Digipak/Album Cover

Whilst filming at the beach one of the members of our group 'Sarah Hewitt' decided that it would be a good idea to take a few pictures of our surroundings as we may have been able to use them in our album cover and digipak. Once looking through the images, we decided that they would be fantastic for us to use as it follows the theme we have portrayed throuhout our music video. We have not yet decided which images will be used in which promotional packs, but we have put together some edits of the images used and will be thinking more in depth with how we will be able to use them to our best advantage.

As you can see from the images above, the first one is the original copy of the photos taken, and the second is the one we have edited and will be using in either our digipak or advert. The image has been croped, and the brightness of the photo has been increased to make it a more stricking and beautiful image.

This image is one of the most important images taken throughout the day, this image is the one that helped us figure out what we wanted our album to be called. It is very lucky that we came across this image as we now how a perfect picture to go along with the name of our album. This image will probably be one of the main focuses in the digipak.

 

This image is one that I took when on a location scout to the beach, when looking through the photos from that day we thought that this picture would be able to be used in the album cover as it links back to the music video being on the beach and also follows the theme of nature. The sunset looks beautiful and we would really be able to work with this image, in either photoshop or on a tablet to make the image more stricking. We really want to focus on the light in the clouds it makes it seem as if you are walking to some sort of happiness and glory. We will be developing our images and points further once our editing it completed.

Font/Album Name

When we were shooting our footage at the beach we came across a very large picture on a building with the words 'The Root Of Memories', straight away we thought that this would be a fantastic image that we would be able to edit and use in out digipak. As a group we decided that the slogan on the picture we found would also fit in nicely to be our album name, as the words also fit in with the theme of the music video we are creating.

As a group we have come up with some different fonts so far, and when we come to produce our album cover and digipak we will pick the best font then.

The Root of

Memories

This typeography is extremly bold and stands out due to the different sizes and positioning of the words, it is very simple which is something that we want to portray throughout our products we don't want it to be too complicated as it will stray away from our naturalistic theme.

The Root of   Memories

This is again very simple, and gives off a sense of old fashioned qualities. Due to the typeography being bland it will stand out againt our album cover, digipak and advert as it will differ from what we will be showing through them all. Even though the text is simple it will stand out to the audience, as it seems as if it is the type of text you would come across daily.

 

The Root of Memories

This font is the most different from all our choices, we wanted to be able to also see what else could work within our choosen theme. This text could be eye catching for an audience, but does not fully fit in with what we wanted our font to look like. Our singer is a male, and the typeography seems to feminine to have for an album cover. If we have our font strong, and powerful it will give off the message that the album is about certain things that he is passionate about, and wants to let his audience follow them.

 

 

 

 

Balloon

Again we have encountered some problems whilst editing our clips, when we are trying to use the 'Leave Colour' effect the red balloon is staying red but other parts of the clips such as the scenery and Catherines face are also turning red. This is because on certain clips the sun has been shining and reflected onto Catherine, the effect is picking up on this and thinking that we want to also keep this red. We are in the process of trying to figure out a new way that we will be able to keep our original idea for the clips we are having difficulty with.

Pictures

Below are a few pictures from when we shot our footage for our music video. There are pictures from the scenery, and our actress Catherine Kirk and also a group photo of us all after all our footage was shot.

Balloon

Whilst filming at the beach we did encounter some wind which has effected out shots. We were hoping to use 'Matte' to keep the colour of the red balloon, but due to the wind this is not possible. We knew that if it was windy we would have to change the effect that we were planning on using, as we faced the problem with the wind when we tried 'Matte' on a poppy in one of our planning tasks. During this week we have been playing around with our footage, we have been thinking about how we were going to create the shots in black and white but keep the red colour of the balloon. We had some difficulty at first with keeping the colour of the balloon in the shots and we thought that we were going to have to abandon our unique idea. When playing around we came across the effect called 'Leave Colour', after playing around with the effect for a while we found a way that we would be able to keep our shots in black and white and be able to keep the colour of the balloon. When using this effect on certain clips, there is a shine of red missing from the balloon, as when we have used the effect it has picked up on the sun shining on the balloon and will not notice that it is red. This isn't very noticable and we will be able to work around the problem, however when creating this effect for other balloon shots if we face the problem again, we will have to change the effect we are using so we can create the image perfectly.

Below is an image of how we have been using the 'Leave Colour' effect.

Overview

Over the past few months we have gone into a lot of depth into the certain type of Indie Pop music video we want to create, we know what type of camera shots and angles are used in the videos which we will/have put into our own music video. We designed our storyboard way in advance so we could have plenty of time to practice each shots so we could shot them perfectly on the actual footage day. We have all kept up to date with out planning, equally giving out tasks to everyone in the group, in our last task 'opening scene' we did all the work together which took up a lot of time, so we decided in the 'music video task' to allocate certain aspects of research to each person in the group and them to discuss it as a whole so we all understand and know the focus.

I personally have been a lot more detailed on my blog since the last task, I have realised that anything that happens during planning, filimg or just discussions should be blogged about so everyone can get an insight to new ideas or changes.

We have already shot the beach section of our music video, which is the main part. Even thought we had to change the days of filming, it all ran very smoothly and we had no major implications. As we have filmed all our footage outside the quality of the clips is already much better than our AS task (where we filmed inside), the video camera work best outside. As a group we really enjoyed our filming day, and are now in the process of editing our beach clips. We will soon be filming our scenes in the woods/fields with the male character. After all the footage is done, we will finish off the editing process, and then begin with the other products needing to be created. We are on track at the moment, and the amount of planning that we have designed and done into the music video has really helped us with this.

Filming

We were able to get all our beach footage shot on Sunday, the weather was as expected but just a tad windy. We worked against the wind to get all the shots that we needed and once looking over at the footage we shot, we think we did the best we could have done and used our time wisely. We followed the storyboard, so we managed to get all the shots we had already created for our music video, but we also caught some footage on the day that we will proably also be using in our music video. We took the balloons with us on the bus t South Shields, I asked the balloon lady to put an extra type of chemical in the balloons to make them last longer and not deflate on our travels, they stayed up all day and we were able to use the prop just they way we wished to. We decided last week that we were going to take two video camera filming with us, I decided to look at the camera the night before to make sure they were fully charged the second video camera was flat, I charged the camera all the way through the night and once filming began the camera unfortunaltey died, luckily we were prepared with a second camera and this default did not interupt our filming at all.

Sarah Hewitt also brought her own normal camera in from home, where we took some 'behind the scenes' footage and some pictures of the day filming so we could capture how the day turned out. These pictures will be uploaded on the blogs shortly. We took plently of extra footage, so we could have a wide variety to choose from when the editing process begins.

We will be filming the next part of our music video in the upcoming week.