Vlog Update

Final Digipak

I have completed the final edit of my digipak. It consists of two photographs that I had taken myself of Salcombe estuary in the sun, and a photograph of a country gate that I took on one of our shooting locations. The last photograph is the front cover image which is the dream catcher that makes an appearance in the music video for 'Drive' that we created. The dream catcher gives a rather indie vibe to the digipak which complements the genre of the bands music. I decided on the font of the front cover to be simplistic and basic in order to compliment the dark tones of the dream catcher in the foreground, as well as contrasting to the blurred light background of the image. The text is inline with the portrait structure of the dream catcher to visually extend the length of the cover. The word 'Drive' is the name of the album. It is written in a dark grey colour to contrast the black that 'Oh Wonder' is written in, in order to distinguish the two words from one another. I have included 3 lines of song lyrics from the song, "All we do" which is on Oh Wonders album. Each line is on a different panel of the digipak. This is because as the digipak is being opened, each line will be revealed one at a time in order. The font of this writing is a type of handwriting font in order to give the impression that the artists wrote the lines. It also adds a homemade nature to the digipak which compliments the nature of the band as artists. I have used one extended photograph stretching across the three panels in the middle because it looks rather effective. It is a simple landscape image of Salcombe estuary that I took one morning. The panoramic image works well with the size of the digipak. The two song lyrics on either side of the panel are written to compliment the photograph that they are written on.


The back panel has a list of the songs that would be included on the CD. They are all songs included in Oh Wonders new album including 'Drive' which is the song we used in our Video. The photograph in the background is made transparent in order for it to be easier to read the songs. I decided to use the beetle idea that I used on my digipak draft because it combines well with the nature of the album being about a song called 'Drive'. The text staggers around the beetle combining the overall image together well.

Digipak Draft

I created a draft of a potential digipak before working on the final product so that I had a reasonable idea of a potential final piece. I found it difficult to sketch what I really wanted the digpak to look like. After having finished the draft I believed that the images were too focused on our music video for Drive  as I wanted the digipak to resemble the band and their music, not just the one track. Here are some photographs of my digipak draft.

This is the front cover, resembling a sunset in the distance of a long single road.

 This is an extended image that spans over two covers of the digipak which I think looks rather effective. The figure standing on the beach looking out at sea is the girl character in the music video that we created. I decided to add a sunset into this image because the first shot of our music video is of a sunset. 

The back of the digipak shows the outline of a beetle which compliments the theme of the digipak being 'drive'.

This is the centre of the digipak. The centre block is where the CD would be placed.

When creating this digipak draft, I felt as though I could make a massively better version if I were to use computer technology to help me. I liked that I had hand drawn a draft of the digipak to aid my coursework and give me a better sense of how I want to lay out my final digipak. Although, I know that my final edit will probably be entirely different to this draft, and my final edit won't be so based on the one song 'drive', but will be a digipak suited to fit all the songs that the band have written.

Video Feedback

Video Feedback
After showing our video to this audience before finally uploading it to YouTube as an end product, it became apparent that there was confusion as to who the ring belongs to that she places on the gravestone at the end of the video. Therefore we edited our video again to make it more obvious where the ring came from and that he gave her the ring.

Digipak

Behind the Scenes

Since we have finished the filming we now have the task of looking through all of our footage that we have completed. Throughout the filming process Lucy has been recording footage on her mobile phone that she has edited and cut into the behind the scenes video.

Outtakes

We have come to the end of our filming schedule and so I have put together a short video of clips that were filmed but not used in our video for obvious reasons.