Production - Editing our texts.

Editing our texts -

Today my partner and I had some spare time and in this time we decided to do some media work and try and get ahead so we will not be rushing days before the deadline. As our music video deadline has been moved to Tuesday and our magazine advert and digipak deadline is on Friday we have decided to work on both. As we have been mainly working on our video for the past few weeks we decided to look at all our of texts and see what we needed to change or add to them and what aspects we liked and wanted to keep. We are both happy with our final digipak design, although we may change some images around to make it less focused on leaves etc.. However we have now decided that we would like

 to team up with the Samaritans, and that we needed to include the Samaritans into all our our three products. For example adding a small note from the band and production company thanking the Samaritans.

We have also been changing around our time line for our music video to make the song fit and also to make the way the singing moves his lips to the actual song. An example of how we had to change the video would be where we had an electric guitarist at the beginning of the video yet the electric guitar was not heard until around a minuet into the video. This meant cutting shots and moving pieces around but we eventually fixed it so it looks as if the guitarist is not in the video until the electric guitar comes in.

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As we wanted to team up with a charity as we wanted to put our message in the narrative section of the video across strongly, we wanted to include the Samaritans phone number, logo and message at the end of the video so people would know the video links in and also that if they are suffering from any of the troubles show in the video they can contact someone. We have used Fireworks to create a few different designs for this and at the end we asked what people thought of the designs and which would look more appealing at the end of the video.
For image 1:
People said that it had a strong effect on its own and that it may be very simple but it gets its point across right away. Also that the colours work well together and using the slogan makes it seem more authentic.

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From image 2:

People said they liked how we had included the image from the video and also added a merge effect as it goes well with the effects we have included in our video. They also stated how the image seems ad if it would also look good on a poster for the Samaritans charity.

As both feedbacks were reasonably good we decided to have a look and see which would look the best on our music video towards the end, we have decided to sway more to the idea of image number 1 as it is more serious and plain. Yet this idea may change on the final stage of our editing.