Final Digipak

Final Magazine Advert

Music Video Production Log

Draft Magazine Advert 2

Here is a first real draft of my magazine that I created on Photoshop. I then asked members of my target audience to give me some brief feedback on what I have done well and what they think I could improve on. I intend to take on the comments and apply these to my next draft.

Draft:

Draft with Comments:



Raw Footage

Here is a short clip of some raw, unedited footage that I intend to indclude in my music video. I will have to edit this footage by cutting it down to enable me to use the parts of the clips that I actually need. Additionally, I could add effects such as fades and blurs to the clip to make it fit in with the tone of my music.

Digipak Production Log

Having now finished creating my digipak, I can say that overall, the process was a success. Although I made some changes to the original layout and colour scheme that I had planned, I think that the final end product and design works well. Also, after shooting my music video, I captured some images that I ended up using inside my digipak. These will also aid the cohesion between my digipak, magazine advert and music video and I think that having the images looks visually better than a white background.

If I could change anything about my digipak design, I would probably make some adjustments to my back cover. However as I have aleady spent enough time working on my digipak, I am now going to move on to using my class time working on my magazine advert.

Digipak Inside Alteration

Having originally intended for the inside two pages ofmy digipak to be in colour, I have taken some audience feedback on board and I have now adopted a black and white look for the whole digipack. Beforehand, the front and back cover were going to apprear in black and white and the two inside pages were going to be in colour. However one audience memeber felt that, together, the pages didn't seem to be part of the same product. I felt that the two soloutions were to have the whole thing in black and white or have allt eh pages in colour.

Having everything in colour wasn't an option because the front cover image has been so heavily edited to wash out the rest of the models face so that only her main features are visable. Therefore the whole digipak is now in a back and white filter. These are the two paged before and after:

Before:                                                  After:

 





Magazine Advert Draft 1

I have created a draft of my magazine advert on Powerpoint, using one of the images that I took during the day of my video shoot. I did this because soon I will have to create the actual product on Photoshop and I wanted to get a brief idea of what the layout will look like ahead of the production. This is the layout I have chosen and I have also thought about some of the conventional information that could be found on the advert.

Photographs of Location

These are some images that I took of the mise-en-scene that I set up for the most part of my music video. I found a tree in the woods whereI was filming and I wanted this to be a focal point for the setting. The night before I shot the video, I collected some images from wesites including Google and Tumblr that I though reflected the theme of 'love' and I cut these out and hung them from the tree with paper. All in all, I believe that this had a very effective effect and helped the setting that I had chosen to look more 'dressed' and put together:

Editing My Digipak Cover

I have created print screens showing the stages that I underwent to edit the image that I chose for the front cover of my digipak. I started off with an image in colour which I changed to black and white using features such as gradient and levels. I added drop shadows to my text to make it stand out on the white background and give the cover some depth.

The final cover:





Contact Sheet for Digipak Cover

Below is the contact sheet that I created on Photoshop of the images that I took last lesson to be used on the front cover of my digipak. After I planned my digipak with a variety of designs and thought that the close up shot worked better on the cover, I was able to know the exact shot type that I wanted and capture this easily. Planning helped me here as the process could've been a lot more time consuming had I not previously thought about the type of shot size that I was after.