Ancillary Text 1: DigiPak research

Ancillary Text: CD cover, back and spine

For my first ancillary text that I have to make. I have chosen to create a digipak CD cover. Here is the template that I am going to use for my digipak. For this I have to design and create my own album cover by using this template to help me. From using this template it is a good guide for me as it includes measurements that I have to stick too and so I know what to go by.

Digipaks

Digipaks are a designed cover for a cover for a CD, DVD or BD packaging. Digipaks typically consist of a 'book style' card stock outer binding, with one or plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. A digipak also includes a track list, information on who produced the album, tracks and the artwork. However how technology has improved people now do not buy CDs as much as they used to due to streaming such as iTunes and access the songs from online for example off YouTube, Digipaks not only give you all the songs that are on the CD to play but now add such things as 'bonus songs' which will allow the artists to add more then just the songs that are on the album. This will make the album much more personal to them. 

Editing

To make my music video look as  real as possible, I have included different edits into my video. For example as you can see from the photos I have added a fade from shot to shot so it is not such a jump from different shots, Here Louise and Jordan are walking down the path and to make it smooth and to focus on their hands 

I have included a fade edit. 

To make sure that my song does not cut off straight away at the end of my video, I have made sure that I have added a fade out circles so when it comes to the end of the song it fades off nicely and ends smoothlyrather then sharply and unrealistic. 

More filming that I need to do after first draft

After filming I have wrote a list of all the filming that I need to do to finish my film completely. This will help me to tick off all the filming that I need to do which will make filming much more easier to get done and to put together. I have wrote this list so that I am more organised for when I film so that I do not miss any filming out. This is the same of what I did when I first wrote a list of what I need to film at the beginning. 

First Draft

If having trouble with the sound use this link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-f4nJ6CdZQ

Edit suite

This is the edit suite where I edit all of my footage together using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Without this edit suite I would not be able to put all of my footage together to make my music video. As you can see on one side of the screen, on the right I have my music video and on the left hand side I have my different clips that I can click and drop onto the main editing part to make it come together.

Filming complications on 5th February 2015

I completed some filming on the 5th February. However we was in a rush because we needed to film outside but it was getting later on the night and was starting to get dark so I had to make sure that we did all the filming that I needed to do in good time. We could only of filmed on a week night because Louise who is my main actress works on a weekend. Therefore we only have a certain amount of time on a week night considering we finish college at 4 o'clock which means it is difficult to fit it all in. However I got all the filming that I needed to put together and to edit.

Weather forecast

To be organised for my filming that I have planned on to do on Thursday, I have looked at the weather forecast to see if it will be good weather to film outside on this day. From the weather forecast it looks to be dry before six o'clock.