Draft Plan

Filming Date: 31/10/13

Filming Expectations: we are expecting to get all of the shots on our storyboard completed for our draft deadline on Friday. We have a total of 79 shots on our storyboard, which we will replicate to our best abilities in such a short amount of time.

Filming Time Schedule: We are expecting to be able to get all of the shots done in around 4 hours. This should give us enough time to complete editing on the Friday. Thankfully Reece and myself have only two lessons on Friday; therefore we can use our study periods and focus on completing the editing.

Filming Locations: Because our filming will take place after school, in the draft we wont be able to include all of the locations we want to use, this is because it will get to dark, thus a Saturday would be a more suited day to film on while we can use the natural light to full potential. One of our band members Dad’s has a small room, which he has all the equipment and props that we need to film in, therefore we will be able to use this room.

Location Problems: The issue we are facing with the room we our using for the draft is quite small and with a camera/tripod set up it would be a struggle fitting in all of the band and a relevant mise en scene. This is something we will have to work around on the date. Furthermore the mise en scene on the room doesn’t real suite the genre of our band, this is because it has heavy-rock genre posters around the room, therefore we will allow ourselves time before filming to clear out some of the posters and other elements of the room that don’t suit our genre and make it more conventional/suited. There is also a possibility that we will use a lot more narrative in the draft in contrast to our final piece due to the location issue. 

Draft Filming Update

We are hoping to start filming tomorrow for our draft. However there has been a twist in our filing preparation; unfortunately the camera we are supposed to be borrowing of our friend for the filming has broken, and is currently being fixed. The camera will still be available for the filming of our final video but we need to find an alternative camera for tomorrow and thursday, which is showing to be a bit of a struggle. If worst comes to worst, an iPhone 5s will have to be used to film the draft. (which actually shoots in 1080p HD)

Draft Digipak & Poster

After extensive research into minimalist digipak and album cover designs, I have decided to adopt a similar design for my digipak using one image on the front cover as the main focus then linking the other panels to this using various different methods. The image on the front cover of the digipak is an photograph I took whilst at Leeds Festival whilst a flare was illuminating part of the crowd I was in. I believe this photograph is effective for use on an album cover as it quite striking, original and will catch the target audiences eye amongst other albums. Also, the majority of the photo is blank which allows room for the band and album name to be placed onto the photograph, transforming it into an simplistic album cover (after editing). I have then tried to design the other 3 panels of the digipak to flow on from this to give a sense of continuity throughout. On the inside left panel I incorporated a zoomed in (and edited) image of the red smoke from the flare therefore creating a sense of continuity by adhering to the colour scheme. The back cover/track list is very conventional containing all the necessary information such as legal wording, barcode and record label logo. The layout of the back panel is extremely simple, maintaining a minimalist look, whilst also adhering to the colour scheme once again.

In the creation of this poster I have tried to maintain the style I used throughout the digipak of simplistic and minimal in order to achieve an effective design that stands out. Using the same image from the front album cover allows the CD to be easily recognised for those who have seen the poster and will stand out (even subconsciously) as they have seen the image somewhere before. I have again adhered to the colour scheme of my digipak to create a uniform feel between the products as this is a very common convention where a product range maintains the same colour scheme throughout all its products created. 

Draft Digipak

After extensive research into minimalist digipak and album cover designs, I have decided to adopt a similar design for my digipak using one image on the front cover as the main focus then linking the other panels to this using various different methods. The image on the front cover of the digipak is an photograph I took whilst at Leeds Festival whilst a flare was illuminating part of the crowd I was in. I believe this photograph is effective for use on an album cover as it quite striking, original and will catch the target audiences eye amongst other albums. Also, the majority of the photo is blank which allows room for the band and album name to be placed onto the photograph, transforming it into an simplistic album cover (after editing). I have then tried to design the other 3 panels of the digipak to flow on from this to give a sense of continuity throughout. On the inside left panel I incorporated a zoomed in (and edited) image of the red smoke from the flare therefore creating a sense of continuity by adhering to the colour scheme. The back cover/track list is very conventional containing all the necessary information such as legal wording, barcode and record label logo. The layout of the back panel is extremely simple, maintaining a minimalist look, whilst also adhering to the colour scheme once again.

Album Cover First Draft: The EVERYTHING- Holdfast

This cover was constructed using a photograph I took at Leeds Festival 2013 on a disposable camera and then scanned onto my computer. Prior to scanning, the photography looked very blurred and fuzzy with lots of vertical lines running through the picture (bottom photograph) which gave the picture a vintage/retro look that is a feature used in some modern day album covers. I thought this was quite effective and worked well with the text to form a professional album cover. However, I then decided to edit the photo to remove the 'vintage look' and form a more conventional looking photograph. Equally, this cover works just as well but with a different effect. 

Poster Inspiration

After research into album posters I have discovered that it is quite difficult to find high resolution images of the posters on the internet hence the reason for lack of images included in this post. However, through this research I was still able to find common conventions throughout the posters which combine to form a conventional album promoting poster. The band and album name are almost always placed on the poster along with the date of release which is a little more uncommon and is not featured on some posters that strive for a very minimalist look. Particularly, the lines above, in between and below the names on the Foals poster have caught my eye as give the poster a defined professional look and this is something I would like to replicate on my poster. I have also noticed that some posters include ratings from magazines etc. which is something that I would also like to replicate on my own poster. 

Foals Digipak Analysis