Animatic

This is our finished animatic in which we coupled our storyboards and our chosen song "Youth Knows No Pain", we feel fairly confident with our choices and we think that it will look really good when we come to shooting it. The only thing we fall down on is our drawings but all we need is a clear plan in our heads in order to make a successful music video. We're very eager and confident with our vision and plan for our video.

Journal: Making the Animatic

When making our animatic, we photographed each and every shot on our storyboards and them edited them on Final Cut Pro to go with the music which we have chosen for our music video. I have included some of the printscreens taken whilst making our animatic to show what it looked like when we made it. It took us a while to fully finish the animatic because we had so many shots and we wanted to make sure that each shot was perfectly framed and went in time with the beats and lyrics of the music. Whilst making the animatic, we had Goodwin's Analysis in mind and we made sure to stick with the rules. We are really happy with our animatic and we think that it couldn't have gone better.

Final Storyboards

After many weeks of working, we finally finished our storyboards. We thoroughly thought out the overall theme of our video and what we wanted it to look like and we began to discuss ideas a few weeks back. We would sit down with the sheets, pencils ready to draw and write and listen to the song over and over again until more interesting ideas came to mind, we also had the lyrics handy so we could think about Goodwin's theory of having a strong relationship between music/lyrics and visuals. Now that we've finished, we're extremely happy with the result and are eager to start filming our video.

In the photos in which there is a colourful background we decided to have a graffiti background to make it look more interesting and more urban. 

First Draft of Digipak

Digipak plans from cerenkangal

Editing and experimenting with my Digipak

This is my album cover which I have decided on for my animatic and I really like how it turned out. I did have other edits of where I changed the positioning of the text and butterfly - which is Isla Harris' icon and what I want to sell her on and what she will be known and recognised for most.

I definitely decided on using these spinning photos for one of the inside panels of my digipak. I was originally thinking of putting more colours in the digipak (the one below) but then I realised that I would have to change my ideas for the whole digipak and make it all colourful and I didn't want that. So instead I stuck with a nice effect which made it look indie and feminine.

This is another one of the panels on the inside of my digipak, I haven't actually finished editing this photo and I think I'm going to put a lens flare maybe or I'll just make it look a lot more indie pop overall. 

These are my other inside panels which I am yet to edit for my digipak.

Tracklisting

Digipak Photographs Presentation

More photos inside the digipak:

Panel 5:
Kerry- long shot next to lamppost - joined and edited together with another image next to a lamppost to give he illusion of two Isla's in one image.

Ceren- photos of Isla moving her hair, overlapped to show movement. Effects may be put on the images.

Panel 6:

Kerry- close up of Isla on a bed with the camera, focus on her hair.

Ceren- Either a photo of Isla from the back, showing fashion and hair - or a photo, mid shot, of her by a wall looking rural and realistic. 

Digipak advert research

Digipak adverts promote and make audiences aware that a digipak is being released. They tend to stick to the current theme of the artist/band and they continue showing images which are the same, or similar, to the digipak itself. They stick to the genre characteristics and they promote the artist/band in a way that is very similar to the digipak covers.

This Rihanna digipak advert really follows the same theme as her digipak for Loud, as it continues the floral and red and pink colours and theme, which highlights the fact that she is a female artist with a mainly female audience. I think that it's really good to keep up the theme from an album onto the digipak advert because it really makes it obvious who and what it's about.

This Ellie Goulding digipak advert is the same as the Rihanna one in regards to the fact that it follows the same themes as the digipak itself and it really puts more emphasis on the fact that it relates back to the title. I think that both of these adverts show that it's really important to make your advert link back to your actual digipak in order for it to promote the digipak and let the audience know what it's about and it really addresses the target audience.