Blog Nineteen - Update on progress.

I started working on my DVD casing first, this was so that I could get an idea of what I wanted to base my DVD on and the things/people I wanted to include and focus on. By doing my DVD cover first I was able to explore this in more detail and look at key things. I was able to add a large amount of things onto my case and add effects to make it look even better than it already did. I did have issues when adding icons like the age rating as I wasn't 100% sure as to where to put them. I looked at DVD cases I had in my house and on line this helped me to ensure that I had put them in the correct places. The logo's I wanted to add where the last things I had to add as I had done everything else. I have now completed my DVD casing, ensuring that I had included all of the needed aspects and more. My DVD casing took about five weeks to fully complete and I am very happy with the outcome.

When It came to working on my logo and disc cover I had no idea's as to what I wanted to do. I looked around at different tutorials to see if I could see anything that would suit the genre I was doing. I struggled a huge amount as I wanted it to be really specific to my ideas. I found a really nice tutorial on how to do a sky and a sun using the flare tool so I decided to use this and see how I may be able to incorporate it in to what I was doing. About a week after doing the Sky image the thought had occurred to me that I could use this as Arsenal's sponsors are Emirates. I added a plane into the image and made it into "Fly Emirates". Doing this altogether took me about a month as I kept adding more stuff into it, I am very happy with the outcome.

When doing my logo I also had a huge amount of trouble deciding on something to have as my logo as I had a large number of ideas but just didn't know which to use. I asked some people which one they thought was the best and then decided on having the FA Cup inside a trophy with the word "Arsenal" inside. Keeping it simple but making sure it fitted in with the rest of the theme. Once I had decided on a logo it didn't take very long to put together, about a week, I am very happy with the outcome. 

When I was doing the trailer I had an unlimited amount of clips that I could use which  made it a lot easier for me to do. The hardest part was choosing the clips that I wanted to ensure that my trailer was not longer than a minute. I had easily decided the people I wanted to put in my trailer, the issue was finding the right clips to use as I knew there would be thousands even millions out there for me to use. When I chosen my clips it was quite easy to put them together to get my final produced trailer. I struggled a bit when it came to doing the transitions as they wouldn't always work and be where I wanted them to be. However I overcame this hurdle and am very happy with my finished trailer. 

I decided that I wanted to have an insert with my DVD as the vast majority of DVD's come with one in them. I found this really simple and basic to do, I found a background of grass in which I had decided to use and then added my previously cut out image of Henry and added some text to it.

Blog eighteen - how I chose the music to go with my trailer

For me music and audio was always going to be an issue unless I wanted screaming fans playing all the way through the video.

We were sent to a website that had a massive amount of music that we could download & use in our trailers. 

I wasn't too sure what sort of music I wanted too use, so I had a look around the given website and listened to a few different tracks, making sure that there was a variety in the genres that I was listening too just too make sure they were different and I was getting a taste of different music that I perhaps hadn't listened to before. I did find it quite difficult to choose a bit of music in which I thought would fit in well with the theme of my trailer. 

After listening to a few I had finally decided on one. A fairly mellow tune which I feel fitted with the trailer.