Directing the actor into the music

Flares story ...

This gentle piano-based tune started off as love song. However, after Danny O'Donoghue's mother suffered a brain aneurysm as the band began recording, it took on new meaning for the frontman. "It's about faith - 'did you see the flares in the sky, were you blinded by the light…' And I did, yeah," admitted the otherwise sceptical vocalist. "The situation changed and it was a f---ing miracle."

O'Donoghue added that the track is a "very uplifting song, about people getting past adversity. And when you're told by more than one doctor that your mum won't make it through the night… Well, the only person who changed that - challenged that - was my mum. And she fought her way through to where she is now."

Planning according to the story ...

As this song is a very sad content. Me and my actor have discussed about the story to get the emotion out while filming this as e=the face expressions are very crucial for acting which would come after the knowledge of the music video and the story behind.

As a result we were successful in getting the emotions out from my actor which allowed me to edit the music video in a sad way with the flow and the emotion of the song.

Pictures

These are few pictures from the clips where the expressions of my actor is sad.

FINAL DIGIPACK

Digipack Part 3 - DIgipack in InDesign

About InDesign...

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers, digipacks and books. InDesign can also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

I have used Indesign to create my digipack which allowed me to keep the accurate size of the pictures for the digipack.

Here are some screenshots of my digipack in Indesign while working on the placing the pictures and working on them .....

These options helped me placing the pictures on the right columns.

Adding the text on my spread sheet was a crucial part for my Digipack for adding the lyrics and changing fonts and colour of the letters. By placing a box of text and edit the letters.

This option helped me making the quality of the picture high defined which made the digipack look better.

This is how my digipack looked in Indesign without the columns

Digipack Part 2 - Photoshoot

I am sharing few pictures from photoshoot for my digipack.

In the beginning of the photoshoot - Me and my actor were taking few camera check pictures by just randomly posing.....

Also I showed him few poses from the GQ magazine from where he was inspired to do few new poses.

Then I had to guide my actor to pose for the camera where I had to guide him towards an intense look which I wanted for the album cover... and we ended up getting some good shots which I used for my digipack.