Ancillary Update

After viewing the templates and designs of the ancillaries that I have constructed, I have decided that doing a magazine advert will be better than doing web, the rest of the group agreed. So now a draft of the magazine advert is now on the group blog.

Update - Ancillary

Right now, Lewis and I are editing a draft of the ancillary (Album cover) we have decided to have the image on the front of a bottle of pills and a bottle of gin with a notes between them saying "Your's sincerely, The Reaper" (Which is the album name) as the front cover. We thought this was effective because the idea of The Grim Reaper giving gifts is quite controdictory which links to the controdiction of the main song. We have chosen a caligraphy styled fontfor the fron cover because it makes the note seem authentic and personal. We have chosen this font:

First draft - How it went

I think the editing of the first draft went well because we finished it to a good standard. I am pleased with the outcome considering its just a first draft. We still need to touch up some parts of the video such as the part where the singer's head was cut of slightly. Also we want to re-do the rapping because it didnt go so well on the day. Also we want to add more performance to the video and get more of the band in because in the chorus it was mainly the singer being shown.So considering all this I think it was succesful.

Ancillary progress

We have had a discussion about the chosen name, font and background. We have brought all our ideas together to decide on what the best choices for the album would be to promote the band. We will post our findings on the group blog in more detail.

Ancillary

I have added more to the previously posted ancillary work below, adding some web design and planning too.

Progress so far (Editing + Storyboard)

We have edited the storyboard and have posted it on the group blog. Dom and Lewis did most of the drawing whereas I did more of the editing. Next we will edit the first draft of the actual music video from what we have filmed so far (Mainly performance).

Editing and Progress

Right now we are editing our first draft using Dom's laptop. We found this was the easiest way to edit both in class aswell as at home as he can bring it in whenever. We are using Sony Vegas 8.0 to edit the first draft because me and Lewis are familiar with the sofware. If we were to use the Macs, we would only be able to edit in class so that is how we got around the problem. Now I am drawing up the last set of images fo the storyboard ready to be scanned in and animated.

Mrs D

There are some good reflections regarding your contribution to your group work, yet it only looks like you have done 3 things in over a week. You need to be uploading more often to protect your grade.

Filming

Saturday was succesful because we got everything we hoped for done. The performance in now almost complete and the narrative is also partially done. The rest can be done nearer to where we live so we wont have to organise a trip to Luke's house. We still need to film a couple of extra shots of the rapping part with the band members as so far we only have one take on each rap section. A first draft will be edited shortly and uploaded.