My Storyboard changes
This is my music video digipak and my chosen song is called This Woman Works By Maxwell. Above is my storyboard of how I imagine how my digipak is going to look like, whilst creating my digipak i have made some changes on the way. These are some of the reasons why I have made some cetain changes.
Frame 1
This is my front cover and I have chosed to put the artist name at the very top with the Artist place in the middle, this is because you can easily identify the artist. The whole idea of it was to show the simplicity of soul music and how it suits with my song choice which is calming, slow and emotional. I wanted the artist to have a afro just like Maxwell because the afro symbolise its natural simplicity, the natural feelings that soul music express. however due to the struggles of finding an artist with an afro, I used the artist that I filmed with to be shown on the front cover so it fits in with the music video. I have also chose to you use two colours for my digipak which are gold and black. I chosed these two colours because gold symbolises strengh and power, this fit in perfectley with my genre, my music video is about a sing mother trying to be strong in a difficult situation. Black symbolises the deep thoughts the artist expresses throughout the music video about his mother.
Frame 2
This frame is one shot of the mother with her hands out to show her expressing her emotions and giving up with life. In the music video, the mother kills herself when she finds out shes got cancer and is struggling to pay her bills and just automatically gives up in life. This shot also hints out what the mother is going to do and it makes a viewer remember the song and appeal to people that can also relate. The background of this frame is gold to show then strengh she needs. I thought this frame looked very plain so I decided to use one of the establishing shot of the estates where the mother and her son is living to show that they are from a lowerclass background.
Frame 3
This frame is one shot of the son upset and fustrated, I used this specific shot because it was one of the best shots I filmed and I wanted to show the son by himself because he is the main important character and the son is the artist when he has grown up. I wanted to show the shot of when the son was given the chain by his mother and him putting it on. The reason for this is the chain shows the artist wearing it clearly stating that hes the was the little boy. Unfortunately this shot didn't look clear enough on photoshop so I decided to use the shot when he's upset showing you his emotions. I chose to stick with the colours and make it bright so it doesn't look boring and the same as the other frames.
Frame 4
This frame I wanted to show the characters that are in my music video so that as a viewer I would have some idea of what the music video may be about. This frame is very simple I wanted to use two silhouette of the son and mother, to show a mother and son relationship. After playing with the effects with the image and changing it to a silhouette I decided to change my mind, instead of using a silhouette I came across another good shot of the mother in a white dress. This was from the heaven scene to show after her death as if she was in heaven, this was to show how the artist pictured his mother in his head. This image had a nice background of her in a garden with flowers on the side and her smiling, I made it brighter and a bit faded so it looked as if she was an angel up in heaven or in somones dreams.
Frame 5
This frame was for the CD, I came up with an idea of creating a CD template and writing words in it that has to do with the music video. That was my first option then I changed it to another graffiti shot of when the mother was walking past it in the music video. My teacher also mentioned how the graffiti is a good shot to put in because it looked and cool and fitted in. It also expresses the issues with the strong colours. I didn't want this shot to go to waste and I think it made a good frame for the CD.
Frame 6
This frame is my back cover and I wanted to show a silhouette of the mother's hand praying, i wanted to use this show because the theme of soul is to do with religion and this shows that the mother is praying for help and has faith in god. This compliments with the theme and how deep and emotional the music video is. However I realised when using one of the shots of the son and mother together, the silhouette didn't look the way I pictured it on photoshop therefore i decided to use a better shot of the mother walking past a graffiti which aid life is to short. I also made the back cover in black and white becasue it showed the passing of time, before she died and the struggles the mother was going through message on the graffiti helped a lot becasue it almost sends the viewer a message and teaches you no matter what your going pain your going in families, life to short to be waste time being stress and forgetting how to love people. This is why I thought it would of been a great back cover.
