Week 6 Blog

This past week myself and Noor created an inaccurate Digipak template and booked ourselves in for a photo shoot session in the media room studio. We had to create an inaccurate example of our Digipak. Due to the fact that we haven't filmed in those locations, we have used previous images from my Independent and further research into mise-en-scene. Once after we have filmed we will create another rough template of how we want our digipak and magazine advert to look, then we will begin to complete our final ancillary products. The pictures we have taken during this week will be edited as soon as we come back to school on the 31st of October. 
Whilst I create the final Digipak and Magazine advert in Photoshop, Noor will use Final Cut Pro to edit what we have filmed so far. We will work together at the same time on both projects so we can have each others opinion and consent whilst making a particular decision it will also mean we will be efficient and get more of our tasks done. 

During the photo shoot this week we had a problem, but nothing serious we did not overcome. The problem was dealing with the shadows created by me and all the lights. Majority of the time my partner Noor spent trying to reduce as much shadow as possible, until we came to the conclusion that we can use photoshop to edit the prominent shadows out of the pictures. 

An issue we ended up facing was how we were unable to use the photo shoot pictures for the rough template of our final Digipak or Magazine advert. This does not slow us down as we still have our initial hand drawn template to use as guidance, but it does put us at a slight disadvantage. We were helpless in the matter because we had planned to film and take more pictures during the half term holidays, and our entire marketing scheme for our ancillary products relies on the pictures from the 'London Filming' days, which we have not tackled just yet. 

This following week we have our half term holidays, where Noor and I plan to film the majority of our narrative section in the shooting script.We have planned to film for three days, one day we will cover the narrative between Soraya and Talha(Pictured), one day will cover all the shots of me in Hainault forest and hopefully if there are no difficulties and Harry Maxwell is free, we will cover his shots in Hainault forest as well of him playing the guitar (This can be done in the same day we film me but to be on the safe side we have set another day aside for him.)

Harry Maxwell suits the look we are going for as well because he has a casual indie style to him which suits what we're aiming for.