Monday, 19 January 2015

Digipak construction progress 2



The screen grab above shows our 2nd draft for our digipak. As discussed before, we have decided against using the train station band shot, as we felt the lighting was too poor to use for our cover, we therefore decided to shoot in the college studio, where we had full control over the lighting.

We Also decided not to use the shot from behind Josh (Protagonist/ Lead singer) as again, we thought the lighting was too poor. Instead, as shown above, we have used a low shot of a taxi as it links with the constant transport theme and the idea of getting away.

However, our trip to the train station wasn't completely wasted, as we have still used some of the images for the inside panels of the digipak.

This is only a rough draft, and we are aware that somethings need tweaking, for instance the copyright writing on the bottom left of the back cover is too small and almost un-readable on the printed version of the digipak.

Magazine advert Draft 1


This is our first draft for our Magazine advert, we have decided against using the image of the band in the train station as well feel that the lighting in the image is poor.
After creating this we are now editing our digipak in order to change the cover of the digipak to the image shown on this advert.

Within the advert we have used popular music critics 'NME' and 'MOJO' in order to give the advert a more realistic look, to enhance this we have also included the 'download on iTunes' image.

Our record label is shown in the bottom right of the advert however we are working on moving it somewhere, where it may be more noticeable.

Digipak construction progress 1




The screen grab above shows the progression which we have made for the production of our digipak. We decided to have the photo shoot in a train station as we thought it would link in well with the narrative of getting away, also this location is used within the video so we felt it would look more relevant on the digipak because of this.
This is only a rough idea of what our digipak could look like, however we are still experimenting with different images, fonts etc...

Digipak shooting updates





 Today we went to Seaton Carew train station to take some photographs for our digipak. We decided to use this location as it is one which we have used within the video, so it will therefore be familiar to the audience and also because it ties in with the idea of getting away.



Here we have taken a long shot of the full band, we intend to use this image for the cover of the digipak, however we are aware that we may need to re-take this image due to lighting issues.

We don't intend to use all the shots we have taken however we thought it would be ideal to gather as many as possible so we are able to experiment during the construction of the digipak.






Thursday, 18 December 2014

Away from here rough cut 3



In this cut we have decided to patch any blank/black spaces in the video with a clip of our lead singer, we don't plan on using these clips in the final product, however we felt we should fill the blank spaces in attempt to make the video less boring whilst waiting for a clip to appear.
We have also changed a few band shots within the video as we feel they are better fitting to the track.

Monday, 8 December 2014

Away from here rough cut 2



This is our second rough cut of our music video. We are now seeing more of a narrative begin to take form, however we are aware that some shots may need editing in order to be better synced with the music.

Away from here rough cut 1



This is our first cut for Away from here. It's still early days but we're beginning to see a narrative develop throughout the video.
We felt it was important to wait until we had some band shots before we posted our rough cut in order to show how we planned to include and shoot the band performance.