What is a Digipak/what needs to go on it?

Digipak is a patented style of CD,  DVD or BD packaging. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. As part of our task we will need to produce a digipak so as we are going along we will be continuously thinking of ideas to go on the digipak.

Advanced Coursework Brief

Now that we have finished our video we now have to start thinking about our digipak and magazine advert. We are going to be making a promotion package for the release of the album, this will include a music promo video (which we have just completed), with a cover for tis release om DVD (digipak) and a magazine advertisement for the DVD.

Personally, I am very much looking forward to making the digipak, advert and poster because it will give us a chance to use our imagination and see if we can genuinely appeal to people.

Finished Video!

We have finally finished our video today, we are very proud of ourselves and think that it is one of the best! A video of it will be posted on here shortly so keep checking.

Filming 2

After completing the main part of our filming the other day, this has spurred us on to do more. Today we went out and filmed a whole load more which we can edit into our final video shortly. Todays filming mainly included lip syncning from the main character and a couple of random couple shots that we can put into the gaps we haven't filled yet.

Editing

Charlie and I spent the whole day editing today, which we dont regret because we have now completed 80% of the editing and only have a few little gaps to fill in. We have jsut realised that we may need to get a couple more shots though which isn't ideal but in the end it will be good because we wont have to repeat any shots to fill up the time. Overall the editing has went really well today.

Filming

Today me and Charlie went out to film a massive chunk of the film in London. As we were prepared with a detailed outline of everything we wanted to get filmed it was success and there is a lot to be editied next time we are in school which we are looking forward to.

Another Group Member Leaving

As I walked into school today my teacher told me that 'the word on the street' was that Georgie, our third group member had left the group and had tried to start on our own. Charlie and I were very shocked at this news as she is not the strongest media student and would definitely struggle in her own. However we are not phased by this and we are determined to prove to our teacher and the world that we were the brains of the group.

Key Music Video Conventions

There are many different traditional conventions for a music video. The obvious examples of this are;

• lip syncing
• editing to the beat
• artist/band in the video
• mini narrative

The example below is a very generic music video, as its mainly lip syncing, looking into the camera, with both artists singing (one of them playing an instrument)

Different types of music have slightly different key conventions, for example girl groups/artists tend to have a specific dance routine and stick to that throughout the video, also they tend to wear bikinis just to have an excuse to show off their bodies. Such as the example below...



Another genre that has more specific conventions is RnB/Hip Hop, this is because they tend to have lots of dancing girls, expensive cars, flash jewellery and sitting around a pool. An example of this would be David Guetta ft Akon - Sexy Chick





However some artists choose to ignore all of the typical conventions, this is normally typical of Indie bands and dance acts. The example below by Aphex Twin doesn't use any of the normal conventions and is designed to shock and surpirse the viewer.

Storyboard

Although I have already posted a storyboard animatic I thought it would be a good idea to show you the individual pictures of our storyboard so you can spend as much time as you like looking at our ideas.

Before going out to film we need to make a story board to give us an outline of what we are going to film so we dont go out blindly and ending up wasting days out filming and camera footage. The storyboard will contain; a detailed picture (or as detailed as we can) of what we expect the shot to look like, the duration of that shot, and what type of camera shots we will be aiming to use. We are confident that our storyboard will conquer this as we now know exactly what to do. Here it is:

Above are shots 1-8

and Below are shots 9-16

We realise that just these shots are not enough for the entire video but we have only drawn out roughly the rest of the video so we will be re-doing them neatly and putting them on the blog as soon as we can. 

Filming Schedule

To make sure we used our time productively and efficiently enough to make sure we got as much done as humanly possible we decided to make a schedule on where/when we needed to film and what we needed etc. To make sure we complete the video on time and have enough time left to edit the footage we need to make sure we stick to this schedule and complete it to a high enough standard.

As you can see below I split a table up into 3 rows (one for each day of filming) and 5 columns, these were split into; Scene, Location, Cast and Crew, Costumes/Props and Time to Meet. I have made it this basic so everyone can easily see what we need to be doing and when, also so nobody has an excuse if they do not show up.

Once we have filmed our scenes and got enough footage we would need to start editing. Below I have devised a second schedule but this time for the school time we are able to use in the Mac room editing. As you can see it is separated into the days of the week and along the top the lessons of the day, totalling to 6. After I constructed the table Charlie and I sat down together and discussed what days/lessons of the week we were free. After we found out what lessons we had free we would shade in the box that we could spend editing. Below is the table.

Change of Plans

As another one of our group member have left we need to do a lsat minute change of plan as she was our main character. For this reason we have drafted in a member of another group to help act for us. As she is very creative we can tell she will be a better actor than our previous choice and will put her own spin on the song which is good seeing as we dont have much time left. But overall we are very happy that the group member has left so now we have another very imaginitive person in the group.

Group Member Leaving

I have just received some rather bad news that Megan, one of our group members and dear friends, has left sixth form thus meaning she will not be carrying on with media this year. This was a bit of a shock at first and we have had to re-think our ideas as she was meant to be our main character and driving us to Southend.

Possible Locations

Today we discussed possible locations of where to film our video. We came up with quite a few ideas, the initial locations were; a beach, an arcade, firework show, theme park rides (adventure island) these are all shown below: