Digipak

After using the internet to research into Digipak's the pages that are required are:

Front cover

Song list

Copyright Details

The optional extras:

Lyrics

About the band (Tour Dates)

Inspiration for our music video

We are going to parody 3 well known music videos in out music video's. The songs are "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, "Here We Go Again" by OK GO and "Is this the way to Amarillo" by Tony Christie. 

We chose to include these songs, because of the fact that they are iconic and because of this people will recognize that fact and relate to the music video.

Ancillary Task Planning

Front Cover

Our idea for the front cover is to spoof the "Best of Blur" album by the band Bur. The front cover that we will create will attempt to replicate that album cover which uses multiple pictures of the band in a pop art style. This also plays well with the "Multiple Personality" theme to our media project since it will be 4 pictures of martin doing different emotions.

Song List

Through our research into album covers we had found that these list's tend to be very minimalist, clean and too the point. So we will stick to this convention, we will do a simple black and white song list with time's and track numbers.

Credits

Albums will always some kind of legal page for credit and such. I will continue the simple theme of the other pages and keep it clean and precise.

Personal Message
Alot of singers will add a personal message to their digipak to thank loyal fans for buying the cd and supporting the artist.

Selecting videos to mimick

The following videos are the possible choices for us to mimic:

• Dancing in the street - David Bowie & Mick Jagger
• Is this the way to Amarillo - Tony Christie (Mimed by Peter Kay)
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
• Here we go again - OK GO!

Out of those 4 music videos we realised that we could only fit 3 of them in the music video since there are 3 chorus's. The 3 we decided to go with are "Is this the way to Amarillo", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Here we go again". We chose these 3 because they are the most recognisable and all are relatively easy to achieve.

Music Video Plot

For the narrative we have had the idea that Martin will be accompanied by a teddy bear, thus creating a comedy element caused by the surrealism. We will travel through martins relationship with the bear and there will be flash backs to the past. These flashbacks will be caused by performance shots of Martin mimicking popular comedy music videos. The flashback will occur when Martin sees a item relating to his past starting, off the flashback.

Shot List

The following is a list of shots I will take in each location

Location: Orchard (Hill - Narrative/Performance scene)
Shot Types: Extreme long shot, Long shot, Mid shot, Close up
Description of sequence: Martin walks towards the camera and every so often it cuts to him at a closer distance. At the end of the cuts he sings the opening lines

Location: Orchard (Tree - Performance scene)
Shot Types: Mid Shot
Description of sequence: Martin is sat on a small tree playing his guitar and singing along to the music.

Location: Cabot Eye (Outside - Performance scene)
Shot Types: Mid Shot, Close up
Description of sequence: The shot starts looking at a pillar and when the backing vocals start martin appears from behind the pillar (singing the vocals) at which point the video switches form a mid shot to a close up.

Location: Cabot Main Building (Studio - Performance scene) 

Shot Types: Mid Shot, Close up

Description of sequence: Martin and "The band" are playing the chorus to the song. The sequence starts off with a mid shot of martin singing and the drummer in the background. Then it switches to a low angle mid shot of just martin singing and then back to the first shot. After this the scene moves on to a high angle mid shot of the drummer playing along to the music, and when the final beat of the drum occurs in the chorus the camera switches to a high angle close up of the drum thats hit last. When the chorus ends there is a brief pause in the music, at this time in the sequence it cuts to a mid shot of the guitarist looking confused.

Location: Cabot grounds (Tree stump - Performance scene)

Shot Types: Mid Shot, Long shot

Description of sequence: The next verse starts with a long shot of martin singing along the lyrics looking directly into the camera. In the cuts to a low angle shot of martin singing but he's still looking into the direction of the original camera. The camera then cuts out to the original shot in this sequence and the close up from the Cabot eye sequence (he sings along to the backing vocals)

Location: Cabot grounds (A-wing basketball nets - Performance/Narrative scene)

Shot Types: Mid Shot, Close up, Long shot

Description of sequence: Martin is shown outside by a Long shot and he has a basketball in his hand he then sings along for a few more seconds and then throws the ball over his shoulder. The next shot is a close up of the basketball net and you then see the ball go through the hoop, at witch point it switches back to a close up of martins face winking.

Location: Cabot grounds (Side entrance - Performance scene) 

Shot Types: Long shot, Mid shot

Description of sequence: This scene starts of with a long shot of a bush, then the backing vocals start in the song and martin appears from behind the bush in a mid shot singing them. The camera then cuts to behind with a high angle mid shot and then back to the second shot.

Location: Cabot Main Building (Studio - Performance scene)

Shot Types: Long shot, Mid shot, Close up

Description of sequence: The scene starts of the same as the first sequence with mid shots of martin and the drummer and a close up of the drum. After this instead of a pause there is a guitar solo, so the camera switches to a mid shot of the guitarist (the camera is looking down along his guitar) and then it goes to the left of the guitarist looking at him playing. After it goes to left it goes back to the original shot of the guitarist playing and then to a mid shot of the drummer playing along to the music.

Location: Cabot eye (Front patio - Performance scene)

Shot Types: Mid Shot, Close up

Description of sequence: There is a mid shot of martin sat down with his body facing away but his face is looking into the camera singing. We then switch to a close up of him singing from the same position as the first video. Then the camera is pointed straight onto his body with a mid shot and martin is looking down the lens and singing and then back to the original shot.

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Action Plan

What are the steps we need to do so that we can complete the music video?

• Secure actors for members of the band and for backing dancers
• Make sure we have the appropriate clothing for the music video
• Ask the Music department if we can borrow the Recording studio and musical instruments for the video
• Find a set of outdoor speakers so that we can listen to the music for synchronizing
• Choreograph dance routines

Group Task