Magazone Advert - 2nd design

2nd design for magazine advert

added a glow to the band and album name instead of the wind effect in the previous advert. Moved the position of the picture closer to the middle as it separates the text a little and makes it look a little more professional.

Digipak - Front cover design 02

Second design of the front cover of the digipak - done after receiving feedback from the previous front cover.

I added some more noise in the background of the cover and tried to distribute evenly across the background. The noise was taken from the original photograph. I also changed the size to a square since CD covers are square. 

Digipak - Back Cover design 02

After receiving the feedback for my previous back cover i decided to use a different picture, one which i thought would suit the front cover a bit more. Uses a similar colour scheme like that from the front cover but adds  a bit more grey and a darker red on the track names.

digipak - Feedback; front + back cover

Front cover

Pros;

- colour scheme works well

- font used suits cover and colours

Cons;

- not square

- background has black noise in only the top right corner. Makes cover look unpleasant with only one section   

being covered

- background too plain (only white)

- left band member disintegrating, other two are not

First of all i needed to make the size compatible with a CD case, so making it square was essential. I had thought that lone addition of just black background noise in the top right corner would give the cover a little more 'flavour' but it was said either add more to even it out or have none at all. Since it was said that the background was also too plain/ too white i decided it would be best to add more background noise or let more of the original picture show. Also one of the band members (left) was beginning to disintegrate from the legs whilst the other two were not, have to fix that.

Back cover

Pros;

- colour scheme works well

- integrates with front cover

Cons;

- simple and plain picture

- plain background

- didn't include websites 

Although the colour scheme worked well and suited the front cover the picture needed to be changed. Even with the hat being a main part of the actual video the picture of a lone hat in  a white background was too plain and too simple, i needed to add something to the picture, the background or change the picture altogether. I also needed to add the websites of the band as well as the recording company. 

Feedback for Music Video rough

Cons

• First thing to mention was that it was not fully finished. Only about 2 minutes of it had been done. 
• Although it had some original concepts some of the shots were too long, i need to add more cuts to make the shots shorter.
• The lighting in some shots is too harsh whilst too dim/dark in others - need to work on lighting
• More close-up shots of the artist need to be included - also a solution to how to add some cuts into the shots which are too long.
• There are still some gaps in the video which range from 3 frames to 20, especially in places where it goes from 1 verse to the next (no lyrics) - need to find shots which could fill those parts in

Music video - Rough

A sequence of what's been done so far

This is the first attempt of the music video, it is not fully done due to scheduling difficulties and some shots being unusable due to syncing problems and lighting.

All in all, i think for a first draft it isn't too bad - some shots seem a little long so I'm planning on cutting them after i get more shots.
I haven't got a shot of the artist doing the whole song - so no full sequence of the song so I'm planning on doing that and adding parts of that to make some quicker cuts in the video.

Transition from Final Cut to Adobe Premiere Pro

After filming about half of the song i decided to try the non-linear editing software adobe Premiere Pro CS4 as it was available on the Mac computer i was using. I wanted to see the difference between Premiere Pro and Final Cut and find out which of the two softwares were easier to use.

After a while experimenting with the software, I personally found Premiere Pro the easier software to use.

When first opened, Premiere Pro's format is very similar to Final Cut - you could call it Microsoft's Final Cut. The way all the effects, source panels and timelines are laid out are similar to Final Cut.

But i found the source panel much easier to use in Premiere Pro than in Final Cut. This is where you input the video file from the project tab and edit out any part of the video you do not want. This can also be done with audio. Once you cut down the video you can insert the video and audio or just the video or audio alone anywhere on the timeline. I found this process much simpler in Premiere Pro than in Final Cut and for a music video where i needed to work on many video cuts, the simpler the better. On another positive note, Premiere Pro was available for a 30 day free trial which i could get due to me having a Microsoft laptop and this allowed me to also work at home meaning i could be more efficient with my work.