Digipak inspiration

When thinking about my digipak I decided to try andget some inspiration off the internet for ideas. I want to do a quirky colourful idea as I think this will fit in with the styling of the the video and Eliza Doolittle's style.

Another person who I like the style of is Mika therefore I thought this would be the perfect place to start looking for inspiration. I got arange of ideas thatI might incorporate inmy idea.

Stop motion workshop

I completed a stop motion workshop last friday which allowed me to experiment with different effects that I will be able to include in my video. The workshop was really good and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The people running it were really helpful and tried to encourage us with their ideas and give us inspiration to make a good piece of animation.

The main areas where I want to use stop motion in my music video are the following:

- Pennies building up in her hands, then changing to pounds and disappearing again.

- Magazine pages licking open in the wind.

Digipak Research

To start thinking about the ancillary tasks I thought a good starting point was to go out and ask people their opinions to get an idea of where to begin.
The main views that I got were:
- Want to see an interesting image e.g. the new take that cover which is innovative compared to the robbie williams which is more plain and straightforward.



- Like to have the lyrics available on the inside to sing along
- Want it to be colourful and happy
- Like it when there is abstract artwork used
- Clear nice fonts
- Like it when the font is lots of magazine letter cut outs
- Would be cool to have it in the style of something else e.g. a comic

Outfits for Video

Before I am able to film my video, I needed to plan to outfits that the main character would be wearing throughout. As it is traditional for the character to have different outfits changes throughout, I thought I would also include this in mine, and come up with 7 outfit changes for Cesca.


The first outfit would be another possibility for the woods scene. This outfit is more of a back-up outift incase we decide to film any more scenes on the day that look good. May be possible to use this for an indoor scene, maybe with her just up against a wall or something.

This outfit would be for the first scenes, where she is dancing and singing around her bedroom getting ready for bed.

The floral lacey pattern on the top and the patterns of the tights and shorts would fit well with the park scenes. The colours of cream and brown would contrast nicely with the green of the grass and plants.

For the grafitti wall scene i thought this outfit would be good and fit in well with the bright colours and feel of the mise en scene.

This outfit would be used for the town scenes. When picking the outfit we wanted to find something cool and that the character would wear in her everyday life.

In the beach scene I feel that she should be more girly and innocent, therefore this skirt is perfect for those scenes.

Although there is another outfit used for the woods scene in these pictures, I think this particular one would fit best with the feel as it is wintery and warm but the leggings still add a bit of jazz to it.

Images of my video

I have collected some images of what I hopefully will be able to create and use as interestingshots and locations. By putting them all together I've created a good feel of what the final piece might look like.

After deciding on the types of areas that I wanted to shoot my video in, I then needed to do some research about the areas that would be available for me to use in the area I live in. The final five locations include these:
- Elm hill (town setting)
- Grapes hill subway (graffiti)
- Great Yarmouth (beach)
- Eaton/Earlham park/Plantation gardens (parks)
- Mousehold heath/Earlham woods/Tiffey walk (woods scene)

After deciding these locations which are all within the Norwich perimiter (excluding Great Yarmouth) this makes the shooting much easier as you are not having the travel between ridiculous amounts and if planned right then will be time efficient. This means that next I need to think about the order of the shots that I will shoot, to minimise travelling and save on petrol.

The shot list that I am going to do is as follows:

- Wymondham, River Tiffey/Woods

- Plantation Gardens, Newmarket Road

- Eaton Park, Norwich

- Earlham Park, Norwich

- Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich

- Grapes Hill, Norwich

- Elm Hill, Norwich

- Mousehold Heath, Norwich

- Great Yarmouth Beach

Copyright

Copyright protects the original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works. It allows an original work to be considered a property that is owned by somebody. In music, the copyright begins automatically once a piece of music is created, and documented or recorded. Copyright lasts generally for a period of 70 years.

In order to solve the copyright issues with my piece of music I thought it would be easiest for me to email Eliza Doolittles company/management and ask for their permission to use the song and post it on YouTube. The response that I got was very positive and I was lucky just to even get a reply so..The email that I sent to them went as follows:

'Dear to whom it may concern,
I am currently in my final year of A-Level Media at Wymondham High Sixth Form, Norfolk and for my production coursework I have chose to do a music video. Therefore I am contacting you to ask for permission to use the song by Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up. The work would not be distributed further than my coursework blog (http://sophieo123.blogspot.com) and possibly YouTube if that's okay. If it's possible for you to give any thoughts or feedback for a potential video then that would be really appreciated; i'm basing the theme around gaining self-confidence and having no worries as that is what I interpret the meaning as.
Thanks a lot,
Sophie Osborne'

The email that I got back was
'Sure you can! We would love to see when it's done. Good luck.'