Just another Coombe Media group...

Today we finished putting all the footage together for the music video, but we still aren't very happy with the end of the video. Next lesson, we'll hopefully have time to fix it up and try to put the scenes in synch with the music better. We also went through the video several times to see if anything didn't quite fit with the flow or if we could better any transitions, changing a few things as we went.

- Sarah El-alfy

In our lesson today we started putting together Emily's website. We updated the photos, gigs and the music page.

We also went back to our music video to add a few touches to our latest footage, we added the sepia effect to our church scene to add more clarity to the fact that it is in the past and we are very nearly finished.


-Adam

Part of our coursework is to create two of the following:

- Digipack for CD
- Website/ MySpace/ Facebook page for the artist
- A magazine advertisement for the CD

Our group has decided to do the first two, and today we created the basics of the website with webs.com. The site is called : www.emilyquinn-music.webs.com. We have made it so that there are pages for certain things such as 'videos' and 'music' and of course 'home'. The actual site has been modified from the template to fit with Emily's image and genre. We will later on be actually uploading and putting things up on the site to finish it, including the music video when it is done.

-Sarah El-alfy

We uploaded all of the footage which we filmed in the church. Then we continued to edit the film, with the new footage.

-Sarah Evans

Today we went to shoot some footage at New Malden Christ Church. We wanted to film here because we have storyboarded an idea of having a flashback sequence in our music video, we want it to look like a rehearsal wedding where Emily recieves the bad news of her fiance not coming. We filmed for about an hour and tried to film the song sung with a different emotion each time to give us more footage, we also filmed Emily walking down the isle happily in the flashback and again but sad and in the present day to make it appear she is re-visiting and remembering the sad time (we would like to fade these clips together).

Filming was very successful and we should be able to use the footage effectively, however if we were to film again in a church we will have to remember to consider lighting (stain-glass windows are not the best type of window to provide lighting!). Also, Emily forgot her other dress, which makes us worry that the narrative will be slightly confusing with the changing story.

-Sammy

We've now edited about 2 minutes and 40 seconds of the video. I think we've successfully used most of the locations we were planning on using, although at the same time we cut out some locations thinking they weren't really fitting with the rest of the video.

However, as we are planning on shooting some more footage again, it looks like we might be playing around with what we've done so far later on, to accomodate the extra footage.


Regarding the digipak, I have been playing around with the images to try and get the final result that we all want. Since we want a warm image, I've added a red sort of hue, and made the background darker while trying to keep Emily light. Hopefully I'll be done soon, and will post them up here.


Also, we were wondering whether it would be best to leave the side with the CD blank/black/a colour that fits with the autumn theme, or actually have a picture behind it. At the end of the disccusion, we decided that a simple picture would be best, and it also had to fit in with the other sides. In the end we chose something that we had actually taken while joking around while filming, but we thought would fit nicely.

We actually already changed the original picture here on Ulead together, by simply adding a light red filter on it and making the lighting softer while we made the focus harsher, so the sunlight on the middle of the leaves almost seems like it's glowing. We considered blurring the picture, but then our eyes hurt to even look at it, so we left it at this. The result is what we hoped for: a warm feel to it, but the edges are fading into black, hopefully giving a sense of darkness out of the picture that the viewer can't see.

-Sarah El-alfy

We managed to edit to about 2 minutes and 20 seconds which is over half way through the song! We discussed more shooting and found out Emily is going to be very busy and we'll only have a morning to film in so it will have to precise, planned and brief.


As I'm sure Sarah has mentioned while she's been blogging, she has been working on the digipak. Today we decided on the rest of the sides that need filling. We thought to make it more personal from Emily to her fans, we would have a thankyou page from her. This may or may not spread over two pages. If it does we will use this image for the final slide:

If the thankyou page does not go for two sides we'll also use, this image:

Both the picture are actually stills from the footage we took while filming for the music video. However, the second picture is from a scene that will probably not make it into the final video. The image is also blurry, but Sarah has reassured us that she can fix that. We collectively decided what the sides would all look like, quite warm and autumnal, to stick to the themes we've gone by so far, and to also promote Emily's personality as a warm and fun person.

-Adam