(Pre Production) Week 5

This week while designing our digipak discovered that it was far too complex to design with the cube design and the logistics of how we originally imagine to sell it for our artist began to back fire as we soon realised our artist would most likely not be able to manufacture a design for a digipak which not even established artists like "The Gorillaz" or "Katy Perry" have manufactured.

After this revelation my partner and myself went back to a more traditional approach for the digipak and began working with a six side digipak layout for our artist still keeping the design of the cover and back and incorporating the color scheme and certain ideas in like the CD cover and CD holder design and the artist image spread.

I feel that this new design makes much more sense to how we imagined to brand Robert Staines because it's more traditional and won't turn my target audience away yet still manages to incorporate ideas which are slightly different and will just as his music does, show Robert in a interestign and versatile way.

This week my partner and I also went out with the artist to do some test photography to get rough snap shots of the images we will need of Robert so when we go out to take the final photographs we will know exactly the angles,lighting etc. we will need. We used the photos in a rough version of our digipak. This has helped me and my partner alot because it gives us a chance to look at a template for what our design would look like and gives us the chance to make changes before we have the final designs.

This week one of our primary locations (the school hall) was under refurbishment and therefore meant we were unable to film. I'm slightly worried about filming and would like to begin as soon as possible because we're slowly getting more and more behind on our production schedule and the filming was one of the things I had intended to get done first and foremost and right now I have currently absolutely no footage what so ever.

I would prefer to have all our filming done before halfterm as I am not available to film in half term and I'm not sure my actors will be available, if this is the case then I'm going to be behind on a lot of deadlines on my production schedule and will need to begin filming and editing fast.