Inside Panels Idea Scrapped

We realised that these images dont' fit very well with the theme of our digipak and album. The whole idea that the band members' features are not recognisable doesn't fit with the branding of the band as they deserve to be recognised rather than being 'faceless'. Therefore, we are going to have to design some more inside panels, with the band on them. We also decided that we could produce something that looked more professional.

Inside Panels 2nd idea Development

  

 The cut out of the drummer.

 The cut out of the lead singer and guitarist.

 The cut out of the bass guitarist.

The abstract image that the cut out images will be layered on top of.

The end result.

Inside Panels 2nd Idea

As our first idea didn't work, we took inspiration from the front cover of  Slow Magic's album, Triangle. We decided that we would use the photographs that we took for our original idea. What we were to do was to cut the body out of the photograph and then place the background with a silhouette of each of the bodies on top of an abstract photograph that I had taken myself.

James Blake Attempted Blur

As you can see, this design idea has not gone to plan. What we did was, in photoshop I layered 3 different photographs on top of each other, to create a blurred face effect. However, something has not happened as we would have liked so we are going to have to think of new ideas as this idea hold little similarities to the rest of the digipak.

Digipak Panel Ideas

Tall Ships Everything Touching

The Digipak Has only four panels. The abstract image is used throgh the front and the back page. This fits in nicely with our idea and we have taken this digipak into consideration.









On either panel is a slot, on for the CD and one for a poster, on one side of the poster is an abstract image reminiscent on the front cover, on the other side is, the lyrics from all of the album.

On the inside panels is thank you and credits, to producers, family and friends.

Hot Chip The Warning

The digipak has 6 panels, the number we will be having on ours. The outside panels have a the same image in the background, the imagery represents the band well, it's full of colour, the band are a fun band. The songs titles are very prominent and in a different colour ot the background.


The inside panels, are of similar imagery to the outside, just with a black and white colour. Very simplistic inside.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums Heartcore

The digipak has 6 panels, again the amount that we will want to be having. The front cover is very abstract as is the other panel on the outside. The back panel contracts to this as it is full of colour and shape. The song titles are at the bottom vertically in small print, we will use this way of laying out the song titles.

The inside panels match with the back panel, they are very abstract still just with more colour and structure.

Our Digipak

• We will have 6 panels
• Inside the front panel will be the CD
• Inside the back panel will the the lyrics poster
• Abstract imagery portrayed on the digipak

Inspiration Front Cover of Digipak

From the opening of Veritgo is a close up shot of an eye, which suggests that the film is about the psychology and mental state of the film's protagonist. We may use this imagery for our digipak, a close up of an eye, because our album is also based around mental instability and being on the inside of someone's head. We will probably use this on the front cover because it will be very noticeable and indicative of the album theme, but it will also draw the attention of a buyer.

James Blake's album cover has inspired our group because the imagery suggests a man with a split personality maybe, or inner emotional problem, this fits with our theme and could use this technique of blurring a face on our front cover or somewhere else in the digipak.

Somewhere on or digipak we will probably use abstract imagery, suggesting an alternate view on reality.

Template for Digipak

Here is the template for our digipak that i have created. It takes influence from the majority of digipak templates already on the music market, but has a poster tucked into one of the panels as well as the CD. We positioned the poster to be on the slot on the front panel because it is more vulnerable to a little bit of damage here and we didn't want the CD being damaged. The front panel will open left, then the middle panel will open right until it is completely open.

What We Want in Our Digipak

For our album digipak, we are wanting something that ties in with the theme of the music video, but not directly referencing the music video. The main theme of the music video, is mental instability, and different ways of seeing reality. We are wanting to create an image for the band that portrays them as having an alternate view of life. We also want images of rural environments that are quite surreal.

AS Class Feedback

First Draft Final

Shoot 4 - Clown

We shot the clown shots in the dark and around tea time so it wouldn't be too busy. Overall there weren't many issues whilst shooting, but these are the issues and successes we found.

Issues

• The bridge wasn't quite wide enough for some side angled shots of the clown running past.
• Sometimes the light wasn't bright enough in certain areas so we had to shoot right under the light.
• A few pedestrians walked past whilst we were shooting so we had to shoot another take.
• It was hard to run up the stairs with the mask on and actually see where the steps were whilst looking up so the camera could capture the clown's face.

Successes

• The shots were simple to shoot from what we drew on our storyboards.
• It wasn't time consuming at all.
• The lighting gave the exact shadows and silhouettes we were wanting over the mask for the sinister look.
• The weather held up so we didn't have to protect the camera.
• The location was perfect for what we wanted.

Clown Costume

For a complete scary, serial killer type look we went with the mask, leather trench coat and working boots. I chose to be the clown in this because of my height so the shots we took were looking up at me to create a more sinister effect.

Clown Mask


Leather Trench Coat


Working Boots

Location for Shoot 4 - Clown

The antagonist in our music video is a scary, evil clown that is invented as a part of the protagonist's dilusional mind. We will shoot the clown at a sinister looking location from different vantage points, using different types of camera movement to replicate the movement of the protagonist on screen and give a clear understanding of his struggle in the hospital bed.

There is a dystopian looking bridge in Halifax town centre which is a great location at night to film the clown. This is because of the grafitti, run down look and shadows created by eerie light and overhanging steel beams.

 

Shoot 3 - Performance

The filming did not go as well as we would have liked because the car park was not empty as we had anticipated it would be. As we arrived we found the spot we wanted and started to set up the performance area. A few different cars with people came along and just parked up and stared at us doing our filming, this caused us to feel rather uncomfortable. Unfortunately due to this we felt like we couldn't fully perform as if we were playing the instruments properly.

Here are the issues and successes from our performance shoot..

 

Issues

• The car park wasn't completely empty when we started so we felt slighlty under pressure and that we were being watched.
• Some hilarious people were putting us off by beeping when we were filming, little did they know we weren't using the diegetic sound. Unlucky.
• The corner where we were filming had a strong smell of urine which was off putting to say the least.
• It was difficult to lip sync for our singer.

Successes

• All the shots filmed were easy to shoot with no obstructions.
• The lighting was perfect without the use of extra lighting from car headlamps.
• We all timed our playing well so it looked realistic that we knew what we were playing.
• The car park was empty enough for us to perform.
• We were able to play the song through the cars stereo so it was easy to perform.

 

Shots for Performance

We took onboard the comments our teacher gave us about being able to achieve higher marks if we added performance. With this we drew up some storyboards of the types of shots we wanted including tracking, extreme close up and low angled shots.