Production Log: Week 5

So here it is, the final week of production...

Sequence:
From the feedback we had gathered on our rough edit, I then started to alter the sequence accordingly.
Firstly, the pulpit shots were replaced with shots of the Boyfriend and the Mattress. This worked better than the pulpit shots did and also helped to establish the boyfriend motif a bit better at the start. I also input more close ups of the lead singer during the verses, so that they provided a 'visual hook' for the audience. I cross cut the drums at the start with the lead singer walking to the microphone at the start, which added pace to the introduction and matched the pace of the song.
Finally, I replaced some of the shots which had too much black space with similar shots that had less space and took away the guitar close ups during the breakdown of the song.
Now that the shots were in order, I began to colour grade. The main thing I did was to alter the brightness and contrast of the shots so that you couldn't see the curtain in the background or any of the white walls around the curtains. Some of the shots had differing lighting so I also needed to use the 'Three-way Colour Correct' tool and edit the shots where the band members were the wrong colour.
Here is our finished sequence:



Album Cover:
From our feedback we knew that we needed to change the back cover, so I tried to create a 'pencil sketch' effect on the photo. However, this didn't work out as I'd planned and so instead I tried to create a 'spray paint' effect. This effect worked for the background of the photo and tied in well with the rock genre so it was placed in our final edit.
We also needed to change the inside cover eye picture, so we put the pictures into black and white, except for the eyes. We made each band member's eyes a different colour so that they were each individual and stood out within the picture.
Here is our final album cover:

Website:
From the feedback we got, we knew that the Gallery page needed re-organising and so I put the Behind the Scene photos and the Photoshoot photos on separate pages and created visual buttons to each page.

We also needed to add more photos to other pages so that there was less space. We added photos of the individual band members onto the competition page, and also moved some of the features around on the News page.
The carousel we had placed with a feed to our Band Twitter didn't look very good in the corner of the page, so we changed it to a HTML Live Feed from the Band Twitter instead. This looked much better and we also changed the colours so that it fitted into the website.
Here is a link to our finished website:

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