Question 4

When we went to the cinema for the viewing of our music video, we had amazing feedback from everyone, just to let us know how we did, we had a round of loud applause, a great amount of 'woo'ing' and a few very nice qolf whistles! We were quite impressed with the reaction we got.

Looking at previous videos and picking up on factors that could make our final music video better, it was always back to the same problem of being cut so quick that the artist couldnt get a full sentence in one shot, we changed that and made sure that the edits were much slower just because audience feedback is very helpful and we want to make a very sucessful music video that everyone can enjoy, furthermore we have also considered on taking out the dark graffiti shots, but we stuck to our instincts and we thought that it was very nice contrast between the light shots that we had, so we kept those shots in and yet everyone once again said that all locations, shots, angles were amazing!

 

Looking at my digipak, I had lots of feed back telling me my poster looked very professional, and they could see my poster in magazines for actual album adverts. They found everything they needed to know on the advert and digipak, they found that my digipak was very simple and it shouted 'ANGELO' (the artist) focusing it all around him, and not putting objects and graphics that were to over powering, so everyone could focus on his talent of his voice and musical abilities.

So all in all I believe my music video and ancillary products were made to a high standard as I had tried to incorperate everyones opinions into my final pieces, and tried to produce a piece that everyone could enjoy.

Question 3

Question 2

 

Evaluation Question 1

3D Mock Up

I have created a 3D mock up, as I take graphics, I am very aware of how the process is taken, so I decided to take this advantage and create a 3D mock up, to understand and present how exactly my Digipak would work. Here is the 3D mock up, presented below.

Final Poster/Advertisment

After researching about album advertisements, I have created my final advertisement, and this is what I have produced.

Evaluation introduction.

Creating My Advertisement

Research Album Poster Examples

Before Creating my advert for the album release of our artist, I looked at some examples of advertisements for albums and took some inspiration for my own.

Inspiration For Digipak

Looking at these two digipak's that have really inspired me, I have followed the structure, creating the inside of my digipak just consisting of images and no texts, making the digipak very simple and all about the artist. Having the same amount of information on a normal digipak but based around the front of the digipak, and including all the correct information to pass as a real digipak for an artist.

DigiPak Final

Front

Back

Programs Used For The Digipak

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.


Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites; in 2011 a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system.
 

QuarkXPress ("Quark") is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them.

The most recent version, QuarkXPress 9, allows publishing in English ("International and U.S.") and 36 other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, Korean, Russian, French, and Spanish.

QuarkXPress is used by individual designers and large publishing houses to produce a variety of layouts, from single-page flyers to the multi-media projects required for magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and the like. QuarkXPress once dominated the market for page layout software with over 95% market share among professional users. While one publisher estimates that share has fallen to below 25% and Adobe InDesign is now the market leader, QuarkXPress still has significant market share. There are open source competitors in the page layout space, the most notable of which is Scribus.

Test Run For The DigiPak

Structure of our Music Video

CLOSE UPS PLEASE!

Final Rough Cut Analysis

Screening at the CINEMA

We have been given a guide to follow this will enable us to see how and what we need to produce and  include in out Digipak and advertisement.

This is a brief outline of the 'do's' and 'don'ts':

DO'S 

use a clear font and appropriate SIZE for images and fonts

clear photo's that are in focus and that are an approriate shape for the page

a layout that follows the rule of thirds for composition

An appropriate type face that follows
- Genre conventions
- A house style 

Follow  the conventions of the 3 colour rule and use colour that is appropriate for
-images
-fonts
-background 

Careful where font is placed it must
-follow genre conventions
-be clear from a distance  It is import\nt to think carefully about how to use and intergrate
-font
-text and language
-image Use appropriate indusrty logos and conventions, properly positioned
-barcode
-date
-copy right
-titles
-artist name

Here is a very well produced digipak, very well planned and structured. They haven't overloaded themselves with a tremendous amount of panels to produce. its a very simple design that has been followed through with all the panels. What makes this an absolute well produced digipak is that it has included all the " DO's and excluded all the DONT's "

DON'TS

Stretch images, or this will make them out of focus

Use layer styles

Use unnecessary effects. Any effects used must suit the genre

Place text across the artist's face

Use a font simply beacuse you 'like it'

Feel like you need a seperate phohto on every panel

Heres an example of what you shouldn't do with your digipak. This digipak, you can tell that the pictures have been re-scaled incorrectly and making the artist seem more weighty than she really is. They have included a consistent graphic design which is very good but the sizing and re-scaling of the pictures just make the whole digipak seem very rush and not cared for.

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