Pinnacle Studios

Today we learned about the software Pinnacle Studios. This is the software that we will be using to edit and make our projects on. In my case, I will use the programme to edit my music video.

This is what the main screen looks like when you open up the programme. You have 3 options at the top of the screen. Capture, Edit and Make Movie.

This is where the footage you have selected goes before you edit it. You can watch your footage on the right hand sid of the screen.

Costumes

The costumes that my actor will wear are quite simple but effective. I will probably get my actor to wear only 1 or 2 different outifits.

Actor

This is my actor who will be dancing for me in my music video.

I decided to use Terrance because he is a great dancer and is able to take it seriously when we are filming. He has some great ideas that have helped me with my origional ideas. He suggested that we use behind a stage in front of a white screen because I wasn't sure how to do it at first. I also believe that the audience will enjoy watching him dance because he puts comedy into the routines and has a very friendly personality.

Practice shots

I have taken some practice images of my dancer using the silloette technique. I have also done some practice videos and I can definately see the difference between the first ones at our first location and the second one in a different location.
Here are a few of the first images in the first location.
These were my first attempt.











Then we moved to a different location and tried something else. We found a white screen in front of a stage, so we pulled the curtains across so that it was dark behind and had the dancer against the screen. This is what it turned out like:

Storyboard

Here is the story board for my music video. Because there is not really a story to the video, I have made each section the shot in different locations. This is a basic idea of what I wanted to do. The first and forth square is the shots with the silloette technique. The other squares are the ones where it would cut to a different location.
As you can see from the board the costumes in each square are different. When the camera cuts to the different location, I didn't want just the background to be different, I wanted the dancer's outfit to be different as well. Each square of the story board is each different cut.

Album Name

I have decided that the name of the album will be called 'Neon Lights'. I think it goes well because the name of the song is 'Neon Music'. After looking at the fonts for each of the titles, I thought that the Neon Lights would look best on the front of the album.

Album Names

I have been trying to think of a name for my album and couldn't decide which one to choose. Because the song I am using will be called 'Neon Music', I wanted to link with that. Here are a few that I thought of

• Neon Lights
• Neon Limelight
• Lights, Camera, Action
• Disco, Disco
  

I have also done some samples of fonts I may use to see what they look like and which one looks best.

Here are some more that I personally like and may choose to use the font for the album cover.