Diary Entry: 10th December

Today me and Lauren wanted to make sure our magazine advert was completed and to continue editing our music video.

We started the lesson by finishing the magazine advert, all that was needed to be done was the review quote and the price. However when printing our last version we noticed that it did not print the background colour of black although the printing options were suitably changed. So instead we came up with a new idea today of drawing a black box at the bottom and made all the features in front of the box. Doing this meant the advert kept its format but printed properly. Another feature that was added was the review from Kerrang. We wanted to get a proper  review of the album so decided to browse the web to see what different media institutions stated about the album. Once doing this we inserted the quote and rating stars into our advert. We presented the advert to our teacher and we all agreed on there was a gap at the bottom which looked bare. Lauren then came up with the idea to have a smartphone barcode reader which if scanned it would take the buyer to the pretty reckless website. This is excellent as it shows our technical skills and we did this by finding a website online which was free and easy to input the url and it would create the square code itself. We put this at the bottom in the gap to ensure the page was full but not overcrowded. Another thing we did was get rid of the itunes logo as it is not the codes and conventions to have the hmv and apple logo together. 

Moreover once finishing this print artifact we then edited our footage, whilst I was editing the print artifact Lauren added some effects to the production such as feather background to make some of the shots look properly like a flashback. We then edited the last walking shot by changing the brightness and contrast as before it looked dirty and made the filming quality look poor. By doing this it made it look a lot better.  We then showed sir he complimented the footage but said the ending would be better if the speed was not changed but it was razored and jumps to different places on the walk.  We started to do this however did not finish so will continue next lesson. 

Author: Kiran Paul