Digipak Research

These are 2 of the more colourful Grunge Digipaks i've found.

Digipak Research

Digipak Research

Similarities of grunge digipaks:

Dark colours: brown, black, greys, metallic blues, reds (but only in the context of danger or fire)

Symbols: Skulls, religious symbols, 

Experimental (symbollic images mixed together). Vintage overlay. Background noise. 

Details to add on photoshop that make an image look grungy:

High pass filter to give detail to hair, add blacks using the shadow slider.

Add contrast to the eyes, add contrast with the curves tool.

Make a greyscale layer then reduce the opacity. Restore the eye colour with a layer mask.

Darken down the background with multiply blend mode and burn tool.

Reduce saturation.

Diary of Editing (Day 10)

Today we continued building the timeline and came pretty close to finishing. We just need to add the part where the bassist walks in and it fades out on me singing.

Diary of Editing (Day 9)

We worked hard to build the rest of the video for the rough cut deadline today but we just ran out of time before the narrative enters in to the performance. Even so it's looking solid so far.

Diary of Editing (Day 8)

We are coming close to having all of the footage in place now as a rough cut.

Diary of Editing (Day 7)

Today we had to speed up with building the end of the timeline so not much happened apart from cutting down clips and placing them in again.

Diary of Editing (Day 6)

We started to play with the effects today and found the one we needed to pay homage to Ken Russell. We input that near the start of the video and carried on editing towards the back end of the middle.

Diary of Editing (Day 5)

We input more of performance footage in today. We built the slow motion guitar bridge part but then found it hard to place anywhere so we had to put it near the beginning of the song.

Diary of Editing (Day 4)

Today we built the timeline up to 1.13 and placed the song underneath. We then edited the song to turn up on the car radio dial shot.

Diary of Editing (Day 3)

We continued building the narrative parts and placing clips of the drummer spaced out along the song. we then started work on the part right after the introduction.

Diary of Editing (Day 2)

Today we carried on with the introduction then started placing down the next part of the narrative involving walking past the drummer. We found that this is the perfect place for a slow motion effect.

Music Video Research

I have drawn inspiration from this video because I enjoy the way that the band members are all on a journey but not playing their instruments. They all meet up at the end presumably to play or rehearse.

Music Video Research

I'm drawing inspiration from this video and how it mixes narrative and performance. The performance is based in the same location as the narrative scenes and sometimes overlap. The main character of the narrative scenes is also on a journey being led by a woman. I want to imitate the journey theme in my music video as well as the narrative/performance overlapping.

Diary of Editing (Day 1)

Today we imported all of our footage in to Final Cut ready to edit. We cut and placed all the introduction footage on the timeline and began building the introduction.