Further Filming

Weather permitting I hope to continue filming tomorrow. The weather lately has slowed production and further complications like unavailability of both myself and actors has also played a part. I aim to get a further full minutes worth of footage that I can put in my first cut at least.

My album artwork rear cover final

This is the final rear cover, as you can see I decided the place for the text was central. It directs attention of the audience inwards into the centre as does the titles and information on the bottom. Also it looks like the spaces to the sides has been intentionally un-used otherwise the overall look of the cover would be ruined. Lastly I have indented the writing in a similar way to that of the front cover which will be repeated in the inside cover as well. This cover ties in much better with the front meaning I can now move on. I will next work on the inside cover.

My album artwork rear cover fourth draft

I've changed where the text is from left to right and the problem still hasnt be resolved in my opinion. The other additions made are the rest of the copyright information and logos. One more change is neccessary.

My album artwork rear cover third draft

So as you can see I've made a few obvious changes, first of which is getting rid of the photo but it has instantly created a problem, now the cover looks unintentionally bland. Even though I've changed positioning of the titles and the text slightly it just looks like it's missing something. I've even started adding more preffesional looking things like barcodes but even there it looks like it's lacking something so I'll do some more research into it and hopefully complete it within another two drafts.

My album artwork rear cover second draft

Here I've tried implementing elements of the front cover onto the rear but keep the photo at the same time. Although it looks better, I still think the photo is disrupting the appearance too much and when asked, peers agreed so I am going to get rid of it completley and edit whats left to finish the design.

My album artwork rear cover first draft

This is my first draft of my rear cover. I thought I would try something similar to the covers I'm taking inspiration from and use a photo for the cover, however it hasn't really worked because I had to shrink it down due to its large file size and this has distorted it. Additionally, the different colours in the photo means no clear colour scheme can be defined making the rest of the rear cover difficult to make. I have also ignored other colours within e.g the front cover so if you imagine them together as a complete package it wouldn't look right. So I will continue to edit this.

Decision about footage

After much time and thought, the HD problems I've encountered have restricted what I can produce as a result. As the footage is too big and unreadable for the PC's that everyone is using (software pinnacle Studio v12), I will continue with the rest of my shooting then when complete, use the Mac for editing and once the whole video is complete I will upload it to youtube which reads HD files, then I simply copy the embed code into blogger and then the videos can be viewed. This will also be done for the rough cuts.