The band -

• Firstly one thing which had held me back massively in my production of my performance elemant of my video was the band memebrs, it took me a long time to find people who were able to play instruments in order to replecate playing the song - although they will not being playing the song I decided that personally it was crutial that the 'band mates' appeared to be playing the instruments accurately to the song rather than guessing and therefore this would be achieved through choosing people who were able to play instruments.
• Secondly, I found it hard to find people who appeared old enough as the only people I know that play instruments are younger than me and this was also a trouble, however I have got there in the end.
• Thirdly, the singer was an issue also. Although I could once again pick anyone for the job I decided that I wouldn't get a confident performance out of someone who didn't know how to act infront of a microphone or camera and therefore had to find someone who was able to perform.
• Lastly, finding a time which was sutiable for everyone was also tough due to the time table of the younger people within my music video. As well as being able to use the music equipment and the drama studios in order to have a space to film. This is still a slight issue however I have decided that this is my music video and the actors are going to have to cooperate with me. The harder issue still is finding a time which is suitable to borrow the equipment as there is a lot of it and this might be hard for the teachers.

Further exploring posters.

The poster elemant for my music vidoe which feature inside a magazine is something which I had forgotten about doing as I have been focusing more on the creation of the music video and the digipack. I have decided through research already that it is nessisary to keep an elemant of continuity in terms of advertising an album and therefore the advertisment will either be the exact image on the front of my digipack in order for the audience to relate the two together or will be an image similar, cannoting a similar theme or thought so that the two are easily linked together and recognised as something from the same band for the same song/album.  (IMAGES TO COME)

Further exploring digipacks-

This is currently an idea for the layout of my digipack, I now know how many images I will be needing and just have to consider the different types of covers that I could have. I am currently considereing having my front cover as the instruments set up without the band, I think that an image like this would cannote the type of band by presenting the playing of their own instruments. However, I am aware that often indie bands rather than using instruments will use other image which do not directly relate to the band but instead an idea behind a song or the album title.

Arctic Monkey's album cover focuses on the band memebers and I therefore am consdiering not focuses on a symbol as my album cover but rather something relation directly to the band. My biggest worry currently is working photoshop as I'm not very good at it so far and I am unsure on how exactly to get the images to the exact size for the digipack. All of this I will have to talk to my media teacher about as I am currently confused on what to do.

Conceptual -

I have already filmed my conceptual elemants of my music video, however, I am unsure if I am going to be using them or not until I film my performance elemant this week. Once I film the performance I am going to decide if it is nessisary to include any other elemants to my music video depending on the way the performance turns out and if I decide that it is lacking in elemants of the genre which are instead included in the conceptual element.

I have story boarded both parts and still need to upload them, however, I am having trouble uploading images at the moment. I know what I am going to do but I might need help in being able to control three cameras all at the same time filming in order to make sure that the correct footage is being recordered by each camera and the angels are as I want them. Once I finish the song a few times I will then have to ask the band the perform parts of the song focusing directly on instruments in order to get a range of different angles and shots. I am not sure how long exactly this will take me, however I think I will be asking to borrow the equipment for and the room hour and hour and a half. If I am unable to film it perfectly or if I run out of time I will have to rebook for the week after. I am aware that I have left the most of my filming two weeks before half term and I reget doing this, however, I have had just had trouble with focusing on one single idea and took me longer than expected to film the conceptual elemant of my music video, which I now feel might have been a huge waste of time. If I am able to get all the footage nessisary this means I will be able to edit over the half term and half it finished for the 21st of Febuary. I am also going to get photos whilst I film so I am able to explore different covers for my digipack.