Initial Design Ideas: Digipak Ancillary

Me and my working partner Chris have collectively decided to have a black and white themed design for our ancillary task: the digipak. I have made an initial draft of the digipak, but have not included any real text content, just designed the basic front cover and have placed rough guides for the structure: the flap opening for the artwork and lyrics booklet (on the inside contents page) and the CD page, showing a rough look for where the CD will be in terms of the digipak design and dimensions.

Post-filming Evaluation

Today, me and my working partner Chris have filmed the planned scenes (shown in my previous blog post) - Scene 5, 9 and 10. We filmed these scenes which involve Jess, of which Scene 5 and 9 is another flashback in the music video. I felt this filming session went very well considering the constraint of timings we had (only an hour to film three whole scenes in detail, capturing more footage than we need). 

When looking back at the footage, we have the same problem with the quality of the footage. Scene 5 has significant quality issues - the picture looking grainy and there being no real clarity with the footage. 

Plan for filming last scenes

SCENE 5 - Chorus 1.1: (1'13" - 1'34") FLASHBACK: Chris is with Jess on the sofa, watching television together and they sing the chorus whilst sitting on the sofa. 

"Do I wanna know?" - Jess sings
"If this feeling floats both ways?" - Chris sings
"Sad to see you go" - Jess sings
"Sorta hoping that you stayed" - Chris sings
"Baby we both now" - Jess sings
"That the nights were mainly made for same things that you can't say tomorrow day" -  Chris sings

SCENE 9 - Chorus 2.2: (3'05" - 3'29" [24s]) "Crawlin' back to you" - Jess throws the phone across the room (slow-motion). Jess is crying in her room, Chris tries to get her back.

SCENE 10 - Chorus 3.1: (3'30" - 3'54" [24s]) Chris walks to Jess' street and knocks on the door. I play the boy who walks out of Jess' house, creating the idea that Jess was in fact with another boy whilst leading Chris on. I walk past Chris walking out of Jess' house and Jess goes to try and get Chris back but he leaves in disappointment. 

Filming Progress

Tonight, me and my working partner Chris are filming the opening scene and second scene for our Music Video. The opening scene involves Chris acting - he is first shown to be texting, then getting ready to go out somewhere e.g. the earphones being put in, going to the bathroom, re-styling his hair, putting on his shoes, etc.

The second scene involves Chris walking out of his house, and into the street in the late evening. He walks towards the bus stop where he then gets on the bus (the third scene) - of which we plan to film back in Peterborough after school - conviently where there is a bus stop outside the school; we shall get permission to then film Chris on the bus on his journey to the shop or Jess' house (the girl he is talking to). 

During the process of filming this, we will be consulting our shot list that goes into detail of what shot it is, a description of what is happening, and whether there is any movement of the camera needed. Please see my blog post going into detail about the shot-by-shot list. 

I will be keeping this blog updated on how the shooting of the first two scenes go.