QR code

We have created a QR code to put on the back cover of our digipak that links to the website page we have made for The Shape Of The Earth - Alone In This music video. We done this by using a website called www.QRstuff.com in which we was able to create this free of charge. We have put this on the back cover with the bar code.

Our digipak

We are now putting together our digipak for our music video and the band The Shape Of The Earth.
We have used a picture of the main character from the front view and the back view for the front and back cover of our digipak. We thought that these images would look very effective as it is set in one of the locations that we see the character in within the music video. The rural woods that is the location, also adds to the fact that she is alone, gong with the title of the song and the digipak overall. There is a lot of area surrounding her within the photos and this also emphasises that she is on her own.
For the front cover title, being Alone In This, We made it the same font as what is on the start of the music video. This shows that they are linked and really shows that the music video is of this song and from this digipak. We have also made the writing on the digipak front cover the same colour as the main characters coat in the image. This pulls the digipak together and makes the colours and images flow.

Last bit of filming completed

Today we managed to completely finish our filming and took pictures for our digipak front cover, back cover and disk.
We have done the handheld shots and the ones where the main character meets other people that show her glimpses of happiness.
We are now in the process of putting all of our final clips together and editing them into our music video for Alone In This by The Shape Of The Earth.

beginning editing

We have started to edit our music video together now as we have all the shots and clips that we wanted for the first half of the video.
We have had a new idea whilst we was in the editing process. We have put the music video in black and white whilst the main character is in the house. Once the character goes outside and starts travelling, the clips will go into colour. This helps to show her unhappiness at home as it is in a black and dull setting, being the black and white effect. The colour when she goes outside hints to the glimpses of happiness she sees when she is not at home and is travelling.

Putting the music video together, we have realised that we filmed enough shots and scenes to put things together in the right way to make it look the best it can, This is one of the problems we had last year as we didn't film enough clips in order to put together our film opening for our AS media project. This is a problem we faces last year that we have worked upon and changed this year to make it better than before and make the editing process run more smoothly.

Digipak research

I looked into other digipaks from other students from different schools that they have created. This allowed me to build up an idea of what is expected of me and what is possible to achieve through the school programming.

Doing this helped us as a group to see what we need to include in our digipaks and how to design it. It also helped us to see how to present it on our blogs once it has been made. We looked at indie genre digipaks as this gave us ideas as well as the idea of the digipak itself. Looking at the themes we need to create for our own was something that benefited us in terms of creating a design for our own.

Website research

We looked into websites in order to build up an image of the type of website we want to create for The Shape Of The Earth band we are doing a music video for.  We looked into websites of indie bands in order to make sure we was creating the right look and feel for the correct genre of our band, song and music video.



We looked at Kodaline's website and got an idea from this for our own website creation. We liked how they have done there headings alone the top of the page onto the other points of the website. An example of the headings are things like an about page. We have imported this idea into our band website.

Two Door Cinema Club are another popular indie band that we have researched into in terms of their website. We have taken the idea of their upcoming gigs being on their home age of their website as we feel it has more coming on when people first click onto the website itself.
We have put two of the most recent upcoming gigs on the home page of our own website.








Tom Odell is of the indie genre and there are a few elements we have taken from his website and put onto our own
We have placed our bands most recent music video (being the one we have created) onto the home page of the website. This is something that was inspired from Tom Odell's website.
We have also taken the idea of putting the CD cover on the home page also. This attracts the audience in and gives there more to look at when people first go onto the website. We have been able to do this on our own website by putting on our digipak front cover for Alone In This by The Shape Of The Earth based around the music video we have created.

Filming update

So far we have filmed the first section of our music video. This is where the character is in bed and can't sleep because her parents are arguing. We have created the packing and leaving the house shots so we can focus on the main part of the music video, being her travelling.

We have also filmed some of the travelling scenes, being around Werrington. We have chose this place for the first part as this is a council estate area and we can show her going through where she lives to get to the nice places where she meets people and they show her glimpses of happiness.

We chose a part of Werrington that had a grass field with a bench that the character can sit on in order to emphasise the fact that she is alone.

Change of plan

We have had to change the actor for our music video due to the fact that we couldn't find times that we was available to film as well as the actor being free to be in it. This has helped us to use our media lessons to film our music video as we have used myself in the production. This was a better idea as we can film more at times that we are all free because we have the same media lesson times.

This means that we have to change the image on our digipak so far as it is the previous actor. We have recreated the same shot as we really liked it and thought the shot was effective with the song choice and the feel of the music video.

final costume

We changed our outfit idea from the last one due to the change in character and the new ideas we have to make the storyline clearer to the audience.

We have changed the outfit to leggings, a parka and a back pack. We felt this was the right thing to do in order to add to the season at the start of the music video. A back pack helped us to show to the audience the travelling aspect of the storyline and show set them up to show them what is going to happen throughout. This costumer/prop was used as an indicator and a main focus for the audience. Having the parka in green was a move we made intentionally as it links in with the surroundings of the outdoors. This was done to emphasis the fact that the main character is alone; linking in with the title of the song being Alone In This by The Shape Of The Earth.

We chose leggings because we thought this was something someone that didn't have a lot of money would wear rather than jeans or a skirt for example.

The Shape Of The Earth digipak cover ideas

Above are some of the CD covers that band 'The Shape Of The Earth have used'. By looking at all four covers you can see that they follow some sort of pattern in their CD cover designs. Each cover has the look of being drawn or painted through the aspects of their pictures and the font that is used. Their designs are very basic, therefore we have ensured that the images we use follow their conventions of being simple. For our production we have kept the shots all very simple but effective with a strong storyline. 

Below are some of the ideas we have come up with to follow. We decided as the song is 'Alone In This' and the story is about a girl who has a hard upbringing and feels constantly sad and isolated that the idea of having a crowd of colourful people with one blacked out person shows that whilst everyone who is around her is happy, she is the one that stands out, the one who cannot find happiness. Below are some images that we found interesting and throught we could work with and make it our own. They are all full of crows of people and we thought we could stick with the idea of having everyone colourful, and as I said, there will be one person who is just blacked out which will feature our main character.