Production - Reflection week 10

Reflection week 10 -

This week my partner and I have been busy. We have been working on filming and also the production of the magazine advert and digipak. When looking at our footage we knew that we needed to film a large amount of the narrative stage. We had already filmed a certain amount, but together as a partnership we decided that we would film everything again but with the main character without uniform, by doing this we would relate to our age group as this will connote her being in a sixth form or a college. We filmed all of our narrative in one day and we were surprised that we got it all done to the standard that we wanted. After filming this footage we needed to work on our digipak and magazine advert. 

My partner and I decided that we would want to make a sticker to put on the front of our digipak as it will show the buyer what they are buying and also the things will be included within the digipak. We then made two more initial ideas for our digipak, these ideas were later adapted. We realised that we were making many ideas for our magazine advert and that we needed to direct some attention towards our digipak. The digipak needed to include a sticker and also a thank you message from the band to break up some of the pictures as it was all leaves. This is still only an idea and needs to be adapted even more as there are some images that need to be changed around and some text included. We then included the second sticker on a edit of our digipak. 

Then my partner and I decided to work more on our magazine advert. We decided on a final picture to use for the final edit of the magazine advert. Then we decided to play around with the colours of the background image of the magazine advert, we looked at what the image would look like if it was brightened or if the contrast level was higher. We then decided to add in a quote from Kerrang and also a rating, this hopefully would increase a buyers chance of buying the digipak, as a magazine which is known for talking about the most recent popular artists have given this band such a high rating. We made our third initial edit from this. My partner and I have also come up with another idea, we have the idea to have an out layer of our digipak and maybe include the sticker on there, we have looked a Paul Weller's digipak to gather some inspiration and we will proceed to look into this within the following weeks. 

My partner and I have also been editing throughout the week, we have so far cut down all the clips we want to use and we have been adding them onto final cut. We have been cutting to the music and although we found it difficult we have slowly started to work it out. 

Next week - 

Next week my partner and I have discussed how we are going to split the lessons. As we have four media lessons a week we are going to allocate two lessons to working on the digipak and the magazine advert and then another two lessons to working on editing on our music video. We also may stay back for one or two days after school or at lunch and work some more on both editing and the production of the magazine advert and digipak. Next week my partner and I will also look into to the idea of the out layer of the digipak and see if it would be possible to make this.