Digipak-finished!!!

Here is our finished digipak!! We have changed the font on the front and back cover to fit more with our brand image, the track listing has also been moved from the back of Dans head which originally was the inner panel, to the back panel to fit with the contemporary design of digipak/ c.d. more tracks have also been added as our first draft only contained a few tracks. The font colour on the back panel has also been changed to yellow to fit with the colour scheme and will hopefully stand out which will catch the eyes of our target audience. Our final adjustment has been added information (copyright etc) which can be seen in the footer of the back panel as only a little information was added in our first draft.

Production Update!!

Today (13/12/10) we are filming the remainder of our music video which will consist of some of the band performance, mainly shots of the drums. We are also continuing with our editing of the music video as our deadline is fast approaching. I will also be editing a still shot of the gang to feature at the end of the video which shows them as the class of 2010.

Name Change.

Looking at the digipak and the magazine cover mock ups has let us see that the name of the band is rather boring and uncoordinated. whilst thinking of other suitable names we thought back to the first song we chose and have decided to use the name of the previous band we researched because it flows better and fits in with what we want to do with the graphics. So we shall call our band The Shame.

Update

After putting together the photographs we decided that editing the colours in behind them looked rather amateur but we wanted some colour so we decided to pick out the colour yellow from the underpants of the drummer on the Digipak and have used that for select squares on a grid of the pictures which are mainly plain in background now. 

These are the unedited photographs we will used for our magazine advert - we shall be cropping and blank out the blemishes in the back drop but we wont be editing them that much because we are quite happy with the lighting and clarity of the photos. We shall also pick one photograph of each member to change the background to yellow to add colour to the ad -this will draw the eye and add a feeling of fun and happiness to the photo because it is a bright colour and the band's brand image is about having fun. 

Magazine Pictures!!!

Today we've done some further editing for our ancillary tasks and music video.

Here are the edited pictures that will be featured on our magazine advertisement, we will be using 3 images of each of the band members as the design we have chosen contains 9 small images of the band members and also features the band name and album cover. There are different "poses" on each of the images to show the target audience that this band are young, fun, goofy yet the images fit our brand image that can be seen throughout our products. We plan to finish the magazine advertisement in our next lesson allowing us to then put our full attention into editing our music video.

Live Performance

Yesterday afternoon, we stayed in college to film some live performance. Only two of the members could turn up but we aren't in a position to be picky so we had to make do and we'll be filming more live perfomance at some point, so we'll try even things out in editing.

We filmed the members against a white screen which was lit seperately from the boys themselves, in order to get a brighter background and better overall image. Most of the footage involves close ups of the guitar which will be incorporated into the video through a series of jump cuts, between live performance and the video itself. As well as this we had close ups of Dan singing, all of this will be lip-synced and hopefully be up to scratch for the deadline.

Update!

These last two weeks have crept up on us incredibly fast and a heck of a lot needs to be refined for our final submission of work. This isn't an excuse of course, it's been the same for everyone, but it certainly hasn't been a breeze!!

This week we've been working more on the ancillary task, working on fonts and editing picture which will eventually make the magazine advert. We still have some footage left to film which is the biggest issue, because we have all six of us to think of when scheduling times, places and things to film, we're struggling to fit it into our time limit a little.

Naturally, we're doing our best and hope to get all of this sorted and edited by the holidays. Tomorrow we have a media lesson in college, so we'll be working on the digipak, making the changes that we need to make it better. We'll also be planning out another filming session in order to start editing our video as soon as possible.