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Good Slideshare presentation on the digipak design.  i feel that you could have blogged the evaluation of the shoot day a bit better, by using visual images to illustrate the points you make.  This is clear description, rather than analysis of the shoot, which needed to be discussing set design, including lighting, mise en scene, shot selection for example.

Evaluation of Shoot Day - Part 2

When the others returned from lunch, we had already filmed the wide shots of the dancers, and were about to move on to the MCU's and ECU's. At this point Ian and Will took over whilst Nico and I and the rest of the crew had lunch. We were starting to feel pressured by this point, as we only had the dancers until 2:30pm. However, we ploughed through this section and caught up on any time we may have lost through the change-over from light to dark. 


Problems we had with the filming in UltraViolet, is that there is almost no light so we had to use gain on the camera to pick up the actors, who were just outlines on usual settings. Image Below. Also we had ordered UV sensitive Contact lenses along with the paint, but you couldn't really tell under the camera. 


Next we shot the band in wide and in MCU, ECU, individually and took any detail shots at the end, such as the Discoball with lasers on it, and foot-stamping to the beat. 

Evaluation of Shoot Day - Part 1

This time last week, we were in the studio assembling the set for our shoot. We had planned to do it earlier, but another group had started late and therefore overshot their time limit, meaning they didn't finish until 6:30pm. Allowing for clear up, we then couldn't start until 7. 


We began by assembling a raised floor, which had to be carried in piece by piece. Once we had propped up any unbalanced corners, we then attached the walls, leaving a small gap for the lighting strips. Since these belong to the Drama department, we had to nail some plywood to them before we could begin the wallpapering. This took much longer than we anticipated, but with 3 of us there we managed to get this done just before 9. The final touch for the day was a long roll of carpet from the props dept. Luckily it was exactly the right size for our set and didn't require any trimming. 


Our shoot day began at 9:00 the next morning, and began by bringing in the remaining props and extras. At this point Nico took charge of the cast and got them suitably painted whilst Will, Ian got the necessary amplifiers and speakers. Also I had to do a fair bit of running around, as one of our cast members was in a lesson when we were ready to shoot. By 10:30 we finally managed to start filming the party scenes under 'normal' lighting. Once we had everyone on set however, we realised that there weren't nearly enough guys, so all of us made cameo appearances at some point to make up for that. We then kept Ian and Will in the shoot for continuity's sake, leaving Nico doing the majority of the directing, and myself doing most of the camerawork. Although at some point during the day, we did juggle roles temporarily so that everyone could have a go at camera and directing/playback. 


We actually improvised a lot of our narrative shots, due to the construction of the set and safety issues, such as the lighting of cigarettes in the studio. (If one looks closely at our video, none of the cigarettes are actually lit). When we finished the 'normal' section, we let Ian, Will, and the cast go for lunch, whilst Nico and I stayed to oversee the setup of the UV lighting and the dance routine. 

Evaluation of CD Digipack

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Good account of process of design, but does need evaluation in full.  you have made valuable reflective comments on your blog re process of construction.  It is important that you reflect upon the early Cd design.  Can you please post this as soon as possible, with an evaluation of your shoot day.

The Master design - This really is the final album cover(except for the band members)

Basically for this last design, we took the two panels on the left from the latest design, and remastered a few of our earlier panels, as we felt that the design was too busy. All we have to do now, is replace the cast pictures with our new band members. 

Evaluation of Poster

As a group, we went through our poster designs and decided that Nico's worked the best as it compliments the album design. Looking at the poster, we also decided to revert from the pink inside cover back to the multicoloured one, as from the audience feedback we got, a lot of people said that it was a bit too busy. A revised album cover will be posted shortly. 

Promotional Poster Concepts

Above are the various poster designs that our group created, although with our revamped album cover, Nico's concept (the bottom one), is probably the most relevant, since it also includes photos of band members. 

Final Album Cover

This is our final album digipack for Lanmou, which Ian created using Photoshop. Changes we made in this final version are most obviously, the pink panels which are the inside left and right. The image of the 8-track tape is below where the disc will be. (see below for disc image). Also we have adapted the front cover, as we felt that it wasn't quite eye-catching enough, by including some shadow on the text and emphasising the streaks. On the bottom of the rear cover we have included the official small print and copyright information, which was accidentally left out on our last draft. 

Further Developments

Today we organised the Photo Shoot for next week, made an appointment with the props department and enquired into a few potential back-up actors, as one of our main actors has been ill for the past week, and we are unsure as to when he will be returning. 

Album cover update

After reviewing our original album cover designs, we have put together the best elements of our concepts to make a new CD cover. Below is the first draft. 

The elements we took from the originals were the bubbly designs on the front and rear covers, and new additions we included are the band photo (which would be a stencil cut-out). We also modified the text font to Venetian to make it easier to read. 
We also changed the layout of the background cover slightly, there were just a few things bugging us such as the order of the songs, one of the longer titles was partially over a light patch so we switched it with a shorter one. Also we put some of the official labelling on the back such as the Barcode and the record label's logo. (This we changed from Columbia to EMI, as we felt it would be better if the audience immediately saw the big name on the rear cover). Below is a picture of the altered rear cover. 

One thing we did notice after we had uploaded these blogs, is that we had left off the copyright and legal small print at the bottom, so this is being put into our latest version. 

Props

For our UV sensitive props, we managed to order them all off one site, saving us the trouble of going out to find them all.