Ideas and Sketches of My Digipak and Music Poster

Ideas and Sketches of My Digipak and Music Poster

As a group we also decided to create a Magazine front cover to further our grade and indeed the image and release of the bands first album. We utilised the range of tools and effects achievable on Adobe Photoshop CS6 in order to create a Magazine front cover that appeared to be realistic, using the magazine that provided our Music Poster quote, NME.

Analysing CD Covers

Conventions Of The Digipack Form

Mind Map created by danielbruce22 with ExamTime




I feel that the completion of this exercise has enhanced my knowledge on a Digipak and I know feel much more confident in creating my own Digipak for my band, Overexposed. When analysing the typical conventions and then comparing my ideas to international superstars it really did help to add clarity to the sort of things my Digipak needs to contain in order for it to appeal to an audience. For example, I now understand that consistency of an ideology, colour, or individual is key in making sure my Digipak has continuity within it.

My Band's Logo And Record Company Logo

Skype Call with Ian Haughton of Handsome Design

My media class had a group Skype session with Ian Haughton of Handsome Design, discussing the design and marketing process of Digipak and posters for our bands. For this particular task I wrote down a series of questions from myself and the class and i personally asked Ian the questions as you can see from the embedded video from YouTube below.

I personally feel that from a directors viewpoint for my A2 task that Ian provided myself and my band with perfect clarity in his answers allowing me to understand the key components of the Digipak that myself and my band are currently designing. Ian raised a lot of good points and opinions that without his fantastic help I feel I would not of included in the design of my groups Digipak components.

Images Of Ancillary Task Editing

As you can see below the images highlight my groups advanced editing skills on Adobe Photoshop CS6. We went to a huge extent to make sure that our Digipak and Movie Poster included all the features of a real Digipak and Movie Poster release in the modern day music industry. Our poster includes modern technologies such as our own record label 'BCES' Productions which was used as our production company for our AS Thriller trailer, we have also included a fantastically useful QR Code to enable viewers an extremely fast link to my blog which will allow them to understand the make up of the band and exactly how we produced our A2 Music Video.

In the above images here we decided to use Adobe Photoshop's wonderful array of visual effects in order to create a Music Video Poster for the band. Visible in the above pictures is various snaps of the piecing together of the Music Video Poster including the addition of outer glows on black typefaces and images to create more of a aesthetically pleasing poster to catch the eye of our target audience. Capitalising on the fantastic advice provided by Ian Haughton we also were able to enhance our typeface's appearance to not only include continuity but help to attract a wider audience to the image that were trying to sell.

As you can see from these two above images we compared various fonts before carefully taking advantage of the Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro software in order to turn a picture of the alpahabet in our chose font in to organised words such as 'Overexposed' the band and album name. We were then able to incorporate our chosen formatted font in to our Digipak and Movie Poster adding the continuity that Ian Haughton had talked about in our class Skype Call with him.

In the above images here we also chose to include a brilliant and effective piece of technology in to both our Music Video Poster and Digipak that would allow anyone to fully understand the bands story and allow them to see how everything was made in the build up to release of the album. We chose to make a QR Code for our bands Poster that would allow anyone to use their phones to scan thus enabling the individual to visit my blog and fill themselves in with all of the bands pre production work for the music video and debut album launch.

Photographs Of Filming And Editing

 


Before filming in the Drama Studio at our school (Original Chosen Location) we personally set up the lights, a great achievement on our behalf as I personally felt as the director that lighting completely transformed the aesthetic of our production, that added a professional aspect to our production.

 

I truly feel that our editing skills as a group have enhanced fantastically since our GCSE and AS Productions. The editing software has remained the same (Adobe Premiere Pro CS6) but I truly feel the depth of our editing has gotten better as you can see from the images below. We took advantage of our taster lesson earlier this year by using some of the skills, such as putting down markers throughtout the edit to help with timing etc.

The above pictures where taken by myself whilst we were filming in the Drama Studio. As you can see in the above images we managed to use the lights to our advantage perfectly transforming the overall aesthetic of our production from amateur to professional. As the director of the music video I wanted to make sure that the overall set up of our music video appeared professional and serious throughout.

The above pictures here showcase the huge amount of editing the entire group had to take to make sure that the film ran smoothly. Connor was our head editor whilst myself and James Ellis and indeed Connor were discussing between us what we wanted to be put where in our music video, discussing which effects to use that would again enhance the visuals of our production.

Above are more photos of filming for our A2 Music Video Production. As you can see in the above images we have filmed in several different locations to make sure that our Music Video remains interesting and includes the elements of a real Music Video which is filmed in several different locations. From a directors perspective it also allows me to highlight the journey of the band in the music video.

Analysis Of Magazine Posters and Digipaks