Inside and Back of Digi pack

When studying other Digi packs i realised that the inside pages were three 12 cm squares in a row, with this in mind i decided i wanted to create three images that somehow linked together. Starting with an image i took of home park which i'd spent time editing to a surreal point much like the front cover i decided to duplicate the photo and have it as the background in each square with something different happening in each square on the same background.

I decided the variant to be changing in each photo would be fittingly the character (Alex Atkinson) who plays the dead body in the video and as there is a theme of resurrection in the video i thought it would again be fitting to have a theme of resurrection in the three images, for this i decided to have the character appearing out of the water, further and further in each shot. To keep the surreal feeling continuing i decided to not just have one person resurrecting but to have the same person duplicated 12 times at different points in the water. I cut out the image on photoshop of the character and then layered it on top of the original image with in the first image just his head visible, then the second his head and chest visible then finally in the third image his whole body above the water and a couple of people appearing to fly towards the sky.

Digi Pack Planning

Foals generally go for a surreal tint to their art work using water clearly in their album cover, when doing my album cover I wanted to continue along a similar vein to foals, but take things further than foals generally do. With the thought of surrealism in my mind I went about creating what was to be my front cover of the album i wanted to produce something very eye catching to the viewer that was both real and imaginary at the same time. I started with the image of looking up through a canopy of leaves at a bright blue sky. I then edited it to have a tint of surrealism about it as all the colours I have enhanced to a non realistic state to give an almost retro 1970's look about it, I edited the photo using iphoto and played about with the editing software it provides until I found the right levels to make the photo achieve what i wanted.

I then on photoshop took a font i liked and put that on top of the edited photo with the words, 'Foals' and 'Total Life Forever' over the top showing the band and album name.

I then ended up with with my album cover in completion with a surreal feeling to a natural image.

The themes i presented in my album was important in connecting with my original film treatment as in the treatment as there is a question raised in what is reality, there are dreamlike qualities and the viewer is left with a question of was the dead friend character resurrected to spend one last day with his friends before returning to the grave or was the love so strong and the need to see the dead friend so strong that it was just a dream desperately held onto? so was important to create an image to the viewer that is real but with an unreal quality, a beauty to it but a sense of unreal to the image at the same time.

Other posible scene to fireworks

In order to see which handheld scene worked best, I decided to film two posible options, this is the scene of my music video i decided not to choose to use, it was a group of friends of the band member having a poker game. It shows friendship and fun in the same view as the firework scene, through the eyes of the dead band member incarnate. 

Costume Mood Board

 My costumes are simple but meaningful the classic black tie look this is good as it means my charictors all look very similar and in a way are all together as one, to achieve this my charictors all have to have the following:

Font Mood board

The font for the digi pack is very important as it needs to keep the tone of the video and song so it cant be too gothic for example but also not too happy and curly. However on sites like 'Da Font' there are many different types of font to chose from, this shows some of the varieties of fonts.

Digi pack demo

Today I made a handwritten album digi pack which has on the front page a small shot from the music video, then when opened out there is a large image 3 times the size of the first image of another lanscape image of a charictor walking down a path surrounded by trees which will be the end shot in my music video. On the remaning 2 pages on page which will be the back page has the album name and listings of all the tracks over a background image of another shot from the music video of Polaroid pictures being burnt. And the middle page will have all the information such as the music video director and producer.

Story Boarding

It is important to use story boarding as it makes sure everything you do is focused and organised when it comes to the actual shoot. With my storyboard i used post-it notes where i laid out what is happening in each of my shots throughout my video

For example In this photo i showed one of my opening shots of my character Charlie in a desolate field dressed in full black tie with the shot showing a 360 degree panning shot around him