Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ancillary Task: Template of a digipak
This is the digipak template that we will use to help us design our digipak for Kate Nash’s album. We have chosen a 6 panelled digi pak so that we will be able to show the biggest range of pictures.
On the front picture we want to include a close up of the main character. This will draw in buyers, because they will be attracted to the picture of her, they will also recognise her as the artist which will increase sales.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Ancillary Task: What is a digi-pak?
What is a digi-pak?
A digipak is a style of CD packaging. Typically they consist of a book style outer binding with one or more plastic trays, in which CD’s are placed. It was created in 2000 and has been very popular since.
The information needed to go on to the digipak is the track list, the album title and a picture of either the artist or the band. It will also include information of which record label the performer is a part of.
The most common size is the 4pp Digipak which measures 139.5mm x 6mm x 125.5 mm.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Evaluation of progress
Evaluation of progress so far
To evaluate our progress so far, we have to look at all aspects of the course. When it comes to blogging we would say that we are working at and averagely good level. The quality of our blogs is at a high and detailed standard so far.
We have used different media in our blogging, for example we have included pictures, photos and mood boards as well as textual blogs.
Risk Assessment Day 1
Risk assessment of Day 1 shooting
Location: Forest in Shenfield
- Slipping on wet grass or leaves in the forest – can be prevented by walking carefully and being alert at all times
- Tripping over sticks and logs in the forest – can be prevented by taking care at all times and making sure you look when walking
- Crossing the road on the way to location – danger can be prevented by always looking when crossing the road
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Shooting Day 1
Shooting Day 1
On our day on of shooting, we went to a forest and filmed some basic shots to use all through the song. The footage that we got was not quite what we wanted and so therefore we planned to change our initial ideas of footage and have chosen a different girl to star in our video.
I have created a shooting schedule to help us plan our day of shooting our music video. Below I made a timetable of what we will be doing on the day. As both I and Rachael had other subject lessons in the morning we know the earliest we could start to film was 11.20am.
11.00am – I and Rachael will meet in the Media Room. Firstly we must remember to check we have the correct equipment, the camera is fully charged, we have a Tripod and the connector for the camera and tripod.
11.20am – Leave school and start heading towards our location with all our equipment. This walk is roughly 15minutes from school
11.40am – Arrive at location, soon as we arrive we should try setting up quickly as possible, moving the Camera in position, getting ourselves into our costumes, hair and make-up all ready.
12.00pm- Start our first shoot, which will be the first two line of the song, just standing in-between trees with leaves on the floor and miming the lyrics from a mid shoot, then again close up. Throughout the rest of the day film from all different angles so when editing, it flows.
12-00pm – 2pm - Two hours to continue filming. Here we will do shots of both me and Rachael lip singing the lyrics, close up, mid shot, full length shot and an idea of filming our lips as we mime the lyrics.
2.15pm – Pack away all equipment and get ready to start walking back to school for the end of the day.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Props and costumes
Above is a mood board of props and costumes that we intend to use in our music video. The costumes we plan to use in our video are very girly.
Floral is a pattern that represents girls and their light hearted attitude so our character will wear floral to show happiness and a cute side of the girl.
Also the leopard print fur coat is included to show an interest in fashion.
The bottle of mouthwash is convenient to the song so as the song is called mouthwash and the lyrics ' and i use mouthwash' this is a good idea to use mouthwash in the video to relate to the lyrics from a visual point of view.
We have researched different lolipops that would fit in our video perfectly and we decided the 'wirly pop' lolipops were the best. This is because they are colourful, very big and also very 'Americian' by being Amercian these lolipops are sold in america.
We have a bubble machine that we will use, this is to create a different setting. The bubbles would make the setting very flowly and dreamy. With our actress wearing a floral dress during this scene the bubbles would be used, it will make it another different background and the bubbles blowing out would fit in well with the beat of the song.
Settings and Locations
Settings and Locations
LOCATION 1: BATHROOM
The first setting we decided to choose was a bathroom; we chose this because the song is based around ‘Mouthwash’ so this is something we have chosen to play on. We wanted to do a shot of someone using mouthwash and then spitting it out into the sink, and then to water would form a word. This would be shot in a bathroom.
LOCATION 2: GIRLS BEDROOM
LOCATION 3: FIELD
LOCATION 4: LONDON
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