Final construction of our music video

This is the final construction of our music video, the editing has been checked by our teacher and therefor have decided we are finished.

COSMO POSTERS

here are some posters i made up for cosmos tour merch

Props used in the video.

Why did we use the props that we used. And how did we use them.

Micky Mouse - We want to use a Micky Mouse toy for a shot in which we move a light in front of the toy to move the shadow. We think this will be a very imaginative shot and fit well with the genre.

Beatlejuice Figure - We have already used this prop in a practice session and it worked brilliantly. We used it in a panning shot in which we slowly revealed the figure.

Microphone Stand - this will be a good prop for when George performs in the video. It will make the area in which we perform look like a studio.

Microphone - The microphone will be used by George when playing the Cosmo character in some of the performance shots. We won't use the microphone in all the shots as we want some variety

Pocket Watch - We are planning on using a pocket watch for a small time lapse shot in which we can fit into the music video. This would fit well with the theme and help the video flow.

Guitar - George will pretend to play the guitar in some of the shots we have planned. We would like to get a close up of the guitar which goes down the neck of the guitar. We have seen this executed in the Jack White video.

Rock'em Sock'em - We wanted to keep with a 60s theme and these toys seemed very fitting with the time period. They are also quite a retro toy and can be used in the video as a moving prop as they fight.

Lava Lamp - The lava lamp is a very psychedelic image as it is usually linked to hippies which were very popular in the 60s. This is yet another reference to the 60s which we hope to carry throughout the music video.

DIGIPACK FEEDBACK

I love yours, the editing and photoshopping is fantastic, it’s quite mesmerising and the text goes with the overall theme.

I think this is the best digipack. There is a brilliant theme throughout this entire digipack. All of the slides are similar but all have distinct differences.

I think that Cosmos's digipack is extremely unique. The way that they have kept the colour theme the same but have slightly changed the background makes it interesting to look at. The front cover with the hand is a little confusing though what is this meant to show.

Edited very well, very creative. Could include an image of the band or artist as they are not introduced.

WWW: Looks amazing barely anything to fault EBI: The artist was on there possibly so you know who he is apart from that very good.

Cosmo's digipak is very well edited as the universe pictures look very professional and absolutely euphoric. Could be a little more focus on Cosmo's identity.

The Cosmo digipak is really good. The colours go really well together and it’s not black and white layout like the rest. Bright colours are being used that makes it look more professional and the images used work really well. The layout overall is really good and works well with the rest of the images, colours and font.

I love the colour scheme and the hipster/hippie imagery throughout but it looks half complete. 4 pages have no info or details, just overlays of imagery. Lay off the Photoshop for a while, and get some content in here.

Probably the most unique, love the colours and represents the genre well. Like how the same font has been repeated. Although there is no image of the singer! - This should be added so we can see them

This digipak has a lot of colour and fits the genre well. The images are relevant. The writing is hard to read on the back page as it is almost see through.

I like the galaxy theme I think they need more writing

Looks really cool/professional Font on back cover, is that song titles or random words Colours work for the theme

I like that the space theme fits with the name of the artist. I think this is so well-executed I can't actually fault it. Very unique, striking colours, amazing artwork - did they make the pictures e.g. the floating heads and the hand?! Amazing.

Really effective art work, you can tell they have put a lot of effort and time into it. The theme of it looks great and very 'magical.' Improvements: special thanks page - the text is really long winded. Also, the song titles are hard to read on the back album cover

To do

Although we have had our deadline. Our teacher has given us some feedback on our video and has told us to change it accordingly to make it better. George has come up with a few ideas to replace the shots that we need to get rid of.To replace the cartoon shots there will be more shots of me.This will include a shot of a hand tapping along to the rhythm of the music which will go alongside a shot of a foot tapping followed by me looking out of the window "when i look out my window

Draft progress

  After getting the feedback from our peers, we decided to change the video accordingly to make it much better. here is a video using split screen made by George to show the changes that have been made etc. We have also used cartoons to make reference to the 1960's -70's  era in order to make a clear connection between the song and the era. We also felt this made the video much more exciting and endurable. This is because each show was quite slow and quite plain.

Journey of the digipack

this is a presentation i made showing the direction and the progress of the digipack. I have shown changes we have made and problems we have faced and have had to change as a result.

Feedback

First Draft Feedback from GDBrew

This is the feedback that we have gotten from  our peers that have watched it. Although we have alot of negative feedback we also have a lot of positive. We have taken this quite well and this has helped to shape the outcome of the final video.

video rough cut

This is the rough cut for our video. We have shown our video to our peers and unfortunatly we got ALOT of negative feedback however, this hasn't knocked our confidence and we have managed to make the video much better according to the feedback that we have seen given. So far we have improved the video massively by using a range of  clips that split up the video making it less boring.

alternate digipack

alternate digipack

George has also made a digipack to show that we have also looked down alternative routes for it. However he has used the same theme as mine he has used images of his own.  I personally really like the head and shoulders shot and have used this in our final digipack design.

Digipack first daft feedback

George has created a prezzie  showing the feedback that we got on the first draft of the digipack  that i created. I am very pleased with the feedback that was given as we got a nice mix of constructive criticism and praise. I have taken the criticism on board and have taken action accordingly

FINAL DIGIPACK

This is the final digipack outcome. As you can see we have gone with the the "cosmos" as a theme throughout the design process. After getting a lot of feedback from others  about the digipack i found that everybody loved my design ideas and  the direction I was taking it in. I have changed the digipack according to the constructive criticism that was given.  People fed back to me saying that they could hardly see the text on the track list because the text was translucent. I changed this by making the background darker and the text much lighter, the contrast helping to show off the text much more clearly.

I also changed one of the photo panels by replacing it with a much clearer picture of cosmo. This  was created by George when he made a trial digipack in order to show a different take on the digipack. Luckily the colours went very well with the rest of the digipack  because of the use of fucia and purple. I changed this because people said  that they couldn't distinctively see cosmo within the picture.

track list

This is the improved track list. i had to change this because people were finding hard to read  the text. For this reason is changed the background as well as white highlights throughout the text. This has cleared up any confusion and also ties in better with the rest of the digipack

diary

We have come up with a new album title. After a large discussion we have decided to change the name from happy to Spectacle.This is because Happy is already a famous album by  Pharrel Williams therefor we have come up with a new name. We chose the name spectacle because it means large and flamboyant.This is how we want Cosmo to be perceived by the public. This is also cosmos first major album so having it called spectacle will be appropriate.

website

After getting feedback from our website Ben decided to change the website to fit with our digipack. So far we are very content with our website however Ben is still in the process of making the website look more professional.
                                         
http://thycosmo.wix.com/cosmo

UPDATE DIGIPACK

I have redone the front cover and the cd cover, all i have left to do now is the song list an the digipack will be completed.

CD for cosmo digipack