Digipak

This lesson we looked at digipak CD casing. We learnt that digipaks contain a booklet along with the album cover which includes images, information about the artist and lyrics of songs from the album. We are going to produce out own digipak including pictures from when we have our photoshoot and we are also going to have the lyrics from our chosen song in it. After looking at different styles of digipak, artists tend to use a different picture of the band for each page, sometimes from one of their music videos with information about the background of the album and where they got their ideas for their music. For our digipak we are going to include pictures from out photo shoot as the backgrounds of the pages. We will include the lyrics for our chosen song and we will research the meanings behind the original to create information about the song for our audience to read through.

This is an idea of the sort of digipak that we are looking to create, the top case is a fold out digipak with all of the information on the inside. The pictures on the inside of the case also match the CD giving the album its own unique house style. This is the sort of guide that we are going to follow because it will make the product look more professional and is a good way for us to include information about our artist.

Filming/Editing influences

When filming, we have tried to look at examples of Justin Bieber and the way his videos are laid out and how they look throughout. There are a lot of different shots and angles, such as close ups and then long shots showing dance numbers. We won't be using dance numbers but we will try and incorporate the same sort of style.

We think that his videos are well organised and we want to follow that example as we want ours to look as professional as possible.



This is Mistletoe by Justin Bieber, this video is more of a narrative compared to newer material which si the style that we are going for. We took this style on board and began to create our own version of this style for one of this artist's newer songs.

Focus audience

The audience that we are looking to attract is the younger generations, teenagers. We think that our actor and image for our actor will guarantee popularity among that generation as it is what the current genre of trends, style and clothing revolve around now a days. 

Musical Influences

When we were looking at influences for our song choice, we looked at love songs because of our choice of a narrative video. We looked at artists such as Plain White T's, The Fray, Far East Movement, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. When we looked at the artist styles we compared them to the music videos for a selection of their songs and decided that the route of narrative because we decided that this would be suitable for our song choice and as a group we understood the ideas of narrative videos.

This is the original video that we took inspiration from for our filming, this is why we chose this artist because we are aware of the sort of style of the music and the videos that come from it. This meant that we would have a better outcome for our music video.

Filming: Day 1

We started filming our video on Wednesday morning and worked for quite a long while on different parts of the song in different settings. We began our filming inside where we filmed half of the first verse. Then we moved outside and completely the recording of verse 1 and 2 plus the 3rd verse.

We used a different actor for this recording than Danny as he was unavailable for filming. We will be using these recordings to help Danny grab an understanding of what we'll want from him through these parts, and look to build on what we done previous to him starting.

We will continue filming again next Wednesday, and hopefully be able to progress well with our work as a group.

Update

Tomorrow, we will be starting filming for our draft piece. Graeme will be playing the main actor as Danny is unavailable. We are hoping to have most of it done depending on weather conditions.

08/11/13

In this lesson we finished our story board and have finished decide what we are going to do throughout our video. We will upload a photo of it later on, but it is completely finished.

We also have decided our first day of filming will next wednesday, on the 13th of November. As our main actor is not available for filming for before we have to have a draft copy in, we will be using one of us to play the part as the main in it. Jacob will be playing our main actor, but only for the draft.

We will update at the end of next lesson to say what progress we have made on our project.