Thursday, 25 October 2012
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Initial Ideas
Monday, 1 October 2012
Technical Tutorials
We had 45 minutes to create a tester album cover. We had to use images, it had to contain a barcode and record label logo, it had to have a title and some song names. I have good knowledge with photoshop so I could use my skills for this exercise. We had to descale the images using the SHIFT key to make sure the image doesn't become pixellated and stretched. We also learned that the composition of the images is key because if you only take a picture of the top half of a body it would look cut and weird, not professional like we are aiming to create. The measurements of the canvas were 26x12 (12 for each side and 2 for the margin). This exercise allowed us to learn the layout of an album cover and what needs to be done to create a successful and professional looking album cover.
For the second part of our technical tutorial we learned how to use green screen successfully and some tips to do so. Tips before editing; make sure the green green is stretched to reduce creases which will make chroma-keying much easier as it will be more of a solid colour. Another tip is; make sure lights are facing the fabric to decrease shadows cast onto it, to further help this stand further away from the green screen to not have your shadow on it.
After the filming we then key out the green and replace it with a background of our choice, for our practice we chose Mount Everest. When the image is selected place it on a track and have your video placed on another track. On the effects tab, select filter and choose 'chroma-keyer', then use the select colour tool and choose the green background. This allows us the delete the layer and have a background of our choice. This has given us another technique we could use in our music video.
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