This my individual attempt of our music video, We are using it as our first draft. I was helped with this video by my group as I was late to creating my individual video. This has been uploaded to our group blog channel.
Friday 12 December 2014
Class Video Previews
Today in class we are showing our first draft of our music video, We will be taking notes of the other groups videos and giving them good and bad feedback on them. By doing this we will be helping them improve their video and vise-versa. I will be writing my notes down and them posting them on my blog for the other groups to see so they will be able to save for themselves.
The first video shown to the class is our own, this is the feedback we have been given from our classmates and teacher -
The second video shown was group two and this is the feedback I have given them -
The third video shown was group one and this is the feedback I have given them -
Thursday 11 December 2014
Group Update
Today we completed are music video and have it ready to show to the class tomorrow for reviews and discussion. This is our first draft and over the Christmas break we will each be creating our own video to our own specifications rather than 'a group'.
Once this issue was resolved we went back and fixed the transitions and then our video was back to the way we wanted it to be.
The editing was going really well and smoothly, everything was coming together well as Liam was familiar with the software through his research and mock work, I was helping Liam edit and decide on what clips we should use for the video, it took us approximately 6hours to finally decide on the clips we were using. We hit a stumbling block near the end of our video completion as when Liam was editing a clip in time with the beat he had to extend the length of the transition. When he clicked the transition and changed the length he did not realise that there was a checkbox next to it saying "apply to all transitions" therefore we went on to compete the rest of the video making everything click into place. Then when it came to exporting the clip, Liam played it back and then we realised the lip sync and timings were not as we originally had them. It took us about half an hour to realise what was actually the problem. Then we figured out it was the transitions they had all been set to 1 second rather than the original 0.5.
I am glad we realised the problem ourselves and was able to fix it in time for our first deadline.
I am glad we realised the problem ourselves and was able to fix it in time for our first deadline.
Once this issue was resolved we went back and fixed the transitions and then our video was back to the way we wanted it to be.
As a group we are very happy and excited about our video as we all believe it is a huge step-up from last years work, now we are going to get feedback from our teacher and class to help improve our video and make it the best it possibly can be
Tuesday 9 December 2014
Dillion Francis Album
I recently bought the album 'Money Sucks, Friends Rule' by Dillion Francis off beatport. The album is an House music/ Electronic based genre.
Money Sucks, Friends Rule is the debut full-length album by Dillon Francis, an American electronic music producer.
The album features collaborations from artists such as Major Lazer, Martin Garrix, Mad Decent label-mate DJ Snake, rapper Twista, Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and more. It was released on October 27, 2014 on Mad Decent in collaboration with Columbia Record.
This is one of the first albums I have bought in a while and I have really enjoyed every song on the album. The album cost me £6.99 from beatport. I have recommended the album to all my friends that enjoy this genre.
My favourite track off the album is "Set me free" which features Martin Garrix, it has a unique sound and feel to it, the vocals are very nice for a dance music song to.
Money Sucks, Friends Rule is the debut full-length album by Dillon Francis, an American electronic music producer.
The album features collaborations from artists such as Major Lazer, Martin Garrix, Mad Decent label-mate DJ Snake, rapper Twista, Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and more. It was released on October 27, 2014 on Mad Decent in collaboration with Columbia Record.
This is one of the first albums I have bought in a while and I have really enjoyed every song on the album. The album cost me £6.99 from beatport. I have recommended the album to all my friends that enjoy this genre.
My favourite track off the album is "Set me free" which features Martin Garrix, it has a unique sound and feel to it, the vocals are very nice for a dance music song to.
Group Update
We have completed our filming as a group, we are now onto our editing process which will take a week or two. We are each editing a part of the video. I will be editing the middle of the video.
Friday 5 December 2014
Group Record Label
Since our music genre is dance music we decided to check out the biggest recording labels in this genre. We have found two big record companies which are 'Spinning Records' And 'Revealed Recordings'
Spinning Records is home to some of the biggest artists in the world such as Martin Garrix. This recording label is constantly promoting its new and young artists through youtube and twitter. Spinning Records do not offer many music videos with their songs and this is why I do not want to sign for this label.
The other big record label is Revealed Recording which is owned by the biggest DJ in the world Hardwell whom is the maker of our song.
Dutch DJ/producer Hardwell presented his very own imprint Revealed Recordings in 2010. The young house sensation revealed a fresh and open-minded label. Next to Hardwell’s own tracks and collaborations, Revealed Recordings will also release tracks that fit the versatile sound of the label, whether that be progressive -, tech – or electro house influenced. Within a short period the label has build up a distinct label profile in todays Dance scene with a unique sound, a Revealed sound!
I believe this record label fits our needs and produces many music videos so it is a perfect fit for our artist.
Spinning Records is home to some of the biggest artists in the world such as Martin Garrix. This recording label is constantly promoting its new and young artists through youtube and twitter. Spinning Records do not offer many music videos with their songs and this is why I do not want to sign for this label.
The other big record label is Revealed Recording which is owned by the biggest DJ in the world Hardwell whom is the maker of our song.
Dutch DJ/producer Hardwell presented his very own imprint Revealed Recordings in 2010. The young house sensation revealed a fresh and open-minded label. Next to Hardwell’s own tracks and collaborations, Revealed Recordings will also release tracks that fit the versatile sound of the label, whether that be progressive -, tech – or electro house influenced. Within a short period the label has build up a distinct label profile in todays Dance scene with a unique sound, a Revealed sound!
I believe this record label fits our needs and produces many music videos so it is a perfect fit for our artist.