CD process - Yagmur and Safwana

We started using some of our ideas to actually start making the digipak. We used the images we already took and we edited them further on the template of the digipak. This is our first stage and we are still deciding what we want on each side. We will probably do another digipak and choose between which ones we like the best and why.

Final cut pro process - Yagmur

Stage one:

I wanted to reverse a couple of shots to show how the protagonist wants time to be reversed (before her friends death). I did this to the shot of me blowing out the candle so instead the candlelight isn't blown out. I also reversed the shot of me sitting down on a bench in a park of gravestones and there's one leaf on the bench which could represent loneliness, or her friend.

Stage two:
There are some parallel shots such as the one of the protagonist running down the stairs and both friends running down the stairs together. I decided to blade each of those videos and rearrange them so it flows. The protagonist runs down the stairs and then it cuts back and forth to the friends running down the stairs. It's a good editing technique to show the past and the present of how lonely the protagonist is now.

I also did the same for these shots to show the contrast of her happiness before and her loneliness now.

Stage three:
We wanted to drop 'hints' throughout the video of crosses, gravestones, angel statues etc. This shot shows the protagonist running up the stairs and the camera panning up to the cross which is symbolic of the friends death.

Stage four:

After the first chorus of the song, there's a lot more blurry lights and focuses in/out to show how distorted the protagonists' life is now without her friend.

CD cover ideas - Yagmur

We did some sketches of what our digipak could look like before we actually started editing on photoshop.

Class feedback - Safwana and Yagmur

During lesson we watched every groups music video in progress and used the assessment sheet to see where the groups were at and what they can do to improve. This was the assessment sheet we got back, and we got a lot of feedback as well as constructive criticism.

On the sheet, one of the skills that we needed to have were "appropriately integrating performance and narrative." Although we got lots of good feedback for our narrative, we were given criticisms of the lack of performance we have. We started planning out what kind of performance we could have. We decided we would have some lip syncing of a guy who could be the lead singer of the band. We don't want to clearly show his face, so we want it to be mostly his silhouette as the narrative is more important than the performance.