Photo shoot !

We are planning to have a photoshoot this week. We have selected four band members to be in the shot. We have discusses several locations i.e titanic quarter, the docks and the city hall. However we have chosen a location in cranmore park on the lisburn road. There is a band stand which would be in line with the look we are trying to create. We are using a junior photographer from methody to help us with the shots. We are going to use the shots on our digipack.


James

Focus Group

We plan to hold a focus group with our peers and gain feedback from them about our final production, we will also discuss the plans we have for our album cover and our website. We will ask the following questions:

• What do you think of our video and does the theme match the music effectively?
• What scenes do you think are the most effective?
• What scenes do you dislike?
• Do you think the theme of the video was evident?
• Did you prefer the 1st or 2nd section of the video?
• Are there any changes you feel we could make to our video?

We will post a link to our focus group onto the blog shortly

Shots Of The Park

For the idea of the dead child, we thought it would be a very effective idea to film scenes of an empty park with a variety of different shots including focus pull which i feel enhanced the sense of loss and the detail gained of different objects within the park gave a sense of emptiness.


We used these shots to fill the timeline when conor is running home to sionon.

Colour Masking Shots

Here are examples of some of the shots we used with the colour masking tool within our production, i feel it really enhanced our music video and added to the feeling of loss of a loved one.

Colour Masking

I used a colour masking effect within our video for the scene with the flowers in the graveyard, i  think it was very effective and was surprised how easy it was to use within Final Cut Pro X, I used the following tutorial to help me complete this process.


Colour Isolation Tutorial in Final Cut Pro X from Paul Massey on Vimeo.

Finished Filiming

We have made the final adjustments to our film and have exported it. We are really happy with the way it has turned out. Our planning and our initial ideas have come through great on screen. We are now up loading it to you tube. We will now turn our focus towards the album cover and the website. This will consume our time now, we still have to photoshoot a band for our cover and website. We are going to do this on Wednesday 3rd April. 


James

Slight change in ideas.

We have decided to slightly tweak our idea overall. Originally we had planned to have a conventional family a mother a father and a son. The father would leave and come back to the son. However we were brainstorming and have slightly changed this idea. The child is recently deceased , this is why the father has turned to drink and the mother to religion. I feel that it will build greater feelings of sadness and it will be more effective.