Update: Website and Merchandise Making

Hey Guys!

So yesterday me and Dan were finishing off creating our merchandise online. Our products consist of a few t-shirts, clothes, hats and a mug. These pictures of our products will be then uploaded to our website, which is still in process.

However, last night I was able to make some significant progress when it comes to designing the main layout of our website by applying a definite background and header with buttons and links.

In other news, me and Dan are also thinking about starting filming sometime soon and have decided to structure of shooting schedule into one session per each character we have created. For example, our first will be the chef's introduction.

And that's that for now, So, as always, stay tuned for more.

Lighting

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Seen as me and Dan have never properly looked into or considered lighting whilst filming, we thought that looking into it more and taking it into account it would help use effectively improve the quality of our music video.

So here's a little look into lighting!

Enjoy

Update: Storyboarding and Shooting

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So me and Dan are still working on the story boarding as the sketches take a while and we aren't trying to blow all of our ideas into the first minute of the song so are looking for inspiration.

In addition to this, we are starting to think about when (and where as we haven't been definite yet on our location) we are going to start shooting as we both think that post-production will be difficult. Also, we have staring to compile a list of equipment needed for the music video. From camera to clothes to spaghetti we're getting it all organised.

As always, be expecting more posts flying your way and by for now.

Update: Practising Slow Motion

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Since we decided to do a cloning test in order to see how to do it before we did it for real in our one minute music video, we thought it would be a good idea to experiment with slow motion.

Trying to get used to After Effects more

Within the process of doing our story boarding, we realised that slow motion was going to be used during a few moments of the song, mainly in the chorus, in order to focus on and exaggerate shots.


We filmed Dan in order to use as test footage. After simply altering the 'speed/duration' of the footage on Premier Pro, we noticed that this wasn't good enough as the video seem choppy. So, after consulting some YouTube tutorials, we managed to change the frames per second (fps) from 30 to 60, thus smoothening out the video.


Afterwards however, we decided to work on a copy through After Effects, in order to test our skills with this lesser used programme.


So, be expecting this test (or well tests from both Premier Pro and After Effects) uploaded soon as well as the YouTube tutorials we used to help us.


As always, see you guys later.


YouTube tutorials:

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMt-IaCI7oM&spfreload=5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDUZqNJGnU

Update: Website Stuff/GIFs

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As we are also making a website within the process, I have decided to start looking at what we can add to it.

'makeagif' website

I haven't started looking fully into it but I thought it would be a good idea, what with all the footage we will have from filming, to make some GIFs. These moving images might help to fill up what viewers will see on screen and, maybe I'm not sure if it's possible, could serve as interesting alternatives to buttons and links on the website.

So as always, stay tuned for more updates as we begin filming once Christmas is over. Bye for now.

Music Video Director: Joseph Kahn

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Here's a look at music video director Joseph Kahn.
(apologies as SlideShare seems to have not correctly proportioned the presentation in  parts, hence why the text seems to not fit in the text boxes.)

Music Video Director from AlexHunter98

Update: Green Screening

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Progress!

So yesterday I had some spare time so I decided to try and figure out a way around mine and Dan's green screen problem.
Basically the trouble we were having last time was that, after erasing the majority of the green screen we discovered that our bodies were outlined in green as well as our hair being scattered in bits of green too.

So, I found out that, using the magnetic magic wand tool on Photoshop, I was able to zoom in very far and draw around the outline of our bodies in greater detail. This effectively gave me the ability to erase the green highlighting my hair, Dan's goggles and, overall, around our bodies.

It takes time but at least it gets the job done right.

Once our website cover art is finished I will make a post about it. In the mean time, expect more updates, more research and more planning coming your way.

As always, bye for now.