Final Music Video

This is our final music video which we have adjusted based upon the feedback from our audience. We have included more performance and an initiator for the narrative to make it clearer.

Final Website

This is the link to our band website and also there is a video tour of the website below detailing what it consists of.

http://mujobosna1.wix.com/viosenedkarma  

Final Digipak

This is our groups final digipak which we believe to be an improvement on the rough copy as we took into account the various improvements we could of made. This included filing in spaces and changing font colour and size in order to make the text more visible and to reduce empty space.

Rough Copy of the Digipak Analysis

This was our groups first design of the Digipak. The feedback was relatively positive but we will be making amendments on it due to what we have been told we can improve upon. The images themselves are quite good as it relates to the dream sequence of our piece as the coloration has been slightly saturated to give it a surreal affect.

However the top right and left images are considered to be too empty especially the top left as there is a lot of space next to the two artists in the images and to correct this we have come up with the idea to add quotes from the artists themselves.

Another thing to improve upon is the text in the bottom center mid image. This is because there is too much green in the scene causing it to not stand out so well and it doesn't have a drop shadow so it is not as prominent as text could be. In order to correct this we are going to be changing the font to a colour which doesn't blend in well with green and add a drop shadow to make it more noticeable as text.

Rough Copy of the Digipak

This is our groups rough version of our Digipak which we will show to people in order to get feedback on how to improve it and then we will do so accordingly so that it's the best we can possibly make it.

Rough Edit of the Music Video Analysis

 











When we showed different people our music video and the feedback was generally positive but there was a common theme for improvement which was mainly the narrative as the audience couldn't tell what was actually going on but that I believe is down to it being unfinished as the initiating scene in which the narrative starts isn't completed yet. In order to correct this we have to input the audio for a conversation that happens off screen which will make the narrative much clearer as the dialogue while being small is debatable key.

Rough Edit of the Music Video

(Due to it being a rough edit it is not complete and so the footage finishes at 2 minutes and the rest is just the audio i.e the song)



This is our groups rough edit of our music video which we put together to gather general feedback on what could be improved upon for our final piece. We have been taking the feedback into consideration.

Final Record Label Logo

Record Label Logo

This is the our groups final record label logo. It consists of a monitor with the text 'Bass Records' hovering above and over it. The monitor was chosen because it is generic equipment that is used by musicians and record companies. We didn't want to choose something as generic as a vinyl because we believe that it is overused and dated. A monitor on the other hand is a frequently used item in both recordings and live shows. Two different fonts were used for the words. A thicker block font was used for for 'BASS' because basses are usually thick and deep and this font suits the characteristics of a bass. The other font used was in the style of scratchy stencil which we used this to link it to vinyls because vinyls are scratched by a needle to produce the sound.

Making of the Record Company logo

Making of the Record Company Logo

Similar to the artist logo the record company logo was made in the same way the post shows how it was made and the decisions that came with it.

Final Artist Logo

This is our bands final logo and there are various reasons as to why it is an elephant. The first being that the artist behind the music we are using, who is also in our production, loves elephants, they are his favourite animal and because we are actually using him and his own pieces of music we wanted to make it personal to him. The second being that it is part of the rock genre. The rock genre tends to be more personal to the artist than the more mainstream genres such as pop in our groups opinion so we saw an opportunity to personalise it and conform to what we believe. 

Making of the artist logo

Making of the Logo

This is how our groups band logo was made. It was made by Sulieman, one of my group members he came across some difficulties mentioned above but overall, it wasn't a very hard task.. It basically depicts what he had to do in order to create our artist logo.

Recording Sound for the production

Choosing the right sound

In the beginning scene the artists phone goes off and the ringtone plays. Realistically it wouldn't be extremely loud as its playing off a phone and so we tried to record it  as it would be very difficult to match up the sound from two different scenes perfectly. In the first 3 images above we recorded the sound at a fixed point and that was ok because the sound was constant, however it didn't come across as though someone was moving towards the sound as it didn't get louder. 

This brings us to the last 3 pictures where the sound was recorded from across the room and as the mic got closer the sound got louder. This didn't work as well as we thought it would as it was barely audible from far away but as it got closer it was audible.

In the end I we decided to use the first sound clip as the overall sound was better. To achieve the desired affect of someone moving towards a ringing phone we will decrease and increase the sound accordingly.

Throwing Focus Testing

A group member of mine was practicing various shots and one of them was the throwing focus shot which based on the following shot we've decide to incorporate within our music video as we feel as though it will be effective when used in what we want to show. 

 

Filming Has Begun!

Me and another group member have started to film the first couple of scenes for our music video and and found that the dolly we were going to use was not the best as it couldn't handle the curves in the road and would abruptly stop while we were tracking so in order to get around this we attached the camera to one of the props. Before we did this we did test shots to see how the concept would look and if it actually worked which we think it did however the test shots were done while the prop wasn't moving and here are those shots:

 

This post shows our group experimenting with new camera angles that we hadn't previously thought of such as attaching the camera to the skateboard.