Track list names

To come up with our track list names we brainstormed about Indie Rock and what it links to. This was a long process but we think was worth while as we came up with tracks related to our band and genre. Another way we got inspiration for track names was by looking at signed bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Bloc Party on Youtube however this was less productive than the brainstorm as we noticed the names would often be random and unrelated.

1. Intro
2. Its All Mine
3. Anything's Better
4. Lights on Lights off
5. Right at your Door 
6. Snakes and Apples 
7. Interlude 
8. Beyond These Walls
9. Road Trip
10. Another World
11.  Free fall
12.  Dead End
13. Outro

Adobe after effects and Photoshop

This is a screenshot of Photoshop of Aaron editing an earlier photo of Luke planking to import into our music video to get this image Aaron had to cut the original clip as it was from our footage shot at Ashburton park and then import it into Photoshop while he cropped it and removed the background after this to create the illussion of more people he changed the colours by editing the...

This is a screenshot of After Effects where the plankers have been imported to create the idea of a mass planking event but the plankers will also be used across the music video. Luke imported the cropped photo's before Aaron placed them into our project creating this look.
This is two screen shots of Photoshop where we crop the original photo and then import it into Adobe After Effects (Bottom picture) and edit it more so we can place it into our project.

STEP BY STEP DIGIPAK

This is a screenshot of our Poster being made in mid production. Aaron created this poster within Photoshop after dragging into different elements to make it such as the band members pictures.

He began with a black canvas before adding the band pictures we had taken on a earlier date while out shooting the music video. After this he then cropped each person individually to avoid keeping the original backdrop in the photo's. Next he used a graphic tablet to hand draw the bands name across the top this was a long process as we couldn't decide on a colour shceme and he had to re-draw each time we had a new idea of changed our mind. We opted for him to draw the title himself instead of using an earlier researched font as we felt it gave a more personal independent feel as we was creating this for an indie rock band.

These are some pictures from our original Digipak however due to audience feedback we have decided to start again as many of the comments we received from the audience feedback said they don't think it suits our genre and presents the band as being Pop and targeted at young kids.

Photo's of plankers

These are some of the pictures we plan to edit and put into our final project to create a field of plankers.

The way we will edit them is by importing them into Photoshop where we will use the lasso tool to crop them away from everything else allowing us to export from Photoshop and then import into After Effects. The reason we have chosen the Lasso tool to use is because it allows you to be dynamic and crop around the whole person instead of missing parts like you would get with a straight line cropping tool. This will take sometime as we want to only  get the person and none of the background as this would lower the quality of our music video and make it more obvious that they have been imported there.

Before and After (Re-Shoots Phone shot)

 This is the original and re-shoot of the alarm shot. We decided to re-shoot this small shot as the first one was poor quality and was very shaky. Its not a very long shot but is easily corrected and will bring up project.

Before and After (Re-Shoots)

This is our original final shot and new final shot. After feedback we decided to change the ending of our piece as people didn't like our original idea, Now we have our running man join a bunch of plankers which you cannot see in this shot but will be added during the edit.

Production Week 7

Over the weekend we went back to the house where we have been filming and re-shot some scenes  to improve the quality of our project

On Monday we continued the re-shoots we started over the weekend including the ending of our piece while also including a new scene we shot using stop motion after this we uploaded the footage and started editing what we had done at the same time of updating our blog with today's activity's.

On Tuesday we continued editing our project and tried to import our stop motion video however this was not working and we ended up not completing this task.

On Wednesday however we continued editing our project and managed to finally import our stop motion scene we are very pleased with this as it adds another dimension to our piece.

On Thursday we have been adding additions to our final piece by using adobe after effects and have began remaking our Digipak due to audience feedback. We plan to have a complete overhaul of the Digipak and start from scratch using some of the comments by our audience. 

On Friday