Poster

Our poster promotes both our bands first promotional track along with their tour dates. We have kept the style of the poster the same as the organic, rustic feel that the pop video creates. Both members of 'Faulkes' are looking straight towards the camera, they are giving direct address making the audience empathise with them. Without doubt, we have continued to incorporate this organic, autumnal feel.

CD Cover

Below are images of both our front cover and pack cover of our CD. We felt that the colour pallete and the style very much suit the style of the band and their band image.

In addition, the CD cover also is soemwhat of a continuation of the pop promo - they link together, the image below is a wide shot of the performance aspect of the pop video. It is clearly demonstrated that both images are very similar, both having a autumnal, rustic, organic effect. These are key elements to the bands image.

We also created 2 inside images for our digipak which would act as a 'pull - out' for our album. This included the lyrics of the song 'Bruises' along with the credits for the making of the album.

My Pop Video - Bruises by Faulkes

Above is a copy of the email we sent to Columbia Records to request Copyright Permission to use the song, however we seem to be still waiting for a reply.

Editing 9

We have now finished all the shots in AfterEffects and today we put it back into Final Cut Pro, once it was in there we decided to change some of the colours by using the enhance key, to make it look as authentic as possible.

Editing 8

We now have sorted out the ‘bike scenes’, this process was slightly different. We uploaded all the pictures we had taken on a digital camera of a country road into AfterEffects, then we created a sequence with each shot lasting approximately one second – this created a montage effect.

Editing 7

Following our initial work, once they were all in AfterEffects, we went through each shot one by one and ‘Chromokeyed’ in the background. All of this was very tedious and time consuming but it was a repetitive process, and luckily myself and Lily just got on with it together, so it somewhat relieved a lot of pressure. Eventually, once our textile background was now in place, we began to put them on the timeline with markers, which enabled each background to move – as this was the effect we wished to create. Although, we noticed that some shots were travelling more than others, so we had to continuously make sure there was this balance. However, we did encounter an even bigger problem, many of our blue screen shots seemed fuzzy, this was inevitable as the blue screen we used was a thick, course material, so it was somewhat expected that it ended up looking slightly ‘fuzzy’, nonetheless there was very little we could do about it as this was a technical fault, that was pretty much impossible to completely overcome.

Editing 6

Today, we started our editing session with an introduction into how to use the programme AfterEffects, undoubtedly this process was very complex and defiantly set us some great challenges. The first thing we did was initially went through all the shots in the video with the blue screen, we then had to export them individually into AfterEffects. This was all we managed in the first lesson, as this process was very time consuming and we had about 50 shots to consider.

Editing 5

We have been spending a lot of our free time editing, just refining all the shots and making sure that the pace of editing is to the correct beat (which we are still continuously struggling with) and making sure it conveys to the audience what we wished to show, reinforcing this autumnal, organic aspect. We were coming up to the last few stages in this initial part of the process, as I think tomorrow we are going to start working in AfterEffects. Our pop video, without any of the blue screen shots are all placed down, so we just need to do this last part now.