Advanced Production

Monday, 23 November 2015

We have spent some time developing the digipak using the photos we have so far
We are yet to put in text but we intend on experiment with this tomorrow in photoshop
We have altered the colour on these pictures slightly using the warmth tool to try and create a more orange aesthetic
There is a further photo we need to take and we have also considered having more detail on the disc whereas previously we were intending to have this rather simple

In the last week, I have:

Finalised the animatic, which I have now uploaded to the blog, this included drawing some final frames and then editing them on the blog.
Hannah and I have been through the footage from our previous three shoots, renaming the shots we want and deleting anything that has no use.
I have also begun putting the shots on the timeline for our final production and editing them in time.
I have also come up with an idea for adding a shot with diegetic sound at the beginning of the video before the music comes in, as this is used by mumford and sons in the music video to Ditmas. My idea was to have a close up of the tap, which will then turn on, setting up the theme of water in the video.

Last week Callum and I have spent time editing the footage we have gained from our first 3 shoots together on the timeline
This was useful as we were able to see where our biggest gaps were and decided what footage we therefore needed to collect on our weekend shoot
I have spent time developing the digipak using the photos we have taken at shoots, and where necessary stills from our footage if we are yet to take a particular photo in order to continue developing ideas for this and see what the whole thing looks like pieced together
I think it is important to begin looking at filters this week so that we have a strong idea on what we want the outcome to be when we come to apply it to our final production, I am going to make this a focus for this week and experiment with some stills in after effects. I intend on getting a still which shows the type of aesthetic I am aiming to emulate and then compare stills I edit to this until I achieve the same/ similar outcome.

A2 Media - Digipak Mock Up from hannahbennett98

We created this storyboard animatic as part of our planning process in order to get a better idea of what we intended to shoot and check we had a strong enough concept to fill our chosen track
However, when doing the process we struggled as both of us find it far easier to visualise our ideas, shot types an angle while we are on location with the entire cast
We found that while having a storyboard was helpful to come up with our concept and start off our filming process we never stuck to this 100%
We have instead decided it will be far more helpful is we were to take stills of ideas at the start of our shoot and map it out while we are there and use this as our shoot plan alongside out call sheet