Photoshop

In lesson today I used photoshop to make our Polaroid photo effect that we would use for website and CD cover. 

Re shoots

As I have previously blogged, when were editing our footage there were a couple of shots that we decided we needed to re shoot.  One of them was this shot:

The reason that we have decided to re shoot this is that the lighting is not bright enough which means that the green screen effect which we will be using in our video doesn't work as well as we had hoped.

The other shot we have decided to re shoot is this one. We have chosen to re shoot this because it is a pan shot and the one that we have is quite blurred and not as neat as we wanted it to be. We will arrange our re shoot after our second filming date.

Google Trends: Busking

On Google Trends I decided to search busking as we have a busking theme in our music video and wanted to gauge the popularity of this. I found out that although there was a major drop in the popularity of busking around the beginning of 2007 it has otherwise been quite consistently popular. Busking seems to be most popular in New Zealand and Australia with it's top three cities being Melbourne, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand and Brisbane, Australia.

Google Trends Search

In our media lesson today we decided to do some research into the popularity of our artist by searching them into Google Trends which basically gives us an idea of how many people have been searching our artist on Google and at what points they have been most popular. From the graph we can see that our artists popularity spiked around August 2010. We can also see that our artists are most popular in English speaking countries (USA, England, and Australia are their top three countries) and are most popular in the cities of Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California.

Filming Dates

As we have just realised that we had forgotten to book out our filming equipment yesterday we will be unable to film this sunday :( We have rescheduled our filming for the sunday after.

Music Video Inspiration

Last week the artist Katy Perry released the music video for her new single "The One That Got Away". Although she is a completely different artist to Jenny and Johnny I think this music video is quite similar to the video that we are trying to make and I think it portrays alot of the same feelings and is a good inspiration for our video :)

Editing

After our minor editing disaster (when Imovie crashed half way through) we managed to redo all the work we had done before and to finish the rest of the editing in the time we had left in our lesson which is a major relief! This time, we learnt from our previous mistake and  saved obcessively after every thing we did, determined not to get out out again :) So far we are very happy with what we have managed to do although there are two scenes which we are considering reshooting. I will post screen grabs of these scenes and explain why we are reshooting them shortly :)

Second Filming Date

After our successful first shoot we have now arranged to film the second part of our music video (the park and street scenes) this Sunday (27/11/11). Unfortunately, as Mart will be at work that day he is unable to film with us. However, i'm sure between us me and Bronwyn will manage to get everything done :)

Photoshop

After playing around with a image on photoshop, eventually these two following images came out. I tried two different effects, both which work well I think. By adding highlights, shadows and different lighting the effects work really well with the image. I prefer the top image as the colours make the image more retro like.

Photos from the filming day...

At the filming day, we needed to get some still images for use on the webpage and digipak. I think I got some good photos that we will use when we come to creating the webpage and digipak. As you can see there are a number of multiple images, the good ones will be used and the bad ones deleted. I also got some images of us filming that can be used later on in the blog.

See the images below:

Computer Crash

As we were editing today in lesson we had done quite a lot of work. Then the computer crashed and we lost everything we had done today (noooooooooooooooo), Which means we're going to have to do all that work again :(