IMAGE CHEF

I discovered a free online program called 'image chef', on this program you are able to create diffferent images and shapes using words and colours. I felt that this may be quite appealing when constructing my Album cover. Below are a few of my experiments:

 

I chose to experiment with flowers and shapes associated with a good life, for example, music, flowers, smiley faces and heart shapes. I also chose to use colours that connote nature, love and happiness as I hope to use positive shapes and objects in my own album and digipack.

PRODUCTION: STABILISATION OF FOOTAGE

 This lesson I used After Effects to stabilise some of my footage. This involved finding two contrasting two tracking points on the image. By stabilising the footage we were able to remove the hand held effect and replace it with a steadier tripod appearance.

 

RESEARCH: Visual.ly.com

How to have a Successful Career in Music infographic

PRODUCTION: CLAREMONT LANDSCAPE FILMING

RESEARCH: CONSUMPTION

 

 

Youtube has become the place to g not just for music videos but for listening to music. A survery by Nielsen in August 2012 found that more American teens listen to YouTube than any other platform.

YouTube, together with specialist music portals such as Vevo and Noisey, allow companies to monetise music content, which until recently they have not really done.

Previously, they would license their videos to MTV, then watch in the sidelines as the channel made millions in advertising. Now labels recieve royalties every time a video is clicked on.

RESEARCH: SOUNDCLOUD

 

Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created. Everyone has sounds to share.

Upload or Record

Whether it's a quick sketch or a polished symphony, upload or record your originally-created sounds effortlessly to SoundCloud in a few clicks. They'll deal with pretty much any audio format so you don't have to worry about that.

The Waveform

See the shape of your sounds with the unique SoundCloud waveform player that visualizes your sounds and makes them good looking and playable too. Now your sounds are ready to get truly social.

Timed comments

Timed comments let your friends and fans give you valuable feedback at specific moments throughout the waveform. Pinpoint exactly what's working well and start a conversation around it.

Through Soundcloud I will platform some of my work.

RESEARCH: BUG

 
The phenomenen, BUG is a music video showcase to give big-screen exposure to the most awe-inspiring new work in music videos. It has evolved music video experience. Jointly put together by David Knight and Adam Buxton; it has spawned its own spin-off TV series.

For Knight, the digital era is 'a widening of horizons in which a conventional form is turned into something brilliant.'
 

 

http://www.bugvideos.co.uk/about.go

BUG: The Evolution Of Music Video was launched in April 2007 as an ongoing series of bi-monthly events at the BFI Southbank in London – the home of British cinema – celebrating global creativity in music video. Since then BUG has become a phenomenon.

BUG's objective is to give big-screen exposure to the most awe-inspiring new work in music videos. That means everything from work by well-known masters of the medium to young newcomers working on zero budgets. The sub-heading of BUG – The Evolution of Music Video – refers to the new democracy in videomaking created by the digital revolution – both in creating and distributing work. BUG is all about brilliant visual ideas, and as such BUG consistently unearths amazing new filmmaking talent.  It's described by Knight as 'going round to a friend's house and having him open his laptop to show you the interesting and amusing things he's found or made.'