My Digipak

I used these colours and layout as the visual impact would be very good. I wanted some panels to go together when folded out and used some shading to create very 3D standing out visuals that make it look interesting. The colours, tones and shapes relate to the genre of music in our music video as there is a lot of strong colours and lines that reflect the strong, plain beats of the music.

Digipak CD Covers

What is a Digipak?

A Digipak is a cover/ packaging made out of cardboard, like a small booklet, which folds out. The CD is usually in the middle.

What makes an effective Digipak?

- Once folded out, images/ designs may match to different panels

- Colourful/ bright or Black and white but contrasting and strong (some sides may join up)

- Sleek design

Pictures of the band/ artis

- Cover art

Long Road Music Video Blogs

What makes these blogs good are the use of relevent images and visual material, however in some of the blogs, there is a lot of text without any sort of visual whatever.
My blog compares to them by having quite a lot of text and having some very good visual material but I believe that my blog has a lot more visuals than some of the others on the Long Road Music Video site but may have no text in some visual posts.

My Blog:

What Went Well:
Good use of photographs
Good amount of video clips
Good use of relevent screnshots
Good relevent research into my genre
Good amount of text to go with the visuals

Even Better If:
Text with every visual
Relate all or most visuals to my music video more
More clips or screenshots of other music videos along with text

Image location research and possible content for our music video

I took these pictures from the top of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth. I thought that this would be a great location to get some shots looking out from "the best viewing gallery in Britain". I took quite a few photographs of the scenery, looking around and thought that these images could go in a slideshow as a background in our music video.
I felt that this would look really good as a still background for part of our music video. I thought that the perspective of looking up at this angle with the gleam of light from the supporting curved beam.

These two pictures I took going into portsmouth, I thought were a relevent scene to our genre and track as they look grey and dull and have grey warships in the background.


These images were of a stormy day looking at the beaches and the sea. I felt that the storm waves would relate to the strong beats that are constantly there in our genre and music track.


I took some photos of a sunset over the Isle of Wight. I thought that these had an amazing colour and range of tones and that they would make the music video come alive even more. I feel these images work very well with our music video as the colours are just right for a club dance piece.


I took these photos as I liked how crystal clear everything looked and I thought, again, it would bring the music video to life (even if it is just on the background).

Video Location research and possible content for our music video

Faithless

The band Faithless was made in 1995 with their single Salva Mea (Save Me). Jazz acted as a vocalist, whilst Bliss played the piano, violin, saxophone and bass guitar and made most of the electronic music. Pauline Taylor performs most of the lead vocals in the tracks. Their albums reached: 26- Reverence, 10- Sunay 8PM, 4- Outrospective, and 1- No Roots.

Song Change

We have changed our song to The Chemical Brothers: Galvanize. We changed because we did not like the lyrics in the last song and the way the lyrics were sung, were way too far from the sound that would come from your voice and so it would not have looked realistic.

Location research

Our group has come up with a few locations which would be a good place to film. The places are Portsmouth, East Wittering, Box Hill and London. I will be going to Portsmouth, East wittering and Box Hill to take some pictures and I will be filming in different places in those areas for the background of our music video. I will be going up to the top of the Spinnaker Tower to film the area of and around Portsmouth. Iwill also film some shots of the beach and certain places on the beach that will have strong contrasts, when filmed, throughout the content of the frame. I want to film this as it would look good in our music video and the places fit the genre of Drum and Bass as on many days, the weather can be quite dull, but everything can have a strong outline and this is very relavent to the genre.

The three images above have come from the internet to show the places where I will go to film and take pictures.

I feel these would fit our genre as it could show a journey from a place like london to a place like the coast. This would be like the journey you go on when you listen to a dance track like Galvanize.

Our video on the work with the green screen

Here, we filmed something quickly, with us infront of a green screen. The lighting on the green screen was not perfect and there were some large differences in tone, therefore the background was, in some places, quite good, while in other places, you could still slightly see the green screen. we played around with different background and ended up with this background. I feel that is not a perfect background for the genre of drum and bass.

Magazine advert practise on photoshop

Here, I decided to use the picture of me, looking like a drum and bass artist. I made sure that I was wearing only black and white clothes so that it would work very well with the drum and bass genre. I got an image of a cityscape at night to get the right, dark feel to it and changed it slightly on photoshop to be the right colour and shade. I then cut out different shapes that were in the cityscape picture to give a very strong, dark feel to it. I also got an image of a helicopter, which goes really wel with the genre. I played around with black and white circles and put a lense flare in the top left.

I really think that this is a strong image, showing who the artist is and the feel of the genre.

This fits in with drum and bass as it is just black and white and very tonal, like the strong beats and bas to the music.

Practise pictures for CD Cover/ Magazine advert

Here are some of the pictures my group took for the magazine advert and the CD cover. These are the main pictures that I really liked and thought were the best to go with the genre of drum and bass. I chose the top image of me in front of a bush for the photoshopped image for the magazine advert. I think these relate to drum and bass because our hair could be a good logo for faceless artists and the location is very man made, like the overall image of drum and bass.

Green Screen

Last lesson we used a green screen and recorded my group, not necessarily lip synching, but we recorded it so that we could play with different features of final cut and try to put different backgrounds where the green screen is. However, the lighting, I have found out, needs to be exactly the same throughout the green screen to cut it out evenly and completely.

Innovative Contamporary Videos

Chromeo "Dont Turn the Lights On". (Keith Schofield)

When the lights are off, you can see the eyes/ mouths, this plays with the name of the song. This uses non linear video editing equipment."Heaven Can Wait" Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck. (Keith Schofield)

Using strange masks and props, has what looks like nice people holding knives up to each other.

Passion pitt, Little Secrets. (Timothy Saccenti)

Bright, vivid colours/ costumes in totally different places, haspeople with brown paper bags over their heads. Uses very bright white lights.Jamie Cidell - "Another Day" (Timothy Saccenti)

People with white masks. Walking on glowing platforms, str

ange goggle eyed glasses, filming by power station.
MIA - Jimmy

Flashing coloured lights in background, many people waving arms, computer animated figures dancing to music. Greenscreen. (80's computer graphics).

Ok Go - This Too Shall PassRube Goldberg, one take, no cuts.

Lyrics annotation (our chosen song)

(Don't hold back)
cuz you woke up in the morning with initiative to move,
so why make it harder

(Don't hold back)
If you think about it so many people do, be cool man, look smarter,

(Don't hold back)
and you shouldn't even care, about the losers in the air,
and their crooked stares,

(Don't hold back)
cuz there's a party over here, so you might aswell be here,
where the people care,

The world is holding back
the time has come to...

The world is holding back
the time has come to...

The world is holding back
the time has come to...

Galvanize,

(Don't hold back)
If you think about it too much you may stumble,
trip up fall on your face,

(Don't hold back)
You think it is time you get up fresh style
like a sit-up come on keep pace

(Don't hold back)
Put apprehension on the back burner,
let it sit, don't even get it lit,

(Don't hold back)
Get involved with the jam,
don't be a prick, hot chick

(Don't hold back)

The World

The World
The time has come to -
Push the button

The World
The time has come to -
Push the button

The World
The time has come to -
Push the button

The World

My finger is on the button
My finger is on the button
My finger is on the button
Push the button
The time has come to...

Galvanize

Song Details

Our group has chosen the song: Sub Focus - Splash (Feat. Coco). The genre of this song is Drum and Bass. This song was chosen as the features fitted the set criteria. This song also had lyrics, which is rare in drum and bass music.

Roles

James: James will help film and make sure the frame and camera resembles the storyboard as closely as possible. He will be in charge of editing and will help gather props. He will be in charge of bringing My designs to photoshop.

Todd: Todd will be in charge of filming the music video and bringing the storyboards to life as much as possible, gathering props we may need and helping in the editing. He will also help create the album cover and the magazine advert in photoshop.

Jacob (me): I will be helping film and edit. I will be in charge of designing our album cover and magazine advert. I will be in charge of storyboarding and framing the sots. I will be in charge of the whereabouts of the location we should film.

Lauren: Lauren has agreed to perform in our music video (however, she does not do media).

Initial ideas

Our initial ideas were to have a lot of the video filmed at Box Hill with a performer/ singer called Lauren Goldsack. I hope to take some pictures or some filming of the coast, which will create a relaxed atmosphere when put in the music video.

Guardian videos

The promotion videos I like are the Cee Lo Green video (video 6). I like this video as it is quite funny and

so attract the attention of people, some of which may not

particularly like the music. I like the video as it has a good

narrative of a boy growing into a man, still wanting to do the same thing. I also like the video as

it can appeal to people from teenagers to people in the

ir 20’s or 30’s, but not to anyone younger than that due to

the swearing in the lyrics. I like the way the video has been put together as well because the smoothness of each transition and pan, etc makes it look very professional and with a video as well made as this, people will most probably appreciate it more. The look of the whole video is good as it is

bright and has a lot of vivid colours and memorable text that is very hard to forget.

I also like the Radiohead-

Live in Praha (video 7). I like this video as it has been captured with cameras/ phones from the perspective of the audience which I think would relate well to people watching it as it shows what and where they might be when and if they go and see one of their concerts. I like the

video as well as it looks very misty and quite pale, almost like

the music and behind the performers, there are screens that show moving images (or short video clips) of the performers, either performing or re

cording something. (If it does show them recording som

ething, it would be the song that is being played).

Charts for Questionnaire

Looking at these results, I will try to make my music video open to people of 16 to 30. I will try to make my music video a narrative with some performance in it, depending on the genre however as some genres have a narrative, some just have random bits of video and imagery. I will make sure the music can be one that could be played in clubs, a dance track possibly. I will also try to make the music video available to watch online.

Questionniares

Magazine adverts

This poster has a very dark atmosphere, however the group and music (or the potential music shown by the band) brightens and livens it up slightly. This shows almost rebellious people in a group that looks like they play or perform late at night (seeing that there are many lights on in the buildings behind) and that they like to play loud and almost be antisocial (however music is for everyone else). the positioning of the band shows that they do not play on rooftops but play at our level, where we, the audience can go and see them almost face to face.

Record labels to Drum and Bass

Nitrous Oxide Entertainment-

Full Cycle Records-

Based in Bristol, England. Has a sister label which is V Recordings, owned by Daniel Kausman (DJ Die), Paul Southey (DJ Suv), Keith Thompson (DJ Krust) and Ryan Williams (Roni Size). The label was set up in the mid 90's to showcase their own work.

Promotional material:

Memories, Prioritios


Artists from here:


DJ Die
DJ Krust
DJ Suv
Bill Riley
Surge
Roni Size
I Kamanchi
Tali
DJ Clipz
Scorpio
J-Raq
D Product
Thirdface

The label's first release was in 1993.
The label's latest release was in 2008


Ram Records (UK)-

CD analysis

There are many different energetic lines and designs coming from the CD cover. It has very vivid colours and the energy relates to the style and the speed of drum and bass music.
There is slight humour in the top right text showing that this music is top. There are many volume/ speaker symbols with the volume up which shows that the music is loud and in your face all the time. On many drum and bass CD covers, there are interesting graphics showing the energy of the music.