Final Products

Digipak:

Video:

Website:

WEBSITE CLICK HERE

Video Editing 23/11/15

Slowing down some clips since they go to fast

Changing the saturation to low so it's black and white

I had to zoom in the clip as the framing was wrong

Digipak Feedback 2

As we are almost finished our digipak we think we should get more anonymous feedback. 

We used open ended and closed questions to get a qualitative and quantitative response. 

Realising the issue with this question is we don't know who picked which but we can still get good information. There is clear like for the images used and the colour scheme 

We will try to these improvements to see how good it actually makes it

Everyone could tell it was indie rock or some form of rock.

Most like the 2nd digipak which is the most improved therefore we know we have gone in the good direction.

Filming 21/11/15

Today we filmed some more narrative scenes for the beginning of the music video to give the narrative more sense and depth. We used our team members for reliability. I decided on a range of mid shots to long shots and also an over the shoulder shot.

Hopefully when we edit the lighting will be okay. We made sure our shadows didn't get in shot or interfere.

Website Improvements 22/11/15

After changing the website we have decided to go to more of a professional route with the about page 

We decided to add separate pages using the system wix has. This is so they can go to the separate pages for the about page

Preparation for Fliming

Props:
-Jacket
-Actors


Time: 10am till finish

Actors:

Keeping in touch with the actor

Tumblr Edits

Looking back at the tumblr i decided to change the theme to suit more of a band image, i had a look at panic! at the discos website which is ran on tumblr

http://www.panicatthedisco.com/

I then went looking for free themes and chose the "mad about you theme" by zeloid on tumblr

http://zeloid.tumblr.com/thms

It has a banner at the top which is similar to Panic! but also the one column instead of many creates a simplistic style. 

Gif Making

For the about pages we decided to create gifs. Since i know how to do this using photoshop i took control:

I used final cut express to cut the clips that i wanted of the band for the gifs i then exported them using quick time conversion, I also slowed each clip down to 50% so it's slower and not as snappy as some gifs can be.
Using import video frames to layers in Photoshop and setting the workshop to animation i can easily edit the small clip and the gif.

I put all the frames into a group and changed the run time to no delay for a smooth motion. I then edited the vibrance, brightness, and levels of the clip and then added the text. 

Making the image smaller makes it easier to export and run. I changed all the clips to 600 width (with varying heights)

Exporting it using Save for web i kept the colours to max to have the full effect of the gif and i set the looping options to forever to have a continuous loop through. The black and white also made it easier to export as the colours were not affecting it. In the end i made the gifs for the website about pages and for the tumblr. 

View: 

http://unlucky-like-us.tumblr.com/post/133532451944

Narrative Plan 2

We had a talk about what we need to do for the narrative such as creating a better story. To cut down on reliability we will use the 2 boys in the group as the other actors. We are planning on filming more narrative to give context to the narrative we also have. 

We aim to film a scene including 3 actors. They will meet up at a park and have a conversation/fight and then it will be revealed that he is leaving him for another boy. We will do this through varying shots such as him walking to the park, meeting then fighting and a few cinematic shots. 

We plan to film in South Park in Darlington. 

Comparison to professional products (Music Video)

Putting our video against the original gives me some interesting ideas. I was thinking about cutting our footage the same pace as the original music video to see if the pacing or the quality actually changes.

However in comparison the editing is quite similar to the actual video and some of the effects are the same such as the lighting effect around the first chorus of the video.

Learning from this i feel as though i need to improve this:

• Quicker Cutting
• More interesting narrative 
• A bigger ending 

Comparison to professional products (Digipak)

Looking at other indie rock digipaks we think we did have some comparisons. 

• Images of all the band together (1975, Fall out boy, Set it Off & Libertines)
• Single images of main singer (Panic at the Disco)
• Black and White theme (1975, Panic at the Disco, Set it Off)
• Main Logo (clover for us. Fall out boy and Set it Off all have logo displayed)
• Small back text for lyrics (1975, Imagine Dragons)
• Smokey Effect (Panic at the Disco)
• Simplistic style (Imagine Dragons, Arctic Monkeys and 1975) 
• Consistent theme (1975 & Imagine Dragons) 
• Clear Blocked Font (Fall Out Boy, Set it Off & Imagine Dragons)

Digipak Production

This is our initial design. After feedback we decided to change it a lot more. We added color and changed the images we used. 

With this I decided to add the smoke effect that we initially wanted in our original design. I also swapped around some images and added the green smoke. With feedback from AL and Nicola we decided to change the bottom left image and the back to include more albums and change the size of the font. 

Lastly, We had to tweak it a little bit. I changed the bottom left image and added logos and copyright text to the bottom. We also decided on keeping the three panels black and white for continuity with the video and also it will look good when printed out. Overall this is the final design and we will get some feedback to see if we can change it.

We also created a process video to show the process and the change that the digipak has gone through
Digipak Transformation from Conor Jackson on Vimeo.

Digipak Editing (6/11/15)

I began to edit the digipak based off the feedback we got from the questionnaire and teachers. I tested out a few fonts from dafont.com 

but in the end i decided the Argentina font suited it the best. 

I decided to use a design with the smoke effect we originally agreed on in our initial pitch. 

Website Rough Cut

http://ulu20151.wix.com/unluckylikeus

We did make a store page however if we published it it would have gone live and people would have been able to buy off it, we took a photo before we deleted it

We are already making a new site. 

Video Rough Cut

Website Editing

I created a tour page with locations, dates and buy buttons. I searched some arenas in the UK and chose those. i also stuck with the green theme with the buttons. 

I also gave titles to all the webpages so it has a recurring theme.

Narrative Editing

I transferred all the clips from filming the narrative and then began editing it into the rough cut for the video.

After receiving feedback from Al it's clear that the narrative barely has any context, we need to film more and extend the narrative to have a clearer story and show the disequilibrium throughout and a lot more of a linear storyline.