Day: November 10, 2021

Overall, I think that we had a successful photoshoot. We were organised beforehand due to completing a production meeting agenda/risk assessment, and we had carried out lots of research to look for inspiration. We did this research on software like Padlet, Pinterest, professional digipaks, artist websites e.g. Dua Lipa/Jessie J, and more. I believe that this really helped us to come up with our own ideas that we could use during the shoot. We produced around 300 images, giving us a great range of choice for our final images.  We produced equal efforts to make this shoot as successful as possible, by all conducting individual research that we would report back to the group, and we each brought costumes, makeup, props etc that we used during the shoot.

What went well:

• We were organised before and throughout the shoot
• We communicated well, whether it was in person or over social media when planning
• Good efforts towards mise-en-scene
• A wide variety of shots were taken
• We listened to eachothers ideas and comprimised when we all had different ideas
• We set up early to avoid wasting studio time

What I would do next time:

• Include another outfit for variety/choice
• Include a wider variety of poses/facial expressions
• More extreme close-ups
• Play with lighting
• Book the studio for longer to avoid rushing

My group and I have been researching how we can create a graphic to include in our digipak. Following the themes and connotations of our genre, we have decided to design a wings and halo graphic on Photoshop. We will play around with different colours, styles etc, but we will most likely make it a shade of pink to match the rest of our digipak’s colour scheme. Below is a tutorial we watched, this shows the rough style of what we want to create:

Below are all of the images we took on our digipak photoshoot. At the very bottom I have included the iages we selected as our favourites which we will consider using in the actual digipak.

Our favourite images:

Below are my group’s Production Meeting Agenda and Risk Assessment for our next photoshoot. This will be to collect images for our digipak project. It is important to complete these documents before photoshoots as we were able to organise ourselves and we have planned exactly what we will be doing during the shoot, meaning we won’t waste anytime when on the real shoot. Risk assessments are vital when considering any potential dangers and reducing the chance of any injuries occuring.

Please click on image to access PDF:

Our risk assessment (Please click on image to access PDF):

This is my drawn idea for what our digipak could look like:

Our chosen colour scheme:

We have now got a good plan of what direction we will go in during the production process of our digipak. We have looked at professional examples, colour schemes, graphic ideas, typical conventions, how we can make ours unique by deviating from conventions etc. We want to produce an eye-catching digipak that is of a high quality and has interestng graphics, colours, fonts, tracklist to name a few. It is essential that our star is represnted as extraordinary, and we will aim to achieve this through the use of mise-en-scene and editing techniques. We will us software such as InDesign and Photoshop to do this.

I decided to look at a Miley Cyrus digipak cover as this is a professional example that I can study. I considered what typical conventions were used based on the genre as this is the same as my own groups (Pop Rock). I talked about conventions used such as bold fonts, colour schemes, posing, costume, layout etc. This was beneficial for me as I now have a greater understaning of what a conventional Pop Rock digipak looks like. This allows me to refer back to my annotations when designing my own digipak, meaning that I will be able to create my own version, whilst using similar aspects so that it is conventional, but I will include creative twists to make it different from the rest. It is important that a digipak is still conventional in some aspects though so that the buyer will be able to identify what genre it is, and therefore they can make an informed decision on whether or not they would like to buy it. If it is too unconventional, it may become misleading.