Saturday 30 November 2013

Journal- most recent version of my digipak




This is the most recent and updated version of my digipak. Overall I think the improvements I have made were worth it because looking back, the other panels I had done were unattractive, blurry and too young for my artist and target audience. I much prefer my new cover and certain panels. I think that they really help bring everything together and make it look more like a professional digipak. I think that it follows a strong theme of indie pop throughout. I placed them in the correct order in which I wanted and I made the inside panels go upside down at the top as if to see that they are going to be folded and put in the inside of the digipak.


Friday 29 November 2013

Journal - Digipak spine


           


I put in some spines on my digipak, I made them the same floral design as I've used throughout and I made it darker and with higher contrast than last time to make sure it came across as alternative. When designing my digipak I had Lana Del Rey in mind because she is the main person we wanted our artist to be like. I really like Lana Del Rey's image so I tried to make it similar without completely copying her layout and designs.

I think that adding the spines really made my digipak look a lot more professional and it helped me finish off my last draft. I decided to use the same font I used on my main cover for my digipak and I added a black outer glow around it to make it look bolder. I really like the font and think it really shows off our artist's image and represents how she is girly but at the same time alternative. The darker flowers in the background also contribute to this factor. I made the spine by simply resizing and cropping the floral background so it was clear and the correct size, I then zoomed in to do the text and to make sure it was completely clear and easy to read. The picture included in this text post doesn't do the spine justice and makes it less clear to see but that it because it has been stretched bigger than it was designed to be and therefore became blurry. However, on the digipak itself, the spine is correctly sized, clear and appropriate.

Journal: Updated panels

This is my new album cover for my digipak. I think that it is an improvement on the previous one and I think that it suits my artist and my image a lot more. Instead of having the overly-pop visuals on the previous one with different colours and fonts, I have made it a lot more simple and made the colours to fit in with the rest of the digipak, continuing the hint of pink theme. 


I saw that a lot of my previous drafts of my panels were extremely pixelated and they didn't look good at all. Therefore I went back and changed this panel to make it less girly, more alternative, and mostly - a clearer photo altogether. This panel of her hair everywhere was edited better this time, I made sure that it was clear, sized correctly and was still clear to see the content. I also took away the lens flare because I thought it made it look a bit too fake and girly. 





Thursday 28 November 2013

Digipak Second Draft

After receiving feedback on my digipak, I decided that I definitely needed to make some improvements to my panels. So far I have changed three, the tracklisting and also two of the inside panels.


This is my new tracklisting panel. I have resized it and made it non-pixelated which make it look increasingly better. I also changed the font to make it easier to read and instead of having the tracklisting sideways, I thought that it would look nicer simpler and going down, positioned to the right.


This is one of my new inside panels, I have changed it by taking out the girly specks effect and also making it less pink. I think it looks better now that it's more subtle. 


This is another inside panel I have changed, I have taken out the specks effect and put in a lens flare. I have also changed how strong the pink is, I made the opacity less. I also added a circle to show where my CD will go. I think this image looks better than it did before because I kept the natural sharpness to the image and made it less girly.





Thursday 21 November 2013

Digipak presentation and feedback




These are the feedback sheets I got back after presenting my digipak first draft presentation to the class. I think we all agreed that I needed to work on my tracklisting because the font was a little unclear and I also need to go back and edit the CD panel because it is quite unclear that I plan to put a CD on there. Other than that, my feedback was mainly positive and I am happy with the responses. People acknowledged my hard work on photoshop and they liked my ideas.




Monday 18 November 2013

Production plan

This is our production plan for when we plan to shoot our music video and what we need to remember. Whilst we haven't decided some things, such as the outfit choices due to the weather changes, we are quite eager and think we are ready to start shooting our video during December. We need to make some decisions about hair and make up still, but again, it depends on the weather and the outfit choices.  We made this production plan in order to make sure that we are completely organised and have a good plan for our music video shoot. I think that we are lucky to have similar locations for most of our video so we won't need to travel too much - making it more of a reasonable shoot to go through with. 



Friday 15 November 2013

Journal - More digipak editing

These are my final versions of my digipak photos. I am really happy with how they turned out and I don't think there would be anything I could do to make them look better. I struggled with trying to make all of the photos link with each other because of how different they all were, but I am quite proud of my decisions to overlap the images with a colour and change the opacity to give it a more coloured, matte finish. I think that by doing this on all my photos it really ties them all together really well and it allows the audience to know that she is a female artist and has a main target audience of females. However I do think that my photos also show the alternative side of our artist because some of them are lit quite darkly and they also have a different look to them than you would expect from a female solo pop artist. 










Thursday 14 November 2013

Journal - Feedback from our animatic




Animatic



This is our finished animatic in which we coupled our storyboards and our chosen song "Youth Knows No Pain", we feel fairly confident with our choices and we think that it will look really good when we come to shooting it. The only thing we fall down on is our drawings but all we need is a clear plan in our heads in order to make a successful music video. We're very eager and confident with our vision and plan for our video.

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Journal: Making the Animatic

When making our animatic, we photographed each and every shot on our storyboards and them edited them on Final Cut Pro to go with the music which we have chosen for our music video. I have included some of the printscreens taken whilst making our animatic to show what it looked like when we made it. It took us a while to fully finish the animatic because we had so many shots and we wanted to make sure that each shot was perfectly framed and went in time with the beats and lyrics of the music. Whilst making the animatic, we had Goodwin's Analysis in mind and we made sure to stick with the rules. We are really happy with our animatic and we think that it couldn't have gone better.










Final Storyboards

After many weeks of working, we finally finished our storyboards. We thoroughly thought out the overall theme of our video and what we wanted it to look like and we began to discuss ideas a few weeks back. We would sit down with the sheets, pencils ready to draw and write and listen to the song over and over again until more interesting ideas came to mind, we also had the lyrics handy so we could think about Goodwin's theory of having a strong relationship between music/lyrics and visuals. Now that we've finished, we're extremely happy with the result and are eager to start filming our video.
















In the photos in which there is a colourful background we decided to have a graffiti background to make it look more interesting and more urban. 





First Draft of Digipak


Wednesday 6 November 2013

Editing and experimenting with my Digipak



This is my album cover which I have decided on for my animatic and I really like how it turned out. I did have other edits of where I changed the positioning of the text and butterfly - which is Isla Harris' icon and what I want to sell her on and what she will be known and recognised for most.



I definitely decided on using these spinning photos for one of the inside panels of my digipak. I was originally thinking of putting more colours in the digipak (the one below) but then I realised that I would have to change my ideas for the whole digipak and make it all colourful and I didn't want that. So instead I stuck with a nice effect which made it look indie and feminine.





This is another one of the panels on the inside of my digipak, I haven't actually finished editing this photo and I think I'm going to put a lens flare maybe or I'll just make it look a lot more indie pop overall. 



These are my other inside panels which I am yet to edit for my digipak.



Tracklisting

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Digipak Photographs Presentation



More photos inside the digipak:

Panel 5:
Kerry- long shot next to lamppost - joined and edited together with another image next to a lamppost to give he illusion of two Isla's in one image.

Ceren- photos of Isla moving her hair, overlapped to show movement. Effects may be put on the images.


Panel 6:

Kerry- close up of Isla on a bed with the camera, focus on her hair.





Ceren- Either a photo of Isla from the back, showing fashion and hair - or a photo, mid shot, of her by a wall looking rural and realistic.