Ancillary Task - Final Digipak

 

Creating Our Digipak

Creating Our Digipak

Digipak Analysis - Alt-J

Digipak Analysis - Lady Gaga

Digipak Thoughts

Digipak Research

Final Shooting Schedule

As our original video was deleted, we have had to film our music video again. Although this is frustrating, we now have a second chance to reach the expectations we have made in this video. We plan to film throughout January yet also edit during this time. If everything goes according to the plan, we will have our completed video by February and finish our blog by February half term.

Changes Of Our Planning

Inspiration/Influences

Lyric Scenes

Lyric Analysis

Lyric Analysis

Final Intended Audience Profile

Final Song Choice

Initially, we decided to use Madonna's "Material Girl" track to accompany our music video. However, as we faced a crisis during the post production of our video, we decided to change everything completely. This included using a new camera and a different editing software. We also decided to change the song entirely. In hindsight, the shots we captured for our first video did not relate to the song lyrics themselves. Therefore, we instead elected to choose Cyndi Lauper's early 80s hit "Girls Just Want To Have Fun". Now, we are able to stick to the original storyboard yet make it more challenging, with more actors and more ambitious locations.

Changes

Dramatic Changes

Originally, we were filming a music video for the song “Material Girl” by Madonna. However, when we began to edit the video together, our nearly completed video was deleted of the editing programme, along with the video clips. After consulting with the technical team at school, we discovered that our video could not be retrieved. Although we were initially very disappointed by this outcome, we have been given an extended deadline to complete our video.

We have decided to take this opportunity to change major aspects of our video. After looking at the first video, we decided that the lyrics did not relate to the images on screen and instead we have decided to change our song choice to “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper. By doing this, we will be able to relate to the song lyrics more and we have already decided on a new storyline. We have also decided to change the editing programme to Final Cut Pro on Apple Mac, as supposed to the Pinnacle editing software at our school. This will let us explore different editing techniques and use more effects to get our video to the best standard possible.

 

Another change we have made is the camera. We first used a school camera to film our video, but we now have the Lumix G10. It has 12.1 megapixels, which enables our video to have a much higher quality than it did before. It also has different effects that we hope to use in our new video.

Although having to re-do our filming again is frustrating, we understand that we have been given another chance to make our video the best it could possibly be. I believe that, by making these changes, we will be able to produce a video of high quality, with more advanced and correct editing techniques involved. We will also complete more posts that need to be changed to go with the new song choice but, both songs are in the same genre, so we will not need to adapt our earlier posts. We will keep our completed posts on our blog to show our progress throughout this process.  

Initial Locations

Here are the locations for our "House" scenes. We firstly have our main character waking up in a feminine bedroom before getting changed and meeting her friend. We also filmed a few shots of Amber in a wardrobe as we debated about the connotations of a "Material Girl" and inevitably decided that she should be surronded by clothes. Futhermore, we filmed a few point of view and high angle shots in order to achieve extra footage.
We not only decided to shoot in one place of the house as we know we have to prove that we have developed since our AS videos. Therefore, this enables us to have a wider variety or choices when it comes to editing our video.

 

We filmed part of our video on a bridge and a stretch of forest. We decided from the beginning that we would want a location that opposes the traditional codes and conventions of a music video. Although we have now changed these locations to adapt to our new and final video, we will still use the "House" location in the finsihed project.

Initial Costumes