Digi Pack Sketch/Draft. Sophie.

FRONT COVER: For the front cover of our digi pack, I have chosen to feature the main abused boy from the music video. I plan to enhance shadows and create a soft faded checkered background behind the boy, continuing an ongoing theme of chess, games and childhood. The picture expresses vulnerability and isolation, a major theme of the song. Only half the boys face will be feature, almost like he was hiding. The same make-up used in the video will be present and the title of the main song will appear as the album title. 

BACK COVER:  Chess is a major component in our video, representing childhood, games but also intelligence. By choosing to use a lone pawn, we stick to the ideology of isolation and the colour scheme of black, white and red with shadows. The songs titles will be over-layed onto the chess piece so the white will contrast with the black text. 

CD: The design on the CD itself will be simple with the checkered pattern, continue our house style. 

The name of the band will be featured on the CD.

INSIDE: For the last image I choose a simple image of the boy walking alone. The same colour scheme will be used with defined shadows. 

This is my interpretation and ideas for the digi pack. By creating rough edits/ideas I have a clear mind set of what I want to create for final digi pack and what to pitch to the rest of my group when we being creating the final product.

LOCATIONS.

The home owner gave us their consent to shoot and photograph the location, so that we may begin our filming.    

We used one of our producers (Sophie's) house as location to film. the reasoning behind this was because her home had a strong working class look on the inside, due to it being quite small, and we would be able to dress this set in order to give a more rough, rather raged look, to suit the characters  so that when it comes down to us filming scenes of violence in the home, it will match and create a suitable atmosphere.    

Since Swanscombe has the stereotypical working class look, we felt that we could use it to our advantage once we began filming, since our main characters lived in such an environment we wanted to be able to use outside shots effectively also. 

This task was completed by Deborah Akinkuolie and Sophie Butcher. Sophie collected the pictures of the locations, and I explained them. 

Risk Assessment

This is our risk assessment done with the intention of identifying hazards and having an action plan to avoid these hazards prior to getting to our locations along with actions that will be taken when we get there. This helps a lot with the safety of the actors and us, along with ensuring equipment used will be safe and not get damaged.

Actors consent

The Task:

In order to find our actors, we had to contact certain people we knew and felt would suit our music video. This was important as it enabled us to have a rough idea of who we could rely on and quickly organise our actors to do our shoot. Moreover this task shows our use of organisational skills and how well we plan ourselves when preparing for a shoot.  

In conclusion, this task taught us the importance of planning, organising and prepparing ourselves when it comes to filming. The consent of the actors is essential, as we will be loading the videos onto social network sites, and putting videos, or even taking videos of people without their consent is illegal. Moreover, the fact we are asking our actors whether or not they are able to take part shows that we are arranging and deciding who we feel would benefit our shoot, and how well they suit the character they are presenting,  and also, to be prepared for disappointment if our first choices could not be of any help to us. Which, luckily did not happen. 

Ownership:

This post was made by Deborah Akinkuolie, I did this task because I have their contacts. 

Costume Design

For most of the costume designs we envisioned a working class urban town and school. A lot of inspiration came from shows such as Eastenders, as the show fits the stereotypes we were trying to recreate. One of our main sets will be a school so we tried to recreate a working class secondary schools uniform with the ideology that students added features such as trainers and hoodies to their uniform. We included the make-up that we would be using on each character such as bruise wheels for the bruising and scarring we will be recreating. A major theme in our miss-en-scene is the colour scheme of red, black and white so we tried to incorporate this into the clothing choices. The majority of the costumes we have chosen are basic. 

We created these costume designs so we had a set dress code to follow when filming beings. We will know what we have envisioned and actors will be aware also, saving time on filming day.

This post was created by Sophie Butcher, I am in charge of all things related to costumes.

Storyboard Picture Form

This task was split in two between Sophie and Deborah. Each of us drew Forty-two scenes and annotated them with notes and shot type. Sophie then composed the pictures into this format to refer back to during filming.

Evidence Of Practise Shoot.

Here are some images taken during our draft shoot. Deborah and Sophie went to various locations and practiced shooting some of of our key shots. This enabled us to figure out what locations and shots worked and didn't work, saving time when we being shooting for real.