Youtube Tutorials

Though all members of the group were able to use Adobe Photoshop to some degree, we needed some extra help in order to create the effects we wanted for our music video. In particular, we wanted to make our portrait (the Dorian Gray reference) become increasingly distorted and cracked over time. For that we had to turn to YouTube, where we found a number of tutorials that helped us create the desired effect. Here are two of those tutorials.

For the video itself, we also wanted to add some effects to the love interest in the final shot, in order to make it clearer that she was turned into a vampire. A video cannot be edited in Photoshop, however, so we were introduced to Adobe After Effects, which none of us had used before. Again, we were able to find a video tutorial that enabled us to easily learn what we needed to do.

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Monster Music Video [2nd Draft]

In this post, we have improved our first music video drafts and made amendments based on the feedback we have received earlier on. By doing this, the audience will have a clearer outlook on our music video. However, this is just the second draft as we need to re-shoot the band scene and have more references to Dorian Gray.

Audience Feedback

This is a power point presentation addressing the feedback received in reference to the first draft of our music video, including the steps we will be taking in light of the thoughts of our audience.
The most common comment about the:

- Narrative is about the love interest and her role in the music video is unclear to the audience. We will improve this by having the love interest more camera time.
- Camerawork is about there needs to be more angles from the band scene and individual shots of each member in different camera shot and angle. We will improve this by re-shooting the band scenes in different shots and angles.
- Editing is the overall effects are all positive feedback. However, personally, I think we need to create more transitions and video effects to the music video as it will create more atmosphere to the "fantasy" themed video.
- Mise-en-scene has a good and positive feedback on the costume, location and props. However we need to make the band scene livilier, thus re-shooting it.

Feedback presentation from AsianSensation

(Explanation by ATHENA; Presentation by KAWSAR)

Monster (First Draft)

In this post, we have edited the first cut of our Music Video for the song Monster by Imagine Dragons.