evaluation

Evaluation

This project has bin my favourite as I have had a lot of interaction with citadel (the band) and also they gave me quite a bit of control with the DVD menu and the music video. I have learnt a lot over the past few months from recording gig to shooting on white screen (the infinity curve).
The hardest part to this for me was recording the live gig as this took a few attempts and the sound wasn’t exactly amazing and then when I did get it right finally there was some body stood in the way and you couldn’t see any of the band, and the set of the stage was really poor but I had nothing to do with that. The band ask me to record that gig as they wanted it to looked busy and it was a pretty big as they were playing with a big band. Also I had the camera set up on a tripod and I was taking pictures of the band so I couldn’t see what was going on I should have got somebody to help me and keep and eye on the camera, also I wanted t get another shot from behind the drummer but the amps were stacked so high and the cabs were as well that you couldn’t even see him.
The music video went ok had a few changes but still stuck to the same concept of the singer running around the woods and the “white rooms” cutting back in and out. That was mainly the bands idea and I just filmed it and put it together but I still had my input and ideas with it.

The DVD menu was mainly my idea but citadel gave me a rough idea of how they wanted and I came up with what I have now and they liked it.
They were also happy with photos, as I took a few from all of the gig I took pictures of and them selected the best ones,, well the ones I tough were the best.

The best thing I like about the DVD I made is the photo I took witch I’m every happy and also the actual animated DVD menu I made it in after effect and even though it is quite simple I think its rather effective and it fits in with there genre of music doomy metal and I thought the lighting and thunder and rain would be perfects as they have connotation of doom and gloom
One of things that I wasn’t happy with was the gig I actually used for the DVD as I said before some was stood in the way and it was hard getting a gig for them and they only had a few that I could go and record as some of the venues were to small a dark, and by the time I had resized it and every thing it was to late to re-record the gig and put it on the DVD.

But over all the band like this DVD and I enjoyed doing it again, if was to do it again I think I would make a better plan of was when to meet with the band and record but seem as they all work it was hard to get every one at the same time but it worked out well.

dvd

the dvd is now complete and so is the music video!
i will show it to the band and see what they think and make more adjustments to it.
all needed is now to find away to print on the dvd the dvd design i made.

vidoe

the music video is final nearly done! all i have to do it put some effect on it and render it out!
shoud easly be done by thursday!