Feedback

As a class we viewed each others videos and wrote feedback for each group. Our feedback was mainly positive but there were a few improvements to be made. Here was our feedback:

Music and instruments are in time
short frames?
quicker cuts?
overall-good

Music and filming fit well

good timings

quicker cuts?

ending needs finishing

thought it was good :)

Location looks really good - suits the song/theme

close ups of guitar good

different angles are effective

in some places more cuts could be used

camera is a bit wobbly in some bits

Good sync to lyrics

the drums are good and the guitars

good use of camera all around

camera wobbly in some areas

mise-en-scene good

fits genre of song

Looked real, in sync

suits the song

great fast cuts

the cuts to the instruments work well keeping up the fast tempo

ends well

the editing is great

Good opening

not sure about 1.44

really nicely edited

3.00 guitar solo should be more obvious

better ending needed

Good start of filming before guitars

guitar solo slightly out of time

like close-ups of singer

like camera movements when its handheld

shots of drummer above look wicked

its all really exciting

so well timed

SO GOOD

Start good in time with music

singing at start a bit out of sync

close ups are good

setting suits song

its so good!

Good quick cut before he starts singing

good close ups when singing

good close ups of instruments

good shots of whole band

excellent camera movement

Handheld camera is I think a bit too shakey at the beginning

the miming is bang on time :)

The close up when he is singing is very good

the handheld camera makes i very personal

can be a bit repetitive of guitar close ups

think the editing could be tighter at the end as it gets faster

love the angles of singers face

Digipak

As one of our ancillary tasks, we need to create a digipak. We have to decide on what kind of look we want it to have, what to put on it, how it should fit together and also, who should be involved in making it.
To help us decide on these factors, we need to do a bit of research.
A digipak includes the front cover of a CD case. This usually consists of an image of a random object, instrument, person or animal. Solo singers are also shown on their albums, however, rarely is a band. This is due to the band being avaliable at different times and also as bands usually have a particular logo to represent them. For example, avenged sevenfold have the death bat, and metallica have a particular font of which their name is always written.

In the album cover below from the Kaiser Chiefs, the band has not been used. A simple snake skin background has been used with a tab that has the name of the band and album on it. The edges are tatty and it made to look like an old box lid. It says in small font 'a box of tricks' From this I would used the idea of a basic cover. I like that the cover simply says who it is by and what it is called. I don't think I would use the box idea but I would perhaps encorperate some ideas of my own.

In the cover below, again the band has not been used. However, unlike the one above, it is not just simply words. This time an icon has been used. The butterfly is a bright image which can represent the brightness and energy of the band. It also presents some sort of innocence, perhaps suggesting that it is not has hard as some forms of rock music. I like the idea of the butterfly but I don't think I would use it within our song. This is due to our band being all guys and this adding a slightly feminine feel to it.

Band shots

Originally, we had preferred the idea of using the band on the front cover. This would just make it that bit more personal to us. While we were at our venue doing the filming, we took the time to take some photos. However, our band had a lot of trouble standing still and there were hardly any photos of them that aren't blurred.

For this reason, we decided not to use them on the front cover.

Filming

We booked the Red Lion in Gravesend for a five hour slot. We booked it from 3pm-8pm, however, not every band member could make the whole time alloted due to work and family arrangements. This restricted our options. After contemplation we decided to film the whole band shots and close ups of Jon first, as he had to leave at 6, and then the individual shots of the other members of the band when he had left. This worked quite well.


The only problem with this venue is that we had to provide our own instruments. This didn't cause too much hassle until we realised that Tom had forgotten one of the supports of the drums from his kit. After a lot of running around and thinking of make-shift stands, he realised he didn't even hit that drum so it wouldn't make much difference. A part from these hiccups, it all ran rather smoothly.


Every one of us did some filming, and when the others weren't, we were helping direct. The boys were very cooperative and did as we asked, making the whole process a lot easier and less time consuming. Each of us put in our own input and help each other out so overall I think everyone was pleased with the footage.

Band Names

As the band we put together are not an actual band, and the song is not done by a famous artist, we had to come up with our own band name. This took a lot of time to do as it was hard to find a fitting name. These are the names we came up with:

The Riot
Revolt
Revolution
Rampage
Rage
Destruction
Disturbance
Deranged

The Band

We struggled to get a band together. James knew a band that could perform a song of theirs for us but they could only get to places around London and our venue was in Gravesend. This meant we had to get think of another option. We managed to get the actual singer of the song we have chosen and I managed to get together another three of my friends to do drums, bass and guitar. Luckily they were willing and put the effort in to learn the song in advance.
The people in our band are:

Jon
Our lead singer

Mikey
Our Guitarist

Jack

Our Bassist
Tom
Our Drummer

Rough Cut

Rough Cut from Sarah Chamberlain on Vimeo.

Chosen location

We original tried filming at both the studio and the cheap hall but decided neither was right for our video. So we rented out the Red Lion for a five hour slot and decided that it was perfect. It fit our genre of music and looked more like a band performance than anywhere else.

Cover Ideas

For our ancillery tasks we have to create a digipak and a magazine advertisement. For this we needed to come up with various things which we could put on the cover. Our ideas were:

Using the bands driving licenses and putting them together to make a square. The part that says 'driving license' would be changed to 'dancing license'.

Another is to get a model to wear a t-shirt saying 'license to dance' with them dancing. We haven't decided whether to have the whole model or just their torso so it is easier to read.

We also could use a silhouette of a dancer in negative or black and white with a bright colored writing over the image.

We also had the idea of using a crowd at a gig as it would show the mayhem and fun which we wanted to portray.

Cover Ideas - Licenses

For our album front cover, we had many ideas. Our favorites were either having the band, or as the song is licence to dance, using some form of licence. As part of this idea, we thought about taking each band member's driving licence and putting them together like a square. We discovered that the drummer of the band had no passed his test so only had a provisional, but we decided that this may have a nice effect.
Before we got the pictures of the band, I decided to take an example licence from the internet and see how easy it would be to change it from a 'driving licence' to a 'dancing licence'. This is how I did it.

First I pasted the original picture from google.

I then zoomed in and selected the 'NC' from 'licence'.

I then copied it and placed it within the word 'driving'.

After this I cut out the 'I' and moved the 'D' over and replaced the background with a patch of pink that was around the writing. I think drew a rough outline of where the 'A' needed to be.

I then found the closest matching font and pipetted the colour from the 'D'. I then placed the 'A' in the space.

I zoomed back out and this was my finished product.

Overall, it wasn't too hard to make but I will have to try doing this with a provisional which may not be as easy.

Animatic

Here is the animatic in all it's glory.

Animatic from Sarah Chamberlain on Vimeo.