Making my album art.

Are group all took photos of Ashlee and decided that we could all use each other photos. This picture I used was also used by Sam, however this does not matter as we have done still made two very different album arts. I have chosen to make mine very simple and without much effects as if you look at singers who sing songs like casualty of love, such as Adele and Corine Bailey Ray they have very simple album covers there selves.
I used pixlr and online phot editing system in order to make my album artwork. Although the picture was very good I still felt it would be better if I made dulled it down and changed it took make it look more professional i did this by changing the hue, saturation and lightness:

As i hadn't use pixlr before I did a practice album art. I used a grainey filter to prove that i can use different methods however just thought I shouldn't for this artwork, for reasons already explained.

I liked this as I thought it should that she was proud of what country she comes from and the summery dress gives the appearance that she is a happy optimistic girl.

This was my final Album artwork:

I believe the face Ashlee is using makes her attractive towards the audience, it also shows that she is friendly and easy to talk to therefore making her popular. I was not sure what to call the album however decide in the end i should call it "The Start" as it is her first album therefore she is just starting. I used a simple colour scheme of blacks and grey which contrast with the smiley face and also suggest that she isn't overly happy.

The black bits on the back of the album are following on from the front of the album where it has the title of the singer and the album. I have added a price tag and a barcode as these are common conventions of album artwork. The picture on the back is of Ashlee wearing the same clothes but a different photo she is a lot more happy now once again showing her fans she is optimistic and welcoming. The songs names are all in a handwritten style which is done to make it look like it is written by the artist as she wants to personally deliver it and also as if because this is her first album she doesn't have the money to get them printed.

Filming

Due to the fact I didn't film in one of the days i completely forgot to include it in my blog. I organised Ashlee to meet us in are media room where all of us have are lesson last Wednesday. At first we were all going to go out and watch the filming, however I realised that it would just be a waste of time having us all there as we had already discussed they we just wanted Ashlee to lip sync the whole song in several different locations. As Sam and I are the main two editors I asked if Becca and John were willing to film Ashlee whilst Same and I were editing. They were both happy with this and I asked if they could get a shot which involved some kind of woodland or garden and her singing infront of a white wall and make it this one a close up. I felt comfortable leaving Becca and John by there selves to film Ashlee as they are both very creative.

When John came back i looked at the lip synching shots and instead of a white wall he used a normal brick wall, this still looked very nice and when i asked him out of interest why he had changed from using the white wall he told me it was because the white wall was old and was losing and gaining different colours. I have since looked at the wall and have seen that John was right and he had done very well to use a different wall. Small things like that make a video that looked home made look a lot more professional.

Edit 4

I came up to media to see John and Sam working on are project they had separated some of the video up with different shots of are artist doing different things and singing to the camera. This has increased the quality of are music video my only worry is that no one else is willing to stay after school and means that we are running out of time as i do not feel confident enough to edit by myself and also think it would be unfair on the group if I was to make mass changes by myself without asking them. Saying this however afterwards Sam and Becca and I did carry on with the video and make some more seconds up.

Third day of filming

The third day of filming was done on Wednesday morning in one of are media lessons. Ashlee told us she was no longer available for filming due to other commitments that had come out of the blue. However we knew that there needed to be a reason for the argument without being able to use Ashlee. I came up with the idea that instead of having Ashlee walking past and seeing Sam (are actor( and him not seeing her. Instead we would have close ups on Sams face expressing stress and worrying at something he had seen (which was Ashlee walking past), whilst Sam was at the pub with another girl. I put this to Sam who made a few changes to what i had drawn and told the rest of the group who agreed it was a good idea.
This filming went very well and took only about 30 minutes to do. I did most of the camera work and directing. My main problem was that i wanted Sam to look like he was not meant to be with the women i think this worked well with the close ups.
This is all are filming done now and all we need to do is finishing editing and then the video will be done.

Video Showcase

Are teacher organised are whole class to watch films and fill in pieces of paper in order to see what they thought of it. Overall we got very promising signs even though are video wasn't fully complete. They did however say that the direct address sometimes didn't use as much emphasis as it should have done and also sometimes the film used up to many shots of one specific area without it changing leading to boredom in the audience we therefore have decided to change this slightly and John and Sam have told me they will start tomorrow period 1 and then i will come up and see period 2 and 3 as unfortunately have another lesson period .

EDITING BAD NEWS

We left are computer on whilst we went to break and came back to find that the bit that Sam worked on so hard has been moved by somebody! He has had to redo it wasting precious time. He has once again done a very good job, however not as good as he had done before!

Although very annoying it has taught us a very important lesson that we must remember to save are work as younger children can always go into the media lessons and ruin your work.

Editing two.

I felt that we were falling a bit behind and wanted to edit more. However at first Sam wasn't happy with this as he wanted to edit in order as we didn't know exactly where that bit should start. Normally I would of agreed with him but as we are on a short time scale I persuaded him to start now. We put the argument on with Sam doing the majority of work and then asking for my opinion as to what we should or checking that he was doing it right. I am happy with the final product and so is the rest of the group!