Existing digi packs

Here are some existing digipaks for singles/albums by Wankelmut. In order for me to create my own digipack I needed to analyse existing digipaks to see what was popular in the genre and what codes and conventions are used in order to create a successful dance Digipak. Wankelmut is the artist who's track I am using and all the digipaks below are his too so this will help me see what sort of thing is popular for the dance genre.

This Digipak has an artistic blue and pinkish background which looks like smudges of paint or feathers in a pile. The background has no relevance to the name of the album cover 'Wankelmoods vol.2' as far as I know apart from it includes bright colours which could connote fun. The mix match of colours could also indicate a care free attitude as the smudges are messy rather than having an order to them, this relates to the dance genre as dance is associated with fun and a care free attitude as I have realised when researching existing music videos such as 'seek bromance'. 

The second DigiPak is similar to the first one as it includes an artistic background but the colours are a lot brighter and look like pressed flowers or smudged paint. The text is in white just like the first DigiPak, it is simple 

The third DigiPak is also similar to the two previous ones apart from the picture relates to the name of the album cover as the photo is of a jungle and the name of the album is 'My head is a jungle'. This Digipak is different as the picture is cut out in a circle which makes it look more interesting, it's almost like a fish eye lens which gave me inspiration to use a fish eye lens to film my music video

Initial ideas - Lyrics

This is an annotated version of the lyrics I plan to use for my music video. This is just a rough plan of how i would like my music video to plan out, it may not go exactly to this plan but this is just a general idea which will help me when filming so I know what goes in what order.

Filming the singer parts of the music video

1. Here you can see myself and Ella my co-producer filming our main singer, Harry. We chose to film at a church where there is lots of lights at night to light up the scene. The lighting was difficult to get right and we had to try lots of places to ensure Harry showed up well on the camera. The best place was a bench in the church which was well lit up by lights on both sides. 









2. We had various problems when filming such as not getting our shadows in the shot. This was difficult as we wanted to film in front of Harry and see how the shot looked but that meant our shadows were in the side of the shots. We resolved this problem by putting the camera in place then getting Harry to press the record button when he was ready.

3. To ensure Harry was mouthing the right words at the right time we downloaded the 'One Day' track on to a phone and got Harry to hide it up his sleeve and play the song so he could hear the words and mouth along with the song at the same time. This meant he could hear the song at the exact time so he would be in sync with the song when we edited the clips.









                               


4. Another problem we encountered when we were out filming was the freezing cold weather, to ensure our actor didn't get too cold and get ill we made sure he was wrapped up warm in layers of clothing, hats and 2 pairs of socks. We also brought extra clothing out incase any of us got too cold.

5. Here is just a shot to show where a bouts we were filming. We tried out different angles to see which looked the best and suited our song. We ended up going for a shot straight in front of Harry directly in front of his face as we thought this worked the most effectively because you could see him singing the most clearly, we also liked the symmetry as he was sitting in the middle of the bench and the scene was equal on both sides.

6. This photo shows us trying out different shots to make our video more interesting. We liked this shot filming from the side of Harrys face as you were able to see the cold air coming out of Harrys mouth which we thought looked really good and showed it was him singing. 

7. After setting up and testing out different shots we encountered yet another problem. When filming the camera would automatically stop after a few seconds and come up with this message 'Movie recording has been stopped automatically', this was very frustrating as we had put in all the effort into costume, set, lighting and getting our actor to come out and then the camera was playing up. After many calls to various people trying to figure out the problem we found out it was because the memory card was too small, we managed to get a few seconds of film which we were able to use in our video and that had to do till we got another memory card and set up another date to film.

Singer choice

For my music video I have chosen to have a singer to mouth the words to the song. The original singer of 'One Day' is 'Asaf Avidan' so I knew the singer would have to male. Myself and my co-producer Ella decided to use a singer of a similar age to the age of the girls in the music video, Harry is 19 so still appealing to my target audience of teenagers to young adults. He is confident and comfortable in front of a camera and acting as he has lots of experience in acting before hand. 

Harry will be playing mouthing bits of the song to look as if he is singing it.

New actress profile

Our new actress choice is Ella, an 18 year old girl who has similar qualities to the previous girl Charlotte we were going to use. Ella doesn't normally act but it confident and comfortable in front of the camera making her a suitable role in my music video. 

Preliminary filming on set

Here are some photos of me and my co-producer Ella filming a practice first scene for our music video. We did this so we could gain ideas of what our real music video would look like, this also helped us practice camera angles and helped us decide which ones we wanted to use. We also became more familiar with the camera and the different settings it had to offer, we played around with the 'zoom' when filming and learnt how to make it look professional. During our practice filming myself and Ella also realised how we worked as a team together, I found myself taking more control of the actual filming as I am a photography student meaning I have 
more experience with cameras and the way they work whereas Ella worked really well setting up where we were going to film and the placement of the actresses. 

Actress changes

Unfortunately our second actress was not able to do the filming days we needed her to do, due to this I decided to change our actress to someone who was more available.

Me and my co-producer Ella decided to use her herself to be the second actress. We both decided that this would be the best thing to do as she was available the most and she is close friends with the first actress Lucy meaning they would look natural and comfortable on camera together.