Monday, 13 April 2015
Week 9 DVD Cover
I decided to make the DVD cover look more professional by moving the DVD logo to the bottom left of the front cover and I used a random bar code generator online to create a bar code that I've used a white on black style for it and placed it at the bottom right of my back cover.
Week 9 DVD trailer
I have now decided that it will be impossible to fit in multiple meals in to my DVD trailer as it will bring the trailer over one minute. Therefore I have decided that this trailer will represent the DVD of live large but will be a basic teaser trailer with no voice-over, for just one episode. This allows me to work to the time constraint of one minute and still shows how I intend to continue, hands on.
I created some more titles to show what's happening as there is no voice-over from me. I added two titles and I placed them on a different layer of the video. This is because unlike the title I want them to be shown over the video and not in their own space. I once again used a still title as anything else I thought would be too excessive and I used a basic font this time, as opposed to my fancy title font. I wanted something easy-to-read for the viewer. The Font type I used was Adobe Caslon Pro.
I've now got to decide what background music to be using as I am not speaking over there needs to be something to keep the trailer up beat. I've decided to use www.incompetech.com to search for some music as it's royalty free music so there are no copyright issues and it does host a variety of jingles for me to search through. After a list of three potentials from the site I came up with one that i thought was the most relevant to the video. As it was a Mexican dish i wanted a Mexican theme and as it's cooking I wanted something up-beat. I settled with a track called "Modern Samba Jazz" http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100153.
I imported this music in to a Bin folder titled "Music" and dragged it in to the second audio layer of of my video trailer. I then edited the length of the track to be the same length as the trailer.
Upon playback of my video i realized that some images did not fit in to the frame in the way i wanted them to. I then had to move the image about by selecting the image and re-sizing it in the sequence to display what i was focusing on. 13/04/2015
I've decided I wanted to add a panning effect to the final image in the trailer, this is because it is the finished product and i want the camera to capture the whole image. I did this by selecting the video effect tab with the image selected, added a starting key frame and then selected the end frame and moved the image from the top left to the bottom right. This then made the image seem to move.
I also used the sharpening video effect on my longer videos as they were slightly blurred via movement I was making when filming the video and also I wanted to improve the sharpness of the video despite upping the contrast, it wasn't enough. I set the sharpening level to 30-35. Now i needed to render the video using "sequence", "render in to out" as playback was becoming jumpy.
15/04/2015
I created some more titles to show what's happening as there is no voice-over from me. I added two titles and I placed them on a different layer of the video. This is because unlike the title I want them to be shown over the video and not in their own space. I once again used a still title as anything else I thought would be too excessive and I used a basic font this time, as opposed to my fancy title font. I wanted something easy-to-read for the viewer. The Font type I used was Adobe Caslon Pro.
I've now got to decide what background music to be using as I am not speaking over there needs to be something to keep the trailer up beat. I've decided to use www.incompetech.com to search for some music as it's royalty free music so there are no copyright issues and it does host a variety of jingles for me to search through. After a list of three potentials from the site I came up with one that i thought was the most relevant to the video. As it was a Mexican dish i wanted a Mexican theme and as it's cooking I wanted something up-beat. I settled with a track called "Modern Samba Jazz" http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100153.
I imported this music in to a Bin folder titled "Music" and dragged it in to the second audio layer of of my video trailer. I then edited the length of the track to be the same length as the trailer.
Upon playback of my video i realized that some images did not fit in to the frame in the way i wanted them to. I then had to move the image about by selecting the image and re-sizing it in the sequence to display what i was focusing on. 13/04/2015
I've decided I wanted to add a panning effect to the final image in the trailer, this is because it is the finished product and i want the camera to capture the whole image. I did this by selecting the video effect tab with the image selected, added a starting key frame and then selected the end frame and moved the image from the top left to the bottom right. This then made the image seem to move.
I also used the sharpening video effect on my longer videos as they were slightly blurred via movement I was making when filming the video and also I wanted to improve the sharpness of the video despite upping the contrast, it wasn't enough. I set the sharpening level to 30-35. Now i needed to render the video using "sequence", "render in to out" as playback was becoming jumpy.
