Digi Pack research

After we have finished our music video we will be creating a digi pack for the songs cd itself. We will be making it look as professional as it should and also add creative ideas influenced by technology. I decided after looking at pictures of digi packs to look up some reseaurch online here is what i found:

"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. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies, and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak or Digi-Pak[2] is often used generically, even when the media holder is a hub or "Soft Spot"[3] rather than a full plastic tray".

This was found from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digipak

I also found out that they are currently inventing friendly environment digi packs in order to help the environment and making use of recycled objects/material.

More Filming

Other idea .....

As a group we elaborated on an idea that we will post sticker notes on Lexys door (the ex love interest) saying "tonight i let you go" she thinks nothing of it and it like OK then..... However she then walks up stairs to find them plastered everywhere which makes her angry yet somewhat sad because as much as she is mad she is upset that things have come to an end and wants him back despite knowing he doesn't believe in relationships and that they can work. We have agreed that we will film this scene on Monday at James' house.

Random idea .....

Today I was watching a music video of the song burning up by a band called Twenty Twenty. Their music video was based on a documentary of them gigging and touring all over and had shots of them as band messing around, meeting fans and performing. I saw a clip of them coming out of their dressing room and thought that in order to add more shot into our project we could perhaps include a dressing room door with The Colours printed on paper on the door and perhaps see them come out of the room ready to "perform" to make them look more believable as performing artists maybe?. I also thought about maybe adding in fans wanting them to sign things and linking in the story line buy showing the other two band members happy to see their fans and the lead singer not bothered and down so we notice that this situation is affecting the way he acts because he is still guilty for what he has done. these are just random ideas that i thought of and may not appear in our piece.

Digi Pack

I have been thinking about my groups digi pack for our media coursework. I came across a picture from the band Paramores Brick by boring brick video. They had taken pictures of the shoot and put them into a grid style picture so there are two pictures either side. I thought that perhapps we could use this idea for our and use 4 snap shots from out music video to put on the digi pack so the audience when they see it can relate the video to the song also i think it is a very creative and different way as not manny cds use this idea on their digi packs.

Here is the picture:

Pictures of Digi Packs ....

Today in lesson ....

Today in our lesson we continued editing the footage we have of our music video . We also decided on what else we need to fill in the gapes in the time line as well as trying out a new scene. We had Liam writing Tonight I let you go in capitals on paper as this is a scene before he Wrights more and leaves them posted around his ex girlfriends bedroom or her front door. We had to crop the footage in order for it to look right however we are not so sure whether we should include the footage we have or retake better ones. I think we will have to redo the shots and make them better.

When watching Homecoming by Hey Monday on youtube. I thought that the structure of their music video was the same as ours although the story-line may be a little different to ours the theme of moving on and letting go is the same. They have the band singing and a lead singer singing about her ex loved one who is around , and she states that she has let him go as-well as encouraging her friend to stay away. It isn't 100% exact to our video and has its differences a main one being that the lead singer of this song is a girl but the video still has similar ideas to ours.

pictures from park filming-Not great quality

Todays filming......

Today as a group we went to a local park to shoot one of our scenes . This scene was the scene that takes place the morning after the lead singers argument with hes girlfriend the day before. The singer wakes up in a park on a park bench where he had obviously crashed out during the night. He then looks around wondering where he is and then starts to walk and sees couples of all ages however he doesn't feel sad he just thinks that they are oblivious to reality and doesn't really take much notice. Today we took pictures which i will upload soon, we also spoke about and tried out new angles to help our music video have a wider variety of angles. Today we also came up with an idea of making some of our music video unillustrated to the lyrics but having out lyrics on card and people holding them up , we also when filming one of the couples on a bench had an idea of how we could get the lyrics to appear up on the screen on the shelter to make it look like the lyrics are on the background behind the couple.

TOMORROW!

Tomorrow we are filming another scene for our music video. This scene can wither work and look effective or not. However we decided to take the risk because we could get something really cool out of it. We want to have couples following the lead singer and almost appearing as magic so its a thought of his imagination because relationships are playing on his mind so much hes going mad. I also really wanted to try this technique because it could look really effective. We are also planning to buy some paper cards and writing the lyrics on them and then having someone stand behind a couple with the lyrics on these card papers. as if to show the same situation and how common it is.

Today filming...

Today we had do redo a shot of Liam and James singing the adlib of "heartbreak" for the middle eight of our chosen song. we too the shots one at a time but both facing inwards so when we edit it it'll look like they are facing each other and singing to each other. We did try at first having then back to back but it didn't look as effective as the second time we tried it with them facing in.

So far.....

So far we have filmed our beginning and band scenes. We have also edited the beginning adding in captions such as "get out!" at the bottom of the screen . when chaise says something the caption comes up on the right so we know chaise is speaking. After we added in the text we put the music on top . We managed to get it in time and so the beginning of our music video is ready. we are now adding the close up of Chaise singing to our time line so after the argument straight away we see Chaise sing. All we need to do now is film the other footage that is needed and add that in.

Fridays filming ......

