FINAL BLOG

 ACTUALLY CANNOT *expletive* BELIEVE I MADE IT OUT IN ONE PIECE!
IM GONNA TYPE IN ALL CAPS TO SHOW MY ENTHUSIASM
THANKS DAN & LOUISA FOR BEING GREAT TEACHERS AND ALWAYS BEING THERE WITH A HELPING HAND
I AM SO *expletive * PROUD OF THE GROUP!
THANKS TO ALI  (or should I say, "Prototype")THE STAR OF THIS WHOLE PROJECT, IT WAS ROUGH FILMING IN THE COLD WEATHER BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!
VICTORIA MY BUDDY FROM AS (WE STILL NEED TO CELEBRATE IN WETHERSPOONS, REMEMBER !! LOL) THANKS FOR BEING THE ORGANISER OF THE GROUP AND HELPING ME WITH THE EDITING WHEN I WAS GOING CRAZY (WELL ACTUALLY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR THAT)
JOURDANE THANKS FOR YOUR HELP DURING THE EDITING PROCESS AND BEING THERE WHEN I NEEDED A SECOND OPINION AND FOR YOUR HELP DURING THE FILMING ALSO.
I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER GROUP OF PEOPLE I CAN NOW, AFTER ALL THIS IS DONE, CALL MY FRIENDS
NOW THIS IS OVER I CAN HONESTLY ADMIT I NEVER WANT TO SEE BLOGGER AGAIN

WE'VE MADE IT OVER THIS FIRST HURDLE BUT WE STILL NEED TO REACH THE FINISH LINE(EXAM) DONT GET COMPLACENT !  

EVALUATION: Question 4

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EVALUATION: Question 3

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EVALUATION: Question 2

Elizabeth Anibaba's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

EVALUATION: Question 1

EVALUATION: Question 2 Plan

"How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts(digipak & advert)"

- How did we plan to use synergy in our production pieces ?
- what aspects of the cideo link to the digipak and sdvert
-how will audience link them ?
-how successful do you think your main and ancillary texts are
- do you think your target audience would be attracted to them? if so, why ? (link to target audience post)
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PRODUCTION: Final digipak & Advert

 FRONT PANELS

 
INSIDE PANELS

ADVERT

EVALUATION: Question 1 Plan

"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products"

- Which of goodwins main ideas have been followed in the video
- Video Influences & What about them Influenced
Challenge conventions how have you developed them(colour scheme, portrait cover) ?

How conventional is the digipak & advertisement
which conventions of genres did I decide to use

PRODUCTION: Making the Final Digipak & Advert

making digipakFINAL from set1group1 on Vimeo.

PRODUCTION: Digipak & Advert Teacher Feedback

PLANNING: Final Ideas & Inspiration

FrontCover:                                                                                                       Inspiration:

A reflective photograph, this shows the artist and sets the tone for the album, as in the album
he reminisces on how his past has helped him
evolve into a man


                                                                               
Adele's trademark as an artist is that she deals with a lot of heartbreak. There's that storied guy who broke her heart, lingering somewhere in the back of her mind and at the forefront of her songs. But Adele-at least in her songs and on her album cover— seems to get over her despair by pensive, rational thought. The photo is technically perfectly executed in a classic album cover fashion—there is no crowding, the lighting is perfect and it looks timeless

FontStyle:                                                                                                 

Because 'Prototype' is an
Electro Pop artist, I chose a             
font style that represents the
kind of computer made sound                        Inspiration:
style used in the album music.
I have then used a simple font
for the secondary font, to
counteract the main font (which s the prototype signature font)

                                                                         David Guetta is one of the artists                                                                    who are in the same genre group as 'prototype' so I used his tech style font as a reference for the font I will use to identify prototype with.

However, I didn't like that both his secondary and primary fonts were stand out fonts, it looks too much. So I used this as an example and made my secondary font plain.

Colour Scheme 

For the ancillary work we chose to go with three colours: White, Purple and Black. Non offensive colours that compliment each other and go with the electro-dancepop sound we are trying to put across.

Inspiration: 

  

                                                                                                                   

                 To make sure the video and the ancillary are clearly linked I looked back at the music video to see which conventions I could incorporate into my ancillary. We made a big deal about the costume and the Ying/Yang contrast so I picked back and white to go with the ting/yang and purple because thats a significant feature for the video.

PLANNING: Promotional Advertisement Option 1

Screening Feedback

EVALUATION: Question 4 plan

What have you learned from your audience feedback ?

RESEARCH: 30 Best Pop Album Covers

RESEARCH: What will make my album cover great ?

RESEARCH: Advertisement Inspiration

RESEARCH: My favourite album digipaks

RESEARCH: What makes a good album cover ?

What makes a good album cover ?
            (Public Opinion)



Primus - Sailing the Sea of Cheese
"This album cover is freaking awesome. First off, the sea is made of nacho cheese, who can honestly say they don't want to swim in delicious cheese? Next up, dead center, you have a great big beautiful clipper ship with sails full traversing claymation sea monsters and what appears to be Poseidon. All-in-all, giant home run by Primus on this one." -AJ






Kanye West - College Dropout

"It's the most ironic album cover that I can think of.  A sad mascot, sitting on the bleachers after some homecoming game.  Everyone loves teddy bears, Kanye had the hook and we all bit." -Andrea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Stylish animated “band”, grungy yet bouncy, Japanese anime yet Western? Check. Fun yet serious music? Check. Is it all packed into the debut album cover, along with the graffiti logo elegantly placed? Yep.

- Jem Stone

 

 

 

 

PLANNING: Digipak Draft (Front cover)

This is the draft 3 panel cover of my Digipak for our artist 'Prototype'

Let's start with the font:

I have chosen the 'Vermin Vibes 2' font for the 'Prototype' Font. I have chosen this font because our artists is modelled from 'example' who is wikipedia defined as a pop-dance/electronic artist. This font has a very futuristic, tech look and can be instantly identified to the dance/electronic genre. However, because this is such a bold and identifiable font, I chose a basic curved font 'Century Gothic' as to not take away from the other font and give it an organised look. I think two big clashing font would look messy especially for a new artist it's not attractive.

As a group, we decided to go with a colour scheme of Black, white and dark purple(to go with the colour scheme of the music video). We also decided (after Dan suggested it) to have the 'ying/yang' symbol as his recognisable thing. It also features in the music video.
Therefore, when we took the photos we made sure to use black t-shirt/white background & vice versa.

I decided not to use a photo for the tracklist background as I felt it would be too much as it is a 3 panel cover it would mean there would be 5 pictures(excluding the cd) of him on the album- a feature that wasn't apparent in my online research and my own Cd's that I own. Usually pictures are in a pull-out booklet which I may feature on the inside

I also added the ying/yang symbol in the album font, replacing the 'O'.

I made a sticker area as I wanted the album to be a 2-disc remix special with extra features to draw in the audience.

I personally like the digipak, I feel it is a good representation of the artist and links in to our music video. I have missed out a few details in the credits that I will add in in the final version.