Digipack final

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magazine advent final

Extra ending

when we were making the music video we had an idea of our ending where Alphie would disappear but decided against.

Advert Ideas

Part of our project is to create a magazine advert for our album. Here are the ideas that we came up with:

Facebook Feedback

This is some of the feedback that we got from putting our music video on Facebook:

Bethany Estelle

awesomee maan (: ♥

Beth Walsh

Tis good :) Lots of different shots and good links between visuals and music :) I love this song :P

And good effects at the end : )

Cinnamon Francis-Burnett

Ok well lets see - I like the general idea of the video. The shots used were pretty good - good transitions and movements from each shot. Good choice of music - I wouldn't have chosen it but yeah... Liked that.
Although saying that there were a fair few things that could have been improved;
-The movements of the female in the video weren't very convincing - the head shaking could have looked alot better and the body movement could have been stronger.-
-Facial expressions could have been worked on too but yeah...-
-Could do with a few more effects over the main section of the actaul video - it was slightly "plain" in a sense but maybe you wanted that effect I don't know-... See More
-Opening shot could have been done a bit better - the movement was a bit dodgy compared to the female walking but that's my opinion-

I don't really wanna go on because I don't wanna upset/piss people off =/ But yeah...thats my opinion on the shot = over-all it's good, could do with some work - but yeah xxx

Nathan Ives

Nice work. Good choice of locations and other pretty cool Mise-en-scene.
Good job on the lip syncing, all in time
Uhhh...yeah heavy performancely based and did a good job with it, can't really comment on any narrative points though.
Think it used many of Goodwin's points (Selling artist, ect)

Luke Slater
I really like the bit with the leaves towards the end, more of that?

The girl seems a bit insincere when she's doing the head-banging/rocking thing.

Also personally I didn't get a firm feel for a concept within the song, she seems to be getting a bit emotional kinda thing (silence is golden) but what's with the forest and graffiti? Maybe it's a scene kid thing...... See More

You have a bit of funny dubbing on 'speak' right before 2:00

Daniel Andre-pasquier

LOVING THE VIDEO well done team, you did a great job, from the looks of thing you put some blood sweat and tears to get this down right.
oh and seriously is this women part of you media group, because she is stunning!

Christopher Gregory Saunders

this is really good. music and video all in time. simple but not too simple if u get what i mean (makes it good). maybe a little stiff with the acting in some places but can soon sort that out. overall i would say that theres not much to do to it. just little bits and then it will be all good. loved the location of it all. looking foward to seeing your next bit of work :)

Laurence Smith
"Nice job man =]
I think the Idea of the music video is good but really need some instruemntal
perforamnce.Even though the angles and footage you got of the performer were good
it got a bit boring after a while. Also could of done with a bit more tighter editing
near the beginning with maybe a few more fade in and other effect around the start.
last half of it is awesome but if people get bored before the end there not going to
see the end, good lip syncing aswell
over all great video just needed that little bit extra really


hope this feedback does you some good =]"

How to grab images from final cut to photoshop...

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Our Design for the Digipack

Our idea is to have two bases with a CD in each one base has the back on it with the track list and the other comes across to make the front cover. Then we have a flap attached the first base that comes across the cover as a cut away.

Other Digipacks

Above are some of the digipacks we found online giving us ideas on how to do our covers.

Digipack

Here are the Digipack's Dan bought in for us to base our ideas on.
From this we have decided to have the this design.

GROUP 49 FINISHED MUSIC VIDEO

Q3-49 MUSIC VIDEO 2009 from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

Our graffiti stencil

To go with the idea of the graffiti in the background of some of our footage we decided to create our own stencil which Alphie would spray onto the wall. So we set about coming up with a stencil idea which was a hard but fun task because none of us had ever done any graffiti art. You've seem some of our original ideas and our inspiration and you've seen the design we decided to have so here is the big version of our stencil.

Editing

Here is a screen grab from Final Cut to show the editing involved with or final version of our music video. As you can see we had our music track running the whole way through and our clips layered up on top of it show it matched the lip syncing and then cuts were made to get the best parts of the footage and keep it interesting.

SPRAY-PAINTING

Stencil Graffiti - Bridges

The graffiti fonts need to have bridges in the letters for example if we wanted to do the letter 'O' - once cut out there would be one large circle - to hold the center circle in place we would need bridges to hold them in place. Therefore some of our experimental fonts would not work - so we have developed a font with bridges. This will look like an obvious stencil and will make a good motif for the band graffiti font.

Help with the arty bits.

Once we had decided to do a stencil we had some problems with creating a convincing stencil that we thought would look good with the rest of the wall, so we looked for some inspiration with designing and creating. lucky we found our help in from someone called Jeremy Burgess. Jeremy is a friend on my from college and offered to help. I was more than happy to have his help because he himself is young urban artist does specializes is spray paint stencils and graffiti work. so with a few pointers from him we managed do come up with a stencil that we all liked that look of and thought that is would blend in with the wall of graffiti.

Graffiti stencil "garbage" font scetches

We tried out various graffiti sketches of how we would like our finished stencil of the band name to look like...

Graffiti artists and pictures

Or shots of the performer in our video spray painting a stencil of the band name should contain shots similar these graffiti artists at work.

Garbage Graffiti

In our music video so far we have a lot of performance shots focusing on our lead performer, Alphie. The music video is just over 3 minutes long so to separate the performance we discussed an idea inspired by the graffiti background in the shots, the pattern on Alphie's clothing and the artwork on the wall. We are going to create a stencil of the band name "garbage". We will shoot a variety of camera shots showing the spray painting over the stencil but not revealing what it is going to say until the end of the song.
We also had the idea to get a sheet of transparent material such as glass or plastic and to place it in front of the camera lens and spray over it like the camera is being "blinded" with the paint.

Final locations

Here are some of the location we picked to be in the final cut of our music video.
the reason we picked these locations over the other ones we had in mind was because as a group we thought that a good mix and light and dark with the shots in the graffiti room and the shot with the lights coming through the trees also with the bright red of the leaves that fall on Alphie etc.