Student Reflection

Filming - Our filming for our video started out really well. Filming our flashback footage, first at south end on sea and later on in London went very well and we were able to get all the shots that we had listed in our storyboard. The shots all came out well, were varied and all interesting and usable. Our performance shoot in primmer hall was less successful, could be considered a failure to some shoot as all the footage shot on that day didn't survive any further than the first draft and ended up being scrapped, not being used for anything besides the initial trailer. After putting together this draft however, we went back with a much better plan for filming, better lighting equipment and more hands to help out getting more shots that were more varied. Everyone did really well in filming, as for the performance we all had to be on camera.

Editing - Editing started out well, having the flashback footage to put together in a montage was actually quite easy to edit together. I managed to sort out the chronology of the clips that seemed to make sense and didn't clump to many of the same type of shot together so they looked more varied and spaced out as the video cut together. I did all the effects and filters on these clips as well as the flash transitions and I think they turned out well, being the only part of the first draft received well. Editing the footage from the first performance however was much less successful. Because the footage was so static, and badly light, the colours of the shots fluctuated all over the place, making the video look very inconsistent tonally, unless a lot of colour correction was added and by that point it was obvious to the viewer that there were colour correction filters over the clips. The lack of movement and variation in shots here also may the video incredibly monotonous and dull to watch, people after seeing just the first draft saying it was boring.
This was all changed however after we got our second bout of perfomance footage. Editing sped up very quickly after this shot and Marcus started helping out with putting the cuts in place and even did an animation for the opening of the shot.

Digipak - The digipack overall was very successful. It was put together mainly by Marcus however I did give him a lot of input as to how to do a lot of the techniques in Photoshop that he wanted to do to make the pack. I also did a lot of the editing of the base images and he then put them together in the main digipack. We were able to get a very cohesive digipack with a good colour scheme that matched across all the segments of it.

Website - Katie did most of the work on the website, putting it together on Wix. The website came out really well in the end, after we had the colour scheme established by our Digipack we were able to alter the website to match that and look like a product that related to the band along side the digipack. We were able to make a good amount of pages on our site like merchandise, tour dates and galleries of pictures from our photoshoots.