Thursday, 8 January 2015

Anciliary Task - Digipak


This is my first potential idea for my album cover for our band.





Below is the final design for my groups Digipak. The design consists of 6 different sides to ensure that it covers the entire CD cover. It also shows a picture of a moon over some water to illustrate the name of the album, and the tree and lake is taken from a bangladesh artist, which makes it even more relavent to the album. Each member of the band individually and a group photo of them at the end. This has been done to show the audience who the band members are, it also tells them the names of the songs on the back.







Below is my groups final digipak design that I have created and decided to put forward for the group. It is a four sided digipak with four pictures that have been created using photoshop. The front and back cover shows every member of the band, to make it more attractive to potential buyers, while the inside covers show the disc sides.

My Audience Feedback

This is the student feedback from our draft of the music video. They recommended that I should make the shots shorter as they are too long, and make the video less like the story.



The main points from my teacher feedback was that the video was too slow and needed more shots to make it like a music video. As a result I will alter my video accordingly in order respond positively to her feedback.















Skype Call - Ryan Mackfall from Crashburn Media


 
 
 
During the call, Ryan suggested that we make some adjustments to my groups treatment. As a result we made these changes, which will put our video in a better position when it comes to filming it.
 
Ryan also mentioned looking at the following videos for some inspiration for our own video:

Skype Call - Ian Haughton

 


As group we had a Skype call with Ian Haughton of Handsome Design. He talked to our group about the design and marketing of our digipak. He provided some tips and techniques that will be useful in the production of my own digipak.

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Analysis of CD covers

http://uk.pinterest.com/denn0802/analysing-cd-covers/ Follow Harry's board Analysing CD Covers on Pinterest.

Pre Production - Animatic


Pre Production - Location

Pre Production: Location (by Jacob Osman)


Alleyway, Archer Close - As located at the end of a cal-der-sack, the location is never really busy - apart from the occasional dog walker, meaning that we could film there any time of day as long as there was sufficient lighting.
Bench & Common - The bench is located very close to three of the areas schools, this means that at before 9am, at lunchtime & at the end of a school day would be difficult times to film as the common would be full of students making their way out at lunch or going home. As we are filming in a particularly cold and wet time of year, we must be prepared for the muddy and slippery conditions in which we most likely would come across.
Langley Hill - These photos of Langley Hill were taken from outside my house, meaning it is a convenient place to film as it's where my house is. Langley Hill is the main road used by Rudolf Steiner School and Kings Langley School's buses, therefore it would be too busy and full of traffic to film at the start or at the end of the school day.
My House, Langley Hill - My group have chosen my house to film a large majority of our pop promo at because it offers spacious rooms which have sufficient lighting and how it is within walking distance from school and all our other filming locations.
Kings Langley High Street - The high street has very wide pavements on one side of the road, which is very good for filming Jeremy running through as of the space needed, it also contains various cafe's and coffee shops which we might need to use to film a scene outside. The high street is King's Langley's main road which connects Watford to Hemel Hempstead, so is always going to be fairly busy, so at rush hour and the end of school time would be the worse time to film at. It's in a practical location as it joins onto Langley Hill where most of our filming takes place and is only a 10 minute walk from school. If filming outside a shop or business we would need to ask the owners permission first to avoid any unhappy confrontation.