Ideas for the Digipak

In our production meeting we first discussed the name of the band and which photo to put onto the magazine cover.
We first decided to work on the name of our band and by doing this we went on Wikipedia and kept clicking on the random botton. We thought of a theme for our band name but also had to keep it indie and edgy, and we thought of a name of a God or Goddess. We typed in Greek Gods on Wikipedia and found the Gods Apollo and Herion quite interesting as they are one God with two names. Apollo/Herion is the God of Sun and we thought it sounded powerful and memorable. As people dont generally know about the name Herion we decided to go with Apollo. Agreeing on one part of the name, we decided to lengthen it, therefore we started clicking the random button on Wikipedia. We found the word "Station" and we instantly thought of "Apollo Station". This then became our band name.
For our magazine cover, we decided to choose the photo of Tom and Bryony in the forest with the car with both of them looking in opposite directions looking slightly distracted/lost but comfortable.
As we put the photo into photoshop, a few ideas arose. We are hoping to put an old fashioned TV around Tom's face to make it look like his face is in the TV. We are then hoping to make the rest of the photo black and white and just have the TV and the image inside the TV (Tom's face) in colour. We think this will look very effective but it's just a case of spending a large amount of time on photoshop to perfect this image and make it look as we want it to. We have decided that we will need to spend multiple out of college hours to get the image perfect.
Above the TV box we will maybe have "Girls on" on it and then have the letters "T" and "V" either side of Tom's face. This is just an idea as we think it will look effective that we are writing "TV" and there will be an image TV where it is meant to be written.
We will then add on the band name at the top of the poster in a big font and have a barcode at the bottom right hand side of the image. We are thinking to put the barcode in colour to contrast from the black and white background although this has not yet been definately decided.

Digipak Planning

Now that we have finished our final cut we are beginning plans for making a Digipak to promote the single.

Here are some ideas for what we could include to increase the appeal of the single:
- Bonus tracks
- Lyrics
- Limited edition status
- Live performances
- 'Shout-outs'
- Video biography
- Interviews with band members
- Making of the video

Freebies:
- Stickers
- Posters
- Postcards
- Competitions
- Vouchers
- Priority tickets
- Signed stuff

In this meeting we are talking over ideas and themes to include in our digipak.

Final Cut

Here is our finished product of our music video project. Girls On TV by Be Your Own PET!

Extra footage

With our extra footage, we had to cut and edit it to make it fit properly into the footage we had already edited for our final cut. We had extra footage of Tom (the mime) playing the guitar in different areas of the forest and Bryony (lead singer) looking up at the camera whilst singing lyrics. There was also a panic today that we didnt have enough footage of Bryony's lips so we had to take the camera outside so the lighting was the same as the old shots, and had to film a close up of Bryony's lips.
With the footage of Tom playing the guitar in different, we had to cut the shots so we could place them in time with the beat whilst making it look effective. We made it look as if Tom had jumped from one place in the forest to another in a random order, whilst still playing the guitar to the music. We had to fill the gaps in the video we had so it didnt get boring for the viewer, therefore had to make the shots short and sharp. The shots were 0.5seconds quick in the final edit. It looks effective as it is more fun than just a long shot of Tom playing the guitar without any different angles of him.
We have yet to find a place for the shot of Bryony looking up at the camera, although we have added in the close up of her lips. We will use the shots to fill in the gaps (as above) where we have no footage and need new footage to keep it interesting.
We decided to do a split screen as the final shot (as we have done at the beginning of the sequence) as it would round the music video off very well. The shots we will use will be of both Bryony and Tom together to make it look as though they got together in the end.

Marking

-Ability to hold a shot steady, where appropriate
-Framing a shot
-Using a variety of shot distances
-Shooting material appropriate to task set
-Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting objects and setting
-Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
-Using varied shot transitions, captions and other effects
-Using sound with images and editing appropriatley for the task.

This is the marking criteria for our music video. To ensure that we fulfill these we will ask for feedback based on our rough cut. Also in the filming that we plan to do today we will try and meet all of the specifications to ensure maximum marks possible.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut of our music video. There are still a few things we need to sort out before our final music video for example:
- even out the colouring on the split screens
- tighten up the beginning sequence, particularly the lips and borders
- fill in black patches with more footage
- bigger variety of shots during the closing scenes

We are going to start editing what we can immediately and start planning another filming session so we don't have to repeat our current footage and have a larger variety of good quality footage.

Further Filming

After reviewing our rough cut, we realised that we didn't have enough variety of footage to keep the quality of our video on the same level throughout the song.
We are very happy with the opening sequence but are going to be filming in our production meeting today for more camera angles of the performance.
Unfortunately we can't get to our original location therefore we are using the resources we have available.