Another change of plan

We had orignally planned to do the photoshoot on Tuesday 30th November; the first lesson back after the music video deadline. However, it had snowed meaning that everything in the park will be covered in snow. This meant that we wouldn't have the nice background and scenery that we were looking for and with the deadline being next week we couldn't afford to waste time. We therefore chose to take a screen shot of the filming we already have in the park and make this our cd cover. Although it isn't the image we would of originally wanted we still managed to find a nice freeze frame which is nice and colourful, yet shows the coldness between the two characters.

Cover Inspiration

After looking on the internet at cd covers and what they commonly hold, we came across a cd cover for Oasis, which used lego figures. We have therefore looked at this and it has influenced how we are to use the lego figures on our inside covers.
We have also decided that it will have the lyrics of 'Foundations' across the inside.

Video, done and finished!

Now with the video done and finished we have 2 weeks to focus on the rest of the work that needs doing. This being the digipack and the blog. We have rescheduled the photo shoot to Tuesday 30th November. Hopefully the weather will be nice, even though its that time of year, where it is absolutely freezing!

Seeing as we already know what we want in the shot, it shouldn't take too long to get and we can be done in about 30 minutes tops.

This is our finished final piece. We believe that it shows creativity and promotes the narrative of the song well; this being the on going conflict and hatred between the two characters. We have been able to promote this image through the characters and through colour. This is reflected on the surrounding of the scene; the chosen locations, and through the choice of clothes as the female character has the two different costumes. One being brightly coloured and the other being dark and mute. The male character also wears dark clothes throughout, to show that he is the main problem between the two characters.

We have also used a variety of effects to help darken locations like in the performance room when the female character is alone. There are also locations that we have lightened to show a more upbeat and cheerful mood when both the characters are together.

This helps promote the contrasting effects throughout the whole of the video and supports the conflict with the characters.

Brainwave with regards to lego figures!

Due to not using the lego figures in the video, we had the idea of using them on our cd cover. That way it shows slight comedy on the cd cover and links in with the single scene that they are used in, during the video.
We hope to take photos of these and use them on the inside covers. We will be able to portray the personalities of the characters by editing the backgrounds and the colours to make the female figure bright and colourful, while the male figure will be dark and gloomy.

Last minute filming

After being told to refilm some of our scenes to make sure that they are up to scratch, we decided to come in on our free periods on Thursday to do the last bit of filming. We managed to get Lilians window scene re-filmed easily. We also had to film the 'friends' bit again because we were told it would look better if Caroline was in the shot as well. We therefore had to look for some boys to act as the friends. This took a bit of time, because people were reluctant to participate. But in the end, we roped in some boys to help with the scene. We have uploaded the clips on to the Mac and hope to finish editing in our frees and tomorrows lesson. Especially with it being the deadline!

Tuesday 23rd November

Today we were shown a programme called motion, where it allows you to change the effects used on the clip that you are editing. We have therefore used the piano scenes to make them look darker and give a more 'alone' effect. We have also added colour effects on certain scenes, such as the park, to make it look brighter than it was originally. Hopefully this should give the video a nice finish.

We also made a start on the cd cover. As we have already got the image of Caroline at the piano for the back cover, we have used this to work on.
We used photoshop to help edit the picture and this will allow us to include all the parts of the cd cover on top of the image, such as a barcode, stores that the cd is sold in and the song list that is usually on the back of the cover.

Thursday 18th November

Due to the long weekend, we will be missing Fridays lesson and the frees after to come back and work on our music video. We therefore made the time today to come back in our free and make up for the time we will lose.
We managed to get the stop motion of the lemons done today and fix up the rest of the music video. We had a few problems with carving into the lemon and therefore opted to write on the lemon instead. This was a lot easier for us to do without having to move the lemon much inbetween each photograph, to make the stop motion as effective as possible.
As of now we think that we have a solid piece of work and will look for any other things that we could do to make the video even better. With a week left till the deadline, we will carry on asking for peoples opinions and make sure that the video is at its best.