The Digipak Photoshoot Images

On this blog you can see some of the many pictures I took with my camera the Canon SX710 HS for our Digipak. As mentioned in my before blog, we took these images in West Thamesmead for our Digipak. I used various adjustment settings on the camera in order to get the best shots such as changes in colour, saturation and contrast. My group and I really liked the quality of the images that were rendered and we also had a variety of images we could use for out Digipak such as low angle shots, high angle shots, mid shots, long shots and also a silhouette type shot. I made sure that the artist modelling who was Jacob (King J) was in the right positions for the shits to have the best lighting and best look. Here are the pictures we took for our digipaks.

(Talk About Costume, Lighting and Shot Types)

Location shots for Digipak and Music Video

My group and I went to West Thamesmead to look for Locations we could film our music video in and so we can take pictures for our digipak. This location felt like the best location to suit our genre of Hip Hop. On this blog you can see all the picture I took with my camera the Canon SX710 HS. Here are the pictures we took for our location search for the music video and for the digipak.

Genre Rap/Hip Hop: NWA - Express Yourself (1988) vs 50 Cent - No Romeo No Juliet ft. Chris Brown (2016) Old vs Contemporary Music Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTyeXVQ0Ko

The Dr.Dre music video from 1988 was very simplistic, all it had was some shots and closeups with a little bit or jewellery. The video and the song was mainly trying to send a message about racism. The 50 Cent 2016 music video is more about Girls being presented in a sexual way and they are wearing expensive gold jewellery. The modern music video doesn't have a narrative or a message behind it, its just a video of the artist and some girls for a song.

Both music videos has plenty of close ups of the artist and tries to promote the artist to the audience as the main figure.

My Digipak Plan

I have created a 6 Panel drawing plan of what my digipak may look like. This isn't a exact design of what it will look like but it will help me decide what type of pictures I want to take and use and it will help me decide what each panel will be and roughly what it will look like such as the text and and cover etc.

I want to make sure that the record label and King J is promoted throughout the digipak as my aim is to promote the artist and to promote the record label as well as the Album itself. I want the theme of the digipak to be quite dark with clean modern style fonts and high quality photography images. Once my group and I have taken images for our digipak. I will import those images to Photoshop and I will start to edit and create my digipak.

Put the plan picture here:

Genre Hip Hop/Rap - Eminem - My Name Is (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPnbI1arSE

The song is about the artists personal life and this is shown in the music video with real people who impacted him and what the lyrics are stating along with visuals.

The music video is to promote himself. There are many shots of the artist who is inside the TV and these two couples are watching him. The artists keeps constantly saying "My Name Is...Slim Shady" and the song is named after him which shows that this music video is all about him and its promoting himself to the audience. The narrative behind the video is about Eminem's life and about the power of music videos how the media is powerful and it affects peoples lives. The artist almost mocks the TV and the media which he is acting inside of.

The video is made to be entertaining and funny so the target audience was for youths and young adults and they can relate to Eminem's life in a funny and more pleasant way. The main aim of this music video is to promote the artist throughout it.

The Animatics

This is the animatic for our music video. I created this video on Final Cut Pro where I edited in the song too. The drawings were rushed as my group understand our narrative and we know how we are going to film the music video but it just isn't shown very clearly in our animatics. Underneath the drawings we have notes and writings of whats happening in each shot so its much clearer for my group and I to understand the narrative and when we film the music video it will be clearer for the audience.

Our Audience Profile

This is our audience profile for King J, this was created by one of our group members James Covill and we decided on who and what our target audience was gonna be.