Thursday, 9 January 2014
Final Production - Digipak
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| This is what my digipak looks like put into the template, however because I made my digipak on photo shop, it doesn't fill the whole box because otherwise the size of the image and writing will be elongated and it would look wrong. |
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| This is the front cover of my digipak |
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| This is the inside left of my digipak |
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| This is the disc display for my digipak |
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| This is the back cover of my digipak |
I decided to print off my digipak to see what it looked like when printed. I could only print it in a really small size and the lighting in the room I used to take these images was really bad.
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| This is what the front of my digipak looks like when printed. |
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| This is the inside left with the song lyrics which in this image you can't see properly due to bad lighting when the picture was taken. You can also see the disc display pattern. |
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| Again due to bad lighting the colours aren't showing up properly but this is what the back cover looks like when printed. |
Ancillary Task - how I edited
To edit my digipak and album advert, I used photoshop.
To start of with I needed to decide which images from the photo shoot I was going to use, after going through and looking at each image multiple times, I decided on these images for my digipak;
And for my album advert I decided to re use this picture as it fitted well with how I wanted my album advert to be laid out and also the audience would recognize the image from being on the digipak.
For my digipak and album advert I am going to cut out the images from their backgrounds and put them onto a water colour background, I did this by using the magic wand tool and selecting all the area's of the image that I wanted to keep. I did this for all of my images
To make the water colour background less bold and more faded, I played around with the opacity of it and found that 73% gave the best colouring
As I had already looked and researched fonts all I had to do was find the exact colour that was on my digipak, with the same amount of text outline and play around with where I wanted to place my texts. This took a while as I wanted to get it just right.
I then had to decide which colour and the size of the artist links and where to place them without the album advert looking strange.
Finally I added the record label logo to show what record label my artist belonged too.
As I had already created my digipak, the album advert didn't take as long to make because I had already made the decisions on the type of text, the colours, the outline so it stands out, I had already done the research into record labels and already had a clear image of what I wanted it to look like.
As you can see for my album advert I decided on my first draft because this advert would look better as it is portrait and looks more professional, it also looks like it would be in different magazines such as popworld and welovepop.
To start of with I needed to decide which images from the photo shoot I was going to use, after going through and looking at each image multiple times, I decided on these images for my digipak;
I then copied and pasted this cut out image onto my water colour background which I have already scanned in and opened onto photoshop
I then had to decide which colour and the size of the artist links and where to place them without the album advert looking strange.
Finally I added the record label logo to show what record label my artist belonged too.
As I had already created my digipak, the album advert didn't take as long to make because I had already made the decisions on the type of text, the colours, the outline so it stands out, I had already done the research into record labels and already had a clear image of what I wanted it to look like.
As you can see for my album advert I decided on my first draft because this advert would look better as it is portrait and looks more professional, it also looks like it would be in different magazines such as popworld and welovepop.
Ancillary Task - Draft of album advert
| The idea for my album advert is to have a medium close up shot of the artist in the middle with album name quite large and the "out now" in even bigger text, to grab the attention of the audience to the poster, the artist name will be in top left hand corner with her internet links in the top right hand corner. |
The other idea for my album advert is to have a landscape advert with the image that's on the digipak cover and have the album name and out now at the bottom, the artist name in the left hand corner and the artist links in the right hand corner.
Whichever one I choose will have the blue watercolour background which will also be on the digipak.
Ancillary Task - Draft of digipak
On the front cover there will also be the artist's name, album title and saying that it features the song I made the music video for.
The left inside will have the lyrics to the song I made the music video for, along with a medium long shot of the artist.
The disc space will have a circle pattern behind it which will also be in all the corners of the digipak.
The back cover will have a long shot of the artist with the track names and numbers which are on the album along with a bar code, the record label company logo, the artist links and all the legal information that needs to be on the digipak.
To make the digipak different and stand out from the rest, I will paint with blue water colours and scan it in and use it as a background for the digipak, this will also be on the album advert as well to show that they are linked together.
Ancillary Task - Thinking of song names and album titles
For the back of my digipak I needed to have a list of song names as every digipak I deconstructed has got this on the back cover. As my digipak and artist is in the pop genre I wanted the songs to sound like they are pop songs. I wanted the song names to link around love and friendship, to do this I used an online song generator which gives you random names. These are some of the names it came up with and that I decided to use:
Boxed Love
Toxic
Friend
Freedom
Dreamer
Bitter
sweet
Twilight
Rising
Storm
Bliss
Walk Away
Sleep Walking
Nowhere to go
For my album title I decided to brainstorm idea's and then use the best name that suited my album and music video, some of the names I came up with were;
- Sanity
- - Immortal
- - The Route
- - Doubt
- Eternal
- - Endless Love
- Unforgettable
Out of all of these names the best one that I came up with that I think suits my album and music video the best is Immortal, this will know be the title of my album.
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For my album title I decided to brainstorm idea's and then use the best name that suited my album and music video, some of the names I came up with were;
- Sanity
- - Immortal
- - The Route
- - Doubt
- Eternal
- - Endless Love
- Unforgettable
Out of all of these names the best one that I came up with that I think suits my album and music video the best is Immortal, this will know be the title of my album.
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Ancillary Task - Font Ideas
Ancillary Task - Photoshoots for digipak and album advert
For the outfit choices for my photo-shoot I decided to choose some outfits that she wore in the music video and also outfits that highlight her figure, to make her look very appealing to the audience. For hair I kept it natural and for makeup I did a natural makeup look consisting of face makeup, mascara, a natural eye shadow and a natural lip, I also did other images with a stronger eye shadow, eyeliner and a brighter lip to make the features in her face stand out.
Monday, 6 January 2014
Friday, 3 January 2014
Ancially Tasks - Main Conventions of a digipak
Main Conventions of a
digipak
Front of the digipak
Digipaks tend to have a
large eye-catching picture on them.
The picture illustrated on
the front panels tend to have some relation to the songs or artist
The song name, album name
and artist name is also on the front over
Back of the digipak
The back of the digipak will
have a tracklist, album artwork, record label, possibly an artist/album name, a
barcode and sometimes extra information.
Inside of the digipak
The inside of a digipak will
have a plastic holder for the actual CD, there might also possibly be more
information and more artwork. Extra information provided will be in a booklet,
this might include song lyrics, artist information or a personal message
Different styles
Digipaks come in all
different styles and designs. They vary in artwork, number of panels and types
of folds.
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