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In this last week before half-term, I am going to finish off my final digipac design and poster design, which are nearing completion. I am also going to start my eveluation, which will involve me recording myself talking and analysing my music video; a video commentary describing how well it went, why I have added the shots and what purpose does it serve in the video. I also have to film someone else's reaction to the video, so they can give me positive and negative feedback so that there is less written and more visual and audio work.

Digipac Drawings

Here are my three digipac initial designs.

The first one has the band name, album name and band logo on the front and follows a very simple layout, like many 1980's album rock covers (such as ACDC). This digipac uses imagery such as a politician's speaker box dominating over the city, imposing it's rules and laws over the people. The back of the case is a photo of all the musician's equipment and instruments lined up on the stage, with their shark logo in the background. Other pictures and imagery used to show the Government/Establishment are the American Democratic donkey and Republican elephant, as well as the British Liberal Democrats Dove. On the second foldout there will be photos of the band members lined up, with some information below each one.





















On this digipac I've gone for using some of the band's logos combined with images which fill the entirety of each square. The front cover has Lime Shark in big lettering, with the song name just underneath. The back cover is very simple, with the LS circular logo in red filling the page and a black background. The other covers are images of a dystopia- a future city which has been destroyed by a corrupted government, with images of crumbling buildings and black skies. The song Power of Heights is a warning about how people in positions of power can manipulate the masses and get what they want.

This last digipac again uses a mixture of photographs and images to convey a message and the meaning of the song. The front cover is the same as the others, with the back case showing the band members. Inside, again there is a photo of the instruments and more band information and details; such as their origins, the meaning behind their songs and a listing of the lyrics. Finally, theire is another images of two hands shaking, with money being passed between them as a gesture/bribe, to show people that with government politicians comes corruption, and their misuse of power over eveyrone else.

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Over the last couple of weeks I have been busy editing together my Music Video. I am going to make two: a pure peformance video and a performance narrative video, which will have scenes relating to the lyrics throughout the video.
Meanwhile I have finsihed drawing 3 drafts for my Digipac covers and will upload them shortly.

Here a couple of pictures of me editing the video on Final Cut Pro on the Apple Mac-

Music Video Storyboard

For the production of our music video, we have to sketch a storyboard to give a brief layout of what the video will look like. The most important feature is not the drawings themselves but the description, since I need to include as many camera shots, angles, compositions and any camera movements from one cut to another.

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Last night I did my filming of the performance part of my music video. I met the band at 3pm and we set all the equipment up on the school's hall stage. However we hit quite a few problems which we managed to eventually solve: we kept setting the school fire alarm off because of the smoke machine (which we were going to use since it makes the lighting more effective) so eventually I forgot about using it and did without. Also, the PA speaker system wasn't loud enough for the band to hear (since all the speakers were facing inwards to the hall, away from the stage) so we had to get a small monitor linked to my iPod and play the music full blast to them from behind.

Despite the problems I got about 50 minutes of filming done with many camera shots and angles that I can use to put together a full performance video. The band also helpfully gave me some good ideas for the narrative part of my video, so I can start working on that while I edit this work together.

Meanwhile, I have started drafting digipac Cd covers for the song, which I will upload to the blog and can develop them from there.

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I have now finalised a time for my filming and so I can get that work done with the band shortly. I have also added my own photos and explanations of digipac music albums, as part of our research and eventual creation of our own digipacs for our music videos. I am now going to draft up 3 digipacs on paper, so I can experiment with any of ideas and get the designs sorted.

Digipac Examples-3

This Pendulum's album In Silico, with the digipac cd case it comes with. It comes in the conventional plastic see-through case, but insiead of just a front cover, it has this fold-out double sided leaflet. On one side there is the band information, song listings and lyrics, while on the other there is this large image of an alien spaceship, which fits with the theme of the album of extra-terresterial visits.

This third type of Digipac again shows how you can get the same results (displaying all relevant information and additional photographs/images) but with a different layout and style.