Conventions of a digipak

These are all conventions which are typical of a digipak. I will incorporate them as they are of standard use.

On the back:

Inside:

Front:

Digipak plan

This is a rough plan which I have drawn up for our digipak. I thought an image from the our video would be suitable for the front and the back of the pack as it would be different to typical digipaks like the ones I researched. As the colours are black and white and show happiness and sadness, it gives the audience an idea of what the album will prodominantly be about.

Digipak research

This front cover of Taylor Swift's digipak shows the artist on the front. This is an idea which we could incorporate into our digipak. All digipaks are different, some use pictures either relating or not to the music or artist, or some artists use pictures of themselves so that the audience can identify the singer and their songs. An example of this is all of Rhianna's albums, and the above image.

Ancillary Task - Digipak

Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD attached to the inside. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies, and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak or Digi-Pak is often used generically, even when the media holder is a hub or "Soft Spot" rather than a full plastic tray.

Final Video

This is the final edit of our video. With the improvements made, I am very proud of it especially as we have produced a good quality film in the shorter amount of time than everyone else.

Screen shots from the final video

This is a screen shot of the alteration we have made to the original video. The band shots break up the narrative and so makes the video more exciting and interesting instead of it being an all narrative based video.

This is a shot of our main singer lip syncing. This made the video more personal to the audience as they could see who was actually singing the song. This was also another alteration we made after the feedback which I feel was invaluable to our video.

This shows our timeline on Final Cut Pro where we edited all of our video. You can see the overlaying of the shots to create effect and where we have added transitions.

Lastly, this screen shot shows an overlaying edit where the shots stagger in and out of a split screen frame. This makes the video more exciting and shows an example of how competent we became after spending much time on the software.

Re-filming

From our feedback, it was obvious that we had to do some more filming to make our video much better. Inclusion of band shots was advice given to us, and so we asked two of our friends to help with this.
We borrowed a microphone stand

and Ronan bought along his guitar to mirror the sounds in the song itself.
Anna had to learn the words and so last night we sent her the song and the lyrics and she learnt them perfectly and so lip syncing was not a problem. We ran the song through many times, using different camera shots and angles to reach the high standard of improvement that we needed.