Filming Steph On Sunday

On sunday I managed to get some filming done with Steph, This morning I then uploaded this footage into imovie and exported it as a quick time movie ready to edit in final cut.

Filming Steph On Sunday

On sunday I managed to get some filming done with Steph, This morning I then uploaded this footage into imovie and exported it as a quick time movie ready to edit in final cut.

Organising to film with Steph

I have organised to film with Steph on Sunday so hopefully the weather is ok and we can do Steph's part of the video then I can carry on with editing my main task.

My Music Magazine Advertisement

Over the past 4 weeks I have been editing my music magazine advertisement. This is the process of how I created it.


First of all i started with the image which i previously used in my CD digipak of Steph looking straight at the cmera with a straight looking face not smiling just looking normal. I chose this image because you dont see many female artist that will look directly at the camera but I felt that with this song it needed for the audience to see the eyes and face in order to connect to what were trying to promote because it mean they can see the emotion in the artist.



The second thing I did was I turned the image from colour to black and white the main reason for this was because Steph had changed her hair colour from red to black so I didnt want her hair to be red on here but then brown in my video but I also changed it to black and white because when I first chose my song I just felt that the colour scheme black and white with a bit of purple would work well so I have kept that theme the whole way through.


I then used the magnetic lasso tool to go around the edges of Steph and I feathered her by 5. This will give it a nice smooth edge when I put it into my music magazine advertisement. Then I dragged it over to the photoshop page which id set up ready to A4 and landscape.



Then once id put that onto the page I started to enter the text. I started by entering the artists name Jessie.J and the title of the album Who You Are. I then changed the colour to purple because this is the colour scheme im working with and then I wanted them to be wavy instead of straight so i went onto the text layout button and chose flag which gives it that shape which looks like a flag blowing in the wind.



Then once id added the main text I then added debut album because its her first album she's released and OUT NOW in capitals so it stamds and make people aware its out now so they can go buy it. I decided on keeping these purple but I changed the shade of purple so it was different from the title and artists name because they are less important.



The next stage was inserting a picture of the front cover of my CD digipak. The idea of this being on the advertisement is so that people know what they are looking for when they go to buy it and they look at the CD digipak and think that looks interesting. I also inserted it because it shows that the colour scheme is consistant all the way through.

I then changed the OUT NOW text to a differnet font than the rest so it would stand out nice and clear and catch people's attention.


I then thought it looked abit plain with a white background so I used the gradient fill tool which made the left hand corner turn purple and gets lighter as it goes across the page. I like it because its not to in your face but it just gives it that edge that wil catch the readers eye.
I also added at the bottom the artists website so that if people saw this advert and were like I like this but who is it then they could look at her website and find out abit about her before going out and buying her album.


Then the final things I had to do was to use the rubber and change the shape of it to a star to give the ratings of various newspapers. I like this because it only gives an outline if a star. The reason for putting ratings on the advertisement is so it shows the viewer what people think about the CD and it may help people decide to buy it because if the ratings are good there more likely to buy it than they are if the ratings are rubbish or not on there at all. In the bottom left corner I also added a lyric from the song 'Who You Are' which is the title of the album aswell, I chose this lyric because it sums up in one line what the album is about and what my artist Jessie.J is all about.

Organising to film with Steph

I had organised to film with Steph in the week but the weather was not on my side and was not suitable to film in. So this will have to be rescheduled.

Lesson 5th January Editing main task

In todays lesson I continued to play around with my main task. By taking the dance sequence and deciding which bits will best fit certain places. I also used some effects and slow motion to see weather it would look good or not and it did so it is something that I will keep in there

My three main tasks to complete in the next few weeks

For the next few weeks I am setting myself three tasks which I will concentrate on getting completed. These three tasks are going to be;
1. Filming Harry playing his guitar
2. Filming Steph doing her lip synching
3. Keep blogging every time I do some editing

Lesson 4th January starting to edit my main task

In todays lesson I decided to start editing the footage which I have which is the dance sequence of Taylor. What i started to do is to play around with the footage working out which bits fit best where in the song because I filmed it differently to what I first planned.

During the christmas holiday's

During the christmas holidays because I cant access my blog from home I decided I would do some more research into the work that goes in to creating a music video. So I went onto youtube and watched some video's of artists that fit into the same genre as mine and looked at there videos of behind the scene's. One of them which I looked at was The Saturdays 'Notorious' from this video what I found out was that it is sometimes easy to film in a different order to what it ends up being in the final video. Also a technique which the director used was playing the song in slow motion and getting the artists to lip synch and dance in slow motion. What this does is when it comes to editing you can put the track back to full speed and make the footage faster to match the music and it makes the finished product sharper and snappy, in this video it was used in a good way because the track is a dance track. This technique also helps in making the artist lip synching in time to the music.

Organising to film with Harry

I had organised to film Harry on Thursday but because of family circumstances we were unable to film so I will re scedule this for another day.