Original images taken for ancillary task: CD Cover- our first ancillary idea:

These images are the photos Adam and I took while filming. We wanted to use the photos from when when we filmed to show house colours.

These images are from our new idea for our ancillary tasks they show the two woman and the man from our music video. We plan to merge the left side of the blonde womans face (eye and nose) and the other womans right side (eye and nose). We then plan to merge the mans chin on to the face. This idea will be presented on the front cover of the digipack. On the reverse front cover we hope to present the fallen over stool that is shown within the music video we took the image while filming to keep continuity. This will show our house colours which are oranges and reds, within the music video and within the CD cover. The third panel we want to show a torn up bits of the womans diary with certain relevant words on the pieces of paper from the music video and single. We need to add another panel to meet the conventions of a CD cover. We plan to have a simple black background with a simple font in the colour of orange for the song list this is to keep the house colours. We plan to have apart of the cloth from the stool shown on the back as apart of the design.



We did our editing for our digi pack on serif page plus 11 and serif photo plus, this made it possible to combine the photographs together to make one face. We also changed the lighting of the photograaph to give it a better effect.

The process for the second panel of the digi pack. This shows all of the house colours. The stool that is fallen in the photograph is the same as how it fell within the music video.

The process of the third panel of the digi pack. This photograph shows what i meant to be torn up bit of paper from a diary. It shows lyrics from the song and also shows apart of the song list.

Cd covers and magazines that have given inspiration.



After changing our initial idea for our CD cover and magazine advert we found a band that gave us inspiration for our new idea. The band is called 'kings of Leon'. After looking at there CD cover for their album 'only by the night' we thought it would be great to do something similar for the purpose of our music video.


When looking at this CD cover and one of the music videos called 'sex on fire' i saw an immediate relationship between them both. I saw the bird like face within the band members faces and then when watching the music video i saw a bird several times this has shown an immediate theme.


I also noticed there are similar colours presented within the CD cover and muic video 'sex on fire'. A lot of the colouring within the music video is very dark earth colours, this is too presented on the CD cover showing green for 'face'.

Our idea for our new ancillary task

Our idea for our new ancillary CD cover design came from the Cd cover from the band kings of leon and their album, 'Only by the night'. We liked how the band members faces have been in a way blended together to make one face and then with what looks like bird features added. We wanted to do something simluar that would related to the music video and song. This particular CD cover gave us inspiration as we thought it was clever to merge the faces together as it show the man having both women in his life. We want to have one eye for one of the woman and another eye for the other woman and the mouth and chin for the man. We want to give this an effect of the woman watching

like within the music video.

This is our idea for our CD cover as shown their is the women both shown within the music video along with the man.

Final storyboard

Storyboard sheet one.




















Storyboard sheet two.














Storyboard sheet 3.

Storyboard sheet 4.

Storyboard sheet 5.

Storyboard sheet 6.

Storyboard sheet 7.

Storyboard sheet 8.

Storyboard sheet 9.

Storyboard sheet 10.

Storyboard sheet 11.

Storyboard sheet 12.

Ancillary tasks

This was meant to be our final magazine poster for our magazine but Adam and I have decided that we want to change it as will feel we can progress to make it better. Within these anciallry tasks we have stuck to very clear house colours which are reds, oranges and blacks. All of these house colours are presented within the magazine poster, CD cover and music video. We will still keep these house colours within the new idea.

We decided to call the album 'the find' but in addition to the new idea we may change this.

In addition to our decision we have made a draft plan for the new poster and digi pack which we will show on our blogs. We originally had for idea for the magazine poster of the a close up part of the cloth from the stool within the music video. We edited this with lighting effects on serif photo plus. We wanted a simple typography for our poster.

This was supposed to be our final ancillary digipack. After a lot of thought Adam and I decided to to progress and change it to make it better as we didn't like the photograph quality and the mise-en-scene within the photograph.We took photographs from when we filmed part of our music video to keep continuity. This was our original idea when we drew up our draft.

CD cover design

CD cover design
As apart of our ancillary tasks, Adam and I have chosen to do a CD cover and a magazine advert, poster. We made our first draft for our CD cover just before we started filming our music video. We needed to do this before filming as we needed to plan what we would need to be within our photo shoot as apart of the cover.

We wanted the front cover to be a photo of the stool sitting on the stage with a spot light above it, as it was in the music video. As there was problems with the lighting within shooting, and could not use a spot light, to kept continuity we did not use a spot light for the stool in the photo shoot.

The back of the cover will be very simular to the front of the cover. We plan to have the reversed version of the front cover, this will show the camera looking out twoward the hall with the stool in the foreground.

The centered part of the CD cover will also be a photograph of the stool but this time it will be knocked over. Within the filming a part of it was to knock the stool to the ground. After it was knocked over we took a photograph of it so it would look the same fallen over, within the music video and the CD cover.

When it is folded out the left panel will show the man's head and then on the right panel it will show the main woman's head. The centre panel of the CD cover will show different photographs of the man and lead woman being very happy together we will then have a burnt affect with the photographs. We want this to give the sense that the woman wants these memories out of her life.

Acting problems

Acting problems

We did have some problems when it came to actors. After choosing Isobel for our leading actress as explained in a previous post, we also needed another female actress and an male actor.

After asking a few people we found two people to be apart of our video. Unfortunately they both dropped out on the day of filming, this created a major problems as we had no actors.

The only result to this was to use ourselves within the filming and we are hoping that we will get to shoot at another time so we have our planned actors within the footage but we are unsure.

It was a major problem and I think Adam and I got around the problem as best we could. We have made sure that one of us is filming. Our actors did not go to plan but we are hoping that how we have overcome the problem will not affect our music video.