Poster Conventions

Digipak Conventions

I looked at Sam Smith's 'In the Lonely Hour' because he's a male artist, as my artist is, and I felt I could take inspiration from what was featured in his digipak when creating mine. From this digipak I like the simplicity that has been featured throughout and believe it reflects the entire album well. When creating my piece I will look to created something similar to this, featuring a simple layout as to reflect the tone of the song I have chosen. Also because of the conventional simpler album covers from male artists I believe it would be best to keep mine simple rather than try and be outside the box and break what is seen in most male digipaks.

I looked at Gavin DeGraw's 'Chariot' because he's a male artist who I could take inspiration from for the cover of my album. I like the simplicity that has been featured throughout this digipak and the house style that has been kept consistant throughout. I will consider something similar to this when creating my digipak as it will reflect the song I have chosen well.

Digipak Template Example

I have researched some digipaks and have decided to use a six panel one to allow more creativity when creating the parts of the digipak. When creating this I will create two CDs, one with my track list for the album and the other with extra features or a concert tour CD as many artists publish with their CDs. Above is a the net I will use of create my digipak by positioning the parts of the digipak I have created in the CD. The pack will represent my singer overall but will also represent the music video I am releasing alongside the CD as having a music video relate to the theme of an album is a convention seen in the music industry, Examples of this include Katy Perry's Teenage Dream album and her California Gurls music video. The album cover feature Katy lying in a cloud of cotton candy and this is again represented in the video through its candy theme and directly through Katy recreating the image in the video.

Problems with Filming, Day 2 (7/12/2014)

On day 2 of filming we encountered a few problems;

• Danny not wanting to lip sync
• Danny not knowing the songs lyrics
• Starting late so having to finish early

How I got around these problems;

• I reassured Danny that his singing would be muted and that I would be the only one to hear his voice. After this he was able to lip sync for me and got all the shots I needed completing.
• Before shooting me and Will went through the song with Danny so that he was able to know only the lyrics he needed to know at the time. He had trouble with the line 'and so now I run to the things they say could' but eventually he was able to do it after we had gone through the song enough.
• To compensate starting late I took the shots that I needed to get first and left the shots that could be shot at a later date to film later on. I ended up getting the shots I needed to get but I will have to go back and get the other shots at a later date.

Day 2 of Filming (7/12/2014)

I went to a mound near Wolfreton school to get some footage filmed. My friend Danny has a busy work scheduled so it was difficult to find a time he was able to film but luckily he has Sunday's off and we were both free to do some filming. I got the end part of the performance finished as for Christmas I am aiming to complete the last quarter of my video so I started with these shots. Also for this set of shooting my friend Will came down to assist me by holding the storyboard sheets and playing the lyrics for Danny to mime to.

For these shots I had originally want to bring a microphone and microphone stand. However, I did not have access to a microphone stand and could not find one so I was unable to do this. For the microphone I used a Singstar microphone but had Danny hold his hand over the Singstar strip in order to make it look more realistic.

I faced a problem with shooting in that Danny was unsure about miming originally. However, after I reassured him that his singing would be muted and that I would be the only one to hear them he was willing to sing. I am very grateful for this as it will make lining up the song easier. Another problem I encountered was that Danny was struggling to remember the lyrics to the song. I had sent Danny the song over FaceBook but he didn't have enough time to listen to and learn the song.However, we were able to get passed this by going through the song lyrics immediately before we started filming meaning he only had a few worlds to remember at once.

Overall I believe this was a successful day of filming even if due to the late start I wasn't able to get all the shots I wanted to get on the day. However, I managed to get all the shots I needed and the other shots can be taken at a later date.

On this day I got shots; 3,4,63,76,77,81,82,83,89,94,96

Ancillary Text Research

Day 2 Shooting Plan (7/12/2014)

On this day I plan to be taking shots; 3,4,5,10,11,12,13,22,23,24,31,32,35,36,45,46,59,61,62,63,76,77,81,82,83,89,94,96

I have planned to do some shooting for my music video on Sunday 7th December at a mound near Wolfreton secondary school for the performance aspect of my video. On this day I hope to complete all my performance filming with my actor Danny. To do this we will need to meet quite early as I need to shots to be taken during daylight and because it gets dark early around this time I need to shoot as early as possible. I have asked Danny to wear a pair of jeans and a plain t-shirt for my filming as that is the costume I have specified as my performer wearing. He has said he has both of these costumes so it should be no problem on the day,

For shooting this I will need to borrow a tripod from college as I don't have access to my own. I will also be borrowing a camera because of the fact that my camera ran out of battery while I was filming with Sarah during Day 1 of shooting and now knowing that I need a back up in case this happens again. I will also be looking to borrow a microphone and microphone stand from college but if I cannot get access to these for any reason I will find a substitute or remove the items from my video entirely. Even though I believe these would look good in my video, I don't believe removing them would cause much of an impact.

To organize for shooting I text Danny to find out when he would be free to film. I know he has a busy schedule at work so this was important for me to do so I could arrange my filming only on days he would be able to do.