15/04/2015
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Week 8 DVD Trailer
After all my video clips inserted in to the sequence in order, I decided to use a straight forward transition between each video clip and image in the sequence. I decided to use this to create a smooth flowing video as opposed to jumping between images and video clips which doesn't look professional and looks more like a slideshow than a video. 24/03/2015
As I am not speaking over the video, I will need to add some titles in to say certain things that just video can't. Firstly, I need to create a title of the name of the dish "Cuban Arroz Con Pollo" to the start of the video. I used the title tool to do this, I moved the timeline marker to the end of the sequence first as I wanted the title on a black background and not over an existing clip/image. I used the "AR BERKLEY" font and typed out the name of the dish. I used this font because it is a pretty title font to grab attention of the viewer. I moved this title to the top left corner of the screen for ease of viewing reasons. Now i had a title, I created a BIN folder for titles and moved it inside. I then dragged the title on to the timeline. At first it added itself on to V2, a second layer of the video. I wanted it on the same layer so i had to select all of the sequence using the track forward selection tool and moved everything along, then moved the title down to the start of the first layer. I then used the ripple delete tool to move everything along to the start of the timeline. I then added another transition to fade this title in to the first image. 27/03/2015
As I am not speaking over the video, I will need to add some titles in to say certain things that just video can't. Firstly, I need to create a title of the name of the dish "Cuban Arroz Con Pollo" to the start of the video. I used the title tool to do this, I moved the timeline marker to the end of the sequence first as I wanted the title on a black background and not over an existing clip/image. I used the "AR BERKLEY" font and typed out the name of the dish. I used this font because it is a pretty title font to grab attention of the viewer. I moved this title to the top left corner of the screen for ease of viewing reasons. Now i had a title, I created a BIN folder for titles and moved it inside. I then dragged the title on to the timeline. At first it added itself on to V2, a second layer of the video. I wanted it on the same layer so i had to select all of the sequence using the track forward selection tool and moved everything along, then moved the title down to the start of the first layer. I then used the ripple delete tool to move everything along to the start of the timeline. I then added another transition to fade this title in to the first image. 27/03/2015
Monday, 30 March 2015
Week 7 DVD Trailer
Now i have some knowledge of how to use the Adobe premiere it was time to start off filming for my DVD trailer. I decided to make a dish that is cooked for hours in the slow cooker. It is very simple and easy to make and I wanted to involve some of the steps involved in making it, to show the viewer how easy it is to eat healthily. I know this is opposed to the trailers of home cooking from well-known chefs. They tend to just talk about it and stand behind a kitchen and don't actually show you what they'll be showing you.
However, after filming several clips and taking some photos of the process, I realized that this one dish took up longer than the 1 minute that I had to work with. This is a severe problem for me as I intended on showing multiple dishes with some stages involved. 19/03/2015.
I decided to first tackle the problem of getting this video down to 1 minute in Adobe premiere, so I created a new project and imported all of the images and clips I needed and neatly arranged them in "Bin" folders to stay organized. I then created a new sequence using file, new sequence as opposed to just dropping a clip in to the sequence bar to create a default sequence. The reason for this is so I could select the widescreen format the assignment requires me to create, I chose "Pal 32Khz WideScreen". I chose this format because I didn't need the higher audio quality as I plan on just using a free-to-use audio clip and use text to display bits of information about the cooking process.
I then began to edit parts of the clips I had filmed to make parts shorter, I used the mark in, mark out function to do this and then inserted these sections in to the main sequence. Of course I did these one by one from start to finish to create the order of how I wanted the sequence to be. I also used three images in this process because it wasn't necessary to film and would save me time to achieve my 1 minute trailer. After I had to edited them all in order I muted the audio track so you couldn't hear any background noise. 21/03/2015
However, after filming several clips and taking some photos of the process, I realized that this one dish took up longer than the 1 minute that I had to work with. This is a severe problem for me as I intended on showing multiple dishes with some stages involved. 19/03/2015.
I decided to first tackle the problem of getting this video down to 1 minute in Adobe premiere, so I created a new project and imported all of the images and clips I needed and neatly arranged them in "Bin" folders to stay organized. I then created a new sequence using file, new sequence as opposed to just dropping a clip in to the sequence bar to create a default sequence. The reason for this is so I could select the widescreen format the assignment requires me to create, I chose "Pal 32Khz WideScreen". I chose this format because I didn't need the higher audio quality as I plan on just using a free-to-use audio clip and use text to display bits of information about the cooking process.
