Music video first draft

Here is our first draft to our music video 'Black and Gold'. As you watch, you'll be able to tell that this is our first draft as there are a few blank spaces and bits where continuity isn't properly constructed. Most of the green screen images are also often pixalated or blurred due to the lighting at the time of filming and because the green screen wasn't on a flat surface. Moving on from our first draft, we will have to film more to create more of a narrative during our music video, and film more camera angles/shots to add some variation. Also, at the very beginning of the video during the opening titles, we will have 'Black and Gold Sam Sparro' written in sparklers instead of the text being created on Motion 4 as it is here in the first draft. However, I feel that for a first draft this video reflects the ending image that we're trying to create and after hours of editing, I'm pleased with the work I've done so far.

First draft of album cover

Quite clearly, this is my first draft of the album cover. However, this cover doesn't reflect any ICT skills as its very plain and doesn't have many effects or images. I do like the use of the colour scheme; black, white and gold as it sticks to the theme of the name of the album. If I were to use this front cover, then I could rotate the colour scheme to the main body is black and the background is white on the back cover of the digipack to keep the same theme running throughout.
I do think I will use an image of Eoghain on the front cover and manipulate the image through different effects and colours to gain marks on the use of Serif and IT skills. However, I didn't use an image for this particular front cover as the images I took were infront of a green screen so it was difficult to get this colour out of the hair, therefore I will take new images infront of a different background for my next few digipack covers.

Rough Website

http://editor.wix.com/html/editor/web/renderer/edit/c11d200d-63dc-41d3-84e9-9fd5e6be6cf9?metaSiteId=a9564004-d9dd-4a00-a834-eafbb9dfe02f&editorSessionId=ADADDE00-5295-4488-BA13-0C9425D6D400

This is the link to the website I am working on as one of the anciliary tasks. It's a very rough draft as I haven't yet taken pictures of Eoghain who is starring as Sparro to put on the website so there are a lot of blank spaces and random pictures which will be replaced with my CD digipak and links to the completed music video.

Digipak Ideas

Here are four CD's for the digipak I've created on Serif PagePlus X6. For the top left CD, I really like the stars in the 'Black and Gold' font as it reflects the lyrics in the song and the themes in our music video. The colour scheme also fits in here with the name and themes of the song and gives a very simplistic look to the digipak as this colour scheme could easily be carried on throughout the rest of the digipak. There also isn't an issue with using other publications images here as the CD is made up of block colours instead of pictures off of Google, so I wouldn't have to take my own pictures to use for the digipak.
The top right CD would probably be my favourite out of the four as the CD remains quite simple and the background part of the digipak adds something different and interesting. I like the star idea around the inner circle of the CD and how it's filled with black to contrast against the gold colour of the CD. The font also remains simple and clear to read as its capitalised and spaced out, featuring the song title, artists name and companies name. The five stars reflect the themes of the song and music video and also show the song to have a five star rating to make it seem of a higher quality. Obviously, I will have to take my own picture of the stars and insert this onto my digipak.
For the bottom left CD I used a grunge background to represent the galaxy and surfaces of planets to reflect the themes in our music video. I used this same grunge background on the CD but used a transparency with a black theme to link the two colour schemes together. The font is also quite simple yet classy as the white contrasts against the dark colours of the rest of the digipak.
The fourth CD features a grunge background on the CD to reflect the interspace theme and gold stars linking in with the song and music video. However, I don't feel that this disc links in that well with the themes of the song and music video and I'm not sure how I would carry this out throughout the rest of the digipak so this is the one I'm most unlikely to use.

Progress Update 02/12/14

Today I brought in the lighting and camera equpitment so we can film later today after sixth form. I've also brought in my appropriate costume and myself and Eoghain are going out at lunch to buy gold body paint and sparklers, which are the props that we didn't have when we last filmed. So hopefully today we can finish with all the filming ready to edit tomorrow to hand in our first draft on Friday.