Final Digipak Designs

                                   1. The back cover                     2. The front cover

                                   3. Inside (front) cover             4. Inside (back) cover

Whilst designing the digpak I ran into several problems. firstly, I found getting the appropriate pictures for the theme and general tone of the song was quite difficult, so I took the possible subject matter of drug abuse in the song and used that for the digipak idea taking photos of several types of drug and finding a way to incorporate the song title into each picture.

Secondly when I came to putting the finishing touches on the back cover such as the record label name and the bands website, I realised I hadn't written a track list, so I decided to make up some names of songs for the digipak. This was actually quite a fun excersise as i enjoy creative writing and thinking of the song names required this.

Shooting schedule and Filming Updates

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

Here I have copy and pasted from word the document I have used as a schedule for my filming.

Jan 25th 

Narrative

out in wem by 3 - begin filming

3:00pm final doorway + running shots on school premises

3:15pm find a suitable are with bench and film drunk shots 1 and 2 and bottle drop

3:20pm walk through wem, getting various tracking shots, head towards dads house

3:40pm film shots in dads house, argument etc

4:00pm half an hour to get shots of messy room, and lead up to running scene.

4:30pm finnish in time for kieran to get picked up

EXAM PERIOD for editing

Feb 18th

Performance

3:30pm in studio with lights, camer, and band set up.

run through song twice for each of these different shots

-Long shot of whole band

-pan shot, going from side to side while band playing

-close up of singer

run through song once for each of these different shots

-close up of guitarist

-close up of bassist

-close up of drummer

-high angle band shot

-low angle band shot

done by 5:30 latest.

FILMING UPDATES

So far I have begun and nearly completed filming the narrative side to my piece. I managed to get all of the shots I thought I needed in one night, but after I double checked with my storyboards and realised I had left out two or three shots, they weren't central to the video but I would like to have them so I need to go out again with the actor I used in the narrative and finnish filming. In terms of the performance side to the video i have done very little, apart from sort out a time, place and cast for the filming.

I chose each member of my cast for a particular reason:

Sam Gainsborough, who will be doing the vocals looks a lot like the singer from the arctic monkeys and he is a huge fan of the band so I know he knows the song well and will do it justice while performing.

Tom Edwards who will be doing the drums was chosen because he is an extremely capable musician and the drum track in the song is exceptionally hard.

my guitarists I again chose on there musical merit as I know they will be able to keep up with the songs fast pace.

here are a couple of shots the the narrative that might go into the final piece.