Practical

Slowly we are starting to put our final production of our music video together, last week we completed all the filming as we were delayed due to horrid weather conditions. With all of our footage captured and edited with various transitions, edits and effects we managed to achieve what we initially had planned via the storyboard, not much changed at all though the theme at the start was going to about two couples, but then shifted to friendships which we believe will appeal to a wider and global audience.

As time is running, we have one week left to accomplish and complete the following;

• Music Promo Video
• Cover for its release 
• Magazine advert

We are nearly at the final stage of the music video, from cutting various and lengthy footage in which we did not need or found to be unnecessary to include, to adding many transitions from dissolves to fade in and page peels etc, as well as including slow motion effects, reverse rewinding transition. We have to also double check if the soundtrack matches the visuals as this is very important and can not lack, especially with the scenes of our 'artist' himself when he mimes the choruses, it was very tricky to match the correct choruses but we managed to achieve this after a few struggling attempts.

Once that is checked over, we then need to render the whole sequence and export the project as a video link which can be also viewed as a separate file to watch. We then need to collect all of our images from which we have taken at various stages of our shooting, to then manipulate the images including texts, fonts, logos and positioning each of these conventions into its appropriate place for a very appealing, professional magazine advert in which the audience can take in and use this poster to relate and  identify the album cover at many music stores, and do the same to create 4 sides of an album cover to include; front, back and the inlay panels.