Journal: 10-02-2012

In todays lesson I mentioned to my teacher how I felt about the fact my poster and digipak dont have anything in common with eachother. So, she gave me the idea of having a limited edition poster and digipak! I think this is a really good idea as I will be able to do both of my ideas. However, this means that I have twice the amount of work to do. Another idea that we had was to incorporate in our slogan: "sleep all day, party all night". To do this, I am going to have a day poster and digipak - white background with bright colours and a night poster and digipak - black background with bright colours. Both will have the same kind of design so that people know they are related.

Journal: 9-02-2012

Today Daisy and I thought it would be a good idea to go and re-shoot the ending "bed animation" as we wanted it to actually look like DJ DES was getting back into bed. This re-shoot was an amazing success as we managed to finish it just ten minutes! We went back to school and I made the photo animation and it looks really good.

Here it is:

Our teacher Miss Whittaker thought it would be a good idea to actually see DJ DES dj-ing but we was finding it very difficult to find a DJ that would let us use their decs. So instead I thought it would be a good idea to use our music department as they have a recording booth. Me, Daisy and Sarah stayed after school to shoot this and it looks really good. Hopefully now I will be able to make it look as best as it can in final cut! I did start to edit it in but am not fully happy with it yet.

Today I also finished my poster and digipak, well so I thought I had. I had finished my digipak so had moved onto my poster when I found a really cool effect so wanted to use that in my digipak also so they look the same. I am now nearly finished my digipak but have just got to put the final touches to it.

Journal: 07-02-2012

Today we decided that it would be a good idea to take some photographs of DJ DES so we can use them on our digipaks. We decided to take the photos using the green screen so it would be easy to cut out the background. The photoshoot went really well! Here are my favourite pictures that I plan to use on my digipak and promotional poster:

Journal: 06-02-2012

In todays lesson we decided to focus on editing the footage we already had. I started to add lots more split screens and was messing around with all the different effects again. The section of the music video I decided to focus on was the footage of the dancing feet. Miss Whittaker gave me the idea of having the feet keep multiplying to the beat of the music. This worked amazingly well! It is my favourite part of the music video as it is very colourful which is how we wanted it to be.

Journal: 30-01-2012

Here is the same effect as before but this time I changed the background colour. We used this towards the end of our music video because we feel it builds the pace and makes the ending stronger.

Journal: 29-01-2012

On Friday night Daisy and I went to film the sun setting but yet again as we got there, there was a massive cloud in the way of the sun! We stayed there for a little while anyway but it didnt move, so I said that I would try both yesterday and today however the sun has not been out. This has meant that I have not been able to get the footage that I needed for the beginning of the music video. I will keep attempting to do this and hopefully soon it will work!

Journal: 27-01-2012

Last night, I attempted to film the sunset. However, this did not go to plan! As soon as I got outside the sun set so fast my footage wasn't long enough to make into a time-lapse. We plan to film this again tonight and go outside a lot earlier and film for longer. Above is the video I started to film yesterday. I really like the shot so I will shoot here again tonight. Hopefully it will work!

To make sure we get out at the right time we decided to look up when the sun sets so we dont miss it. Here is what we found out:

Here is a picture of the view we plan to shoot at again tonight:

Journal: 26-01-2012

Here is an example of the kind of effects I have started to add into the music video. I came across this effect when I was looking around in Final Cut Pro. I think this effect looks very retro and works really well with the look we want to portray.

Journal: 5-1-2012

Over the holidays we started to complete our filming. We started filming by having lips singing the lyrics of our song. We bought lip transfers from Ebay, like the ones below, so they really fitted in with our theme of the dance genre.

Journal: 4-1-2012

Why we changed our idea and song:

Our idea just wasnt working!! Our idea of having boys dressed as girls didnt work because we couldnt stop laughing at the boys dressed in our clothes!! It didnt look good on camera and we thought as a group that we didnt really like the song as much as we did when we chose it the first time. We are currently thinking of a new song for our music video.

Journal: 9-12-2011

In todays lesson we started to put our picture animation of our Jelly Beans together. This is a very long process because we had to crop all the photos, rotate them and also edit the brightness and contrast of each photo to make them really bright. When this is done I think it will look really good, hopefully we have took enough photos!!

I also decided today that I would like to make all my photos on my digipak look like a cartoon. As I didnt know how to do this I had to search for it on the internet. I then experimented on different pictures to see if it worked. This is what I came up with:

I am really happy with how these photos turned out so I will be using this for my digipak.

Journal: 21-11-2011

Journal: 14-11-2011

In todays lesson we started to think of how we wanted our logo to look when a teacher walked past and told us what we was doing. We told him that what we was doing and he told us to look at a music video that he found on YouTube: "In Your Arms" - Kina Grannis.

As the music video is entirely made from jelly beans we had the inspiration to make our logo out of jelly beans or a similar sweet. The teacher had told us also that he knew someone who used to work in "M&M World" so we could maybe use M&Ms and get them for free if we promote them.

Here is the music video:

Here is how they made the video:

Journal: 9-11-2011

In todays lesson we had to finish off our pitch that we will be having in Fridays lesson. The pitch will include two powerpoint presentations, one telling our concept and why we chose to do it and the other a production plan.

We also today decided that we are doing a 6 panel digipak with two disks. We will start to design and make these as soon as possible.

Here is the template we plan to use:

Journal: 20-10-11

In todays lesson we began a production plan...... then our plan fell apart.

We started to write down all the possible problems there are with our idea and there was just too many!

-Financial costs

-Cost of the props

-Weather issues

-Closure of pier

-Closure of attractions

-Closure of the beach

-People not turning up/being able to make dates

-Transport concerns

-Having the time to go and carry out possible re-shoots

-Not being able to film in certain locations

So, we decided to back to the drawing board and think of a new concept.

Journal: 12-10-2011

This week we started to think of lots of different ideas that we could include into our music video. We also started to storyboard. However, we feel that we cannot start storyboarding properly as we have so many different elements we want to add into our music video. So we decided to start to write out all the events we wanted to happen in the order we wanted them to happen. We also wrote a prop list so we are organised early so we can get them all in time. We are planning to go to Brighton one day before we film so we can see all the different places we want to film before actually filming. As we also want to add in time lapse to our music video we may film this then as it will take a long time.

Journal : 5-10-2011

In todays lesson we was introduced into Digipaks. We started to research into them as they are apart of our brief and we need to produce one to enable us to complete the course. A Digipak is a foldable CD container. The things you will find on a Digipak would be: the artist name, album name, lots of pictures that connote the artists image, a front back and spine, barcode, copyright info, institution logo, a DVD logo and of corse the song names. The reason people might decide to buy a Digipak instead of a normal CD case would be that they feel they are getting more as normally there is a foldable book inside giving more information. It also give a "cooler" edge to buying a CD as it is not that popular yet.

Example of a Digipak above ^^

We have started to analyse some Digipaks of our own and we also have to analyse some promotional posters for artists.

Journal: 30-09-2011

In todays lesson we finalised what song and brief we wanted to do. We decided to do DJ Magma's brief as we thought it would be fun to make a dance track.

Our final song choice:

When we heard this song we all really liked it!! We thought as all of us liked it, it would be a good choice to make a music video to it as none of us would get bored of the song. We also have some great ideas of what we could do in the music video to promote our new DJ: DJ DES.

In this lesson we also had to make a mood board of how we wanted our music video to look, influences, and the location of where we wanted our music video to be filmed.

Here is the brief: