Digi Pak Behind CD Creating

I've started creating my digi pak for my music video.
For behind the CD case I wanted to use sweets as these are childish, and Haribo are often related to children.
In my orginal plan I was going to use liquorice strips to make birds, like on the front picture, however I could not find any of these at the time so decided to put some teddy bears in there instead. This was better as it included more colour and thats definitely what I wanted.

SNAP SNAP
Instead of creating the sweets on the computer I took pictures on plain white background.

This is how I orginally led them out, in the shape of a CD and the egg in the middle.
However the shading on the background made it look quite dirty, so I decided to cut each sweet out and apply it onto a plain white background. This also meant I could move the sweets around.

After doing this my result was.. .

Draft 1  

Heres my first draft of under the CD case, I added the drop shadow to give it more depth, but I think that it looks a bit plain. I might experiment with different backgrounds which may give it more character.

Digipak Research

Kate Nash

This digipak has hugely influenced mine. It has a wide shot of a house, which is similiar to the house I want drawn on my digipak.

The image looks surreal as it has been created on the computer. The colours are bright, and you can see Kate Nash, the artist, in red so shestands out.

The font is simple and immitates hand written text. Following the conventions of childhood. Just like mine!!

Vincent Vincent and The Villains

Here, they have gone for the scruffy text, and a feel of hand drawn stripes.

They have also combined computer text, on top of a picture, just like my design (without the computer text!)

Jason Mraz

This is similar to the Kate Nash digipak. The font is simple and looks handwritten. The picture is drawn, again something I'd like to feature in mine. It isn't anything jazzy and could show he thinks music is more important than the glossy outfits and fame!

Digi-Pak Planning

Need to do
Done

Front Cover

  
• Buy fridge magnets - capital & non - capital letters
• Find white fridge, preferably retro? Ask Alys about her 'Smeg' fridge.
• The children to be drawn with crayons and blended on fridge (photoshop)

OR

• draw picture and paper and stick on fridge underneith magnets.

Back Cover

• Experiment with crayon scribbles, like a toddler

OR

  
• Experiment with coloured sring/thread
• Experiment with coloured elastic bands

Inside front cover

• Draw background eg. clouds, sun, grass and flowers.
• Experiment with lego house
• Clouds as cottonwool
• Real grass and petals for the grass and flowers

Under CD

• Haribo sweets
• Magic stars
• Liquorice

Animated Influences - Indie Genre

Kate Nash - Foundations
This used to be my favourite song when I was 14 so no wonder her music video has inspired my own.
I like the use of colour within the costumes and set, but also the animation with the socks, watches and tooth brushes! This is what I'd like to include in my video with the crumpled peice of paper.

The childishness between the protagonist is also similar to what I want with my older couple.




Regina Spector - Us

This music video is animated throughout. It is animated to the quick piano  beat. I want to add jump cuts into my video to make it look slightly old. The colours are slightly dull which I think makes the video a bit more deep,making you listen to the lyrics more. I want my video to reflect the major tones of the song so I want it more colourful.

I also like Regina's red lipstick as it makes her lips stand out when she is singing the lyrics.

Digipak First Rough Plan

Here is a rough plan for my digipak
I want my digipak to relate to my music video. In order to do this I have decided to make it quite childish. The fridge magnets link to the fridge magnets my young boy will use in the music video to spell out the words "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER". The sweets will also relate to the sweets the teenage boy will give to the teenage girl. I love the idea of creating things then taking pictures rather than actually doing them on the computer. For example on the cd I want to have sweets, like Haribo love hearts, black liquorice for the birds and magic stars! This also makes my digipak very colourful, reflecting the happy song.

Practise music videos!

So, to get a crackin' music video as a group we have spent our doule lessons creating some music videos. Using a variety of different genre's we experiemented different ways to film. Each week, a different person was in charge of the camera, directing and editing. We were pretty impressed considering they were all done in only one hour and a half!!!
Doing these videos showed the complications that could occur in lip synching. I also learnt how to use the green screen and that the more shots you have the more variety in your music video.

Slow the Flow - Braxton (Hip Hop)

Easy- Lionel Ritchie (Ballad)

Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae- Jepson (Pop)

Christmas Medley! - Year 13 media, (seasonal)

Few music video ideas.

• Closing my eyes and listening to the song, I imagine lots of colours and playfulness
• I want my music video to feature children and I think the beat sounds upbeat and fun.
•  I would rather a narrative music video with maybe a bit of performance.
•  I want to include lip syncing as I think it would be odd without some!
•  I'm thinking maybe different couples or a couple throughout there life.