List of Actors

• Hayley Sollis (myself)
• Megan Mead
• Holly Wright

As the band is supposed to be a new band we felt that it would be more appropriate to just use the band members in the video, as this could come across confusing if there was other people in it.

My Digipak Ideas

These are my first ideas for my digipak that I am going to produce. This is the album cover, which shows the band all together with their heads together. I imagine this will be taken laying down, and it allows the audience to get to see what the band members look like as they are a new band, it also allows the audience to get a first indication of their genre too. 

 This is the interior and exterior ideas for my digipak. For the inside I thought that having a panorama image spread across would look very interesting. The idea is to have the band laying on grass/ flowers or somewhere with open space and to have the picture extended. This allows to have scenery in the picture so the band is not taking over the space too much and also highlights the idea of being in touch with nature. Also, the idea would be that they would look like relaxed which again highlights the genre. The exterior makes them seem very united as a band and also indicates that they are fun and carefree, reinforcing the idea of highlighting their genre and also adapting to conventions of indie bands who seem to have a fun and carefree nature about them.
This is just my first idea for the digipak, this could change due to weather or other reasons.

Fashion Ideas

After our discussion today we realised that we needed to think more about what we are going to wear for our digipak pictures and also for our music video, as the overall look will be very similar. I have created a collage of pictures of different aspects that I think we need to apply to the over all look. We all agreed that we should wear similar things but not exactly the same. Also, it's not going to be too styled as this goes against the conventions, of taking fashion and looks as a major aspect, and we do not want to do this. However, for our genre we need to use fashion to portray to the audience the type of genre that we are which is indie/rock and I feel that this can be conveyed with the use of clothes/makeup/piercings etc.

Presentation

This is our group presentation that we are going to present to the class to show our ideas and plans for our music video. We have included things such as the record label, a video of pictures of ideas for our video, the audience profile and more. From doing this and presenting it to the class it allows us to hear the feedback from other people. This is a good thing because it can help us with new ideas or ways that we can improve the over all band.

Survey Results

This is the feedback we had from the survey that we done. The reason for the survey is to get a better perspective from other people of our ideas instead of ourselves and our class mates. I liked the feedback about the ideas of it being an all girl band because this is quite unique and also the fact that this is seen as a positive thing from other people. The majority of the people also agreed with the name of the band too which was something that we found difficult to come up with. We are also going to take on board the things that could be improved. This was helpful for the group because it allows us to change things or improve things about the band that we are going to create.

Discussions 1

This is a recording of a group discussion regarding our ideas for our digipak pictures and for the music video. We chose to record it because it will allow us to go over and listen to it again and again to remember ideas that we have had. As we could not take pictures today, instead we came up with ideas which we speak about in this recording.

Certain parts that we discussed were:

•  Jump cuts for the beginning of the music video 
•  Intertextual references in our music video 
•  Adopting Goodwin's theory of a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals and ideas to do this 
• Using the green screen
• Locations to film eg: London, Camden 
• Ideas for the chorus 
•  Conventions to adopt or going against 
• Point of view shots 
• Fashion ideas eg: makeup, clothes, hair ideas

13th October 2013

Journal:

We were supposed to take pictures today for our digipak but the weather is quite bad and not suitable for what we would like. We have arranged another day to take pictures. We need the weather to be reasonably good because for the 'look' of our overall digipak we would like it to be fairly sunny and not raining! It would also allow us to lay in the grass as this is something that we have planned to do for our pictures too. Also, we have discussed other aspects of our overall planning for example the digipak and also initial ideas for our music video.
We need to have another discussion so we can decide on the props we want and all the locations that we are going to use, and when. Luckily, we do not need a list of actors as it is only us but we may have a few other people in our music video, this will be another thing that we need to discuss.