Justifying The Bag Situation

After our media feedback, one of our audience members was startled why my character dropped off her bag and kept on running.

Reason: we took inspiration from Kodaline - All I Want Part 2 where the protagonist left his bag at the end of the video. We looked at this video and realised that it would fit into ours as well. With my story, we wanted her to basically run as a free person, getting away from her problems and starting almost fresh.

The real reason: we filmed our running shots without it and then realised that I ran with my bag in early shots at other locations so we needed to show that I dropped my bag somewhere.

Here is the music video of Kodaline Part 2

Album Track List with Font

Here is my Album Title with the font I will use as the tracklist. the Album title itself "leave my body " will busing the same font I used with the band name. I realised that on my blog that the font is hard too see, however, on my digipak it will be over a black and white picture.

Tracklist:

Tulip Touch 

forest lake

canada water

on air

king of evil

wash

st George

sweeter than heaven

a lily in a rose garden

bonus tracks

how to dance alone

running rings around wild

new york nocturnal

As there are some Bonus Tracks these are just there as a just in case. I may decide to put them in I haven't decided yet but that will come as to how my digipak will look like. 

With research it is quite common that many Indie artist have bonus tracks or a "B Side" to their single. So maybe on my magazine page I could put these tracks with my Wash single and promote them as a B side track and not as bonus tracks as this will allow more people to listen that certain band as the audience knows that those songs won't be on the final album. the 1975, George Ezra, Lana Del Rey and the XX are just some of the indie artist that have used this technique whilst promoting just their single. 

Our Final Music Video

Horrahhhhh!

Wash by Mac 3

Media Showcase

Last Monday we had our final media showcase. This allowed us to get audience first hand reaction and feedback to help us with one of our questions for our evaluation.
Here is what Ruby said before we presented our music video:

"Hi, we're Mac 3. This is our indie music video set to Wash by Bon Iver. We paid close attention to rural and urban contrasts in order to make the separate narratives of the two main characters clear. We'd like to thank Mr and Mrs Goulding for helping us out on this project and hope you all enjoy!"

Band Name Font

Here are the possible fonts for my album. I will most likely use the same font as i have for the Band Name for the Album Name (Leave My Body) and then use that font I have the album name on now as my track list for the back of the album. 

The font style for the front cover (the PURA one) is a 100% definite that I will use for the CD as well as the magazine 

Starting My CD Panel

I've downloaded a template of a 4 - Panel to start on. Because my shots that I want for the final CD case have not been taken yet, I'm going to use screenshots from the music video to start off with and see where it goes from there.

Character Profile: Nadia (Megan)

This is Nadia. She is playing my mum in the music video and is more of a stay at home mum because there wouldn't be anyone to look after my character if they were both working as hard as my father character.

 Because she's more of a stay at home mum, we asked her what kind style she thought that would be. Knowing Nadia this is what she came up with and it was great! looking casual and subtle.

Here they are both together 

Character Profile: Cem (Megan)

Here is Cem, he played my father in my music video and why I am running away because he couldn't agree with my mum and they were constantly arguing.

We wanted him to look like he is a business man hence why they argue a lot because he's working a lot and doesn't have time for his family. He also had a tie which you will see in the video.

A Change of Plan

After going on many websites to find digipak templates to start editing etc, I was unable to find a 3 CD panel one so I will have to go back to the original ideas of a 4 disc panel. This may mean I would have someone on my album but it may not necessarily be on the front cover.

Album Fonts

Using the same website as I did for the Band name I decided on using Leave My Body as my album name and here I found a variety of fonts that were quite similar to my album name but I didn't want them to be too similar just yet until I see whats going to be on my CD case.

Font Ideas For Band Name

Finishing up on the shooting I decided I wanted to start looking at different fonts for my band name. I wasn't really sure what I wanted so I used a site to help me.

http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=504&text=PURA&af=on

Here are some ideas for fonts that I have seen on this website that I may consider for the title of my band on the album and magazine. 

Parental Advisory

In our last lesson we talked about what music videos would need the Parental Advisory sign on the album and poster.

Seeing as out video doesn't have anything narrated in a rude manor and the fact that the lyrics of the song is not rude we wouldn't need to have the sign and I don't wish to have my album with it as many Indie Artists don't in fact have them: Arctic Monkeys, Passenger, Florence, The xx and many more.

Arctic Monkeys - 3 CD Panel Digipak

Whilst I was researching 3 CD panels I came across Arctic Monkeys "Favourite Worst Nightmare" album. This album is simple and more technological as it doesn't show any people and the song titles positioning and font is simple and being on top of a black background it's more striking and appealing and they actually conform to the conventions of Indie Genre album covers with the monochrome style.

 The Front Cover: Here the Band Name and the Title are together and in one place against the rest of the picture and more of a focus on the window pictures. This will help me as many Indie Genres tend to keep the Album Name and Artist together in one place (Lana Del Rey) instead of one on the top and one on the bottom.

 The Back Cover: quite simple but it also doesn't have the number of tracks on there which is quite helpful as that is also what many artists are starting to do and instead just either putting  full stop in the way or just putting one after the other if it was in the top left corner. I think I would go more towards what this album is stating and the fact that they're all going in order and there isn't any numbers.

Inside

Using this Album as my core research I want to use 3 CD panel which means I will need to be more decisive and what goes on the album cover (and CD itself) and the font of my band to the song titles and where everything fits best. That way, I hope it will further help me to start picking magazine posters as well, the final part of my digipak. 

3 CD Digipak Research

Now that I'm starting to go towards the 3 CD panel idea, I wanted to do more research and whether it fits the conventions of the Indie Genre. During this, I found a website that helped me find what fits the indie genre and how that can help during the digipak stages. This power-point really helped!

https://www.emaze.com/@AFZRFFWZ/Codes-and-Conventions-in-DigiPaks 

Here is Gorilliaz Album which is a bit different to what I would do, but it would fold into 3 panels. However, I would see this as a bad example in the indie genre because it's quite simple and somewhat goes against the conventions of indie albums. 

I like the style of this CD and the fact that there is colour; a common theme more of Indie Artists are starting to do and break ways from the monochrome aspect in the album covers.

However, much of the CD case is simple and it shows the titles on the far left which is all placed in the top left corner, another common position many artists use not just the indie genre.

Finally, this album is actually similar throughout all three panels. which means I could consider that but with the ideas I have for the pictures, I wouldn't want to have the same colours on all three and have a theme (elements) and have one of each on each panel. 

Bon Iver Digipak Analysis

This week we started to have a better understanding on our digipaks. With that, we had to research the type of CD size many indie artists would conform to the conventions.

After being more appealed to the 3 panel CD case, I wanted to research in more depth how many artists have done this. As this has only started to be more popular as the rise in Vinyl purchase and the width of that is why more people are going for the 3 panel CD case.

With that, our song artist (Bon Iver) have done it themselves and the album it where Wash has come from.

I really like the fact that this is simple and the font of the song titles is more "homely" as it looks like handwriting. With that it's simple because the front and inside cover are simple and more artsy and doesn't show anyone which is sort of what I want to go for and not have any band member or a visible vision of a person there.

This album has really helped me start off my research into 3 CD panels and I'm more confident in choosing this style of digipak cover to fit the conventions of the indie genre.

Finally Finished!

Over the time I was away, my group didn't have much to finish besides colour creations and matching to the beat. But now, we have finally finished and will be ready to upload very very soon!

Editing Day 5 footage