Our Final Designs for the Ancillary Task

Final Ancillary Designs

We've finished our editing and have completed the music video so we feel we can go back to the ancillary tasks. This started of very hesitantly as we hadn't previously hadn't finished off our video and weren't too sure of what we were after.

We decided to go for a digipak and an advert. We wanted them to correspond with each other rather than with the video. Based on the above design above we wanted to focus certain elements of these onto our advert below:

We eventually decided we preferred the (right hand of image above) design as our digipak cover and decided we'd like it to be very plain on the back to provide space for other songs featured on the album.For the advert we wanted a plain design due to the digipak being very complex and we thought this would be best as our digipack could become our main focus (even on the little things such as song titles and requirements of buying the album).

Rough and Final digipak design:

A Few Final Additions

Final Touches

Although the majority of the filming was done and the editing had started we had a few things we wanted to add to neaten things out.

Our first priority was to have Hannah read the (spare spare) letter as Jenny and have it voice recorded. This only took a couple of attempts and overall was swift. Sam went back to the editing added the voice-overand embellished it with a delay effect in order to make it sound more dreamy (which was effective with the music fade we added).

Imaged below is the process of recording:

Another requirement was filming the projector room scene with myself acting as Olivia-Mae to manipulate and reflect on her events with Ruth which was filming on the 2nd of February. This took around 2-2 1/2 hours. It was very difficult to find an occasion where the room was actually available for us due to exams but we eventually managed. A few interruptions occurred delaying our filming (such as a laptop not working and a teaching singing in the hallway - noticeable in our behind the scenes video below:).

The final thing we needed to film were the shots of Hannah and Coral saying goodbye. We had initially planned to film these on the same day as the fire, but as Hannah was busy that day we couldn't. So, after a lot of re-scheduling because of weather, Hannah, Coral, Sam and I (Anica was busy) finally managed to get the shots filmed. At first, we thought we would only need one shot of them saying goodbye, but when filming I mentioned the idea of my character looking back to say goodbye, so we extended our shoot to add that and a few more shots. After these last few things were filmed, we could finally complete the editing and finish our music video.