Digipak fonts

For my digipak I chose a few key fonts which I used. The first was City life which I used on one of my extra panels. The second was Vintage College which I used as my main artist logo font. However this one might change as I continue with my digipak. The last one was City Burn which I used for the majority of my text. I am happy with all of these fonts, however my teachers have told me that the vintage college one might not suit the genre.

Chosen pictures for my digipak and magazine advert

Here are the photos that I have chosen to use for my digipak and magazine advert. These were all taken on the same day when we all went to Thamesmead for our photoshoot.

Photoshop work

During class whenever we haven't been filming I have been working on my digipak on Photoshop. So far I have got all of my digipak done as well as my magazine advert and am now waiting for feedback to improve it.

Production schedule

In a way to keep ourselves organised we have drawn up a production schedule. This holds all of the dates that we are filming, where we are filming and what we are filming. This is very helpful as it allows us all to agree on a date when we are all available to film. As you can see all of these dates are filming dates for our first edit. Once we finish this first edit and have feedback from our class and teacher will we begin our final edit. For this we will create a new production schedule.

Production Log Entry 5

Today our group filmed the starting scenes for our video. We enlisted the help of an extra from our Sixth Form to help with the gang member scene. We felt that the shots were good only we should have used a steadi cam or shoulder cam as we only used it handheld. Because of this the shots were a bit shaky and we will need to refilm these after our first edit. Other than this we had some good ideas and the shots were good, we only need to sort out the shakiness and these shots should be fine to include on the video. We were able to film in the local chip shop as well for one of the scenes in return for promotion of the shop in our video. We made an arrangement with the owner of the shop to promote his shop in return for unlimited filming time there.

Production Log Entry 4

Today we filmed a scene of our artist in a recording studio. We decided to use the music recording studio because it was very realistic and easy to get hold of to film in. Once we got permission from the teachers we set up our camera on a tripod and a studio light. We then turned the main lights off to just keep the separate light on King J to emphasise who the focus is on. We then filmed King J singing the song as if he was recording it. We decided to do this so that if the concert scene doesn't go to plan we have a backup idea. We felt that the shots were good in terms of lighting, however we are having some problems with the lip singing of the song. We keep finding that our performer is often out of time with the actual song and sometimes even forgets the lyrics. This means that a lot of our performance shots will have to be redone because the performer is out of time with the actual music.

Equipment and props we will use for our music video

To film the video we have decided to use Ghanshyam's camera as we feel it has a better quality and focus than the school provided ones. His camera is a Canon SX710 HS.

We will also use standard equipment such as dollys, tripods and shoulder mounts to help with the filming when needed.

In terms of props and clothing, we have made some clear decisions on how we want our artist to look. We want King J to look wealthy. In order to do this we have decided we want him to wear designer clothes and jewellery. However, we would also like to mix this with his past which would consist of track suits and snapbacks. We are undecided on whether to keep shots of him wearing track suits and we will discuss and make a decision on this at a later date.

For our party scene we will also need a smoke machine and party lights. This will help us to create a realistic and conventional looking party scene. We will also possibly need glass bottles and cups to make it look slightly more realistic.