Digi pack ideas...

I downloaded "paint pro plus" and was able to expand on my editing skills. The first photo I uplaoded is a balck and white shot of Elle. I changed the focus usign the "spot" tool. I hand drew (quite badly) a red pouted kiss shape and then in a swirly text I wrote "Pixie Mix - Broken Arrow". This was in a small black font so it was visible, but Elle was still the main focus.

The second photo is my favourite. It's shot of Elle standing against the big gate with a beautiful house in the background. I used the "spot" tool once again and this time I changed the focus so that Elle stood out much more then the background. I think this looks really effective and will make a great album cover. I hand drew "pixie mix" with the airbrush tool and used black as this stood out against the background. I used a baby pink and did "hearts" for the dots on the eyes as this gave it the little girly edge that Pixi lott would have. I then used a swirly font and wrote broken arrow in a smaller font.

The last photo I uploaded it the same as the first one but this times it's in colour. I then used the airbrush tool and hand drew pixie mixx as I did on the second photo.

These are all very basic ideas but I hope to put my final piece together over the weekend!

Digi pack attempt...

This is very VERY basic, but having not used photo shop before, I am struggling a lot! I uploaded a pohot of Elle which was a print screen from our music video. I then converted it to black and white, adjusted the contrasted and also added the album name and artist in a girly font. This is just a rough idea and over the weekend once I have got to grips with photshop I will look fowards to being able to producing all 4 sides to my digipack!

Album/Track List

Now that I have an actual idea of what I want to appear on my digi-pack design, I thought ti would be time to think about the names of the tracks that will appear on my album. Having looking at Pixie Lott's album, here is a list of her songs:

1) Mama do (uh oh uh oh)
2) Cry me out
3) Band aid
4) Turn it up
5) Boys and Girls
6) Gravity
7) My love
8) Jack
9) Nothing compares
10) I wish I was there
11) The way the world works
12) Hold me in your arms

So, looking at the names of her tracks, I thought I woudl do very similar names, but make them my own. Here is what I have come up with:

1) Papa Don't (mm hmm mm hmm)
2) Drown me in your tears
3) A & E
4) Pulse
5) Guys and Dollz
6) Space
7) Emotions
8) Tommy
9) Reflections
10) Wish I was there
11) Around the World
12) Don't Let go
13) the debut single - Broken Arrow

More music video research...

Only now is it that I realise there are already a lot of music videos that exist today which are all filmed and edited then produced in black and white. I think it is becoming more popular as it gives the video an overall more "professional" look and makes the video stand out from any others that have already been produced.

This following song "Wile out - Ms Dynamite ft Dj zinc is just one of these example. I like the video in black and white and how the beat has been edited in time with the clip transitions. Also, I really like the shots of Ms Dynamite when she is walking down the stairs with the graffiti on the walls. This would also be another idea which I could use for my digi-pack cover.

[video to be uploaded]

Here are a few print screens to show what I am talking about...

Further music video research...

I was watching the music channels over the weekend and I noticed another video that was in black and white and used similar shot types and conventions that we have in ours. this video "Breathe slow - Alesha Dixon" is also a song about love, like "Broken Arrow - Pixie Lott" and so similar slow pans, close ups of her face and smooth transitions are used to fit the mood of the song. I also really like the contrasts used in some of the clips as it is really soft and makes Alesha stand out from the background.

[Youtube wont let me uplaod any videos to my blog - but will put this video on asap!]

Here are some print screen to give you an idea, until the video get's uploaded!

draft 2

After making some final tweaks to our music video in last week's lessons, we have now uploaded to YouTube a second draft. We included more clips of Elle sitting against the brick wall (which myself and Elle had re filmed) and also put in another pan shot from the sky, down towards Elle resting against a gate. We also added in the reversed clips of Elle and Alex towards the end of the song to make the narrative of our song fit the lyrics more.

[wont let me uplaod video from Youtube - will upload asap!]

Here are some print screens until Youtube let's me upload the video...

editing

In today's lesson our whole group was in so myself and Elle were finally able to show the rest of our group what we had completed in the lesson they had missed. They really liked what we had done and they were also able to come up with some new ideas.

Where we have inserted the "stop motion" clip into our music video where the cupid emotion is firing an arrow, Emma said to use the Imovie tool of "picture within a picture" and so that underneath the stop motion we could put a clip of Elle and Alex so the two clips blend into one. We tried it and it looks good, but we still don't know whether we are going to include it in our final version.

Also looking at the music video, Elle who had come to the media room in her free periods the other day had made some further changes that I hadn't yet seen. She had added some clips of herself and Alex towards the end of the music video to give the video more narrative as we have already got a lot of performance clips of Elle singing. When the clips had been added, she "reversed" them to add to the whole "flashback" idea so it looked like they were looking back on the memories. She also ended the music video with 2 happy clips as the piano music that ends the song is quite happy, so she put in a clip of Alex giving her a "piggy back" and ending with a kiss by a tree with a pan up to the sky and then fading to black. I really like the changes that Elle made and I'm hoping now that all we need to do is finishes touches!