Last friday we re filmed the band scenes as we felt that we needed to redo parts to make them more believable and make the scene alot in time more than what it was. This time we also looked more at the mise en scene such as clothing. James and Liam had glasses on and James this time around wore a plain red shirt. Their image looked alot better than before. we also included a close up of Chaise's face while he was singing. we made him sing all the way through the song while having a close up on his face so we can cut in and out of it when we need to. Another scene we created was having the other band members sing along to the song and sing with the lead singer on lines such as "heartbreak" this eventually in the song becomes an ad lib and we wanted to show this effectively as you can hear in the music at this point in the song there are more than one voice that is heard and so we wanted to use that rather than having the lead singer by him self because it could look weird with all these voices and the lead singer singing something on top.

1st day of Filming

Our first day of filming was last week. We filmed the opening scene where the lead singer and his love interest argue. This argument straight away sets the story for the audience. The location for this was James' house. We shot the scene in two different angles for the effect of using a variety of angles rather than one but to also show every little detail we can. We then filmed a scene that comes later on in our music video where the love interest calls the lead singer and mimes the words "come back come back come back and hope for more" this is to show how the love interest thinks that the lead singer will come back to her and hope to make things right. This in a sense helps up explore the love interests character.

Health and safety assessment

1:No filming in inappropriate locations

2:Check safety of locations

3:Minimize risk of theft of equipment

4:When filming on location ensure teacher or responsible adult where you are going, when you will be back and leave them with a mobile number

5:Check all equipment is working before leaving

6:Ensure you have permission to film if necessary

7:Always film with at least one other person

8:Ensure you have the permission of those you are filming

More Research.....

I watched a programme called videos that shapped the 80s. There were some very intesting music videos that i hadn't seen before and songs that i know of but haven't see the song visually. I decided to pick a top three out of the songs i saw here they are:

1. Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen are a massivly known band who had the advantage of having a front man like Freddie Murcuary. Their song Bohemian Rhapsody was quoted as the "1st exstravaganda that kickstarted music television". This song was amazing musicaly but also visually. The band were on tour and couldn't perform on Top Of The Pops and so they made a music video which suited the structure of the music.

2. Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. Their lyrics to the song were not intentional at the time they were just fun lyrics however this music video was the first ever video to be shown on MTV and now the lyrics do actually have a sicnificance to how the music industry has changed.

3.The third music video i am going to mention is Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie the reason i have chosen this as one of my top videos out of the videos i sawis because it was the first music video to include daring imaginative ideas. the effects thats the directors used on the music video were very hard to create and all their ideas were challenged such as trying to make the sky look black. However they managed to pull it off and i think it is very intresting how images like that today are very easily created because othetechnology we are fortunate to have.

Update....

At the moment my group are currently filming and getting together our annamatic ready to post onto our blog. We are mixing between the two in hope to get more done.

Filming...

Filming...

Today my group worked with another group and we both filmed our lipsynching scenes. I helped out by doing lights, filming and positioning the "band members". We learnt alot from filming today especially when using lights. they have a bigger impact on the filming outlook itself.These two pictures are of chaise and Liam rehearsing and the location/background we featured in our filming.

2nd day of filming ......

My group and another group have decided that we are going to both film tomorrow. We will both film our lip scynching band scenes using the same equpipment and helping give eachother ideas we will colabarate and use eachothers cameras for exmaple we have a scene when we film the band in a full shot but we also want to film the lip singers mouth singing using a close up we thought that is we use two cameras and shoot both things at the same time then it'll will liminate time. This will be really good for both of our groups as we can learn things of eachother and get alot more done together.

Ideas...

Today I was watching the 2009 film The Boat That Rocked today and came across a scene (taken from the image above) that had been edited to make the people on the boat appear by magic I thought looked really cleaver and spoke to my group about creating this effect in one of our scenes for our music video. We then came up with the idea of couples popping up everywhere around him which causes him to think he is going mad. We spoke about how we could create this effect and we mentioned shooting the couples in our location then doing a shot where no one is seen and edit it together whilst making it fast to make it look like they appear from nowhere. We really hope this will work but if not we have spoken about how we can work around it.

Planning update.....

At the moment we are creating and planning our storyboard, we have main ideas that we will use and a few ideas that we may include. During the making of our storyboard we have discussed different shots, editing effects and locations we can use. Our storyboard is coming along well and we are almost ready to upload it and put it onto our blogs.

Rubix's Cube......

In todays lesson me and my group were creating our storyboard. During that we thought about the 80s theme and we discussed how we could include a rubix cube as a prop in our music video to make the audience fully aware we wanted to go with an 80s theme. However I then came up with an idea of using the rubix cube as a metaphor for how relationships go and how one person is always in control for example with a rubix cube we are in contorl of the way it moves which can link to mulipulation of a relationship , we also have to fix the rubix cube which relates to how things fall apart and someone is always left to put the pieces back together again in a relationship and rubix cubes are really fustrating which is also a very good link to relationships. I thought that using a rubix cube would also relate to the fact that relationships control out thoughts and that the colours on the rubix cube represent all the different things running through the mans head.