Review and Week 14

Last week was productive, but however not completely to plan as the weather stopped me capturing the drone shot that I needed. My animation is also still not fully complete, but very close to being so. I mostly stuck to plan.

This week is the final week are able to work on our music videos, so I want to ensure that everything looks perfect. Over the easter holidays if I need to I will polish up my blog so I can give it a good chance of getting a higher grade.

Review and week 13

Last week was mainly successful and productive in terms of editing most of my music video together, and I stayed mostly to plan.

This week, I aim to film the smaller remaining bits of my music video and continue to animate the few I need left. I am very close to completion with my music video which I am extremely pleased about. I will also work on my digipak to ensure it has the highest marks possible.

First draft and feedback

Today, I presented my first draft to the class to gain an opinion on my music video. Below is the video I showed them:

All seemed to enjoy my music video, and gain a good idea of narrative and representation from it. However, as it is with a first draft, there were some things that needed to be changed, as shown in the feedback sheets below:



From this advice, I will:
- Replace the street scenes altogether, perhaps with more field scenery and animation where possible
- OR green screen a street scene that looks more inviting than the ones I have
- Make the scenes look brighter through editing
- Re-film the running sequence, instead using a pan shot so the camera is stable
- Film missing segments of my music video
- Correct mismatched lip syncing

I hope to get this all done within the next week, so I can have some updated feedback and make some final final changes.

Review and Week 12

Last week went ok in terms of editing, however no filming was done as I would have liked it to be, so this week will be filming heavy. I did stay mostly to plan.

This week is going to involve hopefully finishing up my music video so I can tidy my blog up and start to prepare my evaluation. I intend to finish the rest of my animations and the new ones I now need to do, edit the music video to a high enough standard and work on my digipak and poster to make the corrections and updates I need to.

Editing Progress 5

Throughout the last week, I have focused on editing the animation into my music video. I faced a few difficulties whilst editing, but these will be explained below.

Putting the animations into premiere was easy enough - all of the animations were png sequences which were then made into mov files through conversion on premiere. However, when the sequences were re-sized in premiere on their own, they looked blurry and wrong. This was fixed by resizing all of the frames individually through photoshop batch method:

Using this code was able to make my time a lot more effective, but it was still very time consuming. However, once it was done I was happy with the end results. Some of the animations are white also, which was easily changed by using a colour corrector and turning the lightness up to 100%.

I'm pleased with the progress I've made, however receiving feedback there is still a lot more to do, hence the 'replace' png over footage that needs to be redone.

Review and Week 11

Last week was not productive in the way I expected, but however allowed me to get a lot of animation done due to adverse weather we experienced. There is however lots of time to make up for what I missed last week as there was only a small amount to do.

Because of the fact I could do animation all of last week, I have a lot of editing to do. Having a two hour slot for filming will be enough to film some short segments, however I may need another filming session just to get a few more bits done, perhaps on Thursday.