Final Music Video

Updated Album Covers

Front

I have taken the purple gradient and the white stripes out of the image and replaced it with a green and white gradient. I think that it works better and gives it more of a solid colour. I am thinking I will need to change the colour of the fonts next and maybe experiment with other fonts.

Back

This week...

This week I intend to make changes to my video like I mentioned in the previous post. I will also find time to make changes to the front and back covers for the album as I think that they are a bit too plain. My main inspiration for them is the In Your Honor album cover by the Foo Fighters (pictured below) as that contains what look like vector illustrations and/or photo manipulation and is very effective.

Rough Cut of Video

I have finally finished the first draft of my video. There are a few more things that I need to do to it, such as muting the actual footage, making a few more bits in better synch with the music. I might film one more bit: him walking down the road singing, just for a bit more variety.
I decided to go with the theme of clocks again like with the album cover so they tie in quite nicely with each other and the title of the song "Times Like These".

First Draft of Front and Back Cover

Front

I have used Adobe Illustrator to create the clock, and because this was the first time using the programme, I used this vector clock tutorial to help me but changed the colours and modified it a bit. I pointed the clock hands at 11 and 1 because I think it relates to the album name "One by One". I decided to put a clock on the cover because of this and that the song that I have used is called "Times Like These", I feel that this relates to the theme of a clock. I used Adobe InDesign to arrange the elements of the cover to something that I was happy with.

Back

I enlarged the clock, rotated it slightly clockwise and arranged it so that the viewer can see the hands of the clock. I had to enlarge the clock in Illustrator because every time that I tried to do it in InDesign, it made parts of the clock disappear and separate. I copied it over from Illustrator to InDesign and then rotated it and positioned it from there. I chose these fonts because they are simple but add more interest to the fairly simple image. I have kept the colour scheme quite simple like the Foo Fighters have with their other album covers.

I do feel like, however they work quite well, they are too plain. I am thinking of maybe putting a coloured background in too make it more bold like their Color and the Shape album cover. Maybe a green background to accentuate the green clock hands. I will experiment with different fonts and colours too.

Album Cover

I have started on my album cover... I have decided to produce a clock face in Adobe Illustrator, this relates to the title of the song that I have used in my video, Times Like These, and the album name, One by One. I have arranged the clock so that the hands are pointing to all ones, 11 and 1.

This is the tutorial I have used:
http://abduzeedo.com/beginner-tutorial-easy-clock-icon-illustrator

First draft of the cover will be posted either tonight or tomorrow.

I haven't posted for almost a week, but I have been doing a lot of filming and editing. I have decided to not use any of the footage that I filmed of my actor on the sofa because I don't think it fits in with the feel of the rest of the video. I am on my way to finishing a rough cut of the video, I am thinking I will need to film more but am a bit stuck for ideas.

Foo Fighters Times Like These (acoustic) Storyboard

Update on what I have done

Key:

• The lyrics
• Plans for this line and ideas
• Lines and shots that I have completed

Medium shot of him playing guitar, he is not centered, he is off to the side on the left

I am a one way motorway  Extreme closeup of him singing

I'm the road that drives away  Walking down the road singing, hands in pockets or holding his guitar,                medium shot, or long shot.
Then follows you back home   Walking down the road with guitar on his back, facing away from the camera
I am a street light shining   A shot of a streetlight at night, panning from right to left
I'm a wild light blinding bright   Medium close up of him singing and walking up and down slowly, tracking him
Burning off alone  Shot of a fire burning

Closeup of the guitar being played. Outside?

It's times like these you learn to live again  Medium close up of him singing and walking up and down slowly, tracking him

It's times like these you give and give again  Shot of clock
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising  Extreme closeup of him singing

I'm a brand new sky
To hang the stars upon tonight   Panning shot of starry sky
I am a little divided  Walking down the road singing, hands in pockets or holding his guitar,                medium shot, or long shot.

Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?

Ohhh

It's times like these you learn to live again   Extreme closeup of him singing 

It's times like these you give and give again  Shot of clock
It's times like these you learn to love again  

It's times like these time and time again

Ohhhh Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhhh Ohhhhhhhh Uhohhh

Ahhahh

It's times like these you learn to live again  Shot of clock
It's times like these you give and give again

It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again

It's times like these you learn to live again!  Extreme closeup of him singing

It's times like these you give and give again!  Shot of clock

It's times like these you learn to love again!  Extreme closeup of him singing

It's times like these time and time again!  Extreme closeup of him singing

(Slower and quieter) It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again  Extreme closeup of him singing

It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again  Medium long shot of him on the sofa playing guitar and singing (use better lighting this time!) zoom out as it fades