Music Video: Story Boards

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So here is the story boards that we created to aid us in our planning of our music video. These helped split our music video into sections that we then organised into the filming days.

Enjoy.

Album Cover: Putting the CD together

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So today I printed and cut out the final designs for mine and Dan's album cover; Lift Off. The CD case is covered with a front cover attached to an 8 page booklet, a back to the booklet, back cover with two spines on each side and a tray card with a a spine window.

The back cover had to be resized as, in the top picture, the back is too small as it is the same size as the front cover, not taking into account the extension of the spine window. In addition, the two spines are too large to fit in the spine area. I figured out that I had been using the wrong template so simply resized the whole design; extending the back and shrinking the spines. The result is the back cover you can see on the bottom picture.

So that's that.I will be uploading all the designs of everything that makes up the album along with their templates soon so they can be viewed in greater detail.

Stay tuned for more in the coming days and weeks.

Album Cover: Designing the 'Apollo AD' title

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So here's just a look at how I created the 'Apollo AD' title for the CD cover.

Hope you enjoy.

One Little Slip: First Draft

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So here's the first draft of one little slip (and is obviously incomplete).

Enjoy.

Behind The Scenes - 3 and 4

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So here's episodes 3 and 4 of our Behind The Scenes series. We decide these two were too short to be separate videos so attached them as one.

Enjoy

Filming - Day 4

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So today, with the kind help of mine and Dan's friends Georgia and Niamh, we finished the third part of our music video.

The footage we took didn't take as long to do as our other sessions as this part of the music video is smaller than the rest.

Tomorrow me and Dan will start applying these clips to our music video in Premier Pro as well as editing our behind the scenes footage.

So, bye for now.

Filming - Day 3

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So on Tuesday we had our third block of filming where we finished off part two of our music video. We are currently adding the footage taken to our music video and also I am compiling the next behind the scene video.

Afterwards, we discussed the next part of our music video; the funeral. We decided it would be best to do this inside, favourably Dan's house as we can use his bedroom as it is more neutrally decorated than mine and so better suited. This is because we didn't want to rely on the unpredictability of the weather and natural light again. Plus we rethought some scenes that now make the filming more practical as before, my character was supposed to rise from the ground as he was originally planned to be buried. However, this would not work or at least not work successfully.

With that decided, our next filming block will be Thursday!

So stay tuned for more soon!

CD and Website

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Here's just a look at some of the ideas that I've been thinking about and discussing with Dan with both our CD and website design.

(Also, I may seem like I'm repeating myself seen as I talk about the first cover art I did which also features on the last post but I wanted to add it again to compare to the second cover art).

Enjoy.

CD and Website from AlexHunter98

Update: Backup Back Cover Ideas

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So yesterday I thought it might be a good idea to think of some different designs for our back cover of the CD album. At the moment the back cover is the same space background as the front, minus the rocket and title and has a list of other songs. It is usually the norm to have the background similar to the front with pop rock bands, for example McBusted's 2015 album 'McBusted' as a similar back background as the front but we see the backs of the band members.

So here's an idea I had:

 I decided it would be better if I drew out this design and then take a picture of the end result instead f drawing it on a programme as I feel that would take longer and have less of an artistic feel. As you can see I started off with the traffic light character from our music video.

I began to add more random stuff to signify as other situations that take place in the other songs listed on the album that we are not making music videos of. Also I began outlining the drawings in a sharpie as this obviously makes the images stand out and look better as a result.

After adding some more random images such as aliens that look like eggs, a retro robot emerging from the sand and a classic UFO abducting people. This mash up I believe goes in line with the space theme of the album by adding these images and also creates a more interesting end result to look at in comparison to our current back cover design.

Behind The Scenes - 2

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Here's the second instalment of our behind the series!