Screening

Our screening is in a few days and so to prepare we have set up a questionnaire in order to get our audience feedback.

Here is a copy of the questionnaire:


Questionnaire

Website

The website is almost finished!

There haven't been any hiccups and the layout of the website has come out really well. It has a sleek modern look to it which is exactly what we were going for.

We have used a consistent theme of purple, black and white as well as the same font on all the pages for the headers. This made all the pages link together and the website "flow". The menu, banner and logo always remain at the top of the website. It is extremely important that the menu stays at the top because easy navigation is key when making a successful website.

 The consistent theme of black, purple and white through-out the website which links to the style of the music video as well as the album cover. We took inspiration from Jay Sean's, JLS and Trey Songz' website as they are the type of artists that Knyt would be compared to.

There are some small things that need to be done to the homepage though as it is definitely the weakest page out of the whole website. It has all the conventions of a real website but there is something not coming together and therefore it doesn't fit with the rest of the website.

Editing Update

Uhh Ohh !

We have finished the music video but when exported and put up on YouTube, the white layers we had used to hide the background were clearly visible and any of the original "white" studio background was yellow. It looked horrible !

The school has hired a new media technician who is an expert at video editing and he has advised us to use the chroma key tool instead of adding layers. We have gone through a short bit of the video and done this and it looks much better when exported now !

We are going to work like crazy and change the whole music video. Luckily we don't have to change the structure/ layout of the music video; just the effects so hopefully we will be done by the end of today.

Editing

Our wide shots were extremely hard to film as the background of the studio could be seen and colour change between the walls and floors were very noticeable.

However we managed to edit these shots to change this.

Here is the before and after:

 BEFORE

AFTER

As you can see from the two images above, we completely removed the background and added brightness and contrast to make it white. To do this, we had to add image files of blank white from photoshop and add it to the video file. It was quite difficult to make sure the images weren't obvious but were blended in properly however after a few tries, we managed to do it.

Update

Hey guys,

I've been researching music labels and have come up with quite a few good ideas.
Will show you in the meeting tomorrow

Screening

I just talked to Harry on Facebook and he has uni lectures the week we plan to do our screening but he is free on Wednesday. So we should definitely have our screening on that day if we want him to come.

Patricia

Editing Photos

Here is another example of editing our photos and different colour effects.

Here is the original image:

Here are some edits:

black and white

just airbrushed

 blue tint

colour burn

sepia