Research - Gabrielle Aplin's digipak

Amy was able to go up to London and meet Gabrielle Aplin which was SUCH an amazing thing. While she was there she got consent to use her song in our video and said that she would like to see it when it's done. WOW.

Amy also go an original copy of Gabrielle Aplin's digipak for Please Don't Say You Love Me. This was helpful as we could see what she had done in terms of incorporating her poster into her digipak. This is the idea we had and so the digipak gave us lots of inspiration for ours.

Research - Digipak template

I have been searching and have found a really helpful digipak template that is going to help us when creating our own.

The template shows what should go where and how the digipak will fold. This is going to be really helpful for us as we can follow this template to ensure that our digipak looks relatively professional.

Research - Examples of digipak's

Below are some examples of digipaks. You can see that they usually have 6 panels, 3 on the inside and 3 for the covers. 

Research - Digipak's

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digipak, A digipak should typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attatched to the inside.

Digipak style packaing is often used for CD sigles or special editions of CD albums. Licensed digipak maufacturers such as Oasis Disc Manufacturing recommend coating the raw printed paper with a protective UV coating, thus ensuring longer life.

Editing - A whole day of editing

We were able to edit our piece during the day and also stay late after school in order to get our editing done as quickly as possible so that we could move on to our ancillary tasks. We got all of the editing done in the time that we allocated ourselves and it was relatively stress free!!!

Production - Final, final, final shoot!!!!!

So bad news. We couldn't film on the 25th due to our reservations for the sports hall being over booked. This meant that we couldn't use the sports hall and all other areas of the school was occupied that eveing. However we managed to book the main hall of the boys school for our final shoot the following Wednesday.

On the Wednesday we filmed everything we needed but not without any problems, of course. We booked the hall, however we needed to be packed up for 7. This was fine, we thought we could make it, but somehow we still needed more time!!! We decided that we were being far too picky and just packed up with the shots that we had. We have looked back through the footage and we seem to have everything we need to make our final piece work. So despite the looooooong, problematic and chaotic process of filming, we have managed to achieve what we set out to achieve and hope that everything will come together nicely.

I think we're all just hoping the editing process will less disasterous!!