CD front and back cover- 1 minute music video

Today we finished the front and back of the CD cover. We did the back on Publisher and the front on Adobe Photoshop. Here is what they look like:

Front cover

Back cover

We stayed to our initial ideas for the front of the CD cover apart from adding the female characters braid at the bottom. We mainly kept to our original plan of the CD back cover as well, other than adding a picture of the artist.

We used colour correction on both the photos on the front and back cover to make the shots more vibrant and make the cover reflect the happy upbeat song which we made a music video for. Furthermore, for the braid on the front cover we edited it on Photoshop by cropping out the background.

Behind the scenes and bloopers

1 minute music video

CD cover ideas - 1 minute music video

As we did the finishing touches to our music video by completing the editing we began to discuss ideas for how we want our front and back cover of our CD to look. During the pre-production process we did have ideas of doing graphic design on our cover but we have now decided against this as we won't have enough time.

For the front of our CD cover we thought about using a photo we took during the filming of our music video. We all agreed that a photo of the female character in the music video would look the best for the front cover. Here are some options for photos we could use:

Option 1

Option 2



Option 3

For the back cover we feel that we could either have the female character's braid with daises in (close up) or just a bundle of daisies (close up). Here are some of the photos we took for it:

Here's a quick sketch which Laura did for the front and back CD cover based on our initial ideas.

Seventh meeting for 1 minute music video

Today we finished editing our 1 minute music video. We added more photos and clips to fill in the missing segments. Also we colour corrected the video to brighten it as when we filmed the scenery was very dull. We may need to add some more effects to make the transition smooth.

Tomorrow we will make the blooper/behind the scenes reel as we have lots of extra footage and we thought it would be interesting to show.  

Sixth meeting for 1 minute music video

In today's meeting we began to edit our music video. We put all the clips we have in order and we changed the colour of the green screen background for the four clips of people clapping. I learnt how to do this by using a tutorial I found on YouTube. The four colours we choose were: yellow, purple, blue and pink as they match the theme of our video.

Before

After

We also edited the background when Elsie lip syncs the words. Here's the before and after:

Before

After

Next we downloaded and added the music to make sure the clips were in time. I had to cut some clips out that didn't work, lengthen some that weren't long enough and shorten some that were too long. However, this created gaps in the video so next lesson we will need to find a way to fill them in, maybe by adding more pictures.  

Fifth meeting for 1 minute music video

Today we filmed the majority of our shots, such as the high angled shot of Laura on the floor, her looking out the window, the boy (Me) walking out the door, Laura's character following him, me sawing some wood for the lyrics "he's a man of his own inventions", Laura in the park swings for the lyrics "She's a girl with the best intentions" and a range of other shots.

Here are some screen shots of them:

We also filmed some behind the scenes and have some outtakes. I'll add these to this post later once we've edited it.