I have looked at the bands preivous album covers to get a better feel of thier brand image. I noticed they maily consist of photography, symetry and a slight bit of texture. Personally i dont feel they represent what the band sounds like as the photos have vintage simple effect giving the impression they are going to sound light and classic. Although their single 'Boy' is asoft acoustic simpkle song, the rest of the album i have chosen to put together is more indie rock.

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Sine my last few ideas hadn't worked to plan, i have re-designed my storyboard to suit me more so i can film at school. This means i am able to use actors around in their free lessons to shoot my video. I have selected a few people who are taking AS music so they can imitate the bands actions and mouth the words. I have changed the song to a similar local band who i already got permission to use their song for as i feel this suits the black and white effect i am going for better. 

After effects

After cutting and editing my attempt of the start of my music video, I decided turning it black and white would look effective as it does in videos such as Canterbury's video i analyzed, gloria. To do this, on premier pro i dragged video effects onto each clip, changing in to monochrome, and editing the lightness and contrast of the grays to make the image appear sharper and give it deep blacks so it's got an atmospheric appearance. 

Filming

On Tuesday 22nd I set out to film my origional plan that i drew in a storyboard with two of my actors, Chris and Charlie. My new selected location, Denham country park is a great place to shoot as it has a river and fields that are ideal to shoot different scenes in and only 20 minutes away. I made the paper boats out of love letters so she could send it down the river, organised their out fits:

Chris outfit 1: Jeans, plain top, smart jacket
outfit 2: trousers sleeveless top, cardigain (& wellies)
Charlie outfit 1: dark jeans, plain top, knitwear
Charlie outfit 2: long dress, over the top long cardigain

I had planned to shoot 9.30-12.30, but the actors weren;t ready which set us back over an hour. I compramised and re-designed the opening scene to a break-up between these two characters. It turned out ok, i achieved many different shots to edit, hoping to change the colours and add flashes of lights like many other music videos do to add a surreal effect that the viewer knows its fiction or fairytale.

This is my edited version of my digi-pack. I have made many changes to it's appearance so it looks professional and appropriate to this acoustic indie band. I have a few things left to do, such as the binding with the bands name and album title. I have also slightly edited the front cover so the text 'IN GRATITUDE' is blended into the silhouette of the flowers.

This is a template of the type of digipack i am designing around. It's given me a good indication of how many photo's i need to use and the composition they should be placed in so when made into the cover, everything fits correctly and is up the right way.

This is an example of some who has used the same template. From looking at this i can see that the front and back cover need to be next to each other and the inside images of the CD should be upside down so when folder, are up the right way. I must decide where the bar code, copyright and record label information should be placed discreetly to not ruin the effect of the images.

CD cover Back design

I chose these two album designs to look at because they are both sub-genres of rock bands. They are similar to my design idea as i am going to use my own photography. These front and back covers shows continuity throughout the album using the same style, subject and colours in the photos. I am focusing on the back covers here to figure out my own composition of the text, song titles, and copyright record details. It also helps me figure out where to discretely place the bar code without ruining the aesthetics.