Saturday, 27 December 2014
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
planning for ancillary: inside panels
CD COVER: for my CD cover I wanted to incorporate my logo as I think its looks visually intriguing and many artist who have their own logos do this.
Inside Panel: for this I have chosen a screenshot from my music video, where I wanted to incorporate some form of synergy withing my digipak and music video, also our music video was about showing our 'Inner demons' and the masks played a fundamental role in my video which helps makes sense to use this.
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Planning mock up advertisment
For my advertisement I have followed the rules of Do's and Dont's as I have chosen to have my font the same as my digipak to show simplicity. Futhermore I plan to have a different photo of my artist but still have him in the same costume so I can avoid repetition while having my audience remember who he is.I will have a big photo of my artist as the main task is to promote them and with the use of having a large photo will attract the audiences eye. In addition I have included that my artist is a mercury prize winner, as the actual artist I took the song from is,so it makes sense to use this on my advertisement. Lastly I have included ratings from magazines that relate to my genre such as 'NME'
which helps my audience identify with this as it they read these magazines.
Planning Ancillary: Mock up digipak
The spine: For the spine I have included the artist logo which I made myself and the album name.
The back: I stuck with the same font as my album title as it adds to simplicity and makes it easier for my audience to read. Furthermore I have added my own creative twist by using a glow effect over the font,bar code and album label, this is something I used because I want the whole of my digipak to be appealing to my audience.With my track listing I decided to only have my artist use one featuring artist as I want the album to be about promoting my artist and showing his musical talents by himself. Lastly I added a smoke effect feature to add to the dark tone of my album.
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Friday, 19 December 2014
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Monday, 15 December 2014
Friday, 12 December 2014
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Planning Ancillary: getting used to photoshop
Today I did a design activity where I had to make a digipak, I was given simple pictures of people and had to use photoshop to create something similar to a digipak. In my digipak I have chosen to follow the genre of rap music and followed the codes and conventions of this, I took inspiration from one of the highest selling rap albums 'Lil Wayne Tha carter iv'. I used a close up of my artist and used simple colours that complimented each other like below.
Planning Ancillary: Experimenting with photoshop.
Experimenting with Photoshop
In todays lesson I was given a set of random pictures to work. The task was to create a digipak that included the usual look of a normal album. I started by cropping the original image and placing it on the template. To make the task easier I decided that the couple looked like a dance duo therefore based the album around ballroom dance. This lead to me calling it the Golden Frame. This task helped get an idea of how to name my album; there has to be a connection between the image. For the back and name of the songs I kept to the ballroom dance theme. The font I used reminded me of the movie The Great Gatsby which I think the album reaches to the same type of audience.
Design Activity
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Researching Ancillary Products: Reasons behind location choice
Main Photo Location :
I decided to use Alexandra Palace as the location to take pictures because it also features in the music video. I also think there is a lot of things around Ally Pally, that if I used in the album, would give a nice effect. For example I found a stone lion head that was perfect, then I found another that was broken and old. I took a picture because I could edit them and use them on the album.
It was important to take pictures at Alexandra Palace because it has a big backdrop which makes it easier for me to edit the photograph after. I wanted to take a panorama of London but it wasn't successful because the view was too big and my camera could not zoom in this far. I wanted to used the fence at Ally Pally because they are recognizable but also because it is where we filmed the cloning shot for our music video.
Friday, 5 December 2014
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Improvements for our rough cut
Improvements for final deadline - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Blogging health check 2
This is a screenshot from the feedback and grade I got for my blog. By reading the comments, I definitely need to blog much more then what I have been doing as my grade has gotten lower and I will be aiming to push it back up again. To make this happen I will be going through the blog list and making sure I have done all of these blogs and also doing extra ones on top of this.
Reflection progress 2
Things that I will do in reaction to this:
- Finish Kace's website
- Create a website for my main artist Nathan Grey
- Get to 80 blogs by next week thursday
- Create a logo for Nathan Grey
Update
Since our last blog we have filmed and have continued to edit. As we have said, from the feedback we realised we needed to add more close ups which have been re-filmed and are now in our music video. Here is a screenshot to show an example of the new close up:
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We also said we needed a shot of scenery to show it going from day to night which we have done and adapted into the music video, here is a screenshot from a nighttime shot we have:
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We also said we needed a shot of scenery to show it going from day to night which we have done and adapted into the music video, here is a screenshot from a nighttime shot we have:
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