3 dimensional version of the Digipak
Thursday 26 November 2009
Magazine Advert
I used the same cover as for the Digipak in order for it to be recognized, when seen the shops. I also included the website for the actual band as a lot of adverts in magazines do to gain more information on the band.
Done in photoshop.
Tuesday 24 November 2009
The digipak so far
This is the design we have for the digipak's front cover at the moment. Bieng quite a heavy band (we kept the same band name) I opted for a dark cover and the fire shows the heavier side to it.
This was done by using images and drawing over them to create the effect, I may retake some photos to use for this specifically as the hands were an image from the internet.
The font is in white to stand out and I used a motion blur on a duplicate of the layer to create the glow effect.
The cover is meant to be nice and simple but with high contrast to draw attention. An interesting effect was having the skin of the woman be quite lowly saturated but having the nails and lips a bright red to imply a seductive side to her. Although the girl herself has little to do with the band (apart from there bieng a girl in it) it makes for an interesting and creepy front.
Friday 20 November 2009
Digipak
We have decided to do a digi pak instead of a DVD cover as it is easier and better in terms of research. Reffering to the