Brief draft video filming schedule:

31/10/12: Primary filming, once dark, I must film the footage I have intended to. All shots of outside content must be filmed at the appropriate time. Stick to intended shot types and duration.

01/11/12: Most filming has been complete. If necessary due to film incompletion, book another session with the video camera and film all remaining shots.

02/11/12: Hand-in draft sample of video footage. I f possible, begin editing for video.

03/11/12: Use camera to film scenes requiring female artist.

Panorama shots:

This is an example of an indoor panorama photograph. This shot features the entire large living room of a house. If my music video somehow related to this image, I could use an image like this for my inside panels in the Digipak. As you can observe, this overall image would have perfect consistent continuation from panel to panel, as it is all part of the same original picture, I would merely have to split it into 3 different parts.

I must choose an acceptable landscape to capture if I am to use a panorama shot. My street may not be the best location to use for the photography, even if it is the most relevant to my music video. An important thing about taking a good shot of this type is to take the picture from a distance, so more image can be captured by the camera in the shot.
I must also keep the camera straight when taking the shot.


An example of an exterior panorama shot. The camera has taken a shot of great clearness and quality. The shot is very wide and this is an image that could be used for my inside panels if it was relevant.

Draft Poster analysis:

This is an incredibly simple advertising product. The production time for the draft production of this poster was incredibly limited, and thus this version of the poster is poor in terms of visual quality as well as its ability to market the album. The design is very simple, a plain black background with some subheads and marketing lines. The main image being the hand drawn sketch design that was originally supposed to be part of the front cover, but has now been used for the draft lyrics page, though it now may be removed from there as I plan to significantly change the lyrics page. As part of consistency for the draft Digipak, I decided I would use the sketch drawing in both the poster and one of the Digipak album panels. The main image is the drawing, and it simply shows a picture of me and the girlfriend (from the video) together. The rest of the draft is such a simple design of various lines of text all below each other. This poster will be drastically altered and transformed for the final version.

Draft Digipak panel analysis:

The front cover is has a black and white background with a black and white main image as well. The title Josh U R still exists in the right lower corner, and appears in its intended colours, and now serves as a colour contrast to the background to make the two stand apart from each other. There are various changes from the intended draft front cover and this one. The intention was to have a gradient black to white background with a front image of half my face in front of the black, and a sketch design in front of the white part of the background, with the title Josh U R to appear in the lower right background. The sketch no longer features on the front cover, and has been moved to the lyrics page. The image of my face has now been enlarged to cover the entire front cover, and has been featured in colourless fashion. The title has remained in this version of the draft cover, but the U and the R have now been combined into one symbol as part of an idea I had during production.

The back cover of the Digipak album perhaps had the most thought and development contributed. The general layout and structure I intended for the back cover back in the sketch has been maintained. The most notable recent changes in production of the back cover included removal of the subhead ‘track list’, the resizing of the content at the bottom, so the size of each property on the back cover appears life-like and now the back cover actually appears like it’s the back cover of an album. Also, the barcode has changed position and an artist logo has been added to the cover.

This is the first inside panel, it appears as one of the 3 houses on my road that I have tried to use as a substitute for a panorama camera shot.

This is the second inside panel. The circle inside this panel is a demonstration of where the CD will be inserted. As you can see, the background continues from the previous inside panel, as part of my panorama shot attempt.

This is the third inside panel, and the final one to contain the attempted panorama shot effect. While the implication that the background continues from one panel to the next is clear, the continuation of the image is not accurate or straight. Part of my job in progression towards the final version of the Digipak is to replace these images with those that actually belong to single filmed panorama shot, which I can use to more accurately produce an image that can continue from panel to panel. Some research into panorama shots may be necessary.

Here is the 6^th panel, the panel which would feature the lyrics. While the layout is certainly neat and effective, the fact remains that most album lyrics pages do not feature the lyrics of only a single song in the album. Either lyric to every song in my track list must be written up and inserted into the lyrics page, or I use this page for something other than the write-up of song lyrics.

Draft poster:

Draft Digipak:

Track list:

1. Take me over there.
2. Show me a wonderful time.
3. Hold me, kiss me, give me.
4. Tell my wife, please.
5. Proof.
6. Say the forbidden.
7. Dance all day.
8. Make me laugh, and cry.
9. Never say always.
10. I want you to leave.
11. Show me to right way.
12. Sinner, dinner.

Song no.1: Take me over there is a song that sounds like a classical romantic conceptual song. This song was listed first as the name for it is simple and attractive to a soft rock audience.
Song no.2: Show me a wonderful time is a song title which resembles narrative adventure, romance and happiness. This positive ambience should perhaps intrigue the target audience.
Song no.3: Hold me, Kiss me, Give me is a song title of aliteration and consistency. The title is yet another romantic title, a pattern has developed.
Song no.4: Tell my wife, please is a possibly more negative title, which may appeal to the soft rock audience as based on previous songs and research, they seem to relate a lot to more negative songs. The title is interesting as it sounds like a video where some cheating has been occuring.
Song no.5: Proof, an actual song and the one I am using for my actual music video.
Song no.6: Say the forbidden is an ambiguous title of meaning, possibly using the enigma code to intrigue the audience and album cover viewers.
Song no.7: Dance all day sounds like a typically loud, karaoke style of song which is unusual for a soft rock music video. The contrast from stereotypical genre expectations may mean it's a title of interest to the audience.
Song no.8: Make me laugh, and cry. Much like my Proof video, the emotional content within this video appears to be mixed, which should certainly appeal to my target audience.
Song no.9: Never say always is an oxymoron standard of song title. Much like say the forbidden, the meaning of this title is highly ambiguous.
Song no.10: I want you to leave sounds like another music video filled with negative narrative content, something which may interest the audience and viewers.
Song no.11: This title certainly implies the video property of narrative adventure, a change of pace from the stereotypical version of slow-paced soft rock videos.
Song no.12: Another alliterative title which seemingly relates to another romantic storyline. The alliteration alone should intrigue the audience.