Digipak Template

Album Art Exercise

A2 Music Video Coursework

Album Art Exercise for Digipak & Advert

Follow the link below and complete the exercise to create your own album art quickly and simply. When finished post onto your blog and evaluate the effectiveness of the finished piece of work.

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/death-of-album-part-2.html

The Most Watched Music Videos on Youtube 2012 and 2013

Planning Documents

The following documents will provide extra evidence of planning, please download, complete and upload on to your blogs:

Treatment

Location Sheet

Risk Assessment

Costumes and Props Sheet

Shot List

Shooting Schedule

A2 Case Study - Michael Jackson

A2 Coursework Half-Term Blog Catch-Up

A2 Coursework Half-Term Blog Catch-Up

By the end of the Half-Term holiday you need to have completed the following posts on your blog:

• Welcome post
• Brief
• Favourite music video
• Discussion of the topic of non-copyright music
• How have you found your music?
• What music have you chosen?
• Profile of the artist(s)
• The track & lyrics
• Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
• The Pitch
• Record labels – Major/Independent
• Organic/synthetic music
• Purpose of the music video
• Star Theory – Richard Dyer
• Success criteria
• Key conventions – Andrew Goodwin
• Case study 1 – Jamie Thraves
• Case Study 2 – Emil Nava
• Case study 3 – Alex Southam
• Vox Pops – description – what are they?
• Vox Pops task posted on blog
• Vox Pops evaluation
• Elton John/Kiki Dee duet – description of task
• Duet exercise posted on blog
• Duet exercise evaluation
• Brainstorm
• Treatment
• Shooting schedule
• Location sheet
• Shot list
• Risk assessment
• Costumes and props
• Contingency plan
• Storyboard
• Animatic

'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' Editing Exercise

Music Video Duet Editing Exercise

   1)   Using Elton John and Kiki Dee’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart film a duet from at least three different angles.

   2)   Film the song all the way through taking care to look into the camera where appropriate and think carefully about sightlines. Also, watch out for the mise-en-scene – do not film into a light source.

   3)   When editing upload each of the complete takes of the song and layer them on separate Final Cut timelines.

   4)   Upload the music and synchronise each of the layers to the music.

   5)   You can now choose how to edit between the layers and each will be completely synchronised throughout

Evaluation

  ¨  What have you learnt about filming music videos?

  ¨  What have you learnt about filming duets?

  ¨  Describe the process of editing

  ¨  What have you learnt about editing music videos?

  ¨  In what ways could you improve the filming/editing of the sequence?

An Introduction to Music Videos

A2 Music Video - Planning - The Pitch

A2 Music Video - The Brief

Your task is to produce:

¡ A music ‘promo’ video

¡ Up to 5 minutes

¡ Either working on your own or in a group of up to four members

 You also need to produce:

¡ A ‘digipak’ for its release on DVD

¡ A magazine advertisement for the DVD

¡

Downloadable Fonts

Give your digipak and magazine advert a more professional feel by downloading a more interesting font. 

Follow the link below to "dafont.com" and search through the archives.  When you want to download a font you will need to ask either Mr Johnson or Miss Thompson to enter the administrator's password. Alternatively, use your own home computer to do so.  You will not be able to use this website on the standard school pcs.

Link: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=112

Example Mood Board

A "mood board" is an excellent way to bring all your ideas about mise-en-scene together.  A mood board really gives a clear idea of how you would like your video to look. Below is an excellent example of a mood board created by a past student:

Example Digipak Analysis: Albert Hammond Jr

Album Art Website

http://www.coverdude.com/

Example Digipak Art - Albert Hammond Jr - Yours to Keep

Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours To Keep (Bonus Tracks) CD Inlay cover


Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours To Keep (Bonus Tracks) CD Inside cover


Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours To Keep (Bonus Tracks) CD Cd cover

Example Music Video Blog - From the Exam Board

Follow the link to an example blog (from another school) that the exam board said "documents the whole process really well". I think we can do better!

http://musicvideocm3emma.blogspot.com/

Example of Level 4 Magazine and Digipak

Magazine Advert



Digipak



Follow this link to see the the rest of this student's blog:

http://musicvideocm3christina.blogspot.com/

Student Example Digipak - The Vixens

Student Video: Examples of Split Screen

Below is an A2 Project from another school in North London. The video takes a simple idea but is edited really well. There are some great examples of "split screen" to look at!

Digipak: Example of Student Analysis

Below is an example of how you might go about analysing a digipak as part of your research and planning. 

Greenday digipak

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