Animatic

This animatic represents shots which i want to incorporate within my music video. The layout and length of these shots are my first idea's therefore when i go about filming my music video I will take more shots which i think may look good on the day of filming.

Storyboard

I created a story board to get my idea's onto paper. As you can see from the pictures I want to include a lot of band shots where they will be playing, but I also want to have a few fill shots which will relate to the lyrics of the song.

practise - POSTER 3

I wanted to play aorund with the title on this poster and try and create something interesting.

This picture shows how I have used the background picture to fill in the text of my title. I think maybe with a clearer picture this effect would look much more professional.

Here I have used the magnectic cutting out tool to carfeully carve aorund the main singer. I have then made this image a rasterised image by making the file a 'PNG' file.

I then placed this rasterised image on top of the text making the lead singer look infront of the text compared with the two other people in the picture.

I then proceeded to add in the compulsary HMV text onto the poster. I realised that the black writing was not very clear on the dark background image, therefore i changed the text colour to white.



This is my best poster yet, I like how the middle person is in front of the text and is much brighter, as if He is looking up at the sky and he is in the spotlight. I have incorporated the album front cover as well which makes this poster seem like a real media product.

digipak practise - 3

I used photos from Facebook on this digipak. I like this photo as it has all the band members in the shot.

I edited this photo in Adobe Photoshop. I used the burn tool to reduce the colour around the edges and left the colour on the main vocal singer. I feel that this emphasis the photo and brings out the 'live gig'.










The image is a perfect size to be stretched from the front cover to the back cover. I like the idea of the band name to be coming out of the trumpet.

This is the CD I produced in InDesign

practise - POSTER 2

I used photoshop to cut out each band member from a photoshop which was viewable on the web. I wanted to create a poster which really grabs the audiences attention and i think that this can be done by getting your actors to stare straight at the camera to make it feel as if they are looking straight at you. I feel that the poster should follow a pattern that is why i sued pictures from the same photo shoot and only using people with roughly the same coloured clothing.











Scaling the bodies down to fit inside the rectangular poster and harshly cropping off sections of their bodies, this puts the majority of the attention onto their facial expressions. I like the font as i feel it fits the stereotypical poster conventions for this genre of music along with bright colours to really attract the audience.














A light blue is just enough to produce a more professional effect. I think that the colour is just right, if it were any darker blue it would be more associated with a boy bad such as Westlife, as this band looks and try to create a more manly stature then Westlife they suit a lighter/grey blue.














This screen shot shows the extra added writing which I feel that it follows the typical conventions of a music poster which would be placed inside HMV. You can see the placement of the HMV logo, bottom left and the pre made album cover - Come Around Sundown. I think that the fonts in pink follow the recognisable HMV writing which is used on their posters.

Digipak practise - 2

I found this image on the internet and i like the quirky idea of using a fake lizard within my digipak. I think using funny images would reflect well on the band as they are known as entertaining their friends and fans. I used Photoshop here to cut around the lizzard using the 'magnetic lasso tool' which would enable me to separate the lizzard from the surroundings which were not useful towards my project.

This screenshot is an example of importing the images which i thought would be useful within my work.

After setting the right size of my image. I focused on fonts for my title, I think by placing the 'L' behind the image the band's name is still clear as an instant reaction to seeing a picture of a lizzard it automatically makes you think of the word followed by the bands name.

I tried to stick with a basic colour theme of only using 3 main colours, green, purple and black. I realise that the digipak looks far more realistic and professional when there is not too much going on within a digipak.












I later added some copyright writing around the CD which is also seen on CD's today, this writing adds to the professional effect. Using gradient tools both on the back and front helps create a recognisable and eye catching theme for this digipak.

digipak practise - 1

Another part of my A2 media coursework is to produce a digipak for my chosen artist. i have to create a digipak based on the music video which i will be creating. I will be using InDesign to produce a front cover, back, inside and CD.

This is my first practise creating a digipak, I have chosen a well known band - blink 182. I wanted to create a digipak with some similar features of their albums, such as the 3 colour theme - red, green and yellow.

I like the way the numbers have a different coloured gradient placed over the top of them. By spreading out the numbers i thought the colour sections look good. I feel as If it might even be better if i only had 182 on my front cover, as they are such a well known band, people would still recognise their album.

I love the coloured stencils of random objects, a similar method they used within their actual album. Placing a parental advisory logo made this digipak seem more realistic along with the bar code.











 I am happy with the final outcome of my first digipak knowing what to do, how to do it and what can be achieved. I think that the inside cover may need something more, either some words or more pictures to create a more professional look. I think that albums need to have a theme, weather that be fonts or images, and I think that this digipak does not carry a powerful theme throughout, this is something I can work on within my next digipak.

practise - POSTER 1

As part of my A2 coursework I've researched and porduced a music poster which advertsises the album which we will also have to make. This would be done using Adobe Photoshop and InDesign!






I like this Green Day poster as it looks very simple yet it would look like an illusion when on stuck on a wall for example as it would look like someone has sprayed it on. I think they have chosen produced this poster as it is because Green Day are seen as rebellious and graffiti on walls also has these connotations. The criminals which spray graffiti on walls would also be the stereotypical audience and market which green day's music is admired by.

I want to create a simliar sort of poster using images I have found of the internet, I used a piece of artwork produced by Banksy. I used Photoshop to cut around the person which would allow the background, the wall, to be placed behind. I felt as if this worked well with the photograph but I thought that the background image was too busy.

I found a more simplistic image and swapped it. Yet it still lacked the effect of the original Green Day Poster.

By adding gradient tools within InDesign I was able to create a brighter background which helps attract the audiences attention.

I later added similar fonts to those of the original poster to try and capture the same effect.















I think that this poster has come out well but I think that more information could be added which would help make the poster look more realistic such as tour dates who is selling the album etc.




But for a first try using InDesign I am happy with the progress and understanding of the software.