Digipak Update

There have been some changes made with the digipak. Instead of having a burst of coloured powder, there will be the band's logo painted. This panel will now be behind the cd and the photo of the pigs head will move to the free panel.

This is just something I have made, splattered some paint on a paper and with my fingers, I have drawn the bands logo.

Digipak developments

On Friday afternoon, I went outdoors to take images of the trees. All images were taken from a low angle and captured some images to use for the front cover of the album. As it was already decided to take images of trees, that is what I had done. 

Contact Sheet:

After finishing the shoot, I had picked one image from the contact sheet and made some adjustments on Photoshop to make it more appropriate for Alternative genre album cover, such as making it in black and white and making the clouds more grey. 

                                                                                                                                      

The outcome:

Video Questionnaire

This is a video questionnaire which I have made with Ben to see if out music video fits in with their opinion:

Youtube:
https://youtu.be/ShKEuVlkWcc

Or please go on my youtube account - Type Anna Koto and you will find it in my uploads

Video Questionnaire

To understand why people favourites their bands and how they spend money on music, Ben and I have decided to ask students in our school with questions we have came up with.

Randomly, aged from 1618, we have asked questions from below:

Have you ever heard of the band ‘Woodkid’?

If yes… continue                           In no... goodbye.

1. Do you enjoy their music?

2. What about their music that appeals to you most?

3. Where/when/how did you hear about the band/music?

How do you listen to the music? Via…

How many concerts have you attended in the past 6 months?

What venues have you been to?

How much money do you spend on music? (Spotify premium, apple music, CD, vinyl?)

Do you buy merchandise? (posters, digipaks, clothing?)

Do you buy magazines? Which? One?

Do you listen to any radio stations? Which?

Do you visit a band's website?

How do you watch music videos?

What do you enjoy in music video’s?


Do you prefer narrative or performance videos?

1 out of 4 people we have interviewed knew who Woodkid were.  This shows that our audience are not teenagers, 

Shooting for the digipak

Yesterday afternoon, Ben I have arranged to do a shoot for the digipak. We did a studio shoot to capture images of the band front and back. They all wore a white shirt to contrast the black background. Also we didn't want much colour as the front is meant to be very dark and dull and more colour on the inside. 

We had used 2 box lights, a D3200 Nikon camera with a tripod. We used a tripod to reduce shake. 

These images are test shots to see which camera settings and lighting goes well together.

From this image, as the lighting is too harsh and creates shadow, so we needed to turn up the aperture and increase the lightings' brightness. 

From the image below, the lighting is too bright and as the lighting is lit from above, it still created shadow. 

The image below is too dark.

The image below I thought was perfect lighting, so we continued to use the same setting and lighting. 

I took all the images below for website purposes, but forgot to take an image of Ibz, so later we discovered that these images are pointless to use. 

Contact Sheet:

From the contact sheet, I had chosen 2 best images to edit. 

The two below are the best images I've chosen.

Filming the burning pigs head

On Sunday (yesterday) Ben and Lewis went to burn the pigs head supplied by Ben at their friends house. They have reported back that in total it took 30 minutes for the pigs head to burn completely and also used accelerant to spread the fire to make it more dramatic.

The pigs head was supplied by Ben's uncle who works in  the butchers. They carried the pigs head in a plastic bag, frozen and placed on a fire pit where they began to set up to burn the head.

They used a SLR camera and a tripod to reduce shake. 

The footage which they have filmed will be used in the music video to apply Goodwins' theory in lyrics where he believes the lyrics and visual should match, and also it is a spare footage for any scenes which doesn't go well or match, we can include the pigs head footage to balance it out. 

They've also used a "smoke stick" which you burn to create fake smoke to see if that is better than the fire but then decided to stick to the fire because it is more dramatic and realistic. 

Preparation:

Experimenting the smoke stick:

Pigs head burning

This is the contact sheet:

Digipak update

For todays lesson, I have continued making the digipak. Although I am in charge to edit the images and place them , there are still group discussions going on. For example, today I have noticed that our plan for this digipak was to have the outside in black and white and then have the inside in colour, however we have made the mistake of when we were doing the shoot, we have used the same background colour which is black so we have noticed that it would look awaked if we use two white background for where the CD will be placed and where the coloured powder will be.

I immediately spoke to the group and see what we  can do, whether to stick with the plan or change it to black and white. However this meant hat we had to come up with a new plan asap. Although we did stick to using coloured powder just with black background, we thought about what will be included as the background of where the CD will be placed. But fortunately, when the boys went to film their pigs head burning, they had taken some shots also, which I was able to use, and I have edited it in black and white, however this may change if we think it kooks better in colour. 

Also when making the digipak and I got up to where I included the title and song titles, I had to use the same font as the website, this was to avoid continuity error. We have decided to use Perpetual Titling MT which is quite a formal font and suitable for the band and their genre. You will not see this font being used for a 'Little Mix' album. 

Album and Song Titles

It is very important to plan out the album and the song titles. This will be useful for the digipak and the website.

As a group, we have decided to have 11 songs. This is after researching how many songs an album with alternative genre usually includes. We have researched Woodkid - The Golden Age included 14 songs, Dead Man's Bones - Dead Man's Bones included 12 songs and Arcade Fire - Reflektor included 13 songs. 

Album Title:

Sons of Progression

Song Titles:

• Iron
• Asterix Dogpark
• Ógeðslega flottür (Really Cool)
• The Blue Light
• Fathers
• Brennivín
• Under The Allotment
• Svið ft. Georgia Borek
• The Fog
• Cardigan Dreamland
• Endirinn