Jack Rundle's A-Level blog

Within a digipak there must be information on both the institution and producers of the CD. From researching and looking through different magazine adverts and dikipaks I have found some of the must important pieces of information to include: -        - Firstly, the name of the record company is one of the most important pieces of information as it informs people who helped to produce the music. -        - Sometimes the names of the band members and the roles that they have in the band are included -        - It should include where the song was produced and created. -        - There should also be a section on the individuals who helped to create the designs and photographers. -        - The key institutional information should include the management of the band.

Through studying the titles of different Albums and magazine articles within the Brit pop genre I have discovered many ideas which will help us to decide on the title which we will use on our own digipak. This will be one of the first things which people can view on the front so we need to make it clear within the title and picture what our genre is and display the connotations. 

Firstly, in our latest session we listened to feedback which we had been given from the fourth session. This is due to the fact that our target was to include more band member shots. However, the group agreed and got rid of this target as we had a time restraint and both me and Luke had work later on that evening. Instead we decided that it would be more beneficial to lip sync the part of Luke singing the corus to the end of the song. We left some gaps in order to inlude other shots including ones of then band together later on. We made this decision to do this as it was best to get the hardest part of our work out of the way and then fix the smaller things in the later sessions which will gradually bring up our marks but also help make the video relative to the narrative.  Some negatives which we took away from the session was that Luke's lip syncing did not match the lyrics of the song so therefore we needed to change some of it so it that it would work together. Furthermore, w...

Firstly, a digipak is the layer around the a CD case which supplies information on the band, their record label and also song names which are featured on the CD. Britpop genre use Digipaks to display their new albums but in a unique way which is different to other genres. Furthermore, throughout carrying out lots of research and investigating different Britpop digipaks i found that the genre all has a very familiar link which runs throughout their CD covers, this is that all the band members are included on the front cover. In Oasis' album 'Be here now' it displays what the band are about and their child-like behaviour with the shot of various items thrown into a swimming pool with the band members standing around. The main aim of this is to create the feeling of togetherness and also portray the British Qualities as the main colours used in the digipak are blue, red and white.  On the other hand, when i researched this subject in further detail i found out ...

The feedback that we gathered from session 4 we changed due to not agreeing  on it as a group to help benefit us in the long term. This target however will be prioritised in further  sessions as we will include more shots of the band members on their own but also together as a group. The reason for this prioritisation was so that we could concentrate on the smaller aspects such as this in the last session where we make the smaller changes. Moreover, the improvements which we still need to make are to sort the shots to make them shorter and closer together. We are doing this to create flash shots but also there is many shots which display a black screen in between each other which we need to change so the shots flow smoothly and make it more professional.

The feedback that we received was positive and stated that they enjoyed the variety of techniques in which we used. Additionally, the liked the use of conventions, narratives and the way we displayed a story within the video. They however said that they feel as if there should be more band member shots (both on our own and also as a group) and this is due to Luke is in the majority of the shots as he is the main character which we used. Although Luke is the main singer and is normal for him to be in the forefront of the shots there is still a very uneven display of band members which we need to work on in our net session.