Creating the website #2

Update: We decided to revert to our original layout choice, we have also decided to keep the background for the webstie, this is because we believe it fits in with our music genre.
The old website layout did not seem to fit our music video genre and felt more like a rock/alternative style, this one looks more hiphop and urban which is what we are aiming for.
We also like the slide show in the front of the page which would be very eye catching when we get some photos on to it.

Video Stills

The video files were too big to directly upload to Blogger so I decided to take stills of some of the clips taken from our video shoots in a few locations. These are mostly party shots as that is the main location we wanted for our video. I have chosen to use these specific stills because they show good camera work and shows some common themes within our genre we have chosen. For example, blur shots, Alcohol and Dancing.

-Elijahn

Creating the website (Process)

I will be uploading a step by step process of the creation of my groups website.
I will be documenting any major changes that may happen and upload update photos of it as time goes on.
We have chosen to use this page layout for now. We are still yet to decide on a font so I will be keeping this Default font temporarily. The diamonds across the page were chosen to be our groups symbol as it has links towards their music genre.

-Elijahn

One problem we solved

During filming we realised that, with our song choice we had a hard time creating shots which fit well with our song.
Our original song choice was a remix of Lady Gaga's song 'Applause' however we had a few problems with it. For example, the song had quite a bit of profanity in it and if we cleaned out the profanity from it by putting in silence or scratches to fill the gap it ruined the song. Therefore we changed the song all together. Our current song that we are sticking with is an original by the group we are filming called 'Money flow.' The genre has changed from a rap/hip hop style to an afro beats tune. We believe by doing this it will help ease our production hopefully make it suit better.

Update: The change of genre allowed us to edit the video more successfully and change seemed to be the right choice to make.

-Elijahn

Filming and phtoshoot progress

Update on progress:
Currently we have filmed in 3 locations and have gotten enough shots to be able to start our drafts and editing. So far we have shots of parties and some shots which show the main character lip-syncing and dancing. My group has come together to try and film together to be able to work on the filming and so far we have some material we can use. We also made sure to try and get some pictures of the settings and parties to try and see if we can use them within our other parts of production such as the website and digipak. So far we still believe we need more pictures to be able to make something worth while. However it is still possible for us to make a start on both other projects.

^screen shot from Whatsapp (Iphone app)

-Elijahn

Font Mood board

This is a font mood board that I had created to allow my group to attempt to choose what style we wanted on our products or just to give us an idea of what type of font we may go for. Here i have put together fonts from 2 different websites, and tried to get more gritty or more 'modern' looking fonts to try and link it back to our music genre.

-Elijahn

January Schedule

This is my groups January schedule, Ive decided that most of the work on digipak and website, would be done during the weekdays during school so we would be able to discuss our changes (if any) with eachother while working on the both so we wouldn't run into many problems during the process. Also as usual most of the editing and filming of the music video would be done in the weekends as that is typically when we are all free.
We are also planning to do a photoshoot to be able to get photos for the website and the digipak.

-Elijahn