Magazine Advert Construction

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Evaluation Question 1

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Digipak Audience Feedback

+ like the use of different hair colours on each panel
+ the font on the cover reminds me of a church which links the video to the digipak
+ inside photo is effective
+ love the layout of the back panel
+ cover is simple yet effective 
+ clever idea of using glitter on the CD to coincide with a bright light
+ kept to a colour scheme 
+ copyright text sounds realistic 
+ like the use of numbering the songs
+ photos are high quality
+ love the jewels used on the models face
+ like her nails not being painted as otherwise it would've been too much


- don't like the photo on the CD
- the spine is missing the code linking to the record company 
- don't like the editing on the back panel on the green haired image
- the writing on the spine should have more spacing between the artist and album title
- cover is too plain and boring
- fake eyelashes are not stuck on properly, the inside photo clearly shows this
- on the CD the title of the album is written larger than the artists name, it should be the opposite way round

Magazine Advert Feedback

+ photo is dominant 
+ attention is drawn to the artists name
+ good choice to have 'Ellie Goulding' written in black 
+ love the idea of the QR code, goes with modern technologies 
+ like the lens flare effect 
+ white background looks good 
+ lens flare gives the effect of lights 

- the album title is hidden
- the iTunes image should be placed more in the corner
- 'download here' could be written on one line 

Final Pieces

Here is my combination of media products:

Music video:

Magazine advert:

Digipak:

Conventions of digipaks & magazines

Digipak:

Cover = main image could either be a photograph or an illustrated image
- in the pop genre particularly with females the main image is usually a picture of the artist
- the artists name is included so that the album can be remembered and associated with the artist
- the album name is included, within the female pop genre it is usually written in a girly bubbly font
- the album name can give an insight to what the songs on the album will be about

Inside = matching colour scheme to rest of digipak
- few or no text

Back = list of song titles usually centred
- barcode in the bottom right hand corner
- record company
- copyright and year
- who owns the copyrighted material
- who the album has been distributed by

Spine = name of band and album in the same simplistic fonts
- code linking to the record company

Magazine:

- main image should follow the same theme of the album cover
- should follow the colour scheme of the digipak
- the largest piece of text on the page should be the name of the artist and the second largest piece of text should be the album title
- 'new album' usually features 
- 'includes' list where most popular tracks on the album are featured along with any other bonus features
- artists website
- possibly social network accounts i.e. Twitter
- name of record label
- where you can buy and download the album
- sometimes tour information 

Ancillary Original to Edited Photos

Digipak:

Front Cover -

Inside Cover -

CD -

Back Cover -

Magazine:

Advert -

Final Cut Audience Feedback

As we did for our rough cut, we showcased our final cut on the projector in front of our media class in order to get feedback from people who had been through the same process as us. 

We were eager to show people what we had done as we had worked really hard since the rough cut as we had filmed the whole performance again.

Here are some photos of the class watching our music video:

Just like before they were asked to write feedback hopefully including more positives than negatives!

Here is a summary of the points made:

+ a lot better than the rough cut

+titles at the start look professional

+ candle shot was effective

+ makeup was good

+ well edited, editing suits the pace of the editing

+ shots of piano/church really good

+ lighting of church shots are good

+ good locations

+ good use of mise-en-scene

+ good angles

+ first stained glass shot is fantastic

+ high quality shots

+ good selection of shots for a slow song

- zooms are too long and off putting

- shots of the model walking towards camera should be shorter

- model cannot play the keyboard/ doesn't look like she's playing

- lip sync is out in some parts

- second stained glass window shot is not needed and was not in focus

- too many scenes with the book

- too much panning 

Final Magazine Advert

Final Digipak

Digipak Cover Construction

The construction for the digipak will be created on Photoshop. I will start by doing the front cover which will consist of a photo of the artist along with her name and album title.

I started by setting the dimensions of the page equally so that it would consist of a square which is the shape of a digipak:

On the left side of digipaks there is a separate part which is for the spine. I had to draw a straight line so that I could see where the spine design would be situated:

There needs to be two fonts on the cover 1) for the artist's name 2) for the album title. I used the Photoshop library of fonts to test a few. My favourite was the bottom one in the dark gold colour:

After shifting through hundreds of photos we decided that this photo would be on the cover:

I played around with the brightness, contrast, vibrance, black and white to try and improve the photo. This kept the photo very similar to the original but just made it more enhanced. However, once I came across the hue and saturation tool new ideas came to mind. This tool changed the colour of the hair and eyes to whacky colours such as pink, blue and green. We thought we could just a different colour for each panel. We decided to use pink hair for the cover, but we made the eyes black. As you can see a lens flare has been added:

The next decision was making the choice of fonts along with the size and colour of it. When we had chosen we made sure that the font and colour would be incorporated onto the CD:

The next part of the cover to add was the spine line, this was done by using the line tool. After the line was created, we added in the text which would go along it: 

Our final cover:

Flat Plan of Digipak

Magazine Flat Plan

Digipak Construction CD

First of all I had to use the same size canvas as used for the other panels of the digipak. Once I had done this I began creating the shape of the CD:

Then I use the ellipse tool in order to create a smaller circle which will go in the middle representing the hole in the physical CD:

At first we wanted to have a flat colour with just the text:

When this looked too simple we decided to use a photo from the photo shoot, we created this by using tools such as the invert,:

We liked this, we then added the text and decided where to position it and this led us to our final CD: