We created our website using a platform called wix, which we decided to use over wordpress as we felt it was easier and would give of a more professional image:
The process started with creating the home page of the website, this arguably the most important part of the site, due to the fact that it is the first thing that people will see when they access the website. Thus it had to be made as visually interesting to the audience as possible and had to draw them into looking into our site. So we decided to use clip art and visually interesting texts and colours, the clip art was very easy to add, as there was an option as a tab for it, so we could just add in whatever we wanted and then place it where we wanted:
We started with this and then thought that we could add something of our own to make it look even more interesting, so we decided to add our own design for the website to liven it up a bit, and this was drawn by Grace and Elisa:
Then we went onto the band, in which we gave the names of the members and the roles that they would be performing in our video. Then we decided to add pictures of them so that our audience could see what they would be getting:
Then the site has a tab for tour dates, which we will add in later into the process of our music video, as this will give us an edge and make our website look more realistic:
Finally their was another tab for gallery, in which we could add various photos of other members who would be performing within our music video. We felt that this would give our audience a better idea of the image that we are trying to convey through our music:
Overall i think that using wix was a good choice as we were able to create a site quickly and easily but it also looks good. Navigation around the site is also very easy for our audience which is also good:
I believe that this site along with our album cover will work very well and could lead to a very succesful campaign for our music video
Thanks ollie for creating the site and giving me the screenshots
The first groups album artwork we will show is from TLC- another R&B group from the 90's with similar music to Salt N Pepa.
Both of these covers show us a good use of colours that work will for the cover, and is similar to something that we may want to use for our album covers.
Then we have a screenshot of their official website-
None of us particularly like this website design, however we believe that the colour schemes work well to fit in with 90's theme that is trying to be achieved.
The next album work we looked at was from Kid N play:
We liked this as it portrayed the cartoon like 80's look that we have considered, also even though it is a fairly old album cover you get a feeling of modernity from it. And again the colours compliment each other well in creating the 90's feeling.
Then their websites, both Chris Browns and Tygas:
Both of these websites dont fit in to our criteria because they are both to modern to get a 90's vibe from.
Next there is De La Soul, and here are some examples of their album artwork:
Again these are great examples to relate to the album artwork that we want to create. Both of these have colour schemes that conform to the 90's idea, it seems that the use of red green and pink seem to work well together aswell.
And then for their website:
Again this website doesnt seem to fit in with our theme of the 90's so wouldnt really be able to relate to their website, however their album artwork is perfect in relation to what we are looking to create ourselves.
Album artwork from boyz II Mean is show here:
Their album covers does not link to the rest that we have shown, but these two show quite a nice white and black theme, which can be seen within a fair few R&B groups album artwork. It shows as a nice alternative for the coloured themes.
Then their website also correlates with this theme:
Again this them does work well and if we cant achieve the coloured theming succesfully we may resort to using black and white to give it a simple yet effective digipak
and finally we looked at the digipak for Mika, firstly the covers
We especially liked all of these as we feel they had the best use of coulors and a cartoonish feeling that we feel works really well. We would like to achieve something similar to one of these for our final album artwork. The colours and images in all of these work really well together and help to entice and audience.
Then their website:
Again this website is not we would like to use due to the dark colours which do not correlate with our ideas and the site is also quite boring and doesnt have much on it.
Overall we believe that we would like to recreate something similar to the colourful cartoon like album covers that have been shown here. This is cause we feel like this will work well with the song that we are doing and it also will fit into our 90's theme that we are trying to achieve. Also we want our website to be vibrantly coloured and something that grabs the audiences attention. As a group we feel that it would be good if there was some sort of link between the album cover and the website, whether its through colours or images, just something that links them together, as we feel that would look professional. Thank you to Tyler for the blogpost
Storyboard’s
are incredibly important in order to find out what the video will look like
exactly, and it also brings some potential problems to light.
This
was apparent when I made my first animatic on Final Cut Pro, I made the mistake
of cutting the shots together before syncing it to the track. This was
problematic because each cut was not to the beat of the track, which made it
look clunky and disjointed.
To
overcome this, I started from the beginning. I put the track in, and then began
marking the cuts in order to link the shots to the track. Overall, I was left
with quite a successful looking animatic.
However, I could see that having some literal shots, that linked with
the lyrics was not a good idea as it became muddled up with the timings,
therefore would crop up in places irrelevant to the track.
I would keep the majority of what features in the storyboard, in the final product. However, I would certaintly not keep the literal shots as they became disjointed and irrelevant to the track. I would change the shot lengths also, as some of the shots appear for far too long, and as it has quite a fast paced beat. This was another weakness of the animatic because as you can see in the video some of shots are too long, therefore I would cut faster in the final edit of the pop video. However, I think it would be good to break the pattern of the beat and have slightly different cuts away from the beat, and then slowly coming back into the pattern. I think it is difficult to show a star image through a storyboard, and as amateur storyboard artists we struggled to get across all the canted angle shots we plan to use. However, with the boom box, colour wall, and DJ Decks I think that we created a brief window into the image of our artist. Doing the animatic myself has been very useful in learning what order we are going to do things, such as syncing the track to the shots before cutting the shots in order to match the cuts to the beat, breaking the pattern in structured and planned way. Futhermore, it has been incredibly useful reminding my self how to use different editing softwear, and especially in learning how to make my skills relevant to editing a music video. The next editing related task will be how to create animated words, and colours to come out of the boom-box and to appear across the screen.
We scanned both the storyboard and the timeline, and were given it as a PDF which could not be directly uploaded onto our bloggers. Therefore i had to find away to either convert it or get it available to put onto my blog.
My first effort was to try using google drive to upload the document into my documents, then to make it public and then find the embed code so i could embed it into my Blogger. I did all of this but i could not manage to find the embed code even after id followed every step so i had to think of an alternative.
Then i found Scribd which is a book website but you can also upload documents to it. It was much more simple than google drive and i managed to upload it in a matter of seconds and found the embed code straight away and thus was able to put it onto my blog
I used Final Cut Pro to cut the storyboard to the music, I did a first draft however I failed to cut it to the beat so everything looked a little random, which meant that I had to start again.
First draft
The second time worked much better as I knew what I needed to change, however even in the second edit, some of the shots in the middle of the track are a little wrong as I got confused with timings etc.
