WARNING!

Our video contains repeated flashing images so if you have photo sensitive epilepsy we would advise you not too watch the video as it may trigger it. We used strobe lighting throughout our video so we felt that for health and safety reasons we should highlight this and warn those with photo sensitive epilepsy by using a warning at the start of our video. Many other artists use these warnings at the start of their music videos as shown below in Jay-Z and Kanye Wests music video.
Also below i have shown our own warning for our music video.

Final Music Video!

   Finally after all the changing of ideas and our own minds we were finally able to agree on a great concept, even though last minute, worked wonders! I am so glad that our concept came together so well  and as soon as we started filming more and more ideas were being thrown around and were working to our advantage.

Just a quick recap on the concept of our music video to refresh your mind before watching it.. We decided to use our great actor Hannah as our young girl who is struggling with a mental illness, schizophrenia and seen as a psychopath. In our video we set out to represent her locked up side where her symptoms are obvious and highlighted eg the room shots throughout our video. We were aiming to construct a mental institution situation and how her mental illness affected her but also contrast with her freedom. Using the park scenes and the rose gardens to add a sense of her freedom by having shots of her alone in a wide, open space to highlight her freedom and her 'normal' side as others may see it.This is why we used the black and white effect to highlight the contrast of her different state of minds.

 So here is our video filmed and edited by Taneshia, Alicia, Hannah and I! We spent several months on our music video working hard every inch of the way to get it to the standard we wanted it to be and how we believed others would enjoy it.

Watch and enjoy.

My Final Digipak

This is my final Digipak that i have created for my album ' Reflection'.

I chose the other 2 images from our music video 'Can't Hide' to promote the song and video on my album cover!

Magazine Advertisement

So for our ancillary task we had to create a digipak which i have already uploaded on my blog and we also had to create a magazine advertisement to promote our music video. Below is my Magazine advertisement which I decided to use the same cover image as on my digipak so both my digipak and my advertisement can be linked by the front cover. Also I decided to use this image as the front cover for both as it is a beautifully disturbing image and the  contrast of the beautiful scenery and the dark ghostly silhouette also links to our music video and adds an interesting effect.

I have included the release date, the title of my band and album, my record label "Pure Life Records", our band website and where our music video could be downloaded and also ratings from other magazines to promote the music video and album more highly. From researching other album magazine advertisements I found that these were the necessary requirements to produce my own interesting, eye catching magazine advertisement.

My Digipak

I decided to do a four panel digipak as they seem to be more current and popular in our chosen genre.
These two pictures will be used for the front cover for my digipak and the back cover. I chose to use these two pictures for the covers of my digipak because i was using the theme of reflections, hint hint the name of my album and so thought these pictures of the river in town park highlighted this. Also on my front cover i have used the image of the river but also wanted to capture a silhouette of a girl which also links to our music video where there is a creepy feel to it. I chose to use water shots to highlight freedom which is again reflected in our music video.

Ancillary Task Research

For my ancillary task I am going to create a digipack and a magazine advertisement. To do this I needed to research the necessary requirements needed to produce my digipack and advertisement for my music video and album.

Digipak

So a conventional digipak is typically made from a plastic outer case with a cardboard inner. It is usually opened in a gatefold way and inside consists or one or more plastic trays to hold the cd or dvd inside. Depending on how many panels a digipak consists of, either 4 or 6 being the most common or 8 being less common would depend on the layout of the digipak.

8 panel digipak template

                                                               4 panel digipak template
   

                                                               6 panel digipak template

Digipak packaging is used mainly for Cd's and DVDs and the packaging is less likely to crack or wear than jewel cases which record companies switched from using to digipaks. This meant Digipak casing grew in popularity among record labels and recording artists in the early 2000s.

I have also been looking at other artists digipak casings to get an idea for what should be included and how to layout my own digipak.

 

All these digipaks from various artists and record labels all also vary in templates however most features are the same. They all use images that relate to one another and for instance Rihanna uses a them of nature and flowers and bold, loud colours which also relates to the name of her album "loud". Also Christina Aguleria also uses a different theme "Bionic" the name of her album and the relation between the pictures used on her digipak. From this research it has helped me to develop more of an idea on the path and theme i want to use for my own digipak which will be explained in my blog of my digipak chosen images.