25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians

This is a link to an article I have found that rates the top 25 best websites of bands and musicians, this is particularly useful because it can help us with the design of our own website and it lists many of the conventions and features found in specifically band websites.

Extra Filming

These are images that we have taken during extra filming, this was when we developed our original idea and needed to shoot the extra clips needed for it, and also to fullfill the timeline of the song. We used the same camera to record so that there was no difference in quality of the clips and we had when filming near the railway we made sure we were in safe locations and that we were in no danger.

Editing video

 

This week we have started our editing on our video and putting it together, once we had imported the clips we had needed from the camera and sorted out which ones we needed (since we filmed extra to make sure) we uploaded the song into the editing timleline and started slowly putting the different clips together.
Once we were happy with the rough cut, we decided to test out effects and transitions that would improve the video. We decided on several 'fade' effects and since the song was quite sad we decided to include effects to match the narrative of the story.
Since many of the clips we had filmed were sad, we decided to use a 'Black and White' effect once the storyline in our film reached it's depressing plotline. This was so it was it would relate the audience, because they would see how it was affecting the character and would be empathic towards him.
To find the effects we had to go through video effects, at first we searched through colour correction but it wasn't located in that file and instead we found it under the folder 'image control'. The black and white effects worked well and was not too dark/light contrasting which was good.

 

 

 

 

For editing our music video we will be using the editing software programme Adobe Premier Pro, loading up the programme we immediatly tested the colour alteration and colour correction settings within the programme since it will be most likely that we will have to alter the appearance of the clips to fit with the narrative. We have also got the basic understanding of depth of field editing, motion blur and slow motion effects since we have discussed possible ideas for clips that could help improve our music video. Whilst we are editing and re-filming clips (if needed) and finding out information on things like Digipacks, Ben will develop the skills we have already produced to further our music video's performance.

This is the editing panel for colour schemes as stated above, this is also incase we need to emphasise the colour of the scenes since some of them were filmed when the weather made the natural lighting dim.

Above is the timeline that shows us editing the clips together and adding transitions such as "cross dissolve", "fade" and add titles to certain clips. The layout for editing on Adobe Premier Pro is fairly simple and combined with our knowledge from last year should be easy to handle. The programme tends to crash often so we will need to save regularly.

digipack codes and conventions