Digipak editing

I've been trying to edit the cover photo of the digipak for about over an hour now. The only reason I've been spending so much time on one photo is because I'm trying to place the text a certain way but since the composition of the digipak is a square, the text placement keeps looking weird. Here are the first photos I was editing.

So in this picture I just added some text of the album name

In here I added a color filter which really makes him pop out more and then I added a glow effect on the text and I masked his head so I could put the text "breaker" behind it. However, this did not end up looking right in the square composition because the text was so high up so I decided to just change the whole cover picture. 

I ended up using this picture. I again masked his body and I actually think the "breaker" text looks really cool since it's actually intertwining through his body. I then added the glow effect on the text and the color filter again. I put it on to the square composition in canva and it looks good. So I will be using this picture for the cover. As of right now I like how this looks but we'll see, maybe I'll change it. 

Website

I just started on the website. I haven't done too much yet. I've just picked the layout, added his name and social media. I haven't been able to add any pictures since I'm not done editing the ones I have and I also haven't gotten more pictures yet. I was also initially going to create a whole functioning section on the website to actually be able to sell the merchandise he made already but I talked to Mrs.Stoklosa about it and I think it's best I don't actually create the shop since he would have to purchase a domain and I also don't know if he'd be ready to supply that many shirts to so many people.

This corona virus has been kind of making me struggle with my project. Koree said that his parents don't want him to go out much because of everything that's happening so I guess I have to take pictures at his house which kind of sucks because not only can I not go to Wynwood but I'm not even sure if he'll come with us to some place closer. This is also because of his broken ankle, he doesn't seem to want to go to any different places to shoot since he isn't feeling well at the moment. So I'm going to wait another week possibly to take the pictures.

Problem!

I've kind of run into a big problem ): Koree, the artist I'm doing my music video on just recently broke his ankle which means I can't film him at Miami like I wanted to. I can't really film him at all since he'd be on crutches. So this absolutely sucks. I had also wanted to take some photos too but I don't even know if that's going to happen anymore.

 The good news is, I got so much good footage from that night that I think I'm fine with making the music video. I did get a ton of pictures as well but I'm just worried because I wanted more variety for my digipak and website. I think what I'm going to do is just go ahead and finish the music video. I'm going to finish setting up the website and finish editing all the photos and just use the photos I have from that night. The photos are still going to look good with all the text and titles, I just wanted more variety. I'm going to finish everything in the next two weeks and maybe by then, Koree will be have healed a little and will be up to just taking some photos. I won't even have to go far, I'll just see what other types of photos I can get. If not, I'll just have to make do with the photos I have 

Location planning

I'm planning on filming in Miami one of the days next week. I did want to film on Tuesday but I have work at around the same time I wanted to go so I'll either go on Monday after school or just another day during the week. I'm thinking of filming at Wynwood so I can use some cool art in the background.

      


This wall looks really cool and I think I could get some good shots here. I also wanted to get some shots of him just in the city around buildings. Taking photos around the buildings will portray the sharp look I'm going for.

I was also thinking about what color he could wear because I didn't want him to wear anything light like blues or yellows. I was thinking he could maybe wear black or white. It just depends on where i'm taking photo at so maybe he can bring multiple options. This will also be the last location we film the music video at. Overall I'm super excited to finish with the filming and the photos so I can get to editing everything and putting all the photos on the website. I'm very happy with how smoothly everything is going!

Photos for digipak

We were supposed to go film at Wynwood on Monday but then we changed the day to Friday but now we are changing the day to some time next week since we don't have many days of school that week. I really wanted to continue editing because I did have a lot of footage but I felt like I should wait till I get the shots at Wynwood so I can incorporate those clips evenly throughout the music video. So for now I'm going to be working on the website and digipak.

My friend Amanda is letting me use photoshop on her laptop since I don't have it and i'll be doing some editing of the photos on there. I took a lot of pictures the first day of filming so I do have photos to edit.

So this is a photo that I edited. I just adjusted the brightness, contrast, and curves. But I felt like I wanted to see more red since his album name is Heartbreaker. I looked up how I can changed certain parts a specific color since I wanted to change his outfit to red.

 This is how it turned out. I think it looks really cool and goes with the kind of theme I'm going for. I still have more photos to take and editing to do but once I'm done editing the color I'm going to put it into After effects to add text.

Editing

I started editing today and I'm so excited. Editing is my favorite part and it's the one thing that I feel super comfortable and have a lot of experience with. I'm going to be using After Effects CC for this video. Even though I want to get more footage at Wynwood, I decided to import everything now and start seeing what I can do with the footage I have. I just added some scenes a aligned it with the song. This is a super rough draft but this is what I made in like 10 minutes. All I did so far was fix the coloring, added the 360 degree rotation clip which I slowed down to make it more dramatic. I also applied a small glow effect. I then started the music video with Koree and his friends and interchanged it between two angles. I still want to add some text of the song and credits in the beginning. Like I said this is a rough draft that I put together really fast

I also edited the color of the footage a lot

(Edited)

For the edited version I added the vibrancy effect and the brightness effect. I also have a plug in called Magic Bullet Looks and it's a software that you use to edit color so I used that to change the color of the clips. The colors pop way more after I edited it and it all just looks way more appealing 

(non-edited)

As you can see here the lighting is darker and the colors are more dull 

Filming Day #1

Koree and I decided to go with the song M.I.A. Today my friend Amanda and I went to Koree's house to film. There were a lot of other people there because he wanted to include some background people in the music video. I told Amanda to come with me because I had the idea to film with two cameras instead of one so we would have different angles of the same scene. One camera would be on the ronin (camera stabilizer) and the other camera would be hand held. I'm so happy we filmed with two camera because I know it's going to look so cool in the music video. I'm going to insert the two angles from one scene.

Ronin (stable)

Hand held (shaky)

I know the footage itself doesn't look great right now but with effects such as vibrancy, brightness, and fixing the color, it's going to look so cool. 

Everything we filmed today was at his house but in different locations. I filmed in 2 places near his pool. I then filmed outside with all of his cars and we were also able to use the car lights to brighten up the shot. I also got shots of him in his car and then filmed more at the basketball court. I actually had started to get worried because we got to his house at around 4 and it was getting really dark, however, I did purchase a light ring for my camera through amazon and it was a good thing I did because I did have to use it when it got darker. I had so much fun filming. We are also planning to go to wynwood on Monday to get some photos there and film more scenes as well. 

 Here's one of the shots at the basketball court. This video was my first attempt of a 360 degree rotation with my ronin. It looks so bad but that I think that it's so cool my ronin can rotate like that.

Here's some pictures from filming day