MUSIC VIDEO

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Thursday 17th February
Today I finally finished my music video.
Im not as happy and pleased with it as everyone else is with their music videos as I know I left it to the last minute which meant I didn't have as much time as everyone else to do the improvements that I wanted to.
I know that I could have done a lot better than what I have, but I'm glad that after all this time it is finished.
The only real problem that I have with it is the fact that doesn't really follow as much of a story line as I wanted it to as I couldn't find all of the footage on my mac, which I am really not happy about, and I know that if i hadn't left this so late I would have had more time to find it or even re-shoot the bits that I needed.
I am happy with my music video as it stands, mainly because it is completed, but as well as this because it has a comical side to it, and its not every serious. I think this makes it a lot more enjoyable to watch.

Journal

Tuesday 15th February
I have been working on completing my Digi Pac, as well as improving my posters that I have for Lucy Star.
I have also been looking over the editing that I have been doing, I think that it would work better if some parts are changed - For example I haven't put in the footage of where Lucy Star changes from being what people want her to be, to what she wants to be. This is a key element in my music video as it is establishing who Lucy star is. This is also what teachers have told me as feedback, and were we do not see this happening it could confuse the audience as they have not seen her change.
Furthermore there are some shots where we see both styles of Lucy, this does not work as she has left the pink Lucy behind her, and the video would work better if these sections are not here because with them in there is no continuity.
I think that when all of the editing has been done, it would be good to star playing with with transitions and effects that can be added onto the video for example split screens and changing the colour of some of the shots. This would work well and I think that it would had some excitement to the video as I only have two locations and two/three costume changes within the video. I have already started looking at different transitions and have put some in at the beginning of the video, this defiantly makes a difference when watching the music video, so I will defiantly be adding some more of these throughout the video.

Final Digi Pac

This is my final Digi Pac :) 

I moved the picture of Lucy Star to the left, and changed the angle of her name on the front, this looks a lot better than how it originally did when everything was centered. I thought about changing the way the stars feel on the two CD backgrounds, but after I realized that it would be seen upside down, I decided that it would look better the way that it was. 

I've also put both spines in, as well as the DVD logo, as the Digi Pac contains a Bonus disc of behind the scenes footage of Lucy Stars first video.  

Digi Pac 3

I have been working on making a new and FINAL digi pac, as I keep changing my idea or I'm just not happy with the work that I have done.
This is the Digi Pac - my third and final Digi Pac - that I have done, and how I did it.

 This is how I first started creating my digi pac, focusing on using the colours purple and green as I though that this would work better than using pink and white. I was worried that with a dark purple background, the Lucy Star photos that I would be using wouldn't stand out well enough on their own. As well as this I thought that it was a bit too plain and boring and the picture that I used on the first square as a back ground doesn't work well with both the digi pac theme and the colours. 

With the ear phones on the top right hand cover I changed the colour from the original red and black to green as it would work better with the colour scheme that I had chosen, as well as this I faded the picture out as this looked better than just having a big block colour of green, and you can see the stars shinning through behind. 

I then played around a bit more with ideas and the pictures that I had from royalty free sights and came up with this:

I decided that I would move the picture that I had in the top right hand corner to the bottom left, as well as changing the font and the colour of the writing that I had so that it would both stand out more and suit the theme better, as well as keeping it simple, as this can have a bigger impact than having lots of different styles of font. I also wanted to keep the same background on the top right hand cover, as keeping it white would not look as good as it would if they had the same background.  

I then added on pictures of Lucy star and started to play around with the contrast of the back ground pictures and the pictures of Lucy Star: 

After playing around with the contrast of the purple background, I feel that this works better and stand out more as Lucy Star is wearing black and it also shows what sort of artist that she is, she isn't a dull bland person, she is lively and I feel that these colours work better than it would have done if i had just left them as they originally were. 

I also put a picture of Lucy Star sitting down holding a poster that says "Be who you want to be, not what society says you should be" behind the text and faded this out so that you can still see the text and the signs behind, but you can still faintly see what she holding. 

I think that having Lucy Star and her name centered in the middle of the front cover is too original and this should be changed and moved around to see what works better. 

Poster 2

DigiPac

I am trying out different fonts and backgrounds for my digi pac for Lucy Star, I want to use a different background that isn't just a plain one; I have been looking for royalty free images that I could use to make my digi pac look more professional.
I have been trying to concentrate on using colours that are dark, or have a grungy feel to it to show that Lucy Star is more of a Punk pop star then just your average girly bubble-gum pop star, but as the images that I have of Lucy are dark themselves. As it is hard to try and make her stand out on a dark background, i am thinking of changing the colour scheme so that I would be using brighter colours, but still having a punky feel to it.