Updates to our band website:

We have been making developments to our band website for a while, including doing things such as:

changing the backgrounds for most of the pages. We did this because we thought that there were too similar many tree shots, making it look a bit boring. We included some photos that we had taken away from the setting of the music video, while still keeping the nature theme that we are trying to keep within everything we are making.
We changed the font at the top of the page for 'Firelight Falcons' as previously it was quite a bulky font and did not fit very well with the theme that we were trying to keep.
On the 'ABOUT' page, we removed the singular shot of one of the band members and added a group photo and a slideshow underneath (including pictures of all the band members)

We also added another quote (portending that it was fro a magazine) to make it seem more realistic.
We added some buttons at the top of our pages, including 'Account' and 'Help' buttons as we noticed band websites have them in order to buy merchandise but also for obvious help reasons for new comers to the site.
On our 'HOME' and 'MUSIC' pages we added our final front cover to our album playlist.
We changed the 'SHOP' making it look more professional. We changed the lay out of the merchandise and prices, along with the font of the titles. We also added the album to the shop.
We added a 'GALLERY' page, including behind the scene shots of the band members.                                                                                                                                       
We created emails for all the addresses we made up so they actually worked. We then added these to the 'CONTACT' page.                                                                                                                                              
Finally, we added a slideshow on our HOMEPAGE of snapshots from our music video and added our final music video to the 'VIDEOS' page.

Here are some screenshots of our updates:

More pictures for CD booklet

Today my group and I decided to take photos of each of our band members in front of walls. The decided to do this is because when it came to trying to edit a brick wall behind each image previously,  it was taking too long to get it as accurate as we wanted.

However, the previous photos that we had taken still didn't go to waste, as we have used them for 'behind the scene photos' on our band website, and on our 'ABOUT' page. For one of the pages in the booklet, I edited a band photo in Photoshop, adding a brick wall  in the background, which we are using for the back page of our booklet.

The photos that we took today will be later colour corrected in Photoshop. We will do this so as they are darker, and therefore match the rest of the darker brick walls we have used, as well as the theme of our package.

Here are some of the single photos that we took:

Wall pictures from LauraKN

Taking band photos for our CD cover/back/booklet/website

At the end of last week, my group and I decided that we should organise a photo shoot of our band. We created a group chat on Facebook with ourselves and the people that we had asked to be in our band in to ask when the people in the band and asked when they were free to have some photos taken. As a group, we decided that we were going to do the photos in Monday's and Friday's break times.

On the Monday we focused on getting shots of the band for the front and back cover, while on Friday we focused more on the CD booklet and website photos. On Friday, to also make sure that we had gotten enough photos, we changed the shutter speed on the camera so as many photos could be taken in a short space of time. Alex wore the shirt that the main girl in our music video finds (thus showing an intertextual reference to our music video).

Here are some of the photos that we took on Monday:

Here are some of the photos we took on Friday:

Updated draft- Final music video

Today we updated our final music video again, taking into account some more feedback that we received from a teacher on our last draft. Here are the changes we made:

• During the part when the photo is in the sink, we added more fire overlays to make it look more dramatic so it builds up like the song itself does. We thought that by using more of these overlays, it could symbolise boy's and the girl's relationship drowning under pressure.
• Fixed the timing (the lip syncing was slightly out of sync) and we also adjusted the timings for the fast cuts to make it fit more with the music more, making it build up better.
• Changed the coat shot to footage of the main girl walking past. We did this as we thought it was more interesting (as the previous shot of just the coat seemed to drag on more, and we didn't want our video to become boring.
• We slowed down the holding hands shot, as the insert shot of Elsie broke the flow a bit.
• On the word 'stop' we added another black screen, as it fits the natural pause of the song and increases the drama of the video for what is going to happen next in the narrative.
• We changed some of the colour correction (with the sleepover having more of an orange tint while the narrative side having a blue tint). The clip that we corrected was when the girl got home from finding the boys shirt (as we found that the lighting was different). The footage needed a sharper tint of blue as it a bit grainy and we wanted to make the colour correction more evident.
• We changed the fade out at the end of the video as it stopped a bit abruptly and we wanted it to be smoother.
• We fixed the shot of Elsie clenching her hand again by cutting it to a correct moment, duplicating it and putting it in reverse (as it looked a bit anti - climatic and did not fit the song)

Here is the updated draft itself:

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Here is the feedback that we received from a teacher on our last draft:

Updated draft - Final music video

Hi everyone, today my group and I finished our final draft for our final music video. we took advice on board from our teacher and our audience feedback task and tried to make it a lot better than it originally was. 

Things we changed:

*we added fire overlays between some shots to make it more dramatic in places like when the girls are ripping up the photo of the other girls lover.
*fixed the timings more, because some things such as some part of the lip syncing were slightly out of sync.
*We changed some of the colour correction to make them match more, making the 2 different narratives more clear.
*The screen goes black after the lyrics "when will this stop" can be heard, as it makes it more dramatic for what is going to happen next within the narrative.
*We also changed the fade-out at the very end of the video as we thought that it stopped a bit awkwardly and didn't look as smooth as we wanted it to.
*We fixed the clip where Elsie was clenching her fist ass we thought that it looked a bit anti-climatic and didn't fit with how the video was becoming more energetic. To fix this we cut it shorter and used the revers tool).

Here is what the final draft looks like:

Audience feedback on our first music video draft

Here is the first draft itself:

Here is our audience feedback: