Evaluation
For our evaluation, we were open minded about everything.
I looked through some A grade examples; one featured a group discussion, another had an interactive powerpoint, one had a powerpoint presentation with a voice over and one more consisted of drawn images.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
During period one today, I made rough key notes for each question of our evaluation and jotted them down.
During period two, I edited the rest of yesterday's material. This took the entire hour as there was a lot to do.
Then, in period three I went through each edit and colour corrected it all, mainly by warming the colours and adding more in the way of brightness and saturation. This gave it more of the intended summer tone.
There were two parts I wasn't happy with, so having conferred with Amy I deleted these entirely - they were unsaveable - and replaced them with other material.
Some parts could do with some effects, so I added "strobe lighting" to a performance part, and cut up a running part into three sections. One; played as normal. The next piece I put in reverse, by putting -100 in the speed editing box. The final piece I cut again, and added the last bit in so that my character jump cuts to the foreground of the screen. This makes the running part more postmodern, and interesting to watch. It also compliments the song's pace better.
During period two, I edited the rest of yesterday's material. This took the entire hour as there was a lot to do.
Then, in period three I went through each edit and colour corrected it all, mainly by warming the colours and adding more in the way of brightness and saturation. This gave it more of the intended summer tone.
There were two parts I wasn't happy with, so having conferred with Amy I deleted these entirely - they were unsaveable - and replaced them with other material.
Some parts could do with some effects, so I added "strobe lighting" to a performance part, and cut up a running part into three sections. One; played as normal. The next piece I put in reverse, by putting -100 in the speed editing box. The final piece I cut again, and added the last bit in so that my character jump cuts to the foreground of the screen. This makes the running part more postmodern, and interesting to watch. It also compliments the song's pace better.
I've just updated our "Emma Lang's" Myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/565126799
I added more to my personal information; my bio and influences, for instance, and I also changed the entire graphology whilst keeping the discourse structure the same.
The background image is floral and features the artist. This is an allusion to Emma Lang being a more country genred singer, which would be subliminally decoded before any potential fan begins to read the page.
The brown and beiges also enhance the country, western theme and aid in constructed the preferred image for Emma Lang.
The fonts have been kept simple and not too modern.abstact, as our targeted audience are more matched to clean cut fonts that do the job, as opposed to postmodern ones to stand out and be unique.
http://www.myspace.com/565126799
I added more to my personal information; my bio and influences, for instance, and I also changed the entire graphology whilst keeping the discourse structure the same.
The background image is floral and features the artist. This is an allusion to Emma Lang being a more country genred singer, which would be subliminally decoded before any potential fan begins to read the page.
The brown and beiges also enhance the country, western theme and aid in constructed the preferred image for Emma Lang.
The fonts have been kept simple and not too modern.abstact, as our targeted audience are more matched to clean cut fonts that do the job, as opposed to postmodern ones to stand out and be unique.
Having decided that my first set of album cover designs were too busy and not realistic-looking, I decided to take a more conventional approach to my album artwork. I used the previous image in new ways, and compared them to real Taylor Swift album covers. The one with a lavender background didn't really match Taylor's iconic profile so I decided to take some images outdoors with nice scenery - an look some of Taylor's other albums have. These can also be seen above. Although these were definitely a step in the right direction; they still weren't quite meeting the purpose and targeted audience's requirements and criteria, and therefore wouldn't be successful.
The design I have chosen to go for is the final one. It focuses more on the artist - Taylor's main and emphasised part to her album covers. I made sure to still achieve something a little bit different at least, so I added a granulated effect. I also used an unusual way to present the artist's name; leaving the buyer with something more interesting to look at and work out. This should gain more attention and respect, and ultimately please more fans = more customers. The title stands out, with a bold, yet more fancy font at the bottom of the cover, so that if a buyer is focused on the album's title, they don't want to be spending a long time searching for it; it's plain and simple to read. The artist's name would not have worked in this position very well. It would have looked odd, by extension; as if the artist almost had a name tag! This would be far too simple for a twenty first century album cover.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Today we filmed the revised fight, walking to the prom, and the prom scene itself.
I worked on my evaluation and album artwork all morning, then went in for period four, where me and Amy refilmed the fight. I managed to get my friend Becca involved in stageing the fight, to make it as realistic and dramatic as possible; her being a drama and E15 student. She also worked the camera (in the way that I told her), after giving her a tutorial in using it. Sophie was in a lesson at the time and so couldn't make it, she said we should do it without her though as we're running out of time.
We experimented with a variety of ideas, and filmed them all so that we could watch back a vast selection, and select parts from that. This, we figured was the best way to approach it, as at least some of it should be convincing!
I worked on my evaluation and album artwork all morning, then went in for period four, where me and Amy refilmed the fight. I managed to get my friend Becca involved in stageing the fight, to make it as realistic and dramatic as possible; her being a drama and E15 student. She also worked the camera (in the way that I told her), after giving her a tutorial in using it. Sophie was in a lesson at the time and so couldn't make it, she said we should do it without her though as we're running out of time.
We experimented with a variety of ideas, and filmed them all so that we could watch back a vast selection, and select parts from that. This, we figured was the best way to approach it, as at least some of it should be convincing!
This is the unfinished version with poorer quality that we used for our class showcase. As you can see, parts weren't in sync and the picture quality itself was a bit blurred in places with lines across the screen, and parts jolt and jump which isn't how it is in the higher quality we've been working on. Our final copy will be top quality so this shouldn't be an issue.
Monday, 4 April 2011
Update: Rhys can only take part in our filming session tonight or tomorrow lunchtime and period five, before the deadline, because he's going to Wales after school tomorrow. It's Amy's birthday today so she doesn't want to film tonight, and it's unlikely we'd convince people to help us during their lunch break, so we're filming the prom during period 5 tomorrow.
Due to a lack of time, I've decided that it would be best to scrap the taxi idea. I figured it's not a vital part of our storyline, and it would take more effort than we can give, so our time would be better spent on something else. I shared this view with Amy and Sophie, and they agreed.
Tomorrow morning, period one, me and Amy have a free lesson, so we're going (to continue in my case), to prepare points of discussion for our evaluation.
Periods two and three we have media studies. Sophie offered to continue with our evaluation notes whilst I edit, and Amy wants to put an input in on what I do.
Then, period five, me and Sophie are free so we'll continue with our evaluation notes, and prepare ourselves for recording our discussions after school time. Our teacher said that we can stay until 5:30pm; when she leaves.
Period one then on Thursday, we'll put together our evaluation recordings and combine it with Powerpoint slides and footage from our videos to illustrate our discussions with examples. As long as I manage to get my album artwork completed at home, and when I've had more of an input on our webpage (Myspace page), - everything should then be ready!
Due to a lack of time, I've decided that it would be best to scrap the taxi idea. I figured it's not a vital part of our storyline, and it would take more effort than we can give, so our time would be better spent on something else. I shared this view with Amy and Sophie, and they agreed.
Tomorrow morning, period one, me and Amy have a free lesson, so we're going (to continue in my case), to prepare points of discussion for our evaluation.
Periods two and three we have media studies. Sophie offered to continue with our evaluation notes whilst I edit, and Amy wants to put an input in on what I do.
Then, period five, me and Sophie are free so we'll continue with our evaluation notes, and prepare ourselves for recording our discussions after school time. Our teacher said that we can stay until 5:30pm; when she leaves.
Period one then on Thursday, we'll put together our evaluation recordings and combine it with Powerpoint slides and footage from our videos to illustrate our discussions with examples. As long as I manage to get my album artwork completed at home, and when I've had more of an input on our webpage (Myspace page), - everything should then be ready!
I'm incredibly unhappy with this set of designs. The more I rearrange parts, alter colouring and add new artwork; the more cluttered and childish it becomes. It isn't even close to what I'd originally pictured in my head. Eventually I even managed to make a rough capital E, for Emma Lang, although it still looks awful. I plan to start afresh, and go for a more conventional design. It seems conventions really are there for a reason!
I googled the average album cover scale today, some sites said 4"by4" for the front and 4"by4.25" for the back cover. However one with a net that reoccured is that shown below. I plan to use this one as it seems more common, plus cms are easier for me to work with as I use the metric system. I'll be able to put these measurements into Photoshop or Word to set the appropriate dimensions to fit my album case.
This evening I filmed the "in the taxi" scene, without Amy or Sophie, but; with their approval.
To make this as good as it could be, I firstly considered the costume I'd wear. I knew it had to be a prom/party/evening dress to make our narrative cohesive; so I looked through what I had. I thought I should be wearing a bright one to stand out as the central focus when it comes to the final scene as the prom/party. A blue ASOS dress I have was suitable. Although I'd be seated in the car, I wore tights just incase my legs were visible, but shoes really didn't matter.
Next, my hair. Our narrative transforms me from being a composed and tidy character, into a messy, almost dirty one. So - I knew my hair had to match this. My hair was relitively straight from school, so I curled parts of it and backcombed others, to give me a ragged, run-down look. It should be decoded as my characters feels that everything is getting out of her control, and she's suffering as a result. She's changing as a person.
Then the make-up. This quite simply had to be a mess. I thought it would be good by this point for me to be/have been crying in the narrative, so I tried to match this. I applied heavy make-up, badly, as before. I made sure that it exactly matched how it had been when I put make-up on in the music video previously, so that it was also cohesive. I then added more eyeliner and mascara to smudge down my face. This looked a bit hard, and block-like, so I poured water down my face! I also took a bottle of water with me in the car to dab around my eyes if needed, as my "acting skills" aren't quite good enough to get me to stage real tears!
Camera angles. I got someone to film me firstly from the front passenger seat at a slight high angle, then from the passenger seat next to me in the back, finally followed by me holding the camera dirctly infront of my face for a full-on close up. This wide range gave us plenty of variety considering we only needed this part for a line/possibly two lines.
This was filmed whilst the car was in regular motion, otherwise it would be very confusing for the audience to comprehend that this is my character actually transferring locations.
Finally, my facial expressions. During this part of the music video my mood begins to change, as my anger transforms more into a drunken sadness. I made sure that I gave the impression that I was and had been crying, and conveyed the transfer from anger and agression so sadness and self-pity; perhaps with some regret too.
Overall, I think that even though this is a very small percentage of our overall video, the detail and attention I gave to it didn't allow for any glitches. It all ran smoothly. The lighting isn't great, but this can be fixed via Final Cut in school.
To make this as good as it could be, I firstly considered the costume I'd wear. I knew it had to be a prom/party/evening dress to make our narrative cohesive; so I looked through what I had. I thought I should be wearing a bright one to stand out as the central focus when it comes to the final scene as the prom/party. A blue ASOS dress I have was suitable. Although I'd be seated in the car, I wore tights just incase my legs were visible, but shoes really didn't matter.
Next, my hair. Our narrative transforms me from being a composed and tidy character, into a messy, almost dirty one. So - I knew my hair had to match this. My hair was relitively straight from school, so I curled parts of it and backcombed others, to give me a ragged, run-down look. It should be decoded as my characters feels that everything is getting out of her control, and she's suffering as a result. She's changing as a person.
Then the make-up. This quite simply had to be a mess. I thought it would be good by this point for me to be/have been crying in the narrative, so I tried to match this. I applied heavy make-up, badly, as before. I made sure that it exactly matched how it had been when I put make-up on in the music video previously, so that it was also cohesive. I then added more eyeliner and mascara to smudge down my face. This looked a bit hard, and block-like, so I poured water down my face! I also took a bottle of water with me in the car to dab around my eyes if needed, as my "acting skills" aren't quite good enough to get me to stage real tears!
Camera angles. I got someone to film me firstly from the front passenger seat at a slight high angle, then from the passenger seat next to me in the back, finally followed by me holding the camera dirctly infront of my face for a full-on close up. This wide range gave us plenty of variety considering we only needed this part for a line/possibly two lines.
This was filmed whilst the car was in regular motion, otherwise it would be very confusing for the audience to comprehend that this is my character actually transferring locations.
Finally, my facial expressions. During this part of the music video my mood begins to change, as my anger transforms more into a drunken sadness. I made sure that I gave the impression that I was and had been crying, and conveyed the transfer from anger and agression so sadness and self-pity; perhaps with some regret too.
Overall, I think that even though this is a very small percentage of our overall video, the detail and attention I gave to it didn't allow for any glitches. It all ran smoothly. The lighting isn't great, but this can be fixed via Final Cut in school.
When I came home from school, I took photographs of my sister (pretending she was Amy Rushmer); to use as a part of my album cover - as Amy was unavailable.
I found a plain cream coloured wall as it is the easiest to edit I find, and arranged my sister's body language.
I forgot put the memory card in! - So the only images that saved were these:
I found a plain cream coloured wall as it is the easiest to edit I find, and arranged my sister's body language.
I forgot put the memory card in! - So the only images that saved were these:
Today our teacher told us that our final deadline is Thursday.
By then we have to have ready to hand in:
- our completed video
- our completed album artwork
- a link to our completed myspace page
- a link to our individual blogs
- a link to our group blog, and
- our completed evaluation
We've nearly completed all of these, however we haven't even thought about our evaluation! We'd all thought that we had until the end of this term to complete everything, and the the few weeks after for our evaluation, but no, it's due Thursday. So, we had a bit of a panic and I decided to write a list, firstly of what we have left to do - followed by when we could do it. Here is my timetable for up until the deadline:
MONDAY
-(after school)
By then we have to have ready to hand in:
- our completed video
- our completed album artwork
- a link to our completed myspace page
- a link to our individual blogs
- a link to our group blog, and
- our completed evaluation
We've nearly completed all of these, however we haven't even thought about our evaluation! We'd all thought that we had until the end of this term to complete everything, and the the few weeks after for our evaluation, but no, it's due Thursday. So, we had a bit of a panic and I decided to write a list, firstly of what we have left to do - followed by when we could do it. Here is my timetable for up until the deadline:
MONDAY
-(after school)
Me - film "in taxi"
TUESDAY
-(periods 2 and 3)
-(periods 2 and 3)
Me, Sophie and Kelsie film"getting into taxi"
-(period 4)
Me and Amy film revised "fight scene"
-(period 4)
Me and Amy film revised "fight scene"
-(after school)
Me and Amy film down the road "come on!"
Me and Amy film down the road "come on!"
Me, Amy, Rhys and extras film "prom"
Me and Amy - film Amy’s "stairs + door scene"
WEDNESDAY
-(periods two and three)
Editing
-(after school)
Record evaluation video
Editing
-(after school)
Record evaluation video
Album cover - every evening in free time!
Notes, tomorrow:
Curl hair
Curl hair
Bring fight clothes
Bring prom clothes
+ make-up
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Yesterday, our teacher arranged for our class to showcase our music videos so far, to each other and some extra peers who happened to have a free period at the time. During period two we compressed and transferred our video so that our teacher could access it on her computer. Most of our class conversely, didn't manage to do this in time for period three, so our showcase began about half an hour late, causing it to run into our lunch hour. This didn't affect the quality of our discussions and evaluations though.
Although our teacher had been keeping an eye on the progression of our music video throughout the editing process, this was an opportunity for her to summarise her opinions and advice for us. Her comments, in her exact words, were:
- Love the baseball reaction
- Not sure about "fight"
- The syncing was mostly perfect
- Matches the style
- It's INTERESTING - you keep the variety going
- Seems that the style matches Taylor Swift
- Performance is really good and convincing
- Lighting on the dart board is perfect!
- The spinning looks like perfect space
- Did people get your narrative?
- Emma does evil/disgust well.. !
- Like the red lighting when singing into the camera
It was good listening to other people's reactions to parts of our video, that hadn't been watching the progression in composing it. This gave us an insight into how our targeted audience would perceive it, which we no longer have ourselves. Personally, I had been worried that outsiders wouldn't be able to follow the narrative, perhaps at all, due to the heavy number of locations featured throughout. The showcase fotunately, disproved this as everybody followed it "easily" and knew exactly what the narrative was.
The evaluation sheets involved completing a bipolar chart to begin:
Followed by the questions:
-What was especially GOOD about the music video?
- Would you watch this again? If yes, why? If no, why not? and,
- Did you notice any serious issues such as continuity errors, strange edits, did anything not make sense to you?
The bipolar results convey that generally our audience enjoyed each aspect of our music video, though perhaps we need to fine-tune our synchronising and camerawork a little.
Having read through the other questions on my own, the main aspects that people liked, involved:
- The lighting
- The performance itself
- The close-ups
- The mixture of performance and narrative
- The pace - "doesn't get boring"
- Funny at some points
- Believable miming and acting
- Strong narrative
- Story made sense
- Very much like a real music video
- The ending - lights out
- "Fantabulous" edits and effects!
- Seemed professional
- Variety in costume
Every person that took the time to evaluate said they'd like/love to watch our music video again. The recurring reason was that it's "entertaining"/"interesting".
There was some constructive criticism, which is arguably more helpful than anything else. Here are all of the issues from our pilot audience's perspectives:
- Some parts were out of sync
- "A form of revenge would be nice to see"
- "Didn't really get the fight"
- Amy laughs when I push her face in the dirt
- Brief black flashes
- Emma's face is a bit too comical at times!
- "wuh-ooh" - cut a bit shorter?
- Emma coming out of the car is odd
- Use more effects
A lot of this comes from our video still being incomplete. (Every other group's incomplete too, not just ours.) Some parts being out of sync, the black flashes and lacking a bit in effects is down to this.
HOWEVER,
The fight scene seems to have been highlighted as being too friendly and not fitting in with the video. A few people also stated that Amy laughs whilst I'm pushing her face into the dirt. I know Amy really well, so I know that when she's scared, she does look like she's laughing. Our audience of course don't know her, so it looks like we will have to refilm this part. Whether we scrap the original material completely or just add in another camera angle on the laughing part to cover it up - we'll have to see.
The "wuh-ooh" being too long with the suggestion of 'cutting it shorter' can't really be done as that would involve making actual changes to the audio track itself which wouldn't be right. We've taken this onboard though and might try to involve another camera angle to give the illusion of cutting down the length of this part.
"Emma coming out of the car is odd" we don't agree with. Every consumer is different, so although we don't agree with this opinion we have respected it and taken it into consideration, but seeing as only one person has said this, we're going to put the thought to one side.
"Emma's face is a bit too comical at times!". There is one part I could understand that my face looks comical, but it does still fit in with the overall video and genre. Also, multiple people complimented the fact that there are funny parts throughout the video, so we plan to keep it.
OVERALL,
I've found that showcasing our work has not only reassured me that our video is of good quality, it has also highlighted aspects that could potentially be issues that we had overlooked. Being able to watch and reflect off of other groups' videos also helped for me to compare and contrast and feel more comfortable with our video and where it fits in.
Although our teacher had been keeping an eye on the progression of our music video throughout the editing process, this was an opportunity for her to summarise her opinions and advice for us. Her comments, in her exact words, were:
- Love the baseball reaction
- Not sure about "fight"
- The syncing was mostly perfect
- Matches the style
- It's INTERESTING - you keep the variety going
- Seems that the style matches Taylor Swift
- Performance is really good and convincing
- Lighting on the dart board is perfect!
- The spinning looks like perfect space
- Did people get your narrative?
- Emma does evil/disgust well.. !
- Like the red lighting when singing into the camera
It was good listening to other people's reactions to parts of our video, that hadn't been watching the progression in composing it. This gave us an insight into how our targeted audience would perceive it, which we no longer have ourselves. Personally, I had been worried that outsiders wouldn't be able to follow the narrative, perhaps at all, due to the heavy number of locations featured throughout. The showcase fotunately, disproved this as everybody followed it "easily" and knew exactly what the narrative was.
The evaluation sheets involved completing a bipolar chart to begin:
Followed by the questions:
-What was especially GOOD about the music video?
- Would you watch this again? If yes, why? If no, why not? and,
- Did you notice any serious issues such as continuity errors, strange edits, did anything not make sense to you?
The bipolar results convey that generally our audience enjoyed each aspect of our music video, though perhaps we need to fine-tune our synchronising and camerawork a little.
Having read through the other questions on my own, the main aspects that people liked, involved:
- The lighting
- The performance itself
- The close-ups
- The mixture of performance and narrative
- The pace - "doesn't get boring"
- Funny at some points
- Believable miming and acting
- Strong narrative
- Story made sense
- Very much like a real music video
- The ending - lights out
- "Fantabulous" edits and effects!
- Seemed professional
- Variety in costume
Every person that took the time to evaluate said they'd like/love to watch our music video again. The recurring reason was that it's "entertaining"/"interesting".
There was some constructive criticism, which is arguably more helpful than anything else. Here are all of the issues from our pilot audience's perspectives:
- Some parts were out of sync
- "A form of revenge would be nice to see"
- "Didn't really get the fight"
- Amy laughs when I push her face in the dirt
- Brief black flashes
- Emma's face is a bit too comical at times!
- "wuh-ooh" - cut a bit shorter?
- Emma coming out of the car is odd
- Use more effects
A lot of this comes from our video still being incomplete. (Every other group's incomplete too, not just ours.) Some parts being out of sync, the black flashes and lacking a bit in effects is down to this.
HOWEVER,
The fight scene seems to have been highlighted as being too friendly and not fitting in with the video. A few people also stated that Amy laughs whilst I'm pushing her face into the dirt. I know Amy really well, so I know that when she's scared, she does look like she's laughing. Our audience of course don't know her, so it looks like we will have to refilm this part. Whether we scrap the original material completely or just add in another camera angle on the laughing part to cover it up - we'll have to see.
The "wuh-ooh" being too long with the suggestion of 'cutting it shorter' can't really be done as that would involve making actual changes to the audio track itself which wouldn't be right. We've taken this onboard though and might try to involve another camera angle to give the illusion of cutting down the length of this part.
