Weather Update

Though it has stopped snowing, the rainfall afterward has caused the snow to malt and caused ice so it is still not safe to go and film any of our outdoor scenes.
In the mean time we will continue our work with the 2 ancillary texts.

6 Panel Digipak

Me and andrew have both decided to make a 6 Panel Digipak containing the Cd and a Lyrics sheet, our chosen song was not released as a single but we will be making our digipak as a single music video release so it would be pointless to include a live performance on a second disk, therefore our digipak will have a template as such:


This is an example of a 6 Panel Digipak template. As you probably know, most 6 Panel Digiaks only hold one disk. However, some may hold 2 disks depending on the artist, managers and the realease itself.





This is an example of 2 tray, 6 panel digipak template.
It has the ability to hold two CDs and is very likely to be the same size as the one shown above.








This is the style of digipak that we have decided to create, the CD will be held in the middle so it is the centre of attetion when first opened.
The panels on the sides would both fold inwards, towards the middle.

Digipak Outlines

In order to make a digipak, we will need an outline of some sort and maybe even a template.


An 8 panel digipak template would look something like this:






8 Panel Digipaks often fold three times and end up as a square, the area of the CD can vary to either of the slots. A digipak may contain extras, as mentioned in an earlier post. (Information booklets/Lyric sheet etc.)









Sometimes, the Digipak may even contain 2 two CDs one of which may be a video of live performances of the band/singer. Or the artist may have released 2 music CDs at once, a double release. For example the rapper/singer/actor had a double release called Alter Ego. Alter Ego contained 2 music CDs, one on which all the songs were in RnB genre and the other Rap.

Digipak Analysis 2

This is the inside of a Digipak and it contains two CDs.

The Digipak is of Linkin Park's album Minutes To Midnight, I have chosen this image because it shows what is contained in an average Digipak.

On the left side of the packaging we see an information booklet, this usually is the artist's impressions and how they were inspired to release the album with the songs that they chose. The booklets sometimes include lyrics to the songs and the track listings.

The centre of the Digipak holds the main CD

In Other News.....(Digipak Analysis 1)

For the past few weeks we have been having bad weather which is not suitable for us to film in. This is mainly due to rain ad snow which could cause damage to the cameras and equipment we are using.

So, until we have clear weather I have decided to begin work on my Digipak research.

The first Digipak I am going to analyse is this:
This is the digipak sold for a special edition Oasis CD. It Contains 2 CDs and the pack itself has 3 folds.
This picture clearly shows what type music is stored on the CD. The first thing that a person would see on this digipak is the main image which is guitar shown in a low angle dominant photograph, it shows that the genre contained in this CD is Acoustic and this is also written below the picture.
The main title on this Digipak says "Oasis" this is written in white writing on a black background so it stands out and people know who the artist is of this CD.

On the back of this Digipak it gives information on the track listings and other artists that have featured on this track. The writing stands out in front of the background which is an acoustic guitar, which is used to compliment the main picture on the front of the digipak.

We cannot see the fold out but we can see the CD which looks very plain and has a track listing printed on it. On the left side of the CD, which we cannot see, it is highly likely that the band name is written on it.

The visible spine of this digipak contains nothing more than the information on the front and it is likely that the other spine will be identical to this one.

Our Storyboard

Here are a few sheets from the Storyboard me and Andrew have decided is the final one for our video to be based around, if needed it can be changed.

These are just a few of the sheets of our storyboard because uploading the whole thing would be too time consuming.

The music video has a non-linear structure so we are following none of the narrative structures proposed by the narrative theorists such as Todorov, Jean Baudrillard etc.

A Little Change

After looking through the song many times me and Andrew both realised that the song we have chosen is too long, so because of this we decided to shrten it by taking out one of the verses.

This should still work well because the whole song links in with the use of choruses.