Digipak

these are some of the ideas that i have come up with for our media digipak. i designed these using corel paint shop pro. i have used some photographs that we have taken and then i have manipulated them on the computer to come up with these designs. we had to design our digipak to go with the music video that we have created. i tried a few designs out so that i could see which we liked best.

Audience feedback

Since we've not had much feedback on most of our other posts on this blog we decided to get some audience feedback by putting our video onto facebook. 

The video has been on there for two days and so far all feedback has been positive, most clicking the 'like' button and leaving comments saying something along the lines of "i like it, well done guys!"

One comment pointed out that the video was a little choppy and we agree that it is, but think that this is due to the video having to be converted to a quicktime file, which has lessened the quality somewhat.

More comments are being left all the time so we will continue to take any criticisms or praise. (Preferably praise)

This is the video so far, again everywhere that has no video in it will be shots of he band.

If anyone could comment on anything that you find good or bad or that needs changing that would be very helpful

Thanks

Hey!

We've not written on here for quite a while because we've been too busy filming and editing. But now we have filmed and edited everything! . . . except the band scenes.

Obviously everywhere on the picture that doesn't have a piece of film in it will be band scenes.

But apart from that, the video is finished. While I (Tom) have been editing the final parts, Ashley and Charl have been starting on the digipack.

Basically its all going to plan and starting to come together nicely!

We have continued to film and edit our video, we have only to film the fight scenes and performance until we are finished. Yesterday we filmed the breaking up scene. We decided to have it by the river so that it would be a significant place for the story, this is why he decides to go there to commit suicide as it reminds him of his girlfriend.

Also, Tom got chased by a dog to whom we gave the name of Charles!

We've started filming the bridge and graveyard scenes and finally bought the song from play.com. We have captured all of our film so far and started to do a little editing.

Matt Stawski

Matt Stawski.
A filmaker from midwest america. He is inspired by the history of motown.
He began make short films and music videos with friends in grade school and high school.
He achieved a bachelor's degree in film and video and concentrated on the directing side.
His motion graphics has led him to being nominated MVPA award in 2007 in the computer effects category.

Matt has directed videos for many different bands including:
All Time Low
Fall Out Boy
Train
Charlotte Sometimes
Street Sweeper Social Club
The Maine
The Pink Spider
Anthony Green
Lisa Miskosky
Paramore
The Hush sound
The Bled

We chose to look at Matt because we like some of the bands that he has made music video's for. Charlotte had analysed a music video from the maine, so he fitted very well.

Matts style when creating video's is very dominated by narrative but with the performace on the locations of the narrative. he also uses alot of animation within the live footage, he uses cartoon writing which are usually lyrics within the song. he also uses alot of stop motion in his videos. There are alot of unusual camera shots and angles within his videos, giving an interesting spin on his videos.

Matts describes his style as:

"Matt is known for his surreal style that mixes graphics with live action, creating fantastical and hyper-real environments and effects for the artists and narratives in his video."


Here are a couple of video's which show his style.