Gradient colorize video talk

Gradient Colorize effect

After reviewing our footage so far and what we've managed to edit, me and Connor thought it would look great if the music video was done in black and white, and when the pace of the song picks up, we started blending in coloured footage with the back and white footage until the bass drops, from then on the footage used would be in colour. We thought this idea would look interesting for our target audience and would be very effective. We used gradient colorize and after some peer assessment, we decided we will stick to this idea.

Dip to Colour Transition

Today, as me and Connor worked tirelessly on the beginning of our music video, we needed to add a transition so we can avoid it looking like a jump cut, so we added a Fade in Fade out transition in order to bridge the gap between the first clip of the river and the clip of Dean singing. However it didn't look too great, so I suggested we add a Dip to Colour Dissolve. This worked very effectively as it looked like the white light transition came from the sun which is the last thing seen in the clip. 
It did not look as effective on the other clips as a transition so we decided we will just leave the Dip to Colour Dissolve for that clip and to use Fade in Fade out transition for the other clips. 

Cracked Font

 

Today I decided to add the 'Cracked' font to my website, this is because I believe it was the most suitable font for my website based on it's graffitti like appearance. This sort of font will appeal to my target audience and looks very street and professional. I will use the 'Cracked' font on my other media products such as the music video and digipak in order to create synergy and so people will associate that font with my artist, like other bands have done like the Beatles and the Who.

Starting my website

I began by placing the logo in the top left corner of the webpage where I had originally planned to do it. I had two different versions of my logo which I wasn't sure what one looked better. After some quick peer review of both logo's, I decided to use the one placed in the top left of the image above, as they felt it gave off a much more club vibe, which is a large aspect of the dubstep genre. Now I had the logo in place, I could carry on with the rest of my website.

         

Filming talk

Filming - Risk Assessment

With what we plan to film today i.e. Smashing items, we needed to make sure we was somewhere where it would be safe for us to do it, without causing any harm to us and anyone else. Firstly, we decided to do it in an open park, although this is a public area, we would be able to find a safe place to do it where it wont cause harm to us or any member of the public. Doing it in a room in school would be more dangerous as it is more enclosed, therefore increasing the risk of us being harmed. Measures were taken in order for this to be safe for both us and the public.

We made sure firstly that we was at a safe distance before any smashing of items commenced, this was so no broken objects would be able to harm us. Once an item had been smashed, we would pick up all the pieces carefully and put them in a black bin bag. This is so we are not leaving dangerous pieces of glass or other parts in the park where it could harm a member of the public.

Where fire was involved, we done it near the river so we would easily be able to put out the fire if it got out of hand, luckily this did not happen and of course once the fire was out and cooled down, the wooden plank was removed and put in a bin, we didn't want to leave any rubbish.
After all the filming was done, we did a sweep of the area, making sure all pieces were picked up and put in the bin bag. Once that was done, the bag was placed in the bin.

 I think this was very successful, as well as gaining all the shots we needed, neither us nor any member of the public were harmed, we managed to be very efficient with this and made sure this was all safe, including picking up all broken pieces on the floor so no trace of us were left on the site.

Filming

Filming yesterday went very successfully. We initially planned to film in the school, doing the chase scene and smashing the items all on site. However upon discussion, we decided doing the filming on school site would be very inpractical and wouldnt look good altoghether. It would also be hard to film with people constantly going around the school. The recording studio is also now unavaliable so we didnt have an alternative to film the performance part of the video. Even with this major setback so close to filming, we managed to quickly overcome them and found new possible locations. For the performance, we were able to get a practice room. Initially, it was slow to begin the filming as we were decorating the room to look appropriate for the video and our performer was slow to start. But we managed to get a some good shots, plus spontanous shots such as using the flash on the camera whilst filming was good. We decided on the park for the narrative. It would be an ideal site with many possibitites i.e. Able to smash items safetly, randomness (something important to a Dubstep video) such as playing on the swings. It went very well, we managed to obtain all the shots we needed and did it safetly. Overall I was happy with the filming we did.

Location shots

Blog update - 9/1/13

Today, me, Connor and Dean recorded the performance part of our video. It went very well considering we was initially set back as we could not use the recording studio and we was a man down. However we managed to quickly find an alternative and set up fairly quickly. We experimented with different shot and camera angles, including some shots where we had the lights off, and used a cameras flash whilst recording.

Pre Filming talk