Signed Off Website

Today we got our website signed off and published. And with that, the production of everything is over!

Now, we just have to evaluate everything and the project will be done.

Screening of the Music Video

Today, we 'premiered' our music video in the media block.

Based on what we read on the questionnaire, the general concensus is that our music video was good although we have to do some proper statistical analysis to find out more information.

After the screening, we also got to do an interview with two people who came along.

Finished Music Video

It may have taken longer than we thought but our music video is FINALLY FINISHED:

Completed Album Cover

After weeks of working with photographs, logos and fake song titles, the album cover is finished!

The album cover has been sent off the the printers and we can't wait for our individual copies.

The finished design is at the top of the blog if you want to see it.

Rotoscoping...

After watching through our music video, we thought that the narrative was really good although the performance wasn't as good.

The different colours of the blue wall, orange costume, pink accessories, etc. were quite distracting so we've started to use a new technique of rotoscoping. What this does is make everything in the performance black and white apart from Angus.

We're very optimisitic that this will be done in a few days if we all put in some hours.

All going well

were making good progress on both our website and album cover. weve design the inner squares of the album with our band logo and a 4 close up of the band. Were dividing up the different pages for the website such as about us, contact us etc and have made a basic homepage.

Album Cover and Website Photoshoot

After staying behind today with our band, we got over 80 photographs to sort through and decide which ones go on our album cover, website and anywhere else we may need to put them.

Here are just a few of the more interesting ones...

Editing Music Video

After capturing the performance, the actual footage looks incredible.

I think that with just a few changes to brightness and contrast, it will look even better but we all need to be working on the post-production to get it looking perfect in two weeks.

Performance Shoot

After weeks of planning, we've just filmed our performance!

Overall it went very well, we managed to get plenty of shots to use from close ups to wides. We also managed to film behind the scenes to edit into a video if we get the time. And we've got plenty of photos to put on the website.

Now that we have all the footage, we just need to edit it into a music video and we're done with that part of the production.

Jack's Timetable

Hey guys, I managed to get hold of Jack's timetable:

 

Tada! We can organise everything properly now 

Also he just told me this:

• There's a tutorial on Tuesday's that can last up to a few hours which he might have to go to
• He has extra music stuff for an hour before lunch on Friday
• Thursday's have a half hour extra of German

So basically it's gonna be all after school stuff for him

Final update, he can't make this Saturday as he has to help out at an open day, but we can rearrange that right? But Tuesday 9th is thankfully completely fine

Studio Booking

Currently we are booking the Seward Studio for the following times:

A - Angus
I - Izzy
J - Jack
T - Tom
C - Claire
D - Dominic
K - Kerry
W - Wanda
R - Robyn

Wed 3rd - 12:30 3:45 - Technical rehearsal / teaching - C D K W
Thu 4th - P4 P5 - Photographs -  I T C D W
Fri 5th - P6 - Rehearsal - A R D K
Fri 5th - P7 - Rehearsal - I T C D W
Fri 5th - P8 - Rehearsal - A I T C D K W
Mon 8th - P2 P3 - Photographs - I T C D W
Mon 8th - P7 P8 - Photographs - A D K
Tue 9th - 3:45 - Real Shoot - All

Narrative Shoot

so our narrative shoot went quite well although we were stopped from filming in some of the places that we had tested out. our antagonists looked really good and got alot of stares from tourist, some even took pictures.

Antagonist Facepaint Tests

Angus' Performance Outfit

Test for Antagonist costumes

We tested the white hair spray used for the antagonists outfit on dark hair ensuring it looks effective

Final Costume - Lead Guitarist

Wanda and I (Claire) put together the best of the clothes we got in for our female guitarist and have finalised this costume. We aimed to ensure its indivdual, colourful and trendy while still being comfortable enough to play guitar in.

Studio Hire

We have been researching studios we could use for the performance and have emailed the directors for rates, avaliable times etc.

To do for this week

The narrative shoot is in half term (next week), so before it we need to get done the following:

• Finish detailed shot list
• Storyboard
• Scheduele the day
• Practice the antagonists face paint
• Complete the antagonists costume
• Confirm Angus's costume
• Have meeting with all actors showing them the shots we need to get on the day
• Finalise with all cast and crew (Group x4, Angus, Antagonists x4, Tess, Robyn, Zarah) the exact times and arrangements of the day
• Plan food preparations for the day (snacks, drinks, lunch for the cast/crew)
• Organise make-up/hair stylings for the actors
• Get all filming equipment ready to go

Other:

• Group discussion on website
• Group discussion on album art/ideas
• Confirm studio for performance
• Confirm Angus and Tom's costumes for performance
• Ideas on band photo for album cover - and costume/props needed

Result from lip sync test

• He is excellent at convincingly miming the words as his cofindence grew
• More aggression needed to suit the tone of voice
• Angus can't wear glasses due to reflections and lack of eye contact with the camera
• The inprovised movements look good from Angus (head banging, leaning forwards) - choreographing needed to make these look more clean cut for real video
• Microphone limits movement - keep it to only a few shots, arm gestures for the rest

Make-up for female guitarist

This make up connotes a rock star, sexy, punky individualism which is the attitude that we are aiming to create for Izzy. We believe with the aid of a semi-professional make-up artist/hair stylist we can do this for Izzy and the other band members