The real Digipak

I've just found the Digipak used for the album the song I'm using comes from, so I thought it would be good to look at for some inspiration. Capturing the feel of not only the song, but the artist as well is very important.

I like this Digipak a lot. It has a very cool, urban, New York look to it. It's interesting that they featured the artist quite clearly but I think this works well; his look compliments that of the album cover. It makes sense, listening to the music on the album and the song I have chosen, that they would choose a style like this. It's simple, a single image with a bit of text, but it still captures style and feel of the music well, and represents what inside in an easy to understand format.

Evaluation Questions.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

How effective is the combination of your product and ancillary texts?

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Looking at these questions, I think I should have enough to say about each of them. They seem to have a simular feel to the questions answered at AS. I think I could answer the first questions using a director's cut? It would be a good idea to do at least one or two of my answers in a non-traditional format.

Some bits so far.

I've been really busy away from my media work recently, so I haven't posted in a while. I thought it might be a good idea to just give you a quick look at the work I've done so far.

This is by no means anything approaching a finished product, but it just shows you what I've been working on so far.

Filming Day Two

Filming has continued for its second day. It seems to be going alright. The process in general is very time consuming, just by its nature, so progress is very slow. One of the main difficulties I am finding is that, since my film is set in the morning, I can only shoot between about nine and two to give the right kind of light. This gives me only two days a week, at the weekend, where I am able to film.

Whilst this is unfortunate, it is very important that my film looks visually convincing.

I've loaded a bit of the footage into Premier Pro and had a look. It seems to be interesting enough. It certainly does have a somewhat 'home-made' look about it. The shots aren't perfect, the motion is completely fluid, but it has its own independant look and its own character.

Filming Day One

I've begun animating my stop-motion footage and filming some of the live action work.

From the very start I encountered problems which I couldn't foresee. For example, at one point, I had to animate a figure switching on a kettle. However, the force required to push down the switch was greater than the force holding its feet to the floor, resulting in it falling over. I had to use thin thread to pull, and hold, down the switch between shots and to stop it from springing back up. This required more than one person.

I did manage to get some of the shots down. Unfortunately, it's difficult to see if they need re-shooting before I have loaded them into Premier Pro and edited them together. It is fair to say that it is much more taxing and time consuming than I first thought it would be, but we persevere!