Ancillary Task- Digipak

This is the final draft for the digipak. To create this picture i took different screen shots of a long clip we filmed of everyone in the best frame that where in e.g. so looking forward and smiling, and also how the sparklers looked in the frame. I then took a black background and used that as a filler while i placed all my screen shots together. I used photoshop to edit these parts and used different layers to create the picture. I sharpened the picture to ensure the light from the sparklers was bright. I also darkened the picture using the hue and saturation on photoshop. I wanted the picture to focus primarily on on the sparklers and the relocation they make on the peoples faces. This makes the CD front cover to be simplistic. I wanted it to be simplistic as this relates back to my previous questionnaire of my first skeleton layout in which my focus group said they thought a simplistic design would be the best.

After editing in photoshop i transferred the picture to Indesign. There i put in the font and choose the colour of the font, the font i used was Chalkduster. I choose this font as it looked hand written and also the chalk effect helps with the theme of youth and school.

To create the back page, I imported the a barcode of the web and the took the logo off my blog. The background picture was some glitter agains t a black background. On Photoshop i changed the colour of the glitter from gold to a dark red. This is so it matched with the red colour scheme of the front cover.

Main task- Head Shots,Talent and Personal Realease forms

Mary Lawson

Bethany Carter

Bradley Bishop 

Aimee Tyrrell

Luke Riches

Zoe Brant 

Lucy Baker

Main task- Call Sheets

Call sheet produced by Sinead Grace

Main Task- Test shoot

For the test shoot we chose to test out a variety of different scenes with just two of the main cast members. The scene we tested out were the bedroom, living room and park scenes. From testing out the scenes it gave us a chance to experiment with the lighting in the rooms and see if anything needed to be changed when it came to filming the actual music video. The bedroom shot enabled Sinead (Our Camera person ) to work out where was best for the camera to be angled at and when it came to filming the real video where the camera would be positioned. 

The Test shoot also gave an insight to how we would edit our final piece. Mary placed a yellow/orange coloration over the clips for the bedroom scenes. This was to show that it was still early in the day as the girls are getting ready for the party. It also creates a juxtaposition as the following scenes being filmed at night and given a darker coloration. The living room scene showed that without any editing the lighting was too dull. This then lead to us choosing to make the lighting more brighter when we filmed our final piece. With the editing side of the living room scenes, a pink coloration was placed over the clips. The pink gave the scenes a more party and youth vibe to it. Pink has strong connotations of happiness, romance and childhood and we wanted all of these aspects to be portrayed in our music video.
With the scenes shot at the park conformed our hypnosis of having enough time to shot at around 17:00. We wanted to shoot between 17:00-18:00 to ensure there was enough natural light. If some of the scenes did turn out darker we could use a luma curve on premier pro to make the clips more brighter. We placed a blue coloration on these clips to give a night time feel and effect if the scenes where filmed when it was still light.

Overall the test shoot allowed us to try out different lighting techniques, editing techniques and how to position the camera for certain shots. All of these will make it easier for when it comes to shooting the final piece and hopefully the process will run smoothly.