Digipak First Draft

Here is the first draft of the digipak i have been working on. This first draft will be used to pause and get lots of feedback from our target audience and classmates. 

Shooting Schedule

Planning digipak

This is a presentation i created throughout the making of the digipak, it shows how i planned and used influences to make my digipak. 

Website First Draft

Storyboard

Music Video Titles

Digipak CD

Quick presentation kindly made by Lucy showing the CD development and name change. 

Poster Design

Issy created these two posters, to advertise our new album release and looking at other artists posters, this is what we came up with. 

Asking people which they preferred, they all thought the pink/purple poster fit our image better because it goes well with our digipak. Also i think the writing on the black and white poster is unclear and too serious. We want to come across as very arty, modern and edgy, so this edited picture of me, shows some aspects of our digipak with blurry edgy pictures. 

Halfway Presentation

Group Timetable

Below is a picture of our group's timetable for both week A and B. It shows when each member of the group has a free and when we have a media lesson. We created this so that we could plan when we would do our tasks such as assigned group tasks, photo-shoots and filming. This meant that is was easier to plan what we needed to do as we knew when we were all available. We text each other through whatsapp, and other social medias to make sure everyone's defiantly available, or if anyone's going to be late. 

Digipak so far

Photoshop Manipulation

Here are some of the photos we all edited separately for our website, poster and Digipak. They all share the same colour scheme and tones. We liked this look for our artist image and enjoyed editing more and more photos throughout the process. 

Photo shoot 3

Website planning

Name Change

Due to the change from a band to just Soraya, we decided that the name 'Vision' was no longer suitable as it was more appropriate to a band rather than a solo artist. Because of this we have changed the name from 'Vision' to 'Soraya' as it is unique.

Here are some images that we are considering using for the text of our new name. We will be using the name for websites, social media and the digi-pak.

We like these two texts as they look bold and we have the colour of purple which we will use for most text and colour as it suits indie-pop as it is not too girly or dark.

Background Designs

For our music video we needed to create three different backgrounds, which are a fire wall, an eye board and a paint board. To do this we brought a sheet of wood from the school's D.T department and cut it in half. I took one piece home and painted it white so that it was ready for us to chuck paint at it and the other piece we kept in school to work on during school hours. We did this because the resources we needed were based at school and the sheets were too big to take two of them home. During some of our media lessons we worked on the fire wall. To create the fire we used yellow, orange and red tissue paper and tore it up into strips, We then stuck on the ends of the strips on to the wooden board so that the strips were still lose at the other end. This meant that when we had stuck all the strips onto the boards the tissue paper looked like it was coming out of the board, creating a flame effect. 

On the other side of the fire board we created the eye board. This first design was to paint eyes onto the board but as we were running out of time we decided to print different eyes off the internet and use googly eyes as well. To create the background of the eye board we used PVA to stick strips of news paper down. We did this as we wanted to create a collage effect. We then cut around the eyes that we had printed out and scattered them around the board. to avoid making them look neat and in a pattern we stuck them down at different angles. In the gaps we placed the googly eyes so that the board didn't look spacious.

Album cover tester

Here is one possible new album cover. We have had to look at more as we changed our group to just Soraya, however we would still like to use the same photo-shoot photos of just Soraya and have a similar effect. This is only one idea to test the text and colours.

Similar artist websites

Due to the change from a group to a solo artist we carried out more research about similar solo artists to our artist. 

Similar artists photo shoots and fashion

Issy has also done some  research into more photo-shoots similar to ours which she has presented on slide share shown above.

 

Filming session 3

The photos above were taken whilst we were filming shots for our music video at another location. We took shots of Soraya standing in front of the graffiti  and lip syncing through different angles and shots. We also took some shots that we could use to create a clone effect and some images of Soraya moving to create a stop motion effect in our music video. We used different bits of the graffiti wall so that we had different colour backgrounds to make the music video backgrounds more interesting. We also took shots to open the music video and shots to put in the parts of the song that is instrumental.

Filming Session 2

Above is a behind the scenes picture of our second filming session. For this filming session we used a smaller drama room in the school and we used the school lights that were available in the room to create a purple light as well as using a white light from the media department. We used the black background as the wall looked nice with the purple light. Also, the shadows created by the lights were really good. This was because the lights were pointing at Soraya from different angles causing her to have two shadows, creating an interesting effect as it looks like there are three Soraya's in the video.

Also, Earlier on in the day we used the weather to our advantage as went outside onto the school field and recorded Soraya lip syncing the song two time with her in front of a tree. The weather was sunny with some light winds, which caused the lighting in the videos to be really good and the wind caused Soraya to have a wind swept look in some parts of the video.

Group reflection

Lucy has gathered all the feedback we have gotten so far from our music video. 

Music Video Filters

Merchandise Research

Lucy's role of creating the website has many components within it and she has recently created a store button. Looking at other artists stores, she has gathered some research for the potential merchandise.  

Spain Footage

When i  missed the week as i went to Spain i managed to film a lot of shots whilst i was there as i took her camera with me. The footage i filmed was brilliant as certain shots looked really professional as the sunny and dry weather created really nice natural lighting on me. i couldn't take a schools camera to Spain so i took my own which could have been risky as the quality may not have been good but now looking at the footage, the detail and quality i captured was really nice and is defiantly worth using for the video. The camera i used for this filming was a Nikon DSLR which gave great quality for the filming.

i  managed to film in many locations such as the street and the beach and even managed to find a wall which had graffiti on it which links perfectly to our theme of art and creative backgrounds. i  got my mum to film me against these backgrounds which will look great with the rest of our footage.

There could have been many potential problems of me filming in Spain, for example it could have made the rest of the footage look different and not as good as the locations would have been very different which could have spoilt our other locations. Another issue is that i could have filmed footage that wouldn't have looked good as it could have taken a different theme. But i managed to find some appropriate locations and managed to fit to the genre whilst filming.

One problem i had was something that could have potentially been really good. At the time of  me being away issy and lucy still had the name of vision so when i was at the beach i  printed the name 'vision' in the sand and the sea washed it away which looked really good on camera but now we are using the name Soraya which means we cannot use that footage. However if we did use this footage it may not have looked as good as it may have taken away the nice look to the rest of the footage although it does still fit the art theme to our video.

Below are some images of footage that i got from being in Spain which shows the locations.

Digipak Designs

PAINT THEME:

This design relates to the childish side to the music video. This colourful, fun design is also my favourite.

EYE THEME:

This design relates to some of the lyrics of the song, this visual is very loud and strange, giving our artist an edgy image.