Editing Some Footage

Today I filmed the lyrics of my music video being written down. I used my female character to write the lyrics because she has neat hand writing. I have included a short clip of this footage above which I have increased the speed of to run in-line with the song. I found this very challenging as a lot of the time I had to set a different speed for each lyric just to keep up with the audio track. I feel this was very good practice for me, however for my music video my editing skills should have improved and the final product will look much better.

Filming: Writing The Lyrics

Today I filmed my female character writing out parts of the lyrics for "Talk You Down". I used verse 3. I will also use text on cards for the chorus and also the line "Coz if you go I go". I will use the footage I filmed at different parts throughout the music video as the song is very repetitive. I chose to have the female writing in the video because I was unsure what to use at this particular point as the lyrics are difficult to represent.

Learning About Photoshop Elements

Today I learned how to use all the tools available to me in Adobe Photoshop Elements which may assist me when creating my music magazine advertisement and also my CD Digipak. I practiced by creating a magazine advertisement for the script whcih included the artists name, album name and also relevant images to the genre of the music advertised. I used the blur tool, shape tool and also opacity tool to make my advertisement realistic and contemporary. I found out that this software would be very useful when doing my ancillary tasks.

Research Into The Genre & Style of The Script

The Script is a tightly-knit three-piece – former R&B producers Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan, and one time session musician Glen Power – that has been garnering the sort of ecstatic write-ups in its native Dublin that makes you suspect the reviewers must be family, friends or fully paid-up members of the fan club. This reviewer is none of those things, and can declare that their eponymously titled debut album reveals a band that is fresh, vital and ferociously good.

Album opener and debut single We Cry has already been laying an increasingly gold-paved path for the threesome. O'Donoghue's vocals, falling somewhere between Bono, Morten Harket, Eminem and Justin Timberlake, finds crisply articulate support from Sheehan's pointedly precise guitar commentaries and Power's no less eloquent percussive underpinning.

While reports of them as 'a whole new brand of Celtic Soul', maybe overdoing it, their catholic approach does manage to entail hip-hop, pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art production and anthemic rock.

For evidence of such pluralism, Rusty Halo offers up an intriguingly bizarre amalgam of The Police, Rush and Huey Lewis, Talk You Down has more than a hint of David Gray about it, and album closer I'm Yours is the kind of bedsit ballad destined for moist-eyed lighters-in-the-air status. Break Even is a stadium-filling confessional that will lay waste to vast tracts of America in due course.

Second single, The Man Who Can't Be Moved, wipes the floor with Coldplay, tramples all over Travis and flushes Starsailor down the pan to position The Script as the next big thing in waiting.

BBC Review, Michael Quinn, 1st August 2008

This article describes the unique genre of The Scripts music really well by comparing them as a mix between mutiple artists. The Script have the rock, pop and occasional hip hop elemements to their music, so they are inbetween genres.

Research Into Lip Syncing Styles

I have looked into different styles of lip syncing. I have found this video and I really like the artists lip syncing. I like the angle which the camera is positioned at because it is unusual and unique in comparison to other music videos. The camera shot and camera angle used is an over the shoulder high angle shot which I am familiar with because I used this type of shot during my foundation protfolio when producing my preliminary task. This camera shot and angle could be very useful for me to use if my male character/artist strugglers with certain lyrics when lip syncing or if I have any trouble editing the footage because I can use this shot type to hide any slight miss timings/faults of the lip syncing and/or footage.

Cd Digipak Front Cover Research

I have looked into the kind of images and logos the script have on the front cover of their albums and singles and I have found these images. I have discovered that The Script and Sony Music prefer to use images of objects rather than have themselves on the front cover. These images usually reflect the lyrics or narrative from one of the tracks on the disc. I can also see from the images of the front covers that The Script like to have a background image behind the main front image. This image is nearly always of some kind of very urbanised location/setting, such as city buildings like sky scrapers or large housing apartments.

Ancillary Task-CD Digipak

Traditionally Digipaks are typically made of a book style, paperboard material with plastic trays inside to cold the CD's. Digipaks are often used for special editions/productions of media and are an alternative to jewel cases.

The reason Digipaks are popular is because they are shatter proof, more environmentally friendly and also cheap to produce.

Different forms of Digipaks

8 Panel-4 tray 6 Panel-3 Tray

6 Panel-1 Tray 4 Panel-1 Tray

These are the different styles of CD Digipaks which are available on the high street. The more panels and trays are usually associated with a popular artist who has been produces albums for many years and there is a greatest hits which collaborates all of the artists albums into one Digipak packaging. The 6 Panel-1 Tray Digipak is likely to a insert which contains either the tracks lyrics or a photo gallery of the artist, these are quite popular.

The Conventions of A CD Digipak

• Colour scheme to relate to either the artist, album content or genre of the artist.



• Often made from cardboard and has more text than a jewel case would, more like a book.



• Design/background image most likely remains the same on each page.



• Track listing of the album on one of the pages, usually the back cover.



• May have lyrics from the tracks on the album.



• May have a article about the artist.



• The spine of the digipak will contain artist name, album name and institution logo.



• The front cover will likely have a main image usually the artist logo or album cover.



• Barcode on the back cover.