Movements Cover

I think this is one of my final ideas for the cover. I will post this on facebook and see what people think of it later.

If people like this then I will maybe try and do all the internal pictures in this style too

Audience Feeback

Over 4 days my video on youtube has managed to get 102 views! This means more people have watched my video already than the total number that saw last years. All thanks to Youtube and Facebook!

Rend Collective messaged me back! It's great to see some feedback from them :)

7 people liked and 9 people commented on the link that I posted on Facebook all of them were positive although whether this was because they didn't want to offend me or something like that is a different mater. All the people that commented were christian

Final Cut

My projected date was hit and here it is:

I am using the power of the internet to get feedback:

Facebook:

Youtube:

Projected completion of the final piece

I am expecting to finish the video by the end of this week! We have a double period on friday where we will be doing editing so I will finalise it there and render it out in the afternoon after I've gone home. I will then use the power of the internet to ask people to comment on it after I have put it on to youtube and send it to the band via facebook and get their opinion on it

Movements Second Cut

So I have listened to the comments that people have said and here is what I have done as a result. The least interesting bits have been sped up and now that I can see what is going on all in one go I can refine it to make the speed changes a bit less sudden and try and do it smoother. The painting out in the background worked very well and you can hardly see it at all unless you were looking for it! There are a few bits which just need to match the music a little better though and I fear that the video is at some points straying a bit too far away from that so I'll have to be careful

Now you see kim....

In order to get the one cut video that we wanted to achieve there was always going to be a point when someone was caught in the video that we didn't really want/need to see. There are two points which were pretty much unavoidable and these are the ones that you can see below. This first one in Kim running towards her diversion sign. When reversed obviously it looks like she is running back so I decided to paint her out as we don't want our attention drawn to the wrong thing. Here is what I did:

Start with the base image /\/\

Use the clone tool to take a sample from another part of the image /\/\

Voila! /\/\

And I also did the same for Joe underneath who was packing up the map so that it didn't fly away. He was the only one not involved in the diversion / home sequence

The only annoying thing about this is that you literally have to do every frame separately in order to make it work. This does work fairly nicely and is not to hard to achieve though

Feedback

I let my class see the rough cut of the video today and it seems that they were impressed! They gave me lots of constructive criticism though which is good! What I can take from what they said is that the video does take a little bit of time to get going. I can now see that they are right about this and this is something that I have taken on board and am now correcting in the edit. I am speeding up the in between bits of where not much is going on so that things are happening so that things are happening all the time and we don't lose the audience in the first minute.

The other thing I am doing to keep the song at the right time it slow down the really interesting parts. My teacher mentioned that those parts almost went a bit too fast and because I shot the video at 60fps I could slow it down and it would still be very smooth when it was slowed down. I am glad I did this because it looks so much more amazing when the water is going back in the bucket in slow motion.

So this is what I am doing at the moment and I will work more on some of the criticism as I finish each other part

First Rough Cut of the video

Done in a couple of hours towards the end of the day

Here is the first cut of the video

My only concern from looking at the video is that people may find the end a bit weird in the way that they take hands.

Otherwise I'm very happy with the way it came out

It went well!

Second time lucky!

So we got all the video footage in the bag and now it's time to begin editing! I even got some behind the scenes stuff done too!

3rd of January! (Tomorrow!)

OK here we go second time lucky! I'm much more confident that we can do it tomorrow! I have at least 6 people coming and possibly more which is brilliant because it means that we can get this show on the road! I have everything sitting right where I left it and people know what they need to bring when they come tomorrow so we should be fine. This time it'll be from 10 - 2 so that people aren't looking too tired when they are in the video! Let's hope it all goes well!