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:

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In the past week, I have been working on the rest of my digipak. I have managed to create the two inside pages that are going to accomodate the CD and the booklet that will come with the digipak to include the lyrics of the songs and some images of my artist. The reason why I have decided to include the booklet is because I want memberes of my audience that will buy the digipak to feel as if tyhey are getting more for buying a hard copy of it, rather than just downloading it. The digipack has been designed to look visually pleasing and I have chosen to include a running black and white colour scheme throughout the product.

Additonally, this week I was able to film my music video alongside the filming scheduale that I produced for myself and I took some images of the mise-en-scene that I created to use in the digipak. These are the images that I chose:

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Over Christmas I have been working on my digipak cover. I have completed the front cover now and I am about to begin the back cover. I think that the front cover is similar to what I thought it would turn out like and I am happy with the end result. I did find that I had to edit it quite a lot to ensure that all the darker areas of my face were pure white and that my features such as eyes and lips were really black and stood out on the white background.

I am happy that the design I chose first of all was a success and I am excited to go on and create the rest of the digipak.

This is the finished product:

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:





Filming/Editing Schedule

Below is a table that I created in powerpoint to display the tasks that I need to complete, in terms of filming and editing my music video, when I have put aside time to do these and the people that I plan on needing to help me do this. This post is merely for my own use so I have a better sense of organisation of when I will comlete my work.

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.