Video 3rd Draft

This is the latest draft of my video. I am now missing only 40 seconds of footage and I am very satisfied with the way the video is going. The only issues I am currently facing are some imperfect lip syncing at points in the the second half of the video but apart from this I am very happy with the results so far.

Postponing Of Filming

Unfortunately due to personal circumstances, Izzy had to drop out of filming tonight. This has thrown my hopes of completing my video before Friday out of the window; however having talked to my teacher I have arranged to organise the rest of my filming for next week and to just try and complete part of my evaluation for Friday whilst posting another draft of my video so far.

Filming Plan 24/03/15

On Tuesday I plan to film the remaining shots for my video featuring both Tom and Izzy and the shot of the glass smashing. The weather is set to be a good 9 degrees Celsius and the brighter nights allow me to have more time to film after college. Once I have these remaining shots I only have 40 more seconds of editing to do before my video should be finished in time for my deadline.

Magazine Advert

This is my finished Magazine advert. It includes many conventions of other magazine adverts such as the masthead title of the band name, ratings from magazines and information about the available formats of the product. I used a traditional psychedelic colour of purple as my background and used an arabic style font to represent my product as part of the psychedelic genre as eastern influence is a big part of psychedelic music and culture. Seeing as I could not have a picture of the actual artist I used a still from my video for the main image. I used this particular image as it is part of the video that uses a solorised effect that represents the trippy and psychedelic feeel of the music as well as fitting the colour scheme of the advert.

Digipack

This is my design for my digipak. It incorporates my cover design along with some conventional features of back covers such as the record company label, a bar code and small print. It is mostly stylistically similar to my cover design for continuity. 

Creating My Own Design

I had already decided on my background colour and font I wanted to use. I used the Mistral font; which is a vintage script style font that I liked using on my previous drafts. I also decided to using the "strong" setting on my artist name to bolden it as this was an idea given to me by feedback from peers. For my background I used a very pale shade of yellow to create an old parchment/paper look reminiscent of the artwork for "Talkie Walkie" by Air.

Selecting the Mistral font I had used in my drafts

Using the strong text preset to bolden my artist name

Selecting my parchment/paper style background colour. 

Now came the issue of getting my main image of the clock. I am not a talented drawer or artist so i asked a friend who is an graphics student to draw a clock for me after showing her my ideas. She sent me this the day after and I was very happy with it. I scanned it in and put it onto Photoshop. After some struggle recolouring the white parts of the paper it was originally drawn onto; I eventually got it to fit into my pre-made design fairly easily. I am happy with the results of this as my front cover as it is almost exactly how I imagined it in my head, therefore I am satisfied that I can now move on to designing the rest of the digipak. 

Final Cover Drafts

 I had now narrowed down to my two favourite ideas from both the "Disraeli Gears" inspired clock and the symbol from the "A Wizard, A True Star" album art. I liked the strong symbol from the Todd Rundgren inspired design and the way it stood out from the page more than the clock design. However I feel that the hand-drawn style fitted in with the conventional psychedelic feature of art. I also am a big fan of the idea of the clock symbolising the turning back of time and the way it's hand drawn style also emitted a feel of childishness; which is yet another feature of psychedelia. I therefore chose this idea to use in my own design.