Our Digipack : Pop Princess

We have to decide what our cover and back for our digipack will look like. This involves the picture, text, layout and the positioning.

Font : Airplanes in the night sky - we looked at many different fonts on dafont.com and decided that this is the best one for our digipack. 

Album Name : Heaven - We chose this to be the album name as we felt that it was suitable to the genre. Based on our research we found out that it was common for album names in this genre to be one word and tell a story to the audience.

Artist Name : Lexia Parker - We chose this name as we felt that it was a common name for our artist in this genre. Many artists create a name for themselves and their image but Pop Princesses generally use their real names in order to make themselves more personal and true to life.

                                    

Tracklist : 

1. Another day

2. Ticking of a Clock

3. Bella Heaven

4. Too Young

5. Morals

6. Royale

7. Out of This World

8. Deepen Perception

9. Cinderella Dreamin'

10. Silence

Examples of Pop Princess

In the music industry today there are many artists who can be considered as "Pop Princesses". Both in the UK and the USA, these artists dominate the media and they portray an image to their fanbase.


Taylor Swift

Cheryl Cole

Selena Gomez

 

Miley Cyrus 

Britney Spears 

Digipack - Pop Princess

As part of our course, our group has to create a digipack from a specific genre. The genre we got given randomly was POP PRINCESS.

This proves to a bit of a challenge since there is only 3 guys in our group and Pop Princess is not the genre we typically listen to. But it actually is quite a good simple genre to do as there are many artists that fit this category in the music category today. I will be doing research into these artists and the image of being a Pop Princess.

Editing for Where Is The Love?

When editing the clips we have filmed for our "Where is the love?" opening we have to consider 3 important factors:
- the cutting rate
- length of takes
- lip synching

Cutting Rate
The music and the cuts in the video match so we have to make sure that we also do this. The cutting rate is very quick in the first 20 seconds so we have to make sure that we get the shots matched up and in the correct order corresponding to the actual video.

Length of Takes
Most of the shots in the first 20 seconds of the video are 1 to 3 seconds long so we also have to match the exact length in order for our video to be as accurate. We will also make sure to do several takes of each shot so there is no room for error.

Lip synching

There is no singing in the first 20 seconds so we will not have to cover this.

Camera techniques for Where Is The Love?

When filming this extract from Where is the love we have to copy and match the camera shots from the video.

- Close-up with track 00:00-00:07
- Zoom out 00:08-00:11
- Handheld 00:11-00:12
- Midshot to low angle  00:12-00:13
- Long shot 00:13-00:13
- Track 00:13-00:14
- Handheld Track 00:14-00:15
- Long obscure shot 00:16-00:17
- Mid shot 00:17-00:18
- High angle 00:18-00:19
- Over the shoulder shot 00:19-00:20
- Close up 00:20

Mise - En - Scene for Where Is The Love?

Props
- Question mark posters and stickers - black, white

To do this we have already found the question mark image on the internet:

Costume
- Black tracksuits
- Black hoodies
- Black hat
- Black sunglasses

Characters

There are about 6 different characters in the opening 20 seconds with each character only appearing for a few seconds. Their identities are not clear either so the main focus is not entirely on the character but rather the action of them sticking up the posters/stickers.

Music Video Sample

To prove as a group that we are able to produce a full music video next year, each group in our class has to copy and film the first 20 seconds of a music video off a select list. The music video we chose as a group was : Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love.

We felt as a group that this was a good choice as we have analysed it already and some of the other music videos we had to choose from were quite complicated.