MUSIC VIDEO EDITING: ADDING CAPTIONS (CONSTRUCTION)

One of the central ideas of our video was to have text, in the form of captions, on top of the image in each of our shots. We got this inspiration from a video similar to our own, but were initially unsure how to actually do this. In order to find out I proceeded to watch various tutorials on YouTube. 

When conducting my research I discovered that I had two options when it comes to adding text to our video. The first of which, and also the easiest of the two, is adding the text in within final cut pro 7.

My other option was to export the video out of final cut pro once we had finished our editing, then once this had been done import it into Adobe After Effects. Once it is in After Effects I could add the text.

A benefit of using fcp to create the captions is that it is simpler and would therefore not take as long to do. However, making the captions in After Effects would ensure that it would look better, and it also allows us to have the text track the visuals. It will be a slightly lengthier, more complex process but we hope it will be worth it.

ANCILLARY EDITING: INSIDE RIGHT (CONSTRUCTION)

This slideshow shows the progression that has been made during the editing stage of the inside right cover of our digipak ancillary. It also shows what has been done to the image to make it look different and explains why.


ANCILLARY EDITING: INSIDE RIGHT on PhotoPeach

ANCILLARY EDITING: INSIDE LEFT COVER (CONSTRUCTION)

This is the image that we are using, seen on the left as a plain image, without text and the track list. This image features a filter put on top of the whole image, done by flattening the layers to one image then putting a filter onto the layer which looked similar to the texturiser filter that we had used on the back and front covers. 

This is an alternative version of the same image. It is the same image and layers, however it has had a different filter applied to it, once again after flattening the image to one layer. We liked this image, especially how bold the outline of the chess piece looked. On the other hand, we thought that it did not fit the style of the other covers in the digipak, and the other option did as well as looking very clean and professional. When comparing the two we decided that the first image fit the digipak more and gave us greater consistency across the four panels, thus making our product seem less amateur.

Shown on the left hand side is the first image with some text added to it and also the track list added onto it. The text shows the credits of the album, featuring artists, producers etc. It also has the copyright information and the legal rights. These are conventions of digipaks and thus make our work fit the type of product as well as making this inside cover look more interesting. This is important to us as we have a young target audience, therefore understand the need to make our products exciting and colourful whilst sticking with the genre and themes, in order to attract the audience and correctly use conventions that will ensure our digipak fits into the intended genre.

ANCILLARY EDITING: MAGAZINE ADVERT (CONSTRUCTION)

Below is the step by step guide into how I edited the pink cloud into the sound cloud logo. All I've done is duplicate the cloud layer which is the predominant image in our advert, place the logo over it and cut the rest of the cloud out except from the part that will fit into the logo.

 

EXPLORING VARIOUS DIFFERENT EFFECTS ON PHOTOSHOP (CONSTRUCTION)

Playing around with different effects on photoshop on PhotoPeach

ANCILLARY EDITING: (RESEARCH)

We reached a point during the editing of our inside covers of our four panel digipak where we were stuck. The issue was that we weren't entirely sure what to put on the images of the inside covers, therefore we looked at similar products to our as well as other digipaks. Whilst conducting this research we came to the conclusion that a common convention of digipaks was to feature the track list of the album on one of the inside covers and the back cover. As we were unsure what to put on the inside and found it to be a common convention to put the track list on an inside cover we decided to do the same ourselves.

 ANCILLARY RESEARCH on PhotoPeach

ANCILLARY EDITING: FRONT COVER - ALTERNATIVE IDEAS (CONSTRUCTION)

ANCILLARY EDITING: FRONT COVER - ALTERNATIVES on PhotoPeach
This slideshow on PhotoPeach shows some alternative ideas that we had and created in the editing process of our front cover.