings and Alex did the editing .The animatic helped us to list angles and shots for the video , because our video is a performance video we needed to work out when it was right to use CU on the instruments and singer.

Animatic from Sarah Chamberlain on Vimeo.

Music Video Feedback

Feedback

One of the lessons i missed the classed viewed each others videos . They then wrote notes while viewing to give each other constructive criticism on how the rough cuts could be improved. The feedback we got was mainly positive and we was very happy with the comments we got back. Using the viewing was a good way for us and everybody else to improve their videos because it will tell you if the viewer can understand the image your trying to put across.

Our Feedback

Music and instruments are in time
short frames?
quicker cuts?
overall-good

Good opening

not sure about 1.44

really nicely edited

3.00 guitar solo should be more obvious

better ending needed

Good start of filming before guitars

guitar solo slightly out of time

like close-ups of singer

like camera movements when its handheld

shots of drummer above look wicked

its all really exciting

so well timed

SO GOOD

Start good in time with music

singing at start a bit out of sync

close ups are good

setting suits song

its so good!

Handheld camera is I think a bit too shakey at the beginning

the miming is bang on time :)

The close up when he is singing is very good

the handheld camera makes i very personal

can be a bit repetitive of guitar close ups

think the editing could be tighter at the end as it gets faster

love the angles of singers face

The most positve note we got was the video has a good use of angles and cuts making the video flow, the video was perfectly timed with the song which can be hard to do. Things which needed to be worked on were a cleaner end to the song , quicker cuts and more variety of close ups.