I am currently trying to find different fonts for my album cover. I have decided the artists name will be the same as the actors who played my artist; Connor Foster. The album name will be Wasted, after the name of the single.
I have watched a tutorial on Youtube to show how to download different fonts from a site names Dafont, as I found the default fonts on the Mac too boring for a CD case. I found a fond names Bebas on Dafont and downloaded to the Mac using the instructions in the video. It then went straight into the text tool fonts on Photoshop which is really useful. I was really happy with this first font I found as I feel it fits the cover well. I have now put in all of the text onto my digipak. I used a font that was already on the Mac for the song list on the back. I found a site called Free Logo Services that I used to create realistic looking record label logos. I used the fake record label name Evans Records UK LTD. Here I have shown it on my album cover.
1. How old are you? 2. What is your gender? 3. What genre do you think my products are? 4. What do you like most about the design of my products? 5. Do you think there is continuity/a house style in these products? 6. Would you change anything about this product? If so, what? 7. Do you think these products look realistic? 8. Does the style of the products remind you of any existing artist? 9. What is your favourite genre of music?
1. How old are you? 2. What is your gender? 3. What genre do you think the video is? 4. In your words, what do you think the narrative (story) of the video is? 5. Do you think there is continuity between my music video and the poster/digipak? 6. Do you think the video looks realistic? 7. Does the style of the video remind you of any existing artist? Who? 8. Do you think the music fits well with the video? 9. Please give reasons for the previous answer. 10. Lastly, what is your favourite genre of music?
I have received some feedback from this new version of my music video, and a lot of the comments I received were about the lip-sync. I have realised that some of the lip syncing is out of sync, so will need to improve it.
These are the photographs I took for my ancillary texts. I had my actor wear a black suit, which is what he wore in the music video so it creates continuity. I had first used the green screen to take photographs against and was planning on photoshopping the background in. Then I found I could use a black backdrop and use the same lighting, which created a gloomy effect. My first few images were very grainy and out of focus, so I went back in and took some more images that were less grainy and out of focus. I used photoshop to edit the photographs I liked the most, so that I could use them for my texts. I am currently photoshopping the edited images onto a album cover template.
This is my final draft of my music video. I am still yet to make small changes, such as editing colours and some sound, but overall I am happy with how it has turned out so far. I have shared my video on social media and received a lot of positive feedback. Pictured are some examples of feedback I received. Things I need to edit at this stage are;
removing any remaining background sound from all clips,
experiment with different effects on Final Cut Pro to see if there are any that will enhance the video/create a different mood - I would like to but a black and white effect over the piano scenes to make it appear classier and more moody/depressing,
experiment with different transitions - I would like to put a transition before the parts where the girl is daydreaming to convey the message better to the audience
I filmed these clips in the green room, because my original idea was to use a keyer on Final Cut Pro to put in a background that would suit the mise-en-scene I wanted to create. However, upon entering the green room I found that there were different coloured paper back drops available to use. I chose the black paper to create a very moody and dramatic mise-en-scene, and I used basic, gloomy lighting that would reflect the genre and mood of the song. It reflects the genre because it is still well lit and not depressing as say it may be in a punk rock/emo style video, but similar lighting techniques have been used in existing music videos in the pop and R&B genre that create a sad mood. I used a keyboard to mimic the look of a real piano, as that is the instrument used in the song I have chosen. I also wrapped the tables the keyboard was sitting on to further make it look like a real piano. Some of the shots I have focused on the keys as opposed to the entire keyboard, so that the main focus of the audience is the artist playing. To make sure the lip sync matched with the song I wanted to use, I played the song on my mobile phone and got my artists to sing aloud, in order for the lip syncing to look realistic. Here are some examples of artists of the same genre in photo shoots with similar lighting. Some of them put a black and white filter on them to add to the mood of the image. I feel like this would be good to use in the piano sequences of my music video because it is effective in creating the mood.
I have watched a tutorial on Youtube to show how to download different fonts from a site names Dafont, as I found the default fonts on the Mac too boring for a CD case. I found a fond names Bebas on Dafont and downloaded to the Mac using the instructions in the video. It then went straight into the text tool fonts on Photoshop which is really useful. I was really happy with this first font I found as I feel it fits the cover well.
I have now put in all of the text onto my digipak. I used a font that was already on the Mac for the song list on the back.
