Production Log: Week 3

Throughout this week we edited our sequence, album cover and website.

Sequence: By the end of the week we planned to have a rough edit of the sequence, so that we could see the order of our video and decide as a group what shots needed changing and where other shots need to be placed instead. Editing the sequence was quite easy to start with as we had a timeline of our sequence already planned from a pre-production meeting. This meant I could copy and paste the different shots from our original individual motif sequences and see how they matched up. We could also now input the new shots we had taken, such as the band shots and the indivual performances.
Unfortunately, we didn't quite finish our rough edit by the end of the week, so we hope to finish the edit on Monday and get feedback and edit our footage accordingly.

Album Cover: After taking our photoshoot pictures, we could start to edit them and begin our rough edit of our album cover. As Olivia had sketched a plan we knew which photos we needed to edit and place on the cover.
For the front cover of the album we decided to have the photo of Olivia holding the chalk board with the title of the cover on the front whilst standing in front of a heightboard. We finally placed 'theDropouts' text along the top of the cover to finish our rough edit of the front cover.
For the back cover we decided to put a full band picture on the back. Originally we wanted a photo of the band in their 'smart' outfits, although after editing and placing it on the back cover I didn't think it looked right and so we decided to put one of the band pictures in their video outfits on instead as it looked better. We then placed the song titles in a handwritten font along the top of the back cover, ready for feedback.
For the inside covers, we decided to have our band logo behind the CD and a picture of the band member's eyes on the inside cover. I edited the inside cover so that the faces were separated by purple strips, in order to tie in with the band identity.

Website: We started editing our website by choosing our template. We decided to use a template where the information is placed in a square in the middle of the page with a brick wall picture behind, as this fitted in with the genre of the band's music. I then created our navigation bar and designed our pages. Our pages were as follows: Home, About Us, News, Events, Gallery, Videos, Competition, Shop
On every page we had the title written in the same font in the same colour, as well as our band logo. Along the bottom of the website I put links to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, as these social networking sites were part of our online marketing campaign.