My Digipak

My artist has been placed on the front cover of my digitpak allowing the audience to have a familiarisation of the artist by seeing the artist on both the digipak and in the music video. I placed different images from the music video for the inside and the back cover of my digipak, I challeneged the conventions by using completly different images from my music video and not using similar images to make the digipak standout. The back of the cover is of the lights I filmed when the camera went out of focus, this demonstrates what the urban life is like at night time, a complete juxtaposition towards my calming front cover.

Setting up!

In the freezing cold, setting up the equipment such as the tripod, camera and fisheye lens in the car park. With the bright sun shining down, there was a lot of natural bright lighting that looked fantastic. The horizon was perfect for stella and the footage we have of her with the horizon in the back was amazing!

3rd day of filming! Vlog

A quick vlog of stella and myself before we started filming for our actual music video.

Finally, The Fisheye Lens!

Finally, Stella and myself were given the high definition fisheye lens for our camera for our music video. Here I am trying to work out how its works, what it looks like when on, and which way the lens connects to the camera. I realised the lens is bigger than the camera, so it means when using it I just have to hold it as I film Stella.

Inspirational Digipaks and What a Digipak is:

A digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI Media, a MeadWestvaco, Inc. 

Our own digipak will be made from thick card and is shatterproof and allows amazing graphic display.

We are still contemplating on using gloss varnish or just card with a tone of 4 different printed colours (CMYK) or spot varnish to give a shiny effect.

The dimensions will be size of 139.5mm x 6mmx 125.5mm

We are only having 4 panels even though we could have up to 8 panels.

We will price our digipak at a reasonable price for everyone to buy.

Inspirational Video

My classmate Elisha Adams showed the class this inspirational video to everyone, and I liked it so much I just had to put it onto my blog too. The shots in this video are immaculate, and looks very professional. The only thing I don't like about this video is there is no lip syncing, however I put the video up because of the shots.

Inspirational Video

While I was at the BFI, Pete Fraser spoke about Jay Z's 99 problems video. I never realised how inspiring this video really was, it has well over 300 different camera shots and each time I watch the video I am finding something new in it. There are a lot of close up shots in this video of strangers that myself and Stella are planning on doing too.

Getting ready to head home from a long, productive day at the BFI which I enjoyed a lot. I learnt quite a lot for example having a lot of close up shots, which is important. Having more footage than what your suppose to (as back up), and I also learnt you don't have to follow your storyboard (for it to be exact) it's a guideline.

This is the class, waiting for Pete Fraser to come out and present his presentation to us about the coursework (music video).

Stella and myself while doing our blog about the BFI.

On our way to the BFI in South Bank with the class.

BFI

On Thursday 22nd November we went on a trip to the BFI in South Bank. We met a director called  'Corin Hardy' who gave us great tips on filming and story boarding, we also saw some of his work and footage he did, there was quite a few shots that did inspire me for my own music video. Pete Fraser also showed us old A2 music videos, some good and some bad, this gave us a good insight as to what Mr Fraser is looking for. I mad a lot of notes on what we need to do and what we shouldn't be doing, I'm looking forward to then end product now.

Signifiers

In this video of Rihanna Diamonds the signifier that is being portrayed are diamonds being signified of the finer things in life. And the love she shares with the lover she is singing about.

Theory on Signifier, signified, symbolic codes.

On Tuesday we learnt theories to do with Symbolic codes, Signifiers and the Signified.
Ferdinand Se Saussure's theory was that the signifier is the physical form which we can see or hear for example words, diagram, picture, music etc.
The signified is the meaning which we attach to the signifier i.e. learner driver - Symbol: L sign.
Roland Barthes added to this theory by Ferdinand and called the way that these Signifiers were organized and put together the 'Symbolic Codes'.Theory on

Mise-En-Scene

Here are the locations we have decided to pick for our music video.

Here is our animation for our music video

So Far...

So Far Stella and myself have started videoing for our music video, we do have a dealine which is the 27th Novemeber, I personally dont know how much we will have by then but if we keep on top of things as we are doing now, I don't see why we won't be finished filming by then. We have worked out our time schedule for filming and this week we shall start Wednesday as we finish early and Thursday from 12:00 as we have home study.

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