Digipak Inspiration

For my digipak cover, I would like to toy with the idea of lights and shutter speed to create images. I took pictures as a tester for this and they turned out better than I expected. I would also like to stick with the idea of putting a fake band on the cover as well, most likely sat on a bench like the covers of Mumford and Sons' Babel. Or maybe just having the band and their instruments looking incredibly moody like the Sigh No More cover to go along with the indie themes. 

Digipak Ideas

I have created a mindmap of all my current digipak ideas. The main ideas I have are for "the band" to feature in it, and for it to have themes of nature and light. I would like to use natural colours and lighting in my pictures as opposed to black and white as even though many say everything looks better in black and white, I believe that the beauty of everything, mostly nature and people, is in their colour. I have sketched a rough idea of what I want the front of my digipak to look like however these ideas are still in development and can change at a whim.

Editing - Half Way There!

Four days of filming and hours of editing and we are half way there, all we have left to do is film the final shots at Alexandra Palace and get it all edited and perfect. However, I'm quite proud of what we have so far and I'm excited to complete it. 

Evaluation

Unlike last years evaluation, which had seven questions, the A2 evaluation only has four  still for 20 marks. However, for this years evaluation, as I have the experience of last year I can develop upon my presentation to gain as many marks as possible as I think a flaw in my evaluation last year was the way in which I presented did not illustrate knowledge of technology which was one of the main criteria. 

La La Land

What a way to start the year, with this beautiful, colourful, brilliant piece of art. Damien Chazelle hits it out of the park with this wonderful imagining of the American dream done so beautifully it will make you want to cry out of sheer joy.

Firstly, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling have such amazing chemistry it hurts, every time they look at each other you can tell that that is how someone who loves someone else looks at a person. Not only is their screen presence beautiful but their voices individually and together is just so inspiring and breath-taking and soothing you'll be glad to listen to the soundtrack, like I have been, on repeat from the moment the film ends.

Everything from the vibrant colours to the acting, directing and just awesome cinematography will make you want to do what you love. It makes you want to go out and make music, make a film, make art, just to make something. Something you can be proud of, that you can showcase. 

I really can't praise this film enough. Its success at the Golden Globes does not come into question after viewing because each and every one was totally deserved. Finally, watch this film, please! You cannot miss it and you won't want to.

Filming Day 4

Today my group filmed in Enfield Town Park with our two amateur actors, Mr and Mrs Goulding. It was a short shoot but we got Ruby's story line beginning complete and have now edited it into our music video. We did not run into many difficulties except for the fact that it was freezing cold, it was a smooth and fairly easy shoot. And now that this is complete we can move on to the final days of filming. 

Digipak: The Indie Genre

Usually, when indie bands such as 'The 1975' or 'Bon Iver' release digipaks they tend not to put images of the band and instead have a picture, vibrant colours and sometimes the band's logo. If the digipak does have an image of the band on it or just one band member it tends to be cartoonish or distorted. 

Another convention of indie digipaks simplistic, plain bold lettering in all capitals that clearly illustrate the title and the band like Bon Iver's Blood Bank digipak cover. However, some digipaks in the indie genre use peculiar and unusual font types to match the distorted image they use. 


The colour schemes of many digipaks vary from band to band, an example of this, are the digipaks below. They are both from the same genre but each cover has a completely different colour scheme. 'The 1975' uses a simplistic and classy black and white theme, whilst 'Bon Iver' had a muted orange colour scheme with a white border and font. However, in contrast to the muted or monochrome colours many indie digipak covers have vibrant colours to match with the themes of their music.