Poster designs

We have been looking through existing album posters and have been trying to come up with some designs for the poster and parts of the digipak. Here are some of our ideas.

We have aimed to use existing frames from the video or those that are similar. This will make it less complicated to produce and will make the product relatively simple as well.

Filming the final scenes

We were finally able to meet up with some people to film the final section of our music video. Although we had less people than we would have hoped for we still went ahead with it otherwise we felt like we wouldn't have another chance to do it. We decided to film this part in the woods next to the old tip in Sidmouth. It is a very dense forest so there were lots of options of where we could film. We decided to use an old train track and involve that in our filming as a place for our protagonist to hide. It was also a good chance to use chiaroscuro in our video. The whole place gave off an old, abandoned atmosphere to the chase.

When putting the clips of him walking through the forest we decided to make the first shot slow-motion to give a bit more tension to this part . We also had quite a few shots to use, so as to not make it boring we used lots of short clips flashing to different points in the forest.

Evidence

Our filming has finally come to an end. It has been a very stressful journey trying to get people together but overall I feel we have been very organised. Throughout this process I have learnt how important organisation, research and communication have been.

These images are from the days when we were filming at the protagonists house. This was our first day of filming and i feel we were quite organised. We managed to get all our actors together in the right place. It took a bit longer to get started than we had anticipated but we managed to get it sorted.









These images are from the days we were filming the dream/ nightmare sequence. From our point of view as directors this was our best day because everyone turned up on time in the right stuff, we had everything with us and everything happened on time and we even finished early.

From a filming direction our biggest problem was filming the amazons. From the beginning we knew this was going to be our biggest problem out of the whole video but we didn't think it would be that much of a problem getting 10 people together. However it was. After about 4 different times attempting to meet people, we got 4 turn up so we decided to film it then rather than put it off again. It isn't quite the look we had planned but at least we got some people.

Ancillary task- Advertising poster.

These are some examples of advertising posters for current artists. There are some things that they both have in common. They are  both very simple. It is the artist on a basic background with the writing in front of them. This is the type of style that I would like to follow for our poster. I think the simplicity makes the information stand out more and you are more likely to remember what it looks like and then look out for that poster or the album. They both have the artist's name in a bold font so that it stands out; the name of the album underneath it; when the album is out, either a date or the word NOW; then one or two of their hits. The image is incredibly bold and you can that the poster is about them. This is what i think makes a successful poster.

Ancillary tasks-Digipak

As part of our ancillary tasks we have to create a Digipak. A Digipak is an album cover, backdrop and the inside design work, for a CD. Often on the back part of the CD cover it involves what tracks are on the CD, who has sung them, when it was created/released and all the technical details like who their record label are and who produces them. CD digipaks are made out of card stock. The most common CD digipaks are the 4 panel digipak. With being made out of card stock, the number of panels that you have can very. This has made the CD digipak a very popular CD packaging solution.