Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Magazine advert draft


I've been working very hard on my magazine advert as well as my digipack, Choosing to use my album image as the main background for my advert proves to be working well and conventional. As I was afraid that it would not look right or fit I have not had time to go and take more pictures so figured I would make do. By doing this it gives the audiences something to look out for when the CD comes out, making it easily recognisable to find.

I really like the image as it works brilliantly portrait as well as landscape.
Finding the right font and style I have chosen to use a similar typography to which the band uses, making it again relatable and recognizable to them.
By adding in a second font, it gives it another mysterious, nigh time feel as this links in with the themes of my album.

Highlighting this night feel I have then picked out the colour purple which really gives it a whole midnight feel and works perfectly with the atmosphere.

However I feel that it still looks really plain and I would need to add more text pictures to boost its appeal, I am still working on it as well with my digipack to make sure they both fit in.

Monday, 25 November 2013

Production Diary #32

Finally completing a finished version of my drafts for my digipack and magazine poster, I feel even more relived now that it's out of the way and I can fully focus on nailing them to get them spot on. I am warming to the pictures I took and think they would look great for the poster, however I did not plan the shoot well as I thought I was only taking digipack pictures so shot in landscape.
Now that I have more time I can also re shoot in different locations to get the best pictures, I am planning on doing this in the holidays.

Aslo getting advice of friends along the way, this has helped me a lot in seeing what my target audiences want to see.
Looking at some of the construction evidence, I have noticed that I haven't really got a script but a loose one, so I decided to talk about that in a powerpoint, along with the basic structure of my music video.

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Monday, 18 November 2013

Problems along the way

I had recently started my first proper draft on the schools computer, however I only have CS5 at home while I was working on CS6, so it wouldn't let me open my music video, I felt like I would do more work at home rather than school so this was a problem. I decided I would have to download the trial version of CS6 then, however another problem occurred and it took to long to load and wouldn't download, so now I have to re start my whole video using cs5, this way I would work on it at home and at school, it's going to set me back a bit now.

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Production Diary #31

 Last night I wen't up to London to get some pictures for my digipack like I said I would.
My friend had told me about a perfect place to go, South bank as the Christmas market was being set up and the view of London would be perfect.

Going for the first time, she helped me with the camera settings to take a few pictures, I ended up taking  alot just in case however I did forget to do some in portrait for my advert. Despite this issue I came out with a few decent sots which I really like and will use for my digipack as they look the part.

The second image proved best to be on the front cover, it matches my draft however I wanted her full body in but felt it looked better this way, positioning her by using the rule of thirds.

I am happy with how they came out, however I do feel that I need a variety of scenes and would need to get some more of signs and streets so I would need to revisit this.


 Here I took some I Camden at Primrose Hill, it was really dark so I had to keep changing the camera settings and found the slower the shutter speed the better they came out. Using the night time setting I got this really cool picture of the lights all blurred like little hearts which was rather cute and interesting.