Part 1 of digipak on photoshop

In this hour we decided to choose an image on one of our main actress for our magazine cover. We had already had an image of what we wanted the magazine cover to look like the problem was how we could put it down on photoshop.

We first decided to get ourselves reacquainted with photoshop as our first time on photoshop was a couple of weeks before and we had already forgotten the basics of photoshop. As a group we tried to figure out how to upload an image as a background and how we could get a layer added to the picture; we had finally managed this but unfortunately nothing would happen when we wanted to add or take out a specific part of the image. We then decided to start from afresh and try again this was probably the third time we were trying this and we finally uploaded an image and were able to cut out a certain piece of the image but unfortunately we were unable to add another image on top of the background image.

Intial Sketch Ideas For Magazine Ad

 For our ideas regarding the magazine ad we had decided that we wanted the image to be subtle but eye catching to our target audience. By doing this we decided to use one image which was easy as well as simple this was easy to photoshop and change the image.

We decided to put a picture of the main lip syncer as our magazine advert and we decided to put it in black and white. With this we had used the theme of p!nk through out of it.

Intial Sketch Ideas For Digi Pak

Our initial ideas for our digipak were very simple as we knew what we wanted and how we wanted it to come across to our target audience.

As a group we decided to go for a very subtle but eye-catching picture which portrayed emotion that could be related to from our target audience. Below is the image that we started to go on and from there we wanted to start developing it by adding small colour changes etc.

Feedback Of Final Music Video

As we had to re do our music video because there were some scenes were we had to re film because it did not look that good. We then got a few people to look at the music video and we came back with some positive and negative feedback.

Positive feedback
they were able to understand the concept
they liked the flashbacks
the flash boards were a great idea and in time with the music

Negative feedback
The lip synced needed more emotion to be portrayed
If you had more time there should be more camera angle and shots.

Timeline for Production

03/10/2011 - Started shot list
05/10/2011 - Completed shot list
10/10/2011 - Planned when we were going to film. Filmed test shots
11/10/2011 - Filmed the flashboard scenes for our music video
12/10/2011 - Cut test shots, uploaded flashboard shots to final cut
14/10/2011 - Filmed burning of the photo and lip syncing for our music video
17/10/2011 - Cut and edited the test shots, filmed the petals falling and uploaded the lip syncing scenes to the Mac

16/11/2011 - refilmed the lip sycning scenes

Re-editing of Lip Syncing

Once we had re-filmed all of the lip syncing scenes, we all sat down and started to re-edit our music video again. As we deleted each of the old lip syncing scenes from our completed music video, the remaining clips seemed to move to the right slightly causing our entire music video to be out of time with the audio. We spent a couple of hours editing the whole thing and trying to get it all back in time however this was proving quite difficult, so we decided to go back to our original complete music video and insert a few of the new lip syncing scenes where the old lip syncing scenes were. 


As we already knew, editing is a long process and we managed to finish editing our music video completely for the second time, within two hours.


From day one, we have all experienced some difficulty with an element of making a music video. Every time we had difficulty we managed to sort it out and correct our mistakes. We have all learnt a lot more about the process of producing and editing a music video and feel as though we have created our music video to the best of our ability. 

Re-filming of Lip Syncing

After watching our final video, we received some feedback. We weren't too happy with the predicted grade that we were given so we decided to re-film our main character Evalene lip syncing. As soon as we had all made the decision to re-film, we all sat down together and wrote a list specifying what it was we wanted to achieve whilst re-filming. We found that writing a list of what we specifically wanted to have within our music video made it a lot easier when it came to re-editing our video.

The next day we all went back to the location where we originally filmed the lip syncing scenes and we got Evalene to lip sync to the entire song 3 times from different angles. Using different camera angles will add variety to our music video. 

We all found it quite difficult the second time round, especially as the weather was different so we were worried that when it came to re-editing, it wouldn't make sense. First time around it was sunny and warm, and we re-filmed it was extremely windy and cold. In order to get a decent camera angle from above, Henley held the camera on the tripod whilst standing on top of a log. We found it hard to keep the camera steady due to strong winds...and standing on top of a log! 

We also got Evalene to climb into a tree and sit on a branch so that we could get a shot of her from below. This proved quite difficult too as we couldn't always see what she was singing. Luckily we managed to film everything we needed to within an hour.