Individual Effort:

Here is where I have documented my personal efforts in the making of our digi pac, website and music video.

Music Video Shooting-

Firstly, when filming Kieran and I put in an equal amount of effort. He shot half of the video, while I directed, managed lighting and music and I shot the other half of the video while he directed, managed lighting and music.


Here are pictures of me of me filming on two locations, and here are pictures of me managing lighting on two locations.

Managing the shot-flow on one of Kieran's filming days.

Controlling the lighting on the reunion scene.

Managing eqquipment set up while Kieran breifs our actors.

Filming the band!

Filming at the squatt!



When it comes to the maintenance on shooting days we tried to keep it as equal as possible. We both did our fair share of setting up and packing away, we were both there from the begining to the end of filming every time ect. We were aware, that being closer to the actors, it would be more comfortable for I to do the make-up. To balance this out Kieran suggested that he cooks and provides the actors with the food and drink that they required.

Making our actor look the part.

We both took an equal share of camera techniques. We shot half of the 360 degree angle each (Kieran on the street location, I on the squatt). A list of techniques I used when filming would be-
Shallow focus, pull focus, panning to follow an acotr, high angles, low angles, extreme close-ups, 360 degree angles, point if view shots, shot-reverse-shot.

I tried to do a shallow focus using an uncommon angle.

Here again I was experimenting with angles.

Here is an example of the lighting i used in the shooting. I kept the actors face in the dark to maintain anominity and mystery.

Music Video Editing-

We took it in shifts to cut the music video together. I feel that Kieran added more to the positioning of the shots in the music video but this is because I did the colour corrections and added most of the effect over the music video, so again our efforts were equal.

Here are a list of things I did in the editing process
 Triming
Overlaying the same image to create an out of time effect/ emphasis colour
Speeding clips up
Slowing clips down
Beat editing
3-way colour correcting
adding effects such as white noise to the t.v shots and echos to the drunken shots.

 Trimming

 Beat editing

 Slowing clips

Adding effects

Colour corrected.

Digipak and Website-

When is came to the digipak and website contruction things were not as equal for both tasks but i feel that all in all it equals out quite well.

All of the images found on both the website and the digipak are taken by me.
I included pictures Ihad taken from the band, the actors, a tree and some fire works.
I found the fonts for both the website, digipak and band logo from a website called Dafont.com, the font was called Fail and created by a Douglas Vtks who gave permission for anybody to use his font free of charge providing it is not for commersial use.


This is an example of the pictures I shot for our website. We wanted a scary atmosphere so we filmed in a graveyard. I darkened the picture and added fonts using Firefox. After this stage I faded the image into the background more.

I decided I didn't like the background and used the eraser tool on firefox to get rid of it, i then made the canva black.

For the Digipak I created these pannels-

To do this back cover I started with a photo i had taken of some fire works at night, which looked like a black canvas with amber dotted around.
  I took a photograph of our actor Mag in costume and croped it to be on side of her face. I then raised the transparacy of the photo. I added a lens flair picture of a tree and then using the magic wand tool I deleted the black part aroung Mag's eye so that it was see through. I then unloaded the font which was found on a free font website called Dafont.com
 The font was called 18th Century and I thought it would be appropriate to keep the vintage/ages look running through all three media texts we created. Once i'd written our the track names, which i made up i faded the text so that it blends. I did all of this on Adobe FireWorks. I then uploaded the picture onto Pixrl.com, which is a free editing software where I added the dotty-canvas filter and the faded frame to the photo.
For a final touch i found a photograph of a barcode on Google and added it to the photo on fireworks.




I used the same filters and frames for the front cover too. To create the image I took photograph of our actors lips, cropped and enlarged them to fit together ina porportionate way. I tinted both photo's brown and added a fade to the middle to look like a shadow. I found the font called electric, and the logo font called Fail on Dafont.com and i curved the the font around the lips using the elipsis tool and attatching the font to a circular path. I used fireworks for all of this and the final steps were on pixlr.con using the directions above.

To create this panel I used a picture of some fireworks. Then i added an photo i had taken of our actor and lowered the transparency. I took a screen shot of the ghost in our music video and smudged and twisted it untill it created a smokey effect, the I placed it in her mouth and added a brown tint over the picture. All action was created on Fireworks.

 

I also created the side panels on fireworks, by using the photo of the fireworks and adding the 18th century font to it, saying the words All She Wrote.