DIGIPACK RESEARCH

Here we are analysing other album artworks and taking inspiration from them for our own cover for the digipack. Here is the first one we looked at, it is from the Maccabees album. It has a cartoon effect with a number of people following the same colour scheme. The colours refer to the album title 'colour it in' which is what we may like to do is refer the album name visually on the cover and throughout our digipack.

In this album artwork from another band the Futureheads it shows all the different members of the band on the cover. We also want to do this and have all of our band members on the front of the cover with a cut out effect and experiment our with colours such as the Futureheads have done. They have also header up their band name at the top in bold letters and font which we meat also like to do. The patterns on the cover also make the album exiting too.

Here is another album artwork from the Drums where they have gone for a simple but effective cover. With wooden letters of the band in the foreground with good lighting on to them and a nice shadowing effect. On the stage with the curtain also indicates stage and live performances.

PRECIOUS TIME LYRICS

Pound for pound and cheek to cheek
Cheek paler than a lamp light
Take me down to light the box
And play super Scalextric

And turn this
Darkness
Into light
And I'll turn too bright
Forget all the hype

I'll need heart and I'll need courage
We all need...

Toe to toe, there's nowhere to go
So I'm tiptoeing around it
I held you down and I held my own
And now I feel like I'm floating

So turn to this
Head on
And keep on
Keeping on

I'll need heart and you'll need courage
We all need time

So let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us

Let's take our precious time about it here we want to have each person saying this
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it

Don't you know, nobody knows
If there's somebody waiting
So you'll hold yourself up and you'll hold yourself in
And then pray that you are growing

And turn to this
Darkness
You turn it into light, and you'll turn too bright Here we may look into playing with the lighting
Forget all the hype

You'll need heart and I'll need courage
We all need time

So let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us
Let's make time work for us

Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about it
Let's take our precious time about This part of the song is sped up so we may do the same

'cause we'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times
We'll need heart and we'll need courage
In these times

Because time can mean so much

Are you still mine? This ending line is just a close up on the lead signer

PERMISSION TO USE TRACK

Here is proof that we have asked the Maccabees on Twitter for permission to use their song Precious Time for our music video, we have the opportunity to directly contact to them through Twitter. Asking them for permission helps our group to make sure what we are doing is allowed. We used Twitter via the Blackberry app and also used the MunchScreen app to take a picture of it on the screen of the phone in order to show it here as proof

PRECIOUS TIME VIDEO

Here is the original video from the Maccabees, it shows some of stop frame animation with the faces which has inspired us in our own video. It also has some studio shots of the band which we also want to emulate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0629SPfofVI&ob=av3e

A2 TREATMENT

The Maccabees – Precious time – 3:55

In our video we hope to have a range of shots of high and low angles on a band playing the music. We also want to try a 360-degree shot all the way around. For the lyric “lets make time work for us” we want to use stop frame animation for a clock going round to show time going by for an interesting and new way. We hope to have some narrative within the video but not too much and break it up also in-between shots of the band playing. When the band does play we want to have a blank background of white with strong and colorful lighting on them to highlight them.

We also are going to try getting colorful backgrounds of the band members and adding it into comic life. We will show it as stop frame in the music video of the band each saying the word “take our precious time” so it has a comic feel to it with colors and showing the different band members. We could also show the boards themselves and make them fall down showing a different member every shot.

At the start of the video we want to use a close up of the drums and of the symbols in time to the music. We took this inspiration from the 'Foals' video of 'Hummer'. We want to also have a close up shot of the guitar at the start and also for the solo bit at the end. We want to amplify the lyrics of the song also with our colourful study effects we have planned out.