Letterbox effect tutorial

Letterbox effect

For our music video we want to create a letterbox effect on our shots as we have seen this in many music videos and we felt that it made it look more professional, here are a few examples:

 < Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

 Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See  >

< The Killers - When You Were Young

Digipak opinions

Pitch opinions

Song title overlay

David and I created a overlay for our music video displaying the title of the song and the band that it is by, the black background will be removed and placed over our shots at the start of the video. This is the video that we used to create the overlay using his tutorial:

This is the overlay that we created by using this tutorial:

Task L - Risk assessment

Task K - Schedule

The picture will be better as I need to make it into a proper table and import it into my blog, however this is all the information going onto it.

TASK O - Original images before manipulation

Task N - Prop list

Quick cuts inspiration

Task M - Camera movement practice shots

Task I - Costume shots

Task H - Storyboard

Task G - Draft of each ancillary text

 This picture will be like the one on the back of the digipak where the list of the songs on the album will appear. This is from the last time I went to the abandoned school and felt that its dark gloomy theme to it matched the themes of the songs on the album.

 The filtered picture of the one above.

 This picture has the same camera settings that I would like to use to capture my front cover photo so that the background graffiti is out of focus and there is a focus on the character in the center. However my character will only be showing himself from the chest upwards and dressed in the same clothing as the video.

This photo is very similar to the front of the inside flap, I would like a guitar to be in a wood and have leaves all over it. However the guitar might not be standing up it may be in a different position and the background will contain a lot more trees and landscape, also the background may be out of focus.

Task F part one - Hand-drawn mock up of digipak

This is my mock up drawin of my digipak, I will use the photos or similar photos to the ones on the ancillary text photos post (Task G).

Task J - Location reece shots

Task E - Pitch for lesson

Task D - Lyrics analysis

Oh - stop

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rock
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, koi, koy.

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind? [3x]

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

Oh
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

This line is referring to the singer trying to find himself as he does not know where his head is at, his "mind" is another word for his head where the conflict between his mind and body. It could also be referring to the stress he may be under as the tone of the song makes him seem like he is stressed and under pressure.
This line can have a literal representation of the singer being upside down as his feet are in the air and his head is on the ground, which could refer to his life being tipped upside down due to the stress of trying to find himself. Another representation could be that he is feeling low and sad as his head is on the ground meaning that he is literally and metaphorically low.
These two lines could show that the singer is feeling empty inside as his head is empty due to losing his head/mind, it could also be inferred that he is feeling flat as it says that his head will collapse and therefore can show that he is very sad because "feeling flat" is a metaphor for feeling negative emotionally.
The fact that the singer says that the fishes are talking to him when he is in the Caribbean shows that he is not very sane, this could partly be because he is still trying to find his mind therefore he is having hallucinations about these animals talking to him. 

Task C - Mood board

Task B - Letter of permission from the manager

We contacted the manager of the Pixies to show proof that he comfirmed that we could use their song in our music video.