Digipak Research - Analysis of The Temper Trap's Album Cover

Digipak Research - Analysis of Kodaline's Album Cover

Digipak Research - Analysis of Broods' Album Cover

Ancillary Task - Digipak Research

Before we began brainstorming ideas of what we wanted our digipak to look like, we needed to look at examples of real media that were already out there. We researched, and found a variety of existing album covers. We specifically searched for artists that fall within the indie genre, due to the fact that this the genre that Littlewing fit in to.
It was fairly easy for us to find artists that fitted into the indie genre, and therefore the album covers, because myself and the other member of my production group both listen to that genre of music. We put them together on a mood board, as used this a source of inspiration when creating our own digipak.

Ancillary Task - Artist Iconography

Main Task - Final Cut

Having now included a narrative in our music video, it looks very different to how our second cut did. The inclusion of the narrative was a very good choice, as it broke up the performance, and helped to match the song at times - particularly when the song was slower - as performance wouldn't have fit as well.
We also added more cuts, now that we had all of the footage that we wanted happily in place, and we matched these to the beat of the song as well.
Finally, to really make our music video look professional, we added titles and institutional logos, which made it feel like a real music video, and I was very pleased with the final outcome.

Main Task - Production - Shoot 2 (Narrative)

Having come to the decision that we needed to film a narrative to accompany the performance element, we needed to film within quite a short space of time. Fortunately, organising a date for production was a lot more straight forward, due to the fact there was only three of us, and we all lived very local.

We chose to film at another forest location near to us, as we wanted it to appear as if it had all been filmed in one day, to avoid it look jarring. We walked for almost an hour around the forest, until we found a spot that was on the bed of the river, but wasn't too exposed to the sun, as we didn't want the shots to be over exposed.
In our storyboard, we had wanted a shot of the couple walking up some stairs into the sunshine. We couldn't believe our luck when we walked along the river to find a wooden staircase leading up into the sunshine. The location was quite romantic, and clearly reflected the relationship between the couple. So overall, we were very pleased with how this shoot turned out.