"Emma coming out of the car is odd" we don't agree with. Every consumer is different, so although we don't agree with this opinion we have respected it and taken it into consideration, but seeing as only one person has said this, we're going to put the thought to one side.
"Emma's face is a bit too comical at times!". There is one part I could understand that my face looks comical, but it does still fit in with the overall video and genre. Also, multiple people complimented the fact that there are funny parts throughout the video, so we plan to keep it.
OVERALL,
I've found that showcasing our work has not only reassured me that our video is of good quality, it has also highlighted aspects that could potentially be issues that we had overlooked. Being able to watch and reflect off of other groups' videos also helped for me to compare and contrast and feel more comfortable with our video and where it fits in.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
During period two today I converted what Sophie and I recorded on Monday outside and imported it to Final Cut. I then cut up and edited the new material to our video and compressed and converted it. Part way through period three, our class took part in showcasing each group's work to; the rest of our class, our teacher, another teacher and other random students who gave up their time. I'll write in more detail tomorrow when I have all of the evaluations miss collected in!
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Monday, 28 March 2011
In class today I confirmed tomorrows plans with Amy, Sophie and Kelsie and answered questions about details I'd thought about and worked out at home. Everything is good to go! We just need to collect the camera tomorrow, I need to sort out my costume tonight so that it's ready to put on and go through exactly which parts we need to film.
This lesson we also looked through our video so far and tried to add a bit. None of the footage so far had an ideal clip for the extended "woah" before the final chorus, so I suggested filming a close up/extreme close up there and then in the lesson so that we'd have that and nobody would know that it was spontaneous as my uniform wont show if done correctly.
I went to the technicians and asked for a camera, they then refered me back to my teacher who needed the camera for ten minutes so we started to set up our Myspace page. When she'd finished with the camera me and Sophie took it outside whilst Amy chose to continue with our Myspace page. I grabbed my iPod from my car so that anything I'd mime would be in time with the actual music, guessing the timing probably wouldn't be a very good idea and would be difficult/verging on impossible to get insync when editing. Sophie asked if we should go to find a spare classroom, which we could have done, but I figured that it would be time consuming. The weather was idealic and we were surrounded by greenary so I suggested that the mise-en-scene would be more interesting and suited to our genre where we were. So, we settled on some green bushes which could be decoded subconciously by our audience as jealousy. I then said that perhaps we should record the entire song incase any other lines haven't worked out for us so we did this. I had a bright blue, summery scarf on so i wrapped this around my school shirt's collar to make sure that it wasn't showing. I checked with Sophie that the shot was close enough for it to not notice and she reassured me. We then recorded the whole song, including the "woah" part three times to be safe.
Finally we went up to our classroom and transfered the videos to our 'editing station' whilst Amy showed us what she'd done to our Myspace page. She didn't know how to edit the profile as it has all changed since we used to use the site, but I managed to work it out quite quickly and showed her how to do it. We then watched through a tiny bit of the footage me and Sophie had produced. The colouring was very bright and summery, with well-suited mise-en-scene and animated facial expressions, however I'm worried that the filming wasn't zoomed in quite enough and some of my uniform shows. It does seem quite subtle though, so we can study this in more detail in Wednesday's first lesson.
Today we found out that instead of Friday as our showcase deadline, it would in fact be Wednesday period three, so we only have the one hour on Wednesday to edit! I plan to ask Amy to simply transfer whatever we record tomorrow onto our computer during her morning registration to save time, and I might try to work on editing throughout my period one free, depending on how the room is being used.
Once I got home today I got stuck into editing my album artwork straight away. I completed what I set our to do on Picnik and added a black "wall" in Paint - which goes with the diary/girly/animated theme I'm going for luckily. (Finished image: right)
This is of course not the completed album cover, I have to add the other half first, as well as the text and the diary/cartoon style scribbles. It will also have to be the correct size of an actual album cover, and I'm going to have to design the back cover and an optional spine too.
This lesson I also found out roughly from Sophie and more acurately from my teacher, that the album cover is not supposed to be for Taylor Swift, but in fact for our fictional singer's name, which we hadn't realised at all. This entire time we had been pretending that I was Taylor Swift. Luckily nothing has to be changed, other than my name in the album artwork and Myspace page. My actual name is Emma Langschied, which is quite long, complicated and in no way catchy, so we've decided to shorten it to Emma Lang. This is the new name we'll refer to the music artist as.
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