As Nathan Oliver was not in school for this lesson, me and Casey come up with an idea for our CD Cover. We took a number of pictures and chose a suitable picture to edit on photoshop. We had a discussion about what picture would suit the CD Cover best and we come up with an idea of me casey and nathan.o walking up a set of stairs. We made ourselves stand out by having us in colour and the people around us in black and white to show that we are the band members.
We used this background of a busy train station because we believe that this suits our band genre which is kind of urban. As we are walking up the stairs we are seperated from other people as we are the band and the main highlight of the picture.
This was our first idea of our editing for the CD Cover, however we had a few more ideas as to where each person in the band would be placed in the picture.We then came up with our final idea, which was edited on photoshop by Casey.
After the first idea of the CD Cover we spoke as a group and changed our mind on what we wanted the picture to be and we came up with a different solution. A problem with this image is that i will need to improve the editing.
In this lesson we were concentrating how to use the green screen and how the whole process works. We got told that you can add in different locations on the green screen so it makes us look like we are at different locations. To do this you need to go on to final cut and work through stages to make the background of the green screen different.
In this lesson every one was given roles with camera's and lighting and music directors and then every one else was acting out a music video or so called lip syncing. It was a struggle for people to get up and act as they were too nervous and shy to do this. Because no one got up and done it our teacher Mrs Ingram took to the microphone and gave us a performance on how to do it. Every one was still embarrassed and no one got up to do it.
In the second part of the lesson Paul and myself went up and done a video for our group and we done a track by Giggs called 'Talking the Hardest'. After we performed we uploaded it onto final cut and then started to edit it by adding in cuts and also using the green screen to add in effects for the background. Using final cut was a bit confusing and it was difficult to use. I had difficulty using it so I had to ask sir for help several times. I think that final cut is much more difficult to use rather then i movie as there are more tools to get familiar with and it looks like you need to have several lessons of practice to get used to using it.
