Design Activity..Lesson 31

In this lesson we were given a tutorial on who to use the programmes Photoshop and Quark to create our digipaks. I found this very useful as although we were given a tutorial last year, I was able to refresh my memory and add to the knowledge of the programmes that I had gained before hand.

We were shown how to create effects which changed the colour of the image, made the image distorted and put shapes on to the image - which all in all made the image appear more visually interesting and different than it's original. We also learnt how to rotate the image, crop and resize which would help us to make adjustmenst to the image that we want to use on our digipaks so that they are exactly how we want them to be.

We were shown a range of texts in which we could include on our digipaks and it showed me that we are not restricted at all and have the freedom to create a completely new look for a digipak and think 'out side the box'. Overall, I found this tutorial helpful and know that it will help me create an outstanding digipak which links to my music video.

Digipak Mock-Ups.

These are some rough ideas I did in class today for my digipak. The arrows indicate what will go where (for example where the barcode, tracklists, copyright information and record label logo will be placed). I have decided to do a four panel digipak because I have a consistant theme running through of sweets I think it will be too much and over the top if I carry it on for more than four panels.
I think my rough ideas for my digipak work because it relates to the video it has the same on going theme.
There are close-ups to of my rough ideas so people can see what it would like if they were holding it, and too see the writing and detail.
(Im calling my artist Bella and I might call the album B)

Digipak Mock Ups- and Advertisment Mock ups

These are just rough ideas that our group put together. It incoporates all of our own ideas into one and as you can see it has an consistant theme running through it.

Digipak Mock-Ups.

Here is a mock-up of my digi pack. It gives a brief overview of how I'd like my digipack to turn out. I am using the colours of pinks, reds and purples which stick to the overall 'girly' theme of our video and how our artist behaves. On the front I have chosen to have the artist's name, Bella, in bold as she is a new artist so we would want people to familiarise themselves with that name as soon as they see the digipak. Also I want images of sweets and a big image of my artist holding a lolly pop as I feel that it sticks matches one of the outfits that Bella wears in the music video - a corset made up of sweets. The continous occurance of sweet images also ties in with the name of the album which is 'The Candy Club'.

On the back of my digipack, I will put images of the Bella infront of the coloured doors in a row which will link back the the beginning of the music video where there are fast edits of Bella standing infront of different coloured doors. I will also try and put the track list in a over sized image of a lollypop inorder for the theme of candy and sweets to run throughout the whole digipak. Colours and font will be pinks and itallic as I feel that it reflects a more feminine side. The back cover will also hold the barcode, record label logo, copy rights and website of the artist - the back will hold all the main information.

In the inside of my digipak, where the CD will be, I have decided not to place an image of my artist behind the CD but instead I will put an image of her lips which has sprinkles stuck on to them. This is because we used the same idea in our music video as she sang the chorus. There will also be images of sweets and
lollypops surrounding the CD.

On the other side of the cover, I have decided to put another image of the artist eating sweets decorated with pinks, purples and more sweets. Then in a red/pink bubble is where I shall put my 'thankyous'.

Digipak Mock-Ups.

  

Design Activity-Lesson 31

This lesson we had a tutorial about using Photoshop and Quark, i found it confusing but hopefully when i go over it, it will be much easier than today.
I learnt how t do do things like using effects and text to make a photo look better and crop it too fit the sizeof my different panels on my digipak.
However the lesson slowed down a bit when I found out my final edit hadn't been uploaded and then wrong video had then been  uploaded (This was neither my groups or my fault).
Hopefully this can be fixed before the whole projected is marked as I do not want too loose marks seeing as we have put so much time and effort into making what I feel is a good pop video.

Design Activity.... Lesson 31

This lesson we had a tutorial on how to use photoshop and quark. It was not helpful. I did not really learn much as i already was put through a tutorial last year. Personally i found that it was a waste of valuable time, and i could have been planning other things that will help me get a better grade in my coursework.  


On the contrary, it did help me refresh my mind on what to do. 
BUT!!!!!


I Found out that the wrong version my final edit was uploaded. This disheartened me as i spent all my lunch times in workshop making that video as perfect as i could..  (This was not myself or groups fault as we had no control of which video was uploaded. but hopefully this can be fixed in time)