THE ACTUAL END

 Goodbye blog! 

here is my NOT creative BUT critical reflection on my latest project with Pluto the band alongside my peers Gerardo Leon and Ana Handal.

cheers to the end

PAZ!

Final Project components

 Here it is… THE END

LINK TO BLACK CAT MUSIC VIDEO BY PLUTO

Here is our social media page on Instagram 

@________plutotheband 

(8 underscores)

Direct link to INSTAGRAM

Here is the link to both our Digipack and Our video as well

Digipack and Video

(Additional better explained Digipack on our social media if picture reference is not enough)

Not so enjoyable editing…I cried

 Hey blog… So, of course I had to edit… Lol, i’m not the best at it, but i try my best. Not going to lie, i’ve edited music videos before, but nothing compares to “BLACK CAT” there is so much going on and sometimes it’s so hard to sync up the sound and the video… Especially the drums! holy!!!!! you know i tried my best!  I’ve been editing by sections everyday for 4 days and i hadn’t had any other issues with Adobe until… the day they day it’s due (AKA today) 

Typical Sunday morning I started early to do some finishing touches and finish that last minute of editing I had left, excited to see the final product… but, oh my god, it’s palm Sunday… and as the “good” catholic that i am, my mother drags me off the computer to go to 12’clock mass. AKA the longest mass of the year. 2 hours of my editing day gone, but it’s okay, i had most of it almost ready. Before leaving i saved my project, rendered it, made sure i put my adobe skills to work. So i come back to a shut off computer with nothing opened…I’m freaking out.. Holy guacamole what the hell do i do now, Premiere isn’t opening i don’t have a flash drive  on me, I looked everywhere on my computer for the project, nothing. It’s over. it’s gone, my supposed project was 30 seconds edited. Cambridge is going to hang me on a tree. My heart dropped my eyes watered, I see the tears falling in my keyboard. Why do these things happen to me!!!! It’s okay, i have time, I’ll start editing again. Got stressed, there was no way my project wasn’t saved somewhere! So I Looked up youtube tutorial “how to find saved adobe project on computer” BOOM the internet does it again, Cambridge will not hang me from a tree. There is my project. All that suffering was saved by a random guy on youtube. Thanks for that.

After finding my project on the deepest folder of my computer, the rest of editing was still pretty stressful. I felt like all the footage that we had was very repetitive, now that i think about it i might of repeated some footage… It’s okay. I finished, you know on time! woop!

but then.. THE VIDEO DIDNT WANT TO OPEN ON THE GOOGLE DRIVE. So after i exported it 3 times, tried to uploaded like 6 times and  my computee ran out of storage… I made it 

Here’s some pictures of the tragedy 

DIGIPACK RUNDOWN

Hey blog!!!!!!!!!!! the deadline is getting closer and closer and we still have some part of the video  to edit, which I am doing, and need to finish the digipack which we all worked on today during class.

We did a rough sketch that will soon come to life in procreate.

 

We decided to go with a vinyl, we asked the band and they sad a CD was lame and they wanted the whole vinyl experience. So we will have some pictures form the photoshoot incorporated in it, including the band colors and a picture of the actual dwarf planet, PLUTO. 

Here's the rough draft we made in class! I cat wait to show everything how cool everything is coming together.

AMAZING FILM DAY

 Hey blog! we had a super fun film day with everyone today! we met again at the same location and we took a lot of fun footage. I’ve already started to edit just a small piece of the video to have an idea of what I was missing so I could record it today! And i did! so hopefully the editing isn’t as hard. 

Today, Neither Gerardo or Ana could make it on time for the shoot, or at all… Very inconvenient for my part but… made it through! Thankfully Ana was there for approx 20 mins and she helped me take some shots of some things, however Gerardo was with his family down in aventura so, couldn’t  do anything with him. 

I went pick up Gerardo’s camera so i could take some pictures of the band, some solo shots, some all together, i think I a pretty decent job with it! 

HERE ARE SOME BEHIND THE SCENES PICTURES!

FILM DAY last min changes and updates

Hey, blog!! today is the day I'm sooooo excited to go film today!!

There are some things I need to address before going to the location because there have been some changes to our schedule and so many things went wrong this morning.

So we were originally going to LAS OLAS BEACH around 4:30 but the weather was... quite horrible

Not to mention it is pretty far from where we live so it was a little inconvenient for all of us, especially for the band members since they had to bring their instruments with them and stuff... so we decided to change the location to a park close to us called Markham park

Another inconvenient thing that happened is that Jade, one of the band members went on a spontaneous trip with her family and won't make it on time to record. So, we are 90% likely  to meet again on Tuesday to do the photoshoot with the whole band for the Digipack and it will be at 5:30 at Markham park again 

 I will make another blog post today after we record talking about our experience with the band 

PAZ!

Shots been fired

 hello, blog!! No, no one fought hahaha but, tomorrow is finally the recording date!!! Ana and I decided that we didn't want to go blindsided with most things because we didn't think going to film without a plan was convenient and professional so, we talked about making a b roll list and including some shots we could use that would give the video some life. 

 

Although it is not the most detailed spreadsheet of ideas, it will tremendously help us during filming. Not to mention that we will probably just go with the flow once we get to the setting and have everything set up. Were excited to film and thrilled about how the final product will come out!

SONG LYRICS

hello, we finally got the final song today so i wanted to share the lyrics of the new Pluto single!

 Verse 1: 

The murder of crows circles my home

They tell me it’s my time

I knock 3 times I pull 13

My feelings in-between

I can’t ignore it I cannot wait

I can’t control The crushing fate

I felt a shift a rising sea

The chaos taking control of me

Pre chorus:

Remember me

Remember me

Remember me

Chorus:

I can’t handle all these changes

Recall all my mishaps

Break the mirror see the 

Black cat 

Arrows in my head I think I am the living dead

Recall all my mishaps

Break the mirror see the 

Black cat 

Verse 2:

I take a breath and close my eyes

Try to think of blue skies

Come thunderclouds rain starts to pour

It rushes to my core

The river styx flows through my veins

Am I in hell? My life’s a play

Cut out my line Smash-cut the scene

I think I'm missing A part of me