Music Video - Editing Update #1

Since putting up the first draft version of my music videos I have made a few changes to the video, by moving some the footage and trialling different effects. The most important change I have made though is the layering of the light-leaks or film-burns, these were an important feature to me for the music video as I think they show that the part of music video they are over is a memory really well. Although this effect is not crucial to the music video, other effects I have applied don't work quite so well.
The film burns I'm using are from digital cinema, and were a free download for four different burns.

Draft Music Video

The first draft of my music video, shots still need to be added and edited but it gives a rough outline. Also I would like to do some addition filming to film in some areas.

 

Band Websites -Steeling Sheep

Listening to the radio last night my songs band, Alt-J, were being interviewed and had taken over the station for an hour or two choosing songs that they liked. I found this insightful as they played songs that were of a similar genre of music. One group was Stealing Sheep, of which Alt-J have played with on a number of occasions. The reason this was insightful was because it meant I could look at a relevant groups website, looking at features from a band within a similar genre.

The website is very basic, but there are features that I can take away and try to use within my own design.

The site has a side panel that has features for the audience to follow the group on a number of different social networks, it also includes quick play of the groups latest songs. 

The site has a more of a blog feel about it with images of band posters, pictures and CD covers.
Here is the website link, http://stealingsheep.co.uk/

Photoshop Trial

I began to practice editing my images for the auxiliary task of digi pack and band website. I started with an image of a rustic boat, but have to remove and replace the writing and some people that are in the scene, by the left side of the boat. The image was taken during filming, it fits into the theme of the music video and the theme I am going to base the album called 'Ocean Noise'.

Before editing

 After editing

I like the location of the text on the boat, however I will try to give it the effect of actually being printed onto the boat as for me at the moment I don't think it looks as realistic. Although the sans serif font used does look very good and in keeping with the style of the band.

Wix Trial

Today I spent time in class using the website that I will eventually use for part of my auxiliary task. The site is easy to used and I was able to navigate through the setting and tools well. Because of this I decided to change my own personal blog from Blogger to Wix as Wix gives me a greater freedom with posting on new pages.

http://christopherpanayi1.wix.com/christopherpanayi#!home/mainPage

iStopMotion

I practiced using iStopMotion to see how fluid I could get the movement of the sheep and to also test the quality of the camera as I will have to use one of the old tape cameras. The result of my trial is above, the quality of this stop motion is quite poor and would not only limit the editing of the video but would not fit in to the rest of the bedroom film sequence. For this reason I will be using my cannon 1100D to take the pictures as it will give a much higher quality picture. However I will still set up the iStopMotion, to use the Onionskin effect which will allow me to adjust the sheep seeing where the object was before so the movement isn't to extreme.

Issue with Editing

I have reached a bit of an issue with with editing my video. I had hoped to use the light leaks or sun burn effect on the dream stage of the music video, but the feature was not available to use on the Macs at school. So I then intended to download software on my home laptop, edit in my home laptop then put the edit piece of film together on final cut at school. This plan has fallen through as my laptop is either unable to use the software or has an incompatible operating system. I will try and use Final Cut Express at school to give an effect close to that I desire, however an alternative effect may have to be used.

Youtube videos

Recently I've been watching loads of Youtube tutorials on how to use Final Cut Express as I have never seriously used it before. Videos can obviously range if there usefulness, however I have found one 'youtuber' who I found effective even though there was no dialogue. I decided to subscribe to his videos, this way I'm able to keep up to date with further tutorials he posts.

Here is the video that I watched, it demonstrates how to put the light leaks effect onto the video. Unfortunately this is for Final cut Pro so I will not be able to use it, also with no dialogue it may be hard to follow. Yet I found it effective as I now knew the name of the effect I desired, Light leaks. I feel that this effects over the dream stage of the music video will work nicely to create a dream like atmosphere.

I am still looking for an alternative, currently looking at downloading a effects program onto my home laptop to edit the footage, then put it all together on Final Cut Express and sixth form. This after discussing with my teachers and the it technicians is the best route to take. However, I do not want to me spending a small fortune on this. I have tried downloading the free 30 day trial of After Effects however the download for some reason wouldn't complete. So I am now looking for another way.  And as I do not have an Apple Mac at home Final Cut Express or Pro are out of the questions.

(Add image, faill attempt of after effects)