Inside Left Digipack - Draft

Magazine cover ideas

For our Music Video we have started creating a magazine cover and we have a few ideas of what it could look like. We have taken images from stills of the music video and have edited them with over laying photos. To edit these photos we have been using Adobe Photoshop. This is the process of one of the ideas that we have had. we have used a Mandala image and have layered it over the top of the original image from our music video. obviously we cannot use this image of the mandala as it is from the internet.

Costumes on padlet

Created with Padlet

Digipack Testers

These are some images that i have been playing around with on Pixlr to see if they are suitable for the digipack. I feel that the first photo is very effective as a front cover, as it creates an edgy vibe to it, i hope to use the idea of the 4 images cut up on the front cover. I also think the last two photos are very effective, i layered photos on top of each other and feeling that that could work either on the magazine advert or aspects of layering photos on the digipack.

Updates of Ideas, Costumes and Locations

We have made a few changes along the way of constructing our music video, we are now introducing an aspect of the music video using a projector, which projects an moving image onto a wall whilst the artist is stood in front of it. We thought this would create more of a specific and we thought our original ideas didn't fit with our music. As of this new idea we now use the schools theatre to create this effect.

We also are using a whiteboard and someone writing 'Drop Your Guard' on the white board. We thought of using this in our music video as it may added versatility to the video.




We have listened to feedback from other media students about our music video and we have decided to make the whiteboard out and have Georgia holding bits of paper with Drop You Guard on and she drops them.

Work in progress shots

These photos are of Georgia, Shauna and I trying to record paper hearts floating around in a puddle. We found it hard to make the hearts float around and not float, it took us a while to get the perfect shot. Using various techniques like pouring water on to create a raining feel to the puddle, which didn't work. In the end we used my hand to just swirl the water around.

After trailing a range of different shot ideas, we have decided to use this in the music video. We decided to use this because we thought it really linked in with the genre of our music video as well as the flow of the song, as we tried to create the feel of the hearts floating around the water carelessly. This will be effective in our music video, as it is exactly what we wanted it to look like and it really suits the pac of the music and the the genre.

Filming and Editing Schedule

This is the schedule we as a group are going to try to stick to, this will ensure us that we are organised and the music video will be filmed and edited in time of the deadline.

We have 4-5 lessons of media a week and we have chosen to film and edit during these lessons as well as editing on a wednesday afternoon when we all don't have lessons.

Photos of work in progress

 These pictures are work in progress pictures, in developing our music video and our ideas. These pictures show how we are working together and developing our storyboard in order to produce a good story board in order for us to be able to be able to know what we are going to be filming and all the different shot types, making it easier.

Interim Evaluation

This week we have been experimenting with mise en scene and creativity shots. We completed this to see how we could incorporate creative and different types of shots we could use in our music video.
We also used a prop in the research for our music video, this helped us test out different ways of showing importance of a prop. We found it very hard to figure out a way of using a rubix rube in a creative and different way but still show importance. I feel that some of the photos we shot were very effective and they really helped us in planning our music video.
We have also been practising lip syncing this week on Final Cut Express which we think has been very effective and helpful with the planning of our music video.

Interim Evaluation

This week, we have been annotating and analysis our songs lyrics.

We our analysis the lyrics of "Drop You Guard" as this will help us to know what to put in the music video. For example, The lyrics our ".. those paper dolls hold each other by the hand.." we are think of doing a stop motion of two paper dolls coming into the screen, holding hands. This connects the visuals with the lyrics.

Using a wordle, which you put all the lyrics into i and it comes out with the most used words. We found that the most used words were; darkness, guard, deeper, hard, runs, deep, sea, emotion.
From things we are going to include in our music video darkness and also the use of water and sea is mentioned alot so we are going to try introduce that through the video. We are also hopefully going to portray a lot of emotion through the actor onto the music video. This will hopefully make the audience more engaged in the video.


I think this week has been very effective in the research and planning of our music video, as we have decided the genre of the music video along with what we want to come across to the audience through the camera.