Friday 15 February 2013
Digi pack and webpage update
Today is my first lesson back doing my digi pack and website. I have decided that instead of using iWeb I am going to use webs.com. I have chosen to use webs.com because I feel that it is more productive that iWeb and you are able to do more with it. This will help me make my webpage more synergistic.
I have picked up from where i left off which is with the eye idea i have had from the beginning when i started to put down ideas in a mood board and my draw webpage design idea. The image on the left shows Joe's (the actor) eye. I had a few problems with editing it so it was synergistic to my genre but without losing the eye because of the shadow. So I tried to look for some eye images on the internet. This was another problem as most of the pictures on the internet are copyrighted. So I had no choice to take a picture of an eye and edit it myself. I asked my friend if it was ok if I could use an image of her eye and edited it on picmonkey. I edited the picture more than once using different colours for the pupil s so it stood out. I stuck to dark colours and the colours green and blue as those were the main colours I used when I made my mood board.
This is the original picture of my friends eye. I used picmonkey to edit it to be synergistic with my music video and genre. I used the tool's 'Crop' and then 'Holger'
The effect Holger makes the pucture black and white, then you are able to highlight a part of the picture so it has colour on it. in this case I highlighted the pupil so the blue eye colour could come through. To make the edges darker and the pupil a darker colour i used the effect Lomo.
This is the original picture of my friends eye. I used picmonkey to edit it to be synergistic with my music video and genre. I used the tool's 'Crop' and then 'Holger'
The effect Holger makes the pucture black and white, then you are able to highlight a part of the picture so it has colour on it. in this case I highlighted the pupil so the blue eye colour could come through. To make the edges darker and the pupil a darker colour i used the effect Lomo.
If you compare the picture of the first eye (above) and the second, you can see that the 2nd eye is way more effective. Also the colour makes the website and digipack more synergistic to my music video.
I noticed that the first edit with my main picture of MAD XIBIT was too light with the colours which meant that it could make my website and Digi pack non synergicstic with the music video. So I Used pick monkey again and used the effects colours and adjusted the brightness and then I used the effect Orton and changed the darkness of the blues.
Thursday 14 February 2013
Digipack analysis
- The first Digi pack I am going to analyse is The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy. I chose this because The Prodigy are part of the electronic genre. I think that this is a good example of a Digi Pack as it represents a lot of different things. It was released in 1997, this was a time when warehouse raves were very popular and drugs such as 'E' were taken. The focal zoom effect used links in with the effect of vision you would get from the drug 'E'. The Prodiy's music was popular in this era and their songs were known to be played in these warehouse raves. The use of the focal zoom effect on their Digi pack would stand out from others in a music shop and be familiar with the young people of the 90s. This could help sell the album.
- The Crab is a juxtaposition as it is small, but is intimidating. It is like a representation of the lead vocalist of The Prodigy, Keith Flint because when Keith performs he has a bizarre way of performing jumping around the stage.
this is Keith Flint performing in the 90s. You can see the similarities between Kieth's body language and the body language of the crab.
This also shows that image is a big thing in The Prodigy's career with his green spikes and dark eye make-up, but because their image is so strong and memorable, they don't need to present themselves on the front cover of the Digi pack.
This also shows that image is a big thing in The Prodigy's career with his green spikes and dark eye make-up, but because their image is so strong and memorable, they don't need to present themselves on the front cover of the Digi pack.
- The second Digipack I am going to analyse is 'Ready for the Weekend - Calvin Harris' I have chosen this Digipack because it is in the genre of electronic but also is a sub genre of pop. You can see this because it has a beauty shot of a female as the main image. The image and the album title is a hegemonic referal to a young woman of today who likes to go out at the weekend and party. The fact she is wearing sun glasses, which are made to stand out in the whole picture gives the impression that she has two sides to her, that maybe she has a more 'wild' side to her when she 'lets her hair down' which links with the album title connoting that she is ready for the weekend.
- The font type is the same as the font on a calculator or a computer. This then links with the Electronic genre. Because the image can lead to the Pop genre, the font used brings back the Electronic image to it.
Editing update - 14/02/13
Today I came back during my lunch time and free period to finish off the editing. When I opened Final Cut and saw that the work Becky and I did yesterday had been wiped. We still do not know how because it was saved several times throughout the day. I tried to get it back with the help from my teacher and we were unable to, so the only option was to start from what needed to be put back in. This meant that I needed to put in all of the clips that were left blank, for example parts of the verses we hadn't done yet and the effects we added throughout the whole video.
