PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Eleven - 24/1/18

The editing process of my project is now complete. I have added light leaks and inserted the clips that I filmed the other week. I am happy with how my overall coursework has gone. I think I could have stuck to my schedule a little better, but due to unforeseen circumstances, such as the weather conditions, I was unable to completely stick to it. However, I am glad that I have finished it and now I just have the evaluation questions to complete. I exported my video from Premiere Pro and uploaded it on Youtube for easy access.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Ten - 18/1/18

I have finally finished the filming stage of my music video. I have spent the last couple of weeks filming final parts of the music video (such as the guitar playing parts and the projections). I particularly enjoyed filming the projections as it proved to be something a bit different. I chose to project tattoo designs onto the actress' face as it looked quite unique and it was a quite fun concept. I found filming the guitar stage quite challenging as my actress didn't know how to play the guitar, therefore I'm not sure how well the guitar playing matches up with an instrumental section of the song. However, I will add some light leaks to these clips in the editing stage so it distracts the viewer from the actual guitar. Over the next week, I hope to complete the whole of my editing. I just need to cut the clips that I have filmed recently and import them into my project. I also need to add some more light leaks to some of the clips so that the music video has the same sort of vibe throughout it.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Nine - 2/12/17

I am coming to an end with creating my album cover. I have finished making all of the Polaroids and finished creating the back of the cover as well. I am going to create a final blog post talking about it in more detail as I would like to evaluate my decisions. I am really happy with how the images turned out, however I had to edit the front of the album cover so that it had more pink/purple tones within it, and therefore matched the back of the album cover more simultaneously. The front of the album cover had more blue cool tones in it, I am more happy with how it looks now. My next step is to create a poster and a spine for the album cover and then hopefully I will have finished my print products and can solely concentrate on the final edit of the music video.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Eight - 21/11/17

Yesterday, I filmed more clips with my actress. I think I am going to film a few more clips next week and then I should be finished filming. I have continuously edited the clips in Premiere Pro and the music video is coming nicely together. I will need to round up some extra footage that I need, such as light leaks and bokeh effects, but I will do this when all of the main footage is complete. Over the next few weeks, I need to get a final first draft complete. My plan is to finish filming next week, but I might have to film the projections at a later date as I will have to film it in school, using the school projector.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Seven - 16/11/17

Today, filming with subject was postponed as the weather wasn't great and we were limited with time as it gets dark now due to Winter months. I did film some more arty clips by myself. This filled in the visuals for the initial lyrics. I filmed the visuals for the lyrics 'don't give a damn'. I chose to use a close up clip of this as I thought that it was important to clearly see the letters within the clip. I then used this clip within After Effects and used my previous knowledge of editing the clips to add 'doodles' onto the clip. I think that this is effective as it mirrors my aesthetic that I am trying to achieve.


My aim is to film some more clips as soon as possible. I have printed out a fresh copy of the lyrics and annotated the lyrics depending on which visuals I have yet to film.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Six - 14/11/17

Over the past few weeks, I have been working on editing all of my clips together. I have been primarily focusing on trimming down each clip and getting it all onto the timeline. After I have appropriately cut all of the footage together, I am going to work on adjusting the brightness of the clips and work on inserting some light leaks to some of the clips. I have already inserted some of the light leaks and I really liked the effect that they gave to the footage.




I am happy with how the music video is turning out so far. Upon reflection, filming the same clips over and over again from different angles proved to be more effective and more aesthetically pleasing to watch. I feel like I need to work with timings more in the music video. So, I am going to write down how long each clip should approximately be for the rest of the filming should be.




Tomorrow, I am planning to film the rest of the clips. I need to look more into depth about specific details of each clip. I thought that I might run into some problems with Premiere Pro as some of my footage was filmed on a GoPro, which exports clips as a different format than my camera does. However, it all seems to be running quite smoothly.

PRODUCTION: Creative Journey - Post Five - 2/11/17

Today I decided to start adding some effects to some of the clips.One of the main effects that I wanted to add was the 'doodles'. I used Adobe After Effects to add these doodles. I followed a tutorial on Youtube to try and accomplish this. However, this proved a lot harder than I thought it would be as one second worth of footage is worth twenty four frames. So, it took quite a while to finish as I had to doodle on twenty four separate frames. I used the brush tool and traced around the objects that I wanted to highlight. I am quite happy with how these clips turned out. I think that I am going to add further doodles to more clips in the future. 

My next step will be to add some light leaks to the video clips as I think this will add a really nice tone to some of the clips.