Analysis of Album Artwork

This is the back cover of the album artwork created for Weak(end) Arrows single 'Rabbits'


The colour scheme makes it look very sophisticated and iconic classic album. The font is very traditional and again is very iconic. The colour scheme of black and white is very eye catching and stands out, which is a key concept for marketing the album cover. The barcode in the bottom right corner is a conventions of album artwork and is a standard image which appears on every album cover. The random arrows link to the name of band and symbolise direction and motion. The arrow underlining the title flows with the way the viewer reads the text and again symbolises direction. Having the different colour arrows (Grey, Black) again is code for tradition and old fashion.

Analysis of my own Album Art

This is the album art i created for the Weak(end) Arrows single 'Rabbits'. 


The colour scheme makes it look very sophisticated and iconic classic album. The font is very traditional and again is very iconic. Each person is playing their own music instrument which shows they are musically able and talented. The arrow which underlines the bands title suggests movement and flows with the way the viewer reads the text. The colour scheme of black and white is very eye catching and stands out, which is a key concept for marketing the album cover. The parental guidance appears in the bottom right corner which is a conventions of album artwork. The name of the single 'Rabbits' is in capital letters and very bold. This looks very old school and stand out on the cover and attracts the viewers attention. Finally having all three band members shown on the front cover shows they are a team and unite together as one to form musical fusion.

Editing

Through out the whole task, editing has been the key to creating a good music video. After weeks of choosing & trimming clips, adding effects and lip synchronizing the video we have finished editing. Editing took a while to complete as none of our group were familiar with the software Final Cut Express. However after using the software for a week it became a lot easier to use and the group and i cracked down a really got some work done. Once we had a performance bed, we began intercutting clips in whilst following the story boards. If the clip we wished to use didn't work, or wasn't great quality we looked at what we had and edited another one in. One of the hardest things to do when editing the video was getting the drums in time with the track. This is because the drummer doesn't not always play entirely in time and therefore this makes it harder to edit it in time. This would like highly unprofessional if we had the drummer out of time with the track. Another part of editing that we had to concentrate on was lip syncing Connor, with the track. This was vital as if this was not in time the video would look unprofessional and tacky.

We used the storyboards as a guidance to where would input certain clips. For example we used shots of the rabbits and certain point within the video and the rest of the time it was band shots. We edited in lots of different angles of the band shots to vary the video. After we hand completed the rough cut, we started to add effects and transitions to make the video look as professional and real as we possibly could.

After the Showcase

The recent showcase went extremely well, we got a rating for our music video and lots of constructive critisicm. This was extremely helpful and has enabled us to improve our video even more. With the comments from the teachers we it has given us the motive to go one step further and make our video even more professional. We will change the bits that has been critiqued to make the video more professional.

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Showcase

Our rough cut is ready for the showcase!
Finally after a long few weeks editing, we have finished a rough cut of our music video, remarkably in time for showcase Wednesday. Although the video is finished, after we have been analysed by other students studying media and our teachers we will tweak our video to improve effects, transition and clips used. This will enable us to improve the video further based on the constructive criticism given by other students and our teachers. Hopefully after we have tweaked our video, we will have a finished video up to a good standard. Each person watching the video will be used with an evaluation sheet where they can rate our editing, sound, camerawork, syncronisation of sound, did it look like a real music video and if they would watch it again. Each person will rate from 1 to 10. 10 being perfect, 1 being unsatisfactory. There is also space for them to right any comments that were good, and any thing they thought could be improved or changed.
By having an evaluation from each pupil we can they forsee if they think our music video looks real and if it looks professional. We can alos obtain an overall overage out of 10. This will help us to improve our music video.

Analysis of Filming Part 2

Today we finally filmed out second part for our music video. This is the narrative of the music video and we filmed down in 'Woodford' today. Sam and Connor both dressed up as rabbits and we began to film for the narrative of our music video. This went well and we got a wide variety of different shot to inter cut with the band shots which are in the performance bed recently created.

We got a close up of the rabbits for the beginning as well as a long shots, mid shots, and extreme close-ups. We also included a pan and the 180 degree rule. Whether we include all of these clips within the music video is up to the group and the storyboards. We will blog about our editing later on.

Filming

Good news, due to the good weather recently we have managed to film the last set of footage for the music video. Due to the late filming we have cracked down and uploaded the footage already. We have begun intercutting the footage in with the previous stuff. We aim to have our video finished with some effects in the next few days ready for our showcase.

Drawbacks

Unfortunately because of the weather our second part of filming has been delayed. This is because we need the right conditions to film. We need it to not be wet and we need sunny skies so when we edit these parts into the video it looks quality and professional. Dates of the arranged filming session we be uploaded at a later date.