When editing yesterday I noticed that I would edit different parts of the track like different sections at different times. I realize that today I just made it more complicated for myself.
When I found out that I had to do the editing what I did yesterday again I felt to give up as I feel that because of lack of communication between me and Becky in the last few days and the problem with this subject clashing with other subjects deadlines that I have put in more effort. After discussing this with Becky we both changed our actions. Because of those problems I felt let down by Becky because I felt as if I was working on my own. I turned to Kirstie and Daniel a lot for help, mainly opinions on what I have done so far and I think that having them as a second opinion helped me a lot through the process of editing.
I got in touch with Becky as soon as possible when I found out that our editing from yesterday had been wiped. I was really pleased with her because even though she was in a lesson at the time she came and spoke to me about it to arrange what we are going to do about the situation. This made me feel more positive about the work and we agreed that I will use that hour she is in a lesson to get started on it being how we left it yesterday and that she was going to come back to media after school to go through it with me. This proved that we were just having problems with communication and that I will make sure that the communication between me and my group partner will be stronger in future.
From working from the beginning of the track going through making sure that the right effects were on each clip and that every clip was in sync with the track was a much easier way of editing it, and the fact that the editing was fresh in our memory from the day before it made it much easier than I expected it to be. Working in this way made the editing of today happen more faster and smoothly than it has before.
When editing yesterday I noticed that I would edit different parts of the track like different sections at different times. I realize that today I just made it more complicated for myself.
When I found out that I had to do the editing what I did yesterday again I felt to give up as I feel that because of lack of communication between me and Becky in the last few days and the problem with this subject clashing with other subjects deadlines that I have put in more effort. After discussing this with Becky we both changed our actions. Because of those problems I felt let down by Becky because I felt as if I was working on my own. I turned to Kirstie and Daniel a lot for help, mainly opinions on what I have done so far and I think that having them as a second opinion helped me a lot through the process of editing.
I got in touch with Becky as soon as possible when I found out that our editing from yesterday had been wiped. I was really pleased with her because even though she was in a lesson at the time she came and spoke to me about it to arrange what we are going to do about the situation. This made me feel more positive about the work and we agreed that I will use that hour she is in a lesson to get started on it being how we left it yesterday and that she was going to come back to media after school to go through it with me. This proved that we were just having problems with communication and that I will make sure that the communication between me and my group partner will be stronger in future.
From working from the beginning of the track going through making sure that the right effects were on each clip and that every clip was in sync with the track was a much easier way of editing it, and the fact that the editing was fresh in our memory from the day before it made it much easier than I expected it to be. Working in this way made the editing of today happen more faster and smoothly than it has before.
final banne design for my Website
I thought that my original logo was too plain for the genre Electronic. I used the software 'picmonkey' to overlap two pictures so the lightning picture I found which didn't have copyright on it have the text I got from urban fonts to give it an effect
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Wednesday 13 February 2013
Editing Update - 13/02/13
Today my school time table is pretty much a free day other than the two hours in the morning (period 1&2) I have which is media. This is giving myself and Becky the opportunity to finish off our editing. As Becky has a Dance deadline approaching we have agreed that Becky will edit on her own, with me on the Mac next to her while I worked on my Digi Pack and website. This way she will be able to prove that she has had a good amount of time editing as she hasn't been able to put in as many hours as me being tied up with other subjects. Because of this we agreed for her to edit for periods 1,2, break time and 3. I then went on to edit periods 4, lunch, 5 and after school. Myself and Kirstie stayed until 6pm to make sure that I could get everything I can in on the editing.
I am really pleased with the effects I added today.
Before this piece of coursework I never had the chance to learn anything from Final Cut because I had problems with my previous coursework groups. I feel that this time I have learned to become very independent with it, which has helped me a lot on learning how to use the software well. I had the help of Kirstie as she has finished her video with Daniel before us. I really appreciated having Kirstie talk me through different tools and techniques I could use of which I wasn't aware of.
This was one tool I used throughout. Because I am using that shade of blue throughout on different clips. To keep it the same shade of blue and the same effect on those chosen effects I highlighted the clip shown in the right box and went to file and copy. I then highlighted another clip I wanted to have the same effect go to edit and then paste attributes this would then open a box:
You would tick the filters button, and then this would copy the effect into that effect into that clip.
I am really pleased with the effects I added today.
Before this piece of coursework I never had the chance to learn anything from Final Cut because I had problems with my previous coursework groups. I feel that this time I have learned to become very independent with it, which has helped me a lot on learning how to use the software well. I had the help of Kirstie as she has finished her video with Daniel before us. I really appreciated having Kirstie talk me through different tools and techniques I could use of which I wasn't aware of.
This was one tool I used throughout. Because I am using that shade of blue throughout on different clips. To keep it the same shade of blue and the same effect on those chosen effects I highlighted the clip shown in the right box and went to file and copy. I then highlighted another clip I wanted to have the same effect go to edit and then paste attributes this would then open a box:
You would tick the filters button, and then this would copy the effect into that effect into that clip.
Wednesday 6 February 2013
Editing update 06/02/13
Due to absence, I have been working on my own while editing. I have discussed and made decisions with Becky on what we are planning to do with the rough cut and effects. I have scheduled to come back in my spare time, after school and during school in my free periods as I missed out on a lot of opportunities to edit due to illness. I feel that i have made a big difference to the editing in the past few days as i have been able to edit as much as I can.
Today I came across a problem with the brightness in one of the shots we took. The problem was that the shot (left) was too dark to see the lip synch. To improve this I went to Filters and changed the brightness and contrast so that it wasn't too bright but enough to see that the actor is lip synching. I am aware that that clip will stand out from the rest of the video so I am planning to add an effect to it when i come to adding them.
Throughout editing I had noticed that I kept having the same problem of the clips moving out of synch with the music when I had already placed them there when i was working in-between them. So to remember where it is in synch i put a marker there. This is when i lined up the start of the clip pressed M on the keyboard and a green marker appears on the bar. This made it much easier as i could just highlight the chorus for example and line it up with the marker, and it is in synch again.
Because I have been editing on my own I asked Kirstie from the other half of our group to look over what i have done so far and give me a second opinion about it. I found this useful as she pointed out a very obvious and valid point which has helped me a lot.
As you can see from the first screen shot that is a clip from the beginning of the video. It is a panning clip of the lecture feature with everyone in it. In the second screen shot it shows that just before the first verse i had put in a clip of the lecture theatre with 3 people in it, then a second with everyone in it. Not realising that I have already put a full shot of everyone in the lecture theatre. So, what I am planning on doing to improve this is remove the clip from the second screen shot with 3 people in the lecture theatre, but keep the second where it is full. I am going to put an effect on it, most probably either a slow motion blur one or a flashing one. I think it would be best to go with the slow mo effect as we already have quite a lot of shots where there is a blink effect or sharp blackout effect on it.
Today I came across a problem with the brightness in one of the shots we took. The problem was that the shot (left) was too dark to see the lip synch. To improve this I went to Filters and changed the brightness and contrast so that it wasn't too bright but enough to see that the actor is lip synching. I am aware that that clip will stand out from the rest of the video so I am planning to add an effect to it when i come to adding them.
Throughout editing I had noticed that I kept having the same problem of the clips moving out of synch with the music when I had already placed them there when i was working in-between them. So to remember where it is in synch i put a marker there. This is when i lined up the start of the clip pressed M on the keyboard and a green marker appears on the bar. This made it much easier as i could just highlight the chorus for example and line it up with the marker, and it is in synch again.
Because I have been editing on my own I asked Kirstie from the other half of our group to look over what i have done so far and give me a second opinion about it. I found this useful as she pointed out a very obvious and valid point which has helped me a lot.
As you can see from the first screen shot that is a clip from the beginning of the video. It is a panning clip of the lecture feature with everyone in it. In the second screen shot it shows that just before the first verse i had put in a clip of the lecture theatre with 3 people in it, then a second with everyone in it. Not realising that I have already put a full shot of everyone in the lecture theatre. So, what I am planning on doing to improve this is remove the clip from the second screen shot with 3 people in the lecture theatre, but keep the second where it is full. I am going to put an effect on it, most probably either a slow motion blur one or a flashing one. I think it would be best to go with the slow mo effect as we already have quite a lot of shots where there is a blink effect or sharp blackout effect on it.
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