digipack research

A digipak has the size and look of a CD jewel case but it is made of paper stock with a plastic tray glued to hold the CD. With a typical clear tray, a digipak has 4-panels for putting the artwork on. One advantage of digipak over jewel case is that it has better shock absorption than jewel case. When a jewel case is dropped it breaks. But a digipak will still be in one piece even it is dropped. 

first draft ... music video

A-Level Media Music Video Group 2 from Sidney Stringer on Vimeo.

Still has got of editing to do, a few errors but this is just a first draft.

Lip Synching Activity (glee style)

we this this at the beginning of term just to get an idea and a practice on the art of lip syncing - we got in groups ,learnt a the lyrics of a song then performed it while lip syncing - then we edited it to the movement of our mouths went with the words in the song. it was loads of fun and we look abit lame but it was definitely good practice and gave us all an idea on lip syncing.
I'm the awkard, tall one on the right :D
Glee Group 2 from Sidney Stringer on Vimeo.

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Editing Music Video

Editing our footage on the AppleMac non Adobe Premiere
Before we started we checked out some yotube tutorials.

The black and white effect- signifies the idea of memory and history, this goes with the lyrics.

Shooting Priya's Scene

DAY 3

we wanted to get a feel of location and filming outside a set, with natural light, and while we were at it we would film some clips for Priyas part. Location: local park, as we liked the autumn atmosphere the park had, with the brown leaves. The main colour would be navy blues brown and grey, it would work well with Robbins scene.

DAY 4

Me and my group and priya went out to film here scene in different locations around the city centre. all these scene are of here walking while location and times change gradually because we stayed till dark, we decided not to give her a destination. I filmed most scenes, as i used an hand haled camera with the tripod to give the shaking image effect.

While we set of knowing that we would shot in certain location in the city, we found ourselves discovering more interesting places around Coventry to shot the scenes. This is an old industrial factory that we thought would look great with the rest of the scenes (I personaly liked this place the best).

Filming Priya in zoom in, as she walks toward us from the other side. To create the walking in a busy crowd scene that many films and music video's use.

We filmed in onto after it got dark to give the video a realistic change in time as well as location.
it was a very tiring day,
but we worked well as a team, and Priya was very dedicated and patient.

Shooting Robbins scene

DAY 1

Came to school early in the morning to set the school theatre up with the props - check

then we set the lighting - check

light testing on props



Me and Ally fixing and testing camera position just before Robbin arrives for the shoot.



Robbin arrived practiced the lyrics and lip syncing with the song - then we started shooting the scene three three times , each time we shot from different angles - Robbin was very patient because then we made him repeat the whole thing again and again. By the end of it Robbin has matured lip syncing but still needed to practice on his guitar playing. so we thought we needed another day to perfect the scene.

DAY 2

After the long day we had the day before trying to shoot Robbins theatre scene and from learning from the mistakes that we have done (as we look back on the footage that we'v taken- and spotted some mistakes)  we deiced that we needed to fix a couple of things

1- Robbin acting and movement routines

2- Robbins guitar playing

3- The set design, as when looking at what we filmed the day before we felt that the black background and lighting were really bland and unprofessional.

we therefore used a different type of  lighting to give a more studio glossy effect

We experimented with blue UV spot light.

Laylah adding a white fur rug to the set design.

We suddenly had an idea - to project moving abstract images to the white scene behind Robbin. We had some help from the drama department.

Experimenting with the projector

We ended up with this - its not to distracting from the main artist and its flow goses well with the song .