starting with editing!!!!!!

 I'm finally starting my absolute favorite yet most stressful part of this project!!!!   

    After we finished filming the first part (or actually last part) of the video, I quite literally got home and transferred all the videos into my laptop to start editing. I kinda had an idea in mind as to what clips I wanted with a specific part of the song, so I started by uploading the audio of the song so that I could start the process! 

    I organized the ones I was sure of first and then played around with the rest of the clips to see what looked the best. One of my favorite parts was the part of the lyrics where it says "so break and burn and stare and hurt" because I knew I wanted to match shots with the beat an I think I managed to do it pretty well!

    I'm still not 100% done with editing this part but i got quite a bit done! I also added the title towards the end. I wanted the font to feel almost like a handwriting so I went on Adobe Fonts and just browsed for a while until this one called to me and I knew this one was the one, the name of the font is "Segoe Script". 

Crossgrove, C. (n.d.). Segoe Script [Typeface]. Adobe Fonts. https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/segoe-script

digipak braindump

    So this digipak was one of the things that had me the most excited for this project, untillll we found our artist and she lived in Nashville, because this mean it's going to be really hard to make an album cover with her face on it. This is why me and my partner have been thinking of what we could do that wouldn't need her on the cover necessarily. 

    So when brain dumping, I thought of two ideas, one would be a picture and the other one would be more of a digital drawing.... which kinda scares me. 

    Let me break them down for you. So the top one, is the picture one. It would be like a close up shot of an open journal (which is very important to this album I'll probably explain why in a few days when I talk about props) with the title of the album written on the pages. The back would be like the tracklist written out on the notebook paper. It's a simple but solid idea that works well with the album. Now, the one at the bottom, was inspired from the phrase we created for our artist, "welcome to my little world". This one would be drawn, most likely digitally. It's a globe with the land orange to match with the colors we want for the album better and I feel like it gives it a nice twist and sense of cohesion. For the back, I'm really loving the idea of having the song titles kind of like create a spiral. I think it looks really cool and it matches with the shape of the globe, however my concern is that it might make the song titles hard to read.

    We are still deciding what to do for the final cover but this is what we have so far!

social media!

    This week, since I was away, me and my partner tried to focus mostly on the minor tasks of this project. I'll focus on the social media aspect in this post.

    I created the social media page seen here. We decided to use Instagram because it would allow us to reach our target audience in the best way since a lot of pop artists also use it as their main one. The bio was idea of my partner as we felt like "welcome to my little world" really captured what Annie's songwriting is about. We decided to add the orange heart because it really matches the color palette that we are trying to achieve and I also love how it matches with Annie's hair. 

    I wanted our first post to be kind of a small introduction to who our artist is and I wanted it to be short because people tend to not want to read a caption if it's overly long. So my partner wrote this: "hey i'm annie lemasters, i'm a pop singer and i write songs about things i can't always say out loud. welcome to my little world".

    For the actual picture we included with the post, I sent Annie kind of an inspo selfie to show her kind of what we wanted, and here it is. She did change it a little in terms of the pose and smile to fit what she feels most comfortable and confident in.

             

finished our shot list!

 We finally finished our shot list! I’m really excited to see our idea come to life!

1. Close up of her closing door, her falling against door
2. Mid shot of her in her room on the phone laughing and in love
3. Same as 2
4. Back to close up on floor crying
5. Same as 4
6. Mid shot of her walking into the bathroom, camera looking at the door
7. Mid shot of her in mirror
8. Same as 7 (I kinda wanna do a transition that’s like with a door and her running out with the roller skates in her hand)
9. Skate skate
10. Skate skate
11. Skate skate 
12. Bake bake
13. Bake bake
14. Bake bake
15. Other other 
16. Other other
17. Mid shot of her feet maybe trying a trick (if we can get her failing it that would be amazing), shot of failed baking (idk what yet), shot, mid shot of her collapsing on her bed (from an angle to the side)
18. Same as 17, Monet level, slow zoom into a picture on the wall of past relationship 
19. Close up of her getting close to the picture, over the shoulder looking at picture
20. Close up putting picture in a drawer or smth
21. Mid shot of her suddenly looking back towards her bed, close up of phone ringing with his name on it orrrr like a bunch of texts getting there
22. Close up of her breathing deep and going to bathroom 
23. Close up of her crying on the bathroom floor with shower turned on for dramatic effect
24. Same as 23
25. Close up on her on her bed
26. Close up, her on her bed turning to look at journal (WHAT IS THAT SHOT CALLED)
27. same as 26 
28. Close up on blue journal on her desk
29. Same as 28
30. Close up of her hands opening the blue journal to a fresh page
31. mid shot of her working on her desk, front faced
32. close up of the pen hitting the paper
33. extreme close up of the pen tip moving fast across the lines
34. close up of her hand grabbing the guitar neck
35. close up of her agressively playing the strings
36. close up of her fingers pressing hard on the guitar frets
37. close up of her hand ripping old post it notes or distractions off the wall/desk to make space
38. close up of her hands dragging heavy blankets and pillows into a corner
39. action shot of her taping/drapping the blankets to create the “walls”
40. close up of taping the sheet of music up on the blanket wall
41. close up of pen crossing out a lyric and rewriting it above
42. mid shot of her pulling mic into the dark “booth”
43. Chorus ends
44. close up of the guitar cable being plugged into guitar
45. mid shot of her sitting in the booth with the guitar
46. close up of hitting record button(could be on laptop or on mic or something)
47. mid shot of her taking a deep shaky breath
48. close up of her playing the guitar
49. extreme close up of her fingers moving fast switiching between cords on the frets
50. close up of laptop screen showing audio waves
51. close up of her foot tapping a fast beat
52. CAR CAR CAR
53. CAR CAR CAR
54. CAR CAR CAR
55. CAR CAR CAR(can be like her singing along to this song, windows down, golden hour maybe)
56. Mid shot of her getting out of the car and closing the door fast
57. Tracking shot of her running down the pier to the beach
58. Close up of her looking beyond the camera (aka the beach but the video doesn't know it yet)
59. Done here, beach shots start (already filmed)

