DigiPack Ideas

The digipack for our song is called 'A Long Walk home'. The connotations of the digipack create many images, I have been looking at possible design ideas to use for the front cover.

The title of the digipack creates an image of an empty, long road with not much scenary. I have looked at images of scenary taken from dusty desert settings in America.

The image above shows an empty setting, with a road in America. I think this image would be appropiate to use as it creates a deserted image. This image would be good to use for our digipack as the band who produced the song are not very well known and it could imply they still have long way to go till they become famous.

If we chose to use the a desert setting like this we would be tempted to fall into using western styled font, I don't think this type of font would fit into our genre. Quite a plain and boring font such as 'Arial' would be more fitting.

As we have researched the genre we are focusing on, we know what age group we are aiming our music at. A craze in modern day youth is having a blackberry, a smartphone. Many youths have these so I think having a blackberry code on our digipack gives the audience a chance to learn more about the band through scanning this code onto their phone. This code would be an attraction and would draw the audience in, making them look at the digipack.

Using the digipak I created earlier on in the year I have edited it by adding this blackberry code to it, I chose to put the code on the back of the digipak as it is not a big part of the digipak however we may chose to put the code on the front of our final digipak to draw the audience in.

Music Video Ideas

Scenes:
Main protagonist on piano.
Protagonist walking passed band members - band members are seen as a part of the scenery.
Female chasing protagonist through scenes, passes where the band members once were.
Flashbacks of protagonist and female together.

The scenes chosen for the band members:
Band members room where he is practicing guitar.
Band member performing in a field/hill on the drums.
Band member playing the guitar as if he was busking.
Protagonist playing the piano in a hall.

Scenes used for flashbacks:
Protagonist and female arguing in a house, seen as a couple.
Protagonist with his friends, in a town scene.

Video Timeline

To make our filming easier we have chosen to jot down all of the main events in our video, this is just a vague start but it gives us an idea of our video, we can also build on this, with story boards.

The time line shows us the order in which the events in our video happen, this will make it easier for us when we film as we are more organised and know exactly when certain events will happen. 

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Planning

I have been searching for ideas for our music video, as our genre involves indie, I would like the video to reflect some of the characteristics of the genre, such as being 'Independent'. I would like to make our video stand out and have a wacky side to it.

Amy whinehouse's video 'Rehab' is particulary inspiring to our video as we like the idea of just having the band in the back ground, Amys video (below) shows her band playing in the background without her acknowledgement.

If we chose to use a similar effect we would be able to have a narrative in our video as well as a band performance. As we are deciding to film parts of our video on a street, we could have band members scattered around the street, we could even have a band member busking on the street playing the guitar.

The 'Plain White T's' music video 'hey there Delilah' also has elements of indepedence in it, which we could use in our video. The way the screen is split through-out the video shows different characters in the video. We could differ this in our video by showing the different band members. At the start of our song, all of band members sing together, this would be a perfect time to use this split screen effect.

Risk Assessment

Copy of Risk Assessment on Prezi

Practice shots

Location visits

We looked at places to film today, we went to Cambridge to see which street would be best to use for our busking scene, we also went to Widdington to find a field to put the drum kit in. We chose to use Widdington as Will lives there and he has the drum kit. In Widdington we found the perfect open field with a large tree in the middle of it. We could use this tree effectively as it looks unusual and would fit well into our video ideas. As the field is very open we would also be able to use the tree as protection against the wind.

Indie Rock genre

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Similar Indie Rock Artists

Detail - Artic Monkeys

The artic monkeys are from Sheffield, north of England. The band have three record labels, for the UK they are signed to Domino, an independent record label from London. The company produce mainly indie rock music, the record label has many set ups through out the world in places such as Brooklyn, USA, Germany and France. As the company is independent this is perfect for the Artic Monkeys as they are an indie band which have derived from independence. The Artic monkeys also have record label called EMI, which also based in London, this record label along with the bands US distributors 'Warner' contradicts the typical charateristics of an Indie band, as these record labels are more mainstream.

 

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DigiPack - Artic Monkeys

Front
The main picture is of a building, probably council houses. In some of the windows there are colourful patterns, which are probably meant to represent dreams as the album in entitled “Favourite Worst Nightmare”. In the top right corner there is the bands logo and album name. This will clearly show viewer what artist and what album they are looking at/listening to.

Back
The back is very bland. It is solid black colour and the tracks are listed without track numbers at the bottom. This tells us what tracks are featured on the album.
Underneath the tracks at the very bottom, there is a bar code, information about where the album was recorded and the bands website. This is there as the band can advertise their website, and the recording studio can do the same. The bar code is there so that shops know exactly how much the album is.


Inside
Inside there are three pictures each looking like the same colourful patterns that were on the front. The pictures furthermore relate to the album title. On some of them there are somewhat evil things but with innocent colours surrounding them. This directly says that the colours represent the “Favourite” of the album title and the evil things represent the “Worst Nightmare” of the title.