8th and 9th day of filming

Reshoot

I reshot Luis' close up and parts of his mid shot that I was finding difficult to lip sync because towards the beginning of filming he did not know the words that well. Also for some reason a couple of shots from the narrative section have not turned up after importing them so I want to do them wednesday. I am also pleased to say that my digipak is complete. 

Nevertheless on the 8th filming session rob did not turn up so we decided to do it lunch the next day so that he had no reason not to make it as his escuse last time was he couldn't get a lift home. Fair enough he is paying for the privalidge of the school bus but again the communication is slacking I should have taken everyone's number at the beginning of the project. Even though rob forgot his costume the lunch we were filming he turned up and used his physical education kit and my friends jumper to cover logos. Although this was not the mise en scene I wanted I needed to get the filming done and so I even did the shot in the corridor with people there because I wanted to keep the continuity as I thought either my friend would have forgotten the jumper or rob would have forgotten either the PE kit or filming altogether and I could easily edit out the sound later  in post production. Anyway the day rob didn't come I managed to get to my d of e meeting at 5 and remade the VIP tickets which I lost last shooting session. This is the new design as I could not print in colour this time:

I also printed off a sheet of paper saying VIP only on it to hide the sign "drama studio 3" and increase the verismillitude of the project. 

Inspiration

While trying to lip sync the music video I wanted to see if there was a conventional order to the performance section and the narrative section. Then I found the above which is amazing because it gave me the motivation to continue editing because I did not realise how much time lip syncing takes when choosing my brief.
I also found this amazing video about lip syncing which is below and so may make my editing a bit easier:

I also wanted to work out how to put the copy right symbol at the end of my music video as this is conventional and is in the Pixie Lott music video Nasty, so I looked it up and found this video tutorial:

However, I did not know what the option button was so looked it up and fount this:

The internet is amazing :) 

7th and 8th day of filming

I finally got everyone together to film the scene when the protagonists meet the band - well I say that the audience assume I have due to the over the shoulder shot of Imogen and Point of View shot of Rob. This is due to the fact that rob was not their I went to his tutor room the morning of the filming session because I had reschedualed the session as I could not obtain the drums on the Thursday. Maybe I need to work on my time management skills as I did not give Rob much notice. However, when I spoke to his tutor he was in assembly and she said she would get the message to him. Later that day she said that she had found Rob and he said he couldn't make it without any reason. He messaged me later saying that he was ill. I said to him that it would have been nice if he had let me know and then let it go to remain professional because I did not want it to interfere with future filming days. This is because later today I will be filming the reaction shots and when the protagonists enter the room. The band won't have to be here thank goodness. Hopefully all goes to plan tonight because I have a duke of Edinburgh meeting at 5 so will need to finish filming by then.

Thinking

So I was thinking that if I had to have all filming done by the end of this week it would be better to have the band for the last chorus instead of the protagonist meeting the band. This is because I have already filmed this as a back up plan as I knew it would be a struggle for all 7 of us to meet up. However, Mr Michie has given us an extension for 3rd April. Therefore, as the rooms are not available this week I will be filming on the 26th or 27th of March and have editing done as soon as possible. Therefore, I can get as many people as possible to evaluate my promo. Meanwhile I need to organise reshooting Luis' close-up because I thought with continuity and everything the drummer had to be behind Luis. However, this disconnects the lead singer from the audience as they are distracted by Oscars floating head as his black top seems to camouflage against the black curtain. Nonetheless, this should be easier now because I will not need to get the drums which seems to be proving difficult to obtain as the year 11's may need it to rehearse for their music exam.

6th day of Filming

Finally, I have completed the narrative filming section so changing teacher was good choice. I should have done it sooner. Never mind that is sorted now. I mean I was only worried that because Mr Ford is not a Drama teacher he would not have been able to pull off the performance required but as Mr Ford is a Media teacher he helped a great deal as he reminded me about reshooting a shot because I had changed the mise-en-scene slightly. Plus, his acting skills were pretty good so I found the correct actor to represent the age.

However, I am a bit annoyed with myself because I did not take photos for my blog but I still have one shooting session. Hence, I will be able to post a picture of my protagonist at least but not their costumes which I am very proud of. I am proud of the costumes because I bought the two ties from a charity shop for 99p each because if Imogen used her old school tie that would have been fine because she is in year 12 she doest need it any more but Rob still needs his as he is in year 11 so it was not advisable because the paint may not come out. Despite the fact the paint says it is washable on the front. Its just better to be safe than sorry because the children's crayola paint says its washable if children get it on their clothes accidentally but what we are doing is purposefully splattering on the clothes. Therefore, it is less likely to come out easily in the wash and the notion the ties were so cheap means it does not matter if I never use them again. I also got the black pair of trousers that Rob is wearing in the promo from a different charity shop for £3.95 which is not bad considering elsewhere e.g Primark they were £15. I also obtained a shirt but unfortunately it did not fit Rob as I was aiming at the time for the clothes to fit Callum. I did ask Rob to come with me to lost property to find him a shirt but he said he had one that he would not have minded getting paint on. Moreover, Imogen had all her clothes that she was not fussed getting paint on.

I have washed the ties and the pair of trousers and unfortunately the paint did not come out that well I am hoping, Imogen and Rob had better luck. Its just lucky that we did not use Robs uniform thinking the paint would come out because he could be without a uniform now and they are quite expensive to replace. Meanwhile, I have started the editing by uploading the footage and am a bit worried because one of the shots I reshot was not there but I think I may be paranoid as I was not looking with much concentration as I wanted to give Miss Collins the camera back as soon as possible. Anyway, I hope to finish film by Thursday provided that Luis can move his Drama Rehearsal to a different day,  Rob can make it as he has a presentation at 7pm on that day and Mr Smith can move the Drama rehearsal to the Java Studio as all other days people have things on which they cannot move.

Digipak layout

I did not realise but the top row has to be upside down so it is able to fold into the photos below

bottom left and top right of Digipak
images will be repeated from the of the front as two band band members with skull mask like faces will will be on on one section and the other two on the other. Exactly the same photos will be used to reinforce ideas from the front page.
Colour will be green and blue backgrounds with white splatters of paint to emphasises the brand and connotations of ironic purity.

Conventionally no language or fonts will be used because these sections are inside the CD case and are usually images such as photographs.

Except the Front cover I have not really analysed many pop punk "Digipaks" because the CDs are expensive and I am working on a low budget and there are limited images of the inside and back of CD covers on Google images. So I haven’t analysed much existing media but because of my interest in music I have formed my own instinct of what conventions will be needed. For example of Back page conventional images would be small to fill up the space because my band have only written a few songs so I will probably have a splatter of paint to make sure the brand is consistent again. Plus, I will write a post about my record label logo.
Moreover, colour is mostly black background and white font because these contrast thus stand out so that the audience can see them. Additionally they are iconic for the Sub-genre of Pop-punk as Green Day and My Chemical Romance both use this colour scheme.
Language I will need to be researched in more depth but I know the C and P logos will be needed. What’s more the song names will also be vital to make sure audiences are familiar with the medium.
font will be similar to the front page to make the brand consistent through the medium again. However the copyright font will have to be smaller than the rest to enable the attention to be on the important music. A bar code is also a a massive convention of music videos so that they are available to sell.

The layout will also be fairly conventional with the track titles at the top and the copyright and record label at the bottom.

CD compartment
images will subvert conventions because usually there is a black background but I will once again use the paint to attract the interest of young people who are the target audience of this genre.
Colour will once again be Green, white and blue like the paint in the music video will be green and blue creating synergy.
I will follow conventions and have not text, font or language.
The Splatters of paint will be identical to the splatters on the front page so that the brand is consistent.

top left of Digipak 
I will ensure no images are used in this section because I genuinely think this is typical of Digipaks as conventionally band names are put here. Therefore I will copy this convention of language. The same font will be used from the rest of the album cover and black and white will be used from the back cover to once again synergy is used. I will be aligned the centre and in smaller font towards the bottom I will have a many thanks to the writers and lyricists to ensure the audience are familiar with the medium.

Therefore, should i need to promote my digipak to be produced to sell the digipak as an easy package to present quickly. 

Although I wanted to combine the conventions from My Chemical romance with the skeleton and the stencil hand holding the Grenade in Green day I cannot find a model of a skeleton that will do this shape of an OK sign or an editing tool on photoshop to change a hand to an X-ray. I mean what I really need is an X-Ray machine but this could be dangerous because these emit radiation and could essentially give the person being X-rayed Cancer because I would unnecessarily be damaging the cells in their arm as they have not broken it. Hence, I have changed my idea and would like to combine conventions of images from the pop-punk album covers I have researched. For example, I will take a photo of each band member individually so I can use a green screen more effectively because I will be able to move them to the positions I would like. Therefore, I will copy conventions from Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte and Weezer who do not have anonymity with Green Day, Taking back Sunday, and The Get Up Kids and combine this with My Chemical Romance by using a non-copy right image of a skull from google images and editing if with photoshop to make the skulls look like masks. I continued to combine my idea with Blink 182 as this has graphics or photos of spattered paint so I will use this idea to link with my music video and create synergy.

To make the colour original I will adapt the photos of splattered paint from pink and light blue to green and dark blue in both the digipak, Music Video and Album advert to ensure the brand is consistent throughout my products. This will also make my products more masculine which rock typically is. I will also have a white background to connote purity because this juxtaposes the idea of rebellious youths which is comical due to the irony. Therefore, i will have black costumes that are the same as the music video and so will create synergy because I wanted them to have suites but this was again too expensive. 

I will copy conventions of language by having the band name, album name and record label on the spines and all except the record label on the front cover as this is conventionally on the back. Therefore, i will copy the lack of language as well because this is all that are conventionally on the front page.

Furthermore, I will subvert the font so that it relates to the band name because conventionally most of my research used san serif fonts but I will use an antiquated because this is a synonym of historic which is a theme of my products. I will have black font for the band name to match the Pop-punk costumes and red font for the album name so that it stand out against the background and connotes danger. I was thinking at one point that the male and female protagonists could be a couple like the Blink 182 promo. Hence the red could have another interpretation of love but they are not trained highly enough for this kind of acting. 

I will try and make the layout as conventional as possible it just depends where the splatters of paint land on the page which I will photograph and because if it is not clear enough to read I will have to rejig the layout so it stands out easily.

Research

I have decided that research should never stop throughout the process. Hence, I found these two videos which have really similar beginnings this is probably because they have the same genre so one was used some its conventions and combined them with another unknown music video. For example both start with of with the female protagonist having surgery and then continue into a dance routine even though they have very different meanings.

I also googled some pop-punk album adverts:

The conventions of these is release date name of band album name and where to buy it. I this case it is a web-site on King of leon it was a shop; HMV.

The conventions continue to be followed as the bands name and album release date is copied. Moreover, the place or website to buy the album is at the bottom again. This time like The Devil Wears Prada there are tour dates as well as how to buy tickets for it. Both are quite similar to the CD front cover to maintain the brand and synergy.

Although I am not doing this genre it is interesting to look at the conventions of the CD advert

The conventions include the date that the CD comes out the place to buy it from - Website the name of artist and record lable