Digipak example ideas.

After looking into the typical digipaks for our type of genre we went on to try to design our own ideas for what we wanted our digipak to look like. We started by thinking of a band name and deicided to go down the line of total or binary oppersites and ended up with 'Darwin in Eden' which is an intresting name as both the ideas or creationisum and evolution are possibly the two biggest conflicting ideas of all time.

We then desided to get the Album name and decided to go with 'ignorance' as if you belive one of these ideas you are often ignorant towords the other. For our Album art we decided to have blurred images of either people or trees once agin mirroring the idea of eden as both trees and people (man) are crutial to these.









These were some of the ideas that we came up using photoshop for examples of what we wanted our digipack front cover to look like.

Digipak codes and conventions

The first step that we took to planning our digipak was to look up the typical codes and conventions of the genre in order to look at examples of how different bands of a similar genere have layed out any of their digipak to give us directions of which way to go.

These are some of the example that we looked at in order to get an idea of how digipaks for this style of video are shot and therefore gave us ideas. One recuring theme that we picked up on while looking at these styles of digipak was that the frount cover was often obscure or unclear images which gave us a clear idea of where we were going.

Account of the Shoot Day; Narrative.

Our Narrative took place in a car park in Guildford. This was very useful as it was a location shot and so very little was needed to dress the set all we needed were 3-4 cars which were provided by myself, a cast member and two members of staff. Upon arriving at the car park we were directed to an appropriatally sized area that had been cleared so that we could use it.

The First thing that we did upon arrival was to remind cast members of their roles and figure out the best way in which the sequance should be shot in the space that we had been provided with. We desided the best way to go about filming this sequance was to shoot them in the order in which they occored so we started with pete callopsing and then went on to Connor noticeing then passers by stopping to help and finally the arrival of the ambulance and paramedic. We filmed each part of the sequance from several angles, so that we had alot of choice when it came to editing.

These are some of the angles that we shot from to get a large choice.

We shot the majority of the shots in this sequance in slow motion this added alot of drama to the peice however it did present us with issues as in order to maintain a high quality of shots we had a six second time limit for any shot in slow motion this ment that we had to time all of the actors ques and movements perfectally or we would have to redo the shot.

When we desided to do shots of the paramedic arriving we desided that we wanted shots of the Ambulance diveing throught the car park and to do this we used a 'gopro' action sport camera and attached it to the top of the vehicle as it drove through out the carpark this ensured a clear steady shot without the risk of breaking a camera.

The days shoot ended at 9.30pm.

Account of the Shoot Day; Performance.

The day started at 8.30 in which me and my group did any final checks on the set and props for example, checking that all of our guitars had straps and that none of the strings were broken etc.

The Band then arrived at 8.50 and we allowed them to rehearse and get used to playing with the music smoke and lights. One band member had to leave in order to sit an assessment at 9 so we looked at framing close ups of the drummer and vocalist that he would not be evolved in.

When our missing band member arrived at 10am we were able to shoot mid shots and wide shots of the band as a whole, and did close ups of the bassist. We then decided that we wanted some more active shots of our band and so decided to lay down some tracking and a dolly so that we could do some smooth tracking shots of the band so that the performance element would have some more movement in them.

We did two main types of tracking shot in our video, one which envolved the track arking around the band in a semi-circular motion so that we got close ups of each of them. (this was a slow smooth tracking shot). And another that was a diagonal layout of the track which was a much more rapid movement of the dolly with me pulling the dolly imi operating the camera and laura doing the follow focus as the different band members were different distances from the camera and this was to ensure that they all stayed in focus throughout the shot.

One Factor that we found to be a slight issue with using total silluetteswas that you could not really see that the vocalist was singing. This led us to reconsider our lighting scheme and we knew that we would be unable to redesign so desided to use a reflector which envolved shining a followspot onto a large reflective disk which was angled towards the vocalist face. This gave us the perfect amount of light as his face was still mostly hidden but we were able to make out enough of his facial features to see clearly that he was actually singing rather than just standing there.

At 2.30pm we had finished shooting our performance element and went on to planning our narrative element.

We were given a two hour time period from 3 until 5 on the Friday before our music video shoot in which to build our set. Luckily only our performance element required a set as our narrative element took place off campus. What we did was set up a lighting rig and hang fluorescent strips and follow spots off of it in order to give our band the backlit look that we had been aiming for.

These are some photos of the afternoon in which we can see the rig being set up and the lights hung off of them.

We also laid out any instruments or performance tolls such as microphones drum kits and amps so that we could get an idea of the spacing that the band members were going to have and finalise what it was going to look like on the day.

Narrative Practice.

As our narrative element contained alot of emotion and the CPR contained quite close contact between two of the characters we desided to give them a rehearsal in order to give them an idea of what they may have to do on the day. This allowed them to get over any sort of embarassment that they may have had over what they were going to have to so so that on the day of the shoot we could get the most out of their performance and ensured that the shoot day went as smoothly as possible.

Band Practice.

4 days before our music video shoot we grouped our band members together in order to see where they had got to in terms of learning lyrics and instrumental parts to the song and got them to play along to a playback both seperatly and as a group in order to give them an idea of how it is going to feel to play with the playback and how it will feel to play as part of a band rather than just seperatly.

Shooting Schedule.

Shooting Schedule

8 30      Meet in studio to set up and to check lighting and make final adjustments to setting

8 50      Costume check (band should be wearing costumes already)

            Give short brief to band to explain the plan for the day

9 00      Rehearse song through with lighting and playback of track

            Throughout band’s rehearsal – get camera set it right place for first wide shot

9 25      Give feedback on band’s performance – make any adjustments

           

9 30      Begin shooting

Shot list

• Wide shot of whole band
• Mid shot of whole band
• Side shot of drummer and guitarist
• Mid shot of singer
• Side shot of singer
• Side shot of bassist

11 00    Break

11 30    Continue shooting

12 45    Lunch

14 00    Finish off any shots that need to be re-done or think of other possible shots

17 00    Collect camera equipment and bring to Mini Bus in Lower Car Park

17 20    All cast members to meet at Mini Bus in Lower Car Park

17 30    Leave to go to Guildford

18 00    Arrive at Car Park in Guildford

18 10    Dinner – Collect something from Guildford (McDonalds?)

18 30    Set up camera equipment and any lighting equipment if necessary

18 50    Everyone ready to shoot – make up and costume

19 00    Begin shooting

22 00    Finish shooting and travel back to Hurtwood

Final Cast list.

We had a slight issue with our cast as one of our original band members dropped out of the video and so we decided to put Charlie (singer) as the guitarist as well in order to fill the spot that was missing. We also had to finalise who we would be taking off campus for out narrative shoot.

Cast List

A2’s	AS’s
Charlie Lindsay – Lead Vocalist/Guitarist. Oscar Jackson – Drummer Connor Vickery – Performing CPR Rose Salvage – Passer by Charlie Manton – Passer by	Freddie Dixon – Bassist Peter Bergin – Collapsed guy Henry Hammond – Passer by

Final Props List

We produced a final props list in order to enable us to see how close we were to having all of the needed props for our video and showed us what we still needed to obtain.

Props List

School will provide:	We will provide:
Fake Blood Blue flashing light (ambulance) Paramedic Outfit: fluorescent jacket, green trousers and green shirt Mic Mic stand Electric Guitar Bass Guitar Business Suit - Phil	Bag of shopping (things that can roll and be visually interesting) – can of baked beans, oranges etc. Drum kit – Oscar Jackson