As we are progressing through the song, we are finding it hard to find footage which we felt would actually fit with certain parts of the song. We also thought we might need an element of narrative in the music video, but even if we tried, the video is becoming a little repetitive.
To overcome this issue, we felt we needed to film some more footage. We began discussing what and where we could film, and whether or not Emily would be available to film again. We all agreed that we needed to include something which would keep the audience engaged, and want to watch the video. As when completing our research we found that many videos may need to be viewed more than once for the audience to fully understand the narrative and so they will want to watch it more than once in order for them to gain a better understanding of what is happening in the video. We liked the idea of filming in a church and so discussions into whether or not this would be possible and whether or not it would fit into the song began.
-Sarah Evans
We are continuing to edit our music video, we have made great progress so far and if we continue to edit in the same way we should soon have a sucsessfully completed music video.
-Sammy
We continued to edit again, getting up until 1 minute and 48 seconds.
We also thought some more on our digipak. We went on this site and used their template for 6 panel digipak ( Design DIGIPAK6P-TR ), although we will be having our CD holder in the middle of the front 3 sides rather then the right.
This means we'll be needing a main front image, and a main back image with the tracks, as well as the copyright information and record company logo. We found Hope and Faith's logo on their website, which we will hopefully be able to copy and paste onto our own CD pack. We still need to decide on what we will have on the rest of the 3 sides, the two that open up on either side of the CD and the side next to main covers. We've got the main pictures that we want to use and work with, which I've uploaded below:
(front)
(back)
As I am the one who is most familiar with software editing images in the group, I'll have the task of actually converting the photos into our ideal covers. I'll probably be using be Ulead Photo Express and Photoshop in the CS4 package. Although I would like to use Photoshop only, I know that I've been using Ulead for longer and know how to do more with it, so it'll be sensible to stick with for our coursework.
-Sarah El-alfy
We continued to edit our video, we have now managed to complete 40 seconds of it.
- Sarah Evans
We have continued editing and have reached 34 seconds in our music video.
We were looking through our plans for a CD digipak and created some stills from our video which we thought would look effective, we took into account the layout and dimensions of the picture in the frame so that we had enough space to add in the titles, barcode, etc. We made a couple of drafts that we thought we could use as a CD front and back cover, that went along with the theme of our site and music video. We had to keep in mind that they all were promoting the same thing, .i.e. the same artist to people who would want to buy her music.
We also had to keep in mind that it would be a 6 panel digipak, which meant that there were going to 3 sides, and 3 sides, and we had to fill them all up somehow, except for the middle of he front of 3 sides where the CD place holder would be.
-Sammy
We edited about 20 seconds out of the four minutes, which caused us to realise that it takes a lot of time and patience to get things right. We worked the hardest on getting Emily's lip synching exactly right, as we didn't want her to be ahead or behind of the singing. This proved to be quite difficult as it seemed that while actually filming, Emily did not sing in exact synch. But we managed to find footage where she had done well.
-Sarah El-alfy
