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.

Update: Website Cover Art

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Raiding science classrooms

On Monday we found ourselves with some time on our hands so decided to have a go at shooting some of cover art for our website. As you can see we managed to get our hands on some 'science things'.

Now all that's left to do is edit the ones we like. I imagine the final images will be done and uploaded to blogger in the coming weeks as well as more progress with our album cover.

Bye for now

Album Cover Designing

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Here's some designs that I came up with and decided to cut out (mainly because I couldn't describe my idea to Dan so I had to show him).

This isn't the final piece however I decided to analyse this one as we both like it due to it's effective simplicity.

Enjoy,

Update: Wix and Band Name

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As well as creating a music video, another part of the task is to create a band website. So, with some spare time on our hands, myself and Dan decided to look online at ways to do this. Here we found site called Wix. Wix specialises in allowing people and organisations to create their own website for any purpose; whether it be in order to sell merchandise, advertise or even create a central hub for a band to post their latest news, music and other products.

We had a quick look and were able to generate a basic structure for us two to work on whilst our music video is in development.

These images are just designs for background/banner images I thought we could decorate our site with:
We also decided then that our band would be called Apollo AD; AD being our initials and Apollo helping to give off the scientist, crazy look we want.

So yeah that's that. Be sure to check out more updates on the way soon.

Knowing The Criteria

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Today we have been looking at our criteria for our music video that ultimately gives us an idea of what needs to be concluded within the music video to achieve high marks.

In short, the criteria divides the marks up into four levels. Level 3 and 4 are the ones we should aim for within level 3's grade boundaries being between 24-31 and level 4's being 32-40.

Level 4 states that candidates are expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot sizes and close attention to mise-en-scene
• Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions and other effects
• Recording and editing sound with images appropriately

(not putting down what level 3 said because we're aiming for THE TOP LEVEL!)

We then watched a few music videos from students who had done this task before. Fortunately it seemed that these videos surpassed our expectations for what grade they got despite us all thinking they weren't too impressive. This gave us all confidence that our skills could allow us to achieve a high grade.  However, it is easy to notice mistakes in other people's work rather than your own. Which brings me to this, perhaps it would be a good idea to show mine and Dan's progress during our post-production stage to see whether people like it or can see room for improvements.

And that's that. As always, stay tuned for more research and updates as progress on the music video will start soon. Bye for now.