Finished Website!!

After hours and hours and hours of work our website is finally finished! This is the final result.

Editing..

Editing Again..

These are some of the effects we've used in our video.

This image shows the volume levels of the clips, allowing us to make our clips get gradually louder.

This is a screen shot of part of our time line. We've done a fair amount of editing and as you can see from the image, we've also began adding sound effects too.

This is a closer view of the sound effects we've put on top of the audio. It works for some clips, but didn't work as well for others. 

Website Progress

The website is taking much longer than anticipated to finish but we think its coming along well and are pleased with it so far.

We also changed some of the photographs in our photo section as we decided that there were not enough photos of the band and was overcrowded with soldier pictures.

War/Gun sound effects

On most of the war music videos which we have watched, you can hear the sounds of guns firing etc and it makes them look more realistic. So, we were thinking of trying it out and seeing what ours would look like. I've found some videos on YouTube which have the sound effects used available for download:

Echelon Shots

We were thinking about filming some shots of a group of people singing the choral parts of Vox Populi. I think this would give the video a more authentic feel and make it more like one of 30 Seconds To Mars' videos. I also think that this could be the Echelon- always included in 30STM' music videos. We thought of doing this on a green screen so that we could use one of these images of War memorials in the background:

Final Shoot?

For our video we have already done 3 shoots:
-The signs
-The band
-Combat
We now have roughly 40 minutes of footage but we are still missing vital shots which we need to film in our final location. The shots left to film include the 'drill' shots (with the soldiers), the goodbyes at the start of the video, some shots of the main soldier with his girlfriend and the shots where the girlfriend is told about his death.
This shoot will be done in Laura's house and also in a field next to Laura's house. We think this shoot will take 2-3hours as we really don't have that much left to film. Once we have this footage we will be able to finish editing and begin adding effects and transitions.

Group on Photoshop

This is what I created on my first attempt of making a collage on Photoshop for our website

Editing Stages 2

These are some screen shots of the time line on iMovie. As you can see, we've managed to edit quite a lot of footage but there are still many gaps which we will fill after we have done the last shoot. 

Our Live Feed

This is our live twitter feed. We acquired real tweets from the band members personal twitter accounts.

YouTube Video

This is the progress that we have made in making our music video YouTube player. We added an opaque header with white text, a large play button and a play bar at the bottom of the video which we cut out on photoshop

Panic! At The Disco YouTube video we based ours on 

Twitter Font

Link to website to download used text

We used the website, Dafont.com in order to download part of the twitter font to use in our live feed box.

The font is named, Arista Light.

We wanted to newest twitter icon to use in our feed. We searched on google to discover what the official twitter logo for the moment was.

Youtube Video Box

As Sarah mentioned in an earlier post we are including a video on our website homepage. After doing lots of research into the websites of current bands with similar colour schemes (Panic! At The Disco etc) we decided that to make our video box look realistic that it needed to be outlined in a light colour and have a YouTube play bar and buttons, which we will add at a later date.
We also thought that by letter-boxing our video that it would look more professional as most music videos on YouTube tend to be letter boxed.

Website Printscreens

We are  currently working on the design of our website and are constantly changing it as we come up with new ideas and change one thing then deciding that another part of the website doesn't go well with what we've changed. We have changed the background colour of our side-boxes (Top image) to a raspberry/burgundy colour as it looked good with the band title.

Panic! At The Disco

We wanted to know how to make our embedded video look legitimate. We knew from our website research that Panic! At the Disco have a dark website background so we print screened their embedded video in order to take different aspects from what they have done and incorporate it into our website. We will incorporate the YouTube bar and also the opaque bar at the top.

Toy Guns

Due to the restrictions involving replica guns in the UK we had to be very careful when filming the narrative for our music video. There was a risk of us being seen by members of the public and them thinking that we were messing around with real guns. Unfortunately the only way that we could get around this problem was to film on private land owned by a friend of ours, although members of the public still passed through the area whilst we were filming. To get around the problems of filming with replica guns we had to make do with children's toy guns from 'PoundWorld' which were green and blue, obviously not ideal but it's all we could use. However we did have one more realistic gun from GimmieGizmo (£4.99) however we could not afford to buy enough of these guns for each of our actors so we only had one which the main soldier (Sam) who dies in the narrative used. This gun was bright orange when we purchased it, however, Sarah painted it black with acrylic paints to make it look more realistic but left the orange tip on the end of the gun so that it was clear that it was in fact a toy gun that would not pose any threat or danger to members of the public. We also stopped filming and placed the guns on the floor whenever a member of the public passed through and explained to them what we were doing so that they were not concerned. All of the people we spoke to seemed to be very happy with what we were doing and didn't have a problem with it.

Photographs

Photographs

Photographs