Evaluation Part Two

Here's part two of my evaluation. I wanted to make sure all the bases were covered so I decided to make another video whereby I answer questions from 'fans' of my work. I believe this to be vital as I wanted to make sure I covered everything when evaluating my work.

Evaluation

Here's my evaluation. I have chosen to do it in the style of  a director's interview that you'd usually see on television or maybe on the 'extras' section of a DVD.

Music Video for "Hide and Seek"

Here's the music video for "Hide and Seek" - I'm very pleased how the editing process has gone. I've had to overcome many problems but it's all been worth it.

Promotional Poster for "Hide and Seek"

Digipak for Hide and Seek

 (Back cover)

 (CD)

 (front cover)

(inside front cover)

Above is my completed digipak for the made-up artist "The Midtones" for the album entitled "Hide & Seek". It's taken me roughly in total about 20 hours to get the digipak how I want it to be; I'm very pleased with the end product.

Digipak Production

 



The above images are my attempts of producing a digipak for my music video. The stills were taken at the shoot for my video. I used Photoshop to manipulate the photo of the pair of ballet shoes.

 

The first image was edited using the 'threshold' tool - I adjusted this so that the whites were pure white and the blacks were 'pure' black. This gave a striking contrast, as well as giving it a 'dishevelled' look.

 

In order to boost the contrast within the image, I chose to use a range of colours for the text. I chose to go with three primary colours so that they don't necessarily match together, yet they all contrast with each other. The colours and contrast draws the audience's attention to the digipak and makes them want to pick it up and see what the album is about. The lack of artist name would make them want to do this more as they will look through the digipak attempting to find out who the artist is; perhaps the only way to find out is to look it up on the internet or give it a proper listen.

 

I think these digipaks will appeal to a wide audience as it is simply an interesting digipak that anybody of any age would like to pick up and have a look at.

 

Although this may not be the digipak I use for my final task, I believe it is a good start and is the sort of minimalist direction I want to go in.

Flower Problems!

As you can see by the photo, I encountered some problems overnight with the flower drooping, thus falling out of frame.

The flower shouldn't droop any more as the tape is holding it in place. I have now re-composed the shot and have reset the timer to shoot every hour, thus resulting in 240 images over the next ten days. I set an extra day (24 images) on the timer just in case I want an extra day and I'm not around to adjust the remote.

I will have enough memory too as every image is around 5mb, resulting in 264 images being taken which = 1.32gb/8gb.

I have spare batteries charged too which I can pop into the camera whilst it's on the tripod. I've also got spare batteries charged for the remote too. What could possibly go wrong?!