This was me while creating this

print research

For this project, we have to create a digi pak for our album! We decided to make a vinyl because it’s what we found most of the target audience of these artists to prefer (including me and my partner). We’re starting the research so we can see what we need to include in ours. 

I started with researching Niall Horan because I own all of his albums and he tends to include a lot of inserts in them that I feel like we could use for inspiration. 

This is for the album The Show that came out in 2023. The front and the back of the vinyl match with fonts and color palette. I really like how to back is really like looking at the picture of the front from the back because we see the title in the glass. I also really like how the names of the songs are centered and at the top because it allos for the picture to be the majn focus. Inside the vinyl, Niall included these handwritten lyrics, but not for every song, he only included a random one per vinyl so that fans would be surprised with which one they got. For his past album Heartbreak Weather, he had two different posters and offered signed versions as well. The color palettes for both albums are consistent with the whole vinyl, which is something I really want to incorporate into my vinyl.

Additionally, Louis Tomlinson’s album Faith In The Future is a vinyl pack that has a black and red color palette that also stays consistent. Inside, it has a lyric book that has exclusive pictures as well. It comes as a booklet instead of just printed on the paper that holds the disk. One of the papers holding the disks is checkered black and red, which matches with the jacket he’s wearing on the cover, which I found it to be a very small detail that helped with the cohesive look of the whole vinyl. 

first day of shooting!

Last week we filmed the first part of our music video!! We started filming the end of the bridge and the whole last chorus because thats the part that we wanted it to be at the beach, and since daylight savings was gonna happen we really wanted to film that part before the sunset was too late. 

We made sure to leave early just in cade there was traffic because we couldnt risk getting late to the sunset. There was thankfully almost no traffic so we ended up getting there really early but it gave us the opportunity to plan even better! 

My partner had the idea of writing the title of the song with sea shells for the ending shot of the video, but it would take wayyyy too long with seashells so we ended up doing with seaweed!

Since we got to the beach early, we were able to get some practice shots for some of the ones we wanted, and we were also able to start filming earlier so we could have the video for that part be transitioning from golden hour to sunset! We truly had so much fun filming this and since we didn’t really have a concrete shot list we improvised a lot which made it even more fun and it still came out really good. I feel like the freedom we had with this also correlates with what we wanted this part of the video to represent, her freedom once she moves on from her past relationship and focuses on herself. Overall I feel like this was a very successful filming day and I can’t wait to continue with this project!

This shot was probably my favorite one to film because I was running backwards and almost fell, which got a really genuine laugh from the actress, whom I’ve been friends with since 5th grade!

Some behind the scenessss

shooting schedule

    Finally starting to think about filming! We're really close to having all our shots developed, and we even already filmed the last chorus of the song! We would have waited a little more to develop it better buttttt since it was going to be during the sunset and we got a time change this weekend, we hadddd to get that part done because if not then the sunset would be at like 8pm and we didn't want that.

    Anyways here's the shooting schedule that we made for our music video (it might change a lot):

March 6th (5-7 pm): shooting for beach (last chorus)

March 9-11th (3-6 pm): shoot verses and bridge

March 27-28th (3-6 pm): shoot choruses 

This schedule might change around a lot because spring break is coming up and we are not completely sure which days we will be able to yet or what we can get done with filming each day, but we will try our best to stick to it!

    We were able to complete the shooting day for March 6th and I'm really happy with how smooth it went! The sunset was absolutely gorgeous. I wish we could have gone to the west coast to actually get the full sunset but we didn't have time. 

    I got home and put most of my clips onto my laptop so I can maybe start editing this part of it!

(doesn't it look so good)