Ancillary Texts

I have started making and editing my artists website using WIX. I have decided to try out two layouts and then ask my target audience to vote on which one that like most in order to make sure the website for the band is targeted at the audience correctly. I will post the results soon!

Font examples

I've been testing out different fonts and texts on Livetype for the music video title and if I can find a find a similar font for the ancillary texts, then I think I will use this one for it:

I like the idea of having whitish grey writing on a black background because my music video is very much about contrast and darkness. I have spaced the characters close together to represent the closeness of the two characters in my music video- one representing the tame side of people and the other presenting the more wild dark side of people.

Editing

My music video is pretty much finished now, all I have to do is tweak a couple of clips and add a few effects. I am now going to start working on my ancillary texts, for which I plan to do a website and a digipack. I have already been researching into real and past student ancillary texts. I have also already taken some photo's for these products while I was filming, but may have to take some more of my artist 'on tour' or with fans for the website.

Editing update

The final filming day/night went well and I have now started editing it in Final Cut Express. The only issue I had on Wednesday night is lighting as it was hard to get the right balance of lighting as it was really dark, but too much lighting was blocking out the emotion and idea behind the music video. Editing is going well so far and I will be starting work on my ancillary texts soon! I have been looking into split screen editing and colour manipulation for the music as these will be two key editing techniques I plan on using in my music video. I have done about 1 minute 20 seconds of the music video, so have about 2 minutes left to do and edit.

Preparing for Filming Day 3

As last weeks filming day was rained off, I have decided to film the final part of the music video tomorrow evening. I organised for my two dancers to arrive at the location half and hour before my main actress, so I can film the bits with just them first and then film the parts with all three afterwards. Tomorrow I will rely heavily on artificial lighting as it will be very dark in the evening. I have the costume sorted for my main actress and have asked my dancers to wear completely black. On the first filming day, I took pictures of my main actress in her outfit, so continuity shouldn't be too hard for tomorrow.

I should be able to upload the footage from tomorrow onto Final Cut Express and therefore will be able to start the 3rd phase of editing, by getting all the footage into place.

Editing

I have began to edit the footage from the second day of filming and putting it into place. So far I have added a colour tint to the footage of the dogs racing and have achieved the effect I wanted for the introductory music part, but still need to film the rest of the video. I will continue to edit the beginning of the music video, whilst I film the rest of it. I have also been looking at youtube video's of how to achieve the effects I want on Final Cut Express so when I come to edit the rest of it I can do it easily.