album cover/ Digi Pack

ALBUM COVERS/ DIGI PACK
A Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging.
Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside.

Digipak-style packaging is often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums and the tall DVD Digipak (DVDigipak) is used as a premium package for DVDs and DVD sets. Although less vulnerable to cracking than a jewel case, the disc tray inside the package (particularly the "teeth" of the hub which secure the disc in place) remains rather brittle and is prone to cracking if the package is crushed. Digipak-style cases grew in popularity among record labels and recording artists in the early 2000s.

AGI has recently introduced a new product called digipak i-create for the consumer market. Digipak i-create is a web-supported concept that is aimed at the download, music, photo and creative markets.

I was inspired for my album cover's by walking through London once on a busy day. I saw at lunchtime all the busy workers leaving work for lunch walking over the Millenium Bridge in London and it made me picture the artist standing in the middle of the bridge with St Pauls Cathedral in the background looking at the caera as images moving are all around her. The images around her would probably be blurred to show the busyness of London and possibly of her life and the album.




Another possibility would be to have the artist standing in an iconic old traditional telephone box staring at the camera. There are still some left in Covent Garden, London which always interests me as they are very picturesque and eye catching. The artist could be standing in the middle box with the remaining four telephone boxes identically beside her.




Ofcourse there is the option to have a close up of the artists face, or have her on a photo shoot, quite like Pixie Lott and other pop artist do, although I want to be unique and more urban with my choice of locations, and so the ones I have already mentioned seem like a good idea.

narrative

For my exam I have decided to write about my A2 music video as I feel as though it has a clearer narrative and better storyline. Our short film last year at AS level was told in a linear way in chronological order which seemed very "to the point" and predicatable, but our music video has flashbacks which is more effective and broader to discuss in an exam whereas I think our film could be quite vague and dull.

The narrative in our film is a young teenage ballet dancer who, after a ballet lesson gets stalked by a mysterious killer. In the film we see her journey home from school, her first meeting with the killer, and the ending which is a cliff hanger as we don't know if he catches her or not, and then the film would begin. During this journey the places she passes she passes a music box, and this music box is a symbolic code for the killer always following her.

The narrative in our music video is a teenage girl has just broke up with her boyfriend and in the music video we see her flashback into the good times with him and she remembers the good memories she had with him singing the lyrics to the song. It includes both narrative and performance in it showing a range of different ideas and shots which will be interesting to talk about and why we chose particular symbolisms.

I believe that my narrative skills has improved greatly from AS to A level and therefore I will create a stronger narrative in my music video.

Background research/ Shot types

I was looking over other groups from my class's current footage and come across this video of example of shots they're thinking of using.

The shot where the camera is spinning as the girl sits cross legged on the floor really caught my eye as it makes it seem as if the girl is confussed or upset. I really like this shot, so I think I may put it to my group to try out!

Being adventurous on imovie

Here are a few clips, Neelam, Emmak and myself put together in revenge for Sophie not turning up to school on the day we have media!!! Sorry Sophie. ENJOY haha!

Studio Practice

We had a quick practice in the school gym at practicing angles for our "studio" performance. Here's what we made..

Framing and Composition

Rule of Thirds



The rule of thirds is a compositional rule of thumb in visual arts such as painting, photographyand design.The rule states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. Proponents of the technique claim that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would.


Headroom
Headroom refers specifically to the distance between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame, but the term is sometimes used instead of lead room, nose room or 'looking room' to include the sense of space on both sides of the image. The amount of headroom that is considered aesthetically pleasing is a dynamic quantity; it changes relative to how much of the frame is filled by the subject. Moving images such as film and video cameras have the same headroom issues as still photography, but with the added factors of the movement of the subject, the movement of the camera, and the possibility of zooming in or out. Headroom changes as the camera zooms in or out, and the camera must simultaneously tilt up or down to keep the center of interest approximately one-third of the way down from the top of the frame. The closer the subject, the less headroom needed. In extreme close-ups, the top of the head is out of the frame,but the concept of headroom still applies via the rule of thirds.