Evaluation Question 4- Photoshop

How we used Photoshop to create the album cover

This was an important programme when it came to us creating the album cover. The programme takes some getting to, however Cameron is a bit of a wizard when it comes to using Photoshop as he has used it several times before. Since it so professional it allowed us to easily create an effective album cover.

To create the image we had to edit each individual image of the bands faces with the same filter to give them the same effect. The on top of this filter, we added a "neon glow" to give them different colours. The paintbrush tool was used to colour any blotches where there had been shadows in the original pictures, to then even out the colour and give it a more professional look.

This shows the possible filters we could have chosen.

Here are advanced options when applying filters, Cameron has applied a neon glow to the album cover. Of course, it doesn't look as good but that's because we had already used the filter and it doesn't really work very well when you put it over the whole image, this is just to show what Cameron has done to create the finished piece.




The following images were created using photoshop

Evaluation question 4 - Adobe Premiere Pro

We used this programme to create and develop the music video. As a group we were already familiar with it as we used it last year, therefore editing the video didn't as difficult, however we felt that editing a music video was more difficult than doing a short film opening sequence like we did for our AS.

Here is an example where we have used Adobe Premier Pro to take a poor shot of two people fighting in the town centre and slowed down and focused it on the action to make it more interesting and a useful shot to have. Beforehand it would have been impossible to use because it went by quite quickly and you found it difficult to see what was going on, which shows since its still quite quick in the finished piece.

On the next screenshot, you see Cameron Fairburn adding the black and white effect to the scenes of the music video, checking that they are the same shading throughout and to check that all the cuts make sense and sync up properly.

This is a close up of us syncing up the video. This was when we put together the scene with the bouncer, we had to get the cuts just right and make sure that punch seemed realistic.

On the final screenshot we see us putting the band shot together, so that it played in the background throughout the video to help fill in any gaps and so on.