I then began to edit parts of the clips I had filmed to make parts shorter, I used the mark in, mark out function to do this and then inserted these sections in to the main sequence. Of course I did these one by one from start to finish to create the order of how I wanted the sequence to be. I also used three images in this process because it wasn't necessary to film and would save me time to achieve my 1 minute trailer. After I had to edited them all in order I muted the audio track so you couldn't hear any background noise. 21/03/2015
Monday, 16 March 2015
Week 6 DVD Label
I decided against using a white background for my CD cover as it looks quite boring and unprofessional. I've gone with a black textured image (http://pichost.me/1872163/) to use as the background for the CD. I created another circle using the ellipse tool and using the clipping mask tool selecting the contents on the inside of the circle Illustrator cut the background to just be inside the circle. I used this tool so when it comes to printing there won't be any overlap between the DVD and background outside of the circle. 11/03/2015
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Week 6 DVD Cover
Firstly, after completing the basic logo for my DVD, I added on to the spine of my cover by firstly resizing the arm in a separate document and then saving the Illustrator image as a medium quality JPEG and then opening it in Photoshop. From here i duplicated the layer in to my DVD case and copied that layer so that there were two arms, one for the top and one for the bottom. I did this because if I just left one at the top, the area underneath the "Live Large" text would look bare.
Upon further observation and peer feedback of my DVD cover, I realised that the image of my bodybuilder on the front cover looked squashed. Using transform tools I quickly elongated the image to make it look more realistic. Also, the pepper pot on the counter was behind "Sergi's" arm. As Sergi was standing behind the counter this looked unrealistic, I simply rearranged the layer with the bodybuilder on a layer before the food counter to put this right. There was another problem with the food counter, the image of the steak and the chopping board seemed to be floating in mid air and there wasn't a drop shadow effect around it as there was with the food counter. I therefore created a touch-up layer and used a 2 pixel brush, selected the color of the counter and brushed along the line of the food counter.I then added a drop shadow effect to the steak image and the effect looked in line and the same as the rest of the food counter.
I added a gradient effect to the back cover. It was originally plain gray. I thought this was too plain so i added a gray/white effect. The initial problem with this gradient is that it made the text underneath the food images unreadable. I therefore changed the text to the same Orange that the title "Live Large" was in, in the front and back cover. This made the text readable all through the gradient. I kept the writing at the darkest point of the gradient white so it stood out more as it's a description of the DVD and needed to be clearest. I also added a "DVD" logo to the bottom right of the back cover - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=DVD+logo&biw=1525&bih=693&noj=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hIr9VLuGGYvfavGHgoAO&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&dpr=0.9#imgdii=_&imgrc=9L6vZ0sLkvWDJM%253A%3BBofbUoSKFY5N0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.clipartbest.com%252Fcliparts%252FnTE%252FX7b%252FnTEX7bxyc.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.clipartbest.com%252Fdvd-logo-images%3B2059%3B2059.
09/03/2015
Upon further observation and peer feedback of my DVD cover, I realised that the image of my bodybuilder on the front cover looked squashed. Using transform tools I quickly elongated the image to make it look more realistic. Also, the pepper pot on the counter was behind "Sergi's" arm. As Sergi was standing behind the counter this looked unrealistic, I simply rearranged the layer with the bodybuilder on a layer before the food counter to put this right. There was another problem with the food counter, the image of the steak and the chopping board seemed to be floating in mid air and there wasn't a drop shadow effect around it as there was with the food counter. I therefore created a touch-up layer and used a 2 pixel brush, selected the color of the counter and brushed along the line of the food counter.I then added a drop shadow effect to the steak image and the effect looked in line and the same as the rest of the food counter.
I added a gradient effect to the back cover. It was originally plain gray. I thought this was too plain so i added a gray/white effect. The initial problem with this gradient is that it made the text underneath the food images unreadable. I therefore changed the text to the same Orange that the title "Live Large" was in, in the front and back cover. This made the text readable all through the gradient. I kept the writing at the darkest point of the gradient white so it stood out more as it's a description of the DVD and needed to be clearest. I also added a "DVD" logo to the bottom right of the back cover - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=DVD+logo&biw=1525&bih=693&noj=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hIr9VLuGGYvfavGHgoAO&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&dpr=0.9#imgdii=_&imgrc=9L6vZ0sLkvWDJM%253A%3BBofbUoSKFY5N0M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.clipartbest.com%252Fcliparts%252FnTE%252FX7b%252FnTEX7bxyc.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.clipartbest.com%252Fdvd-logo-images%3B2059%3B2059.
09/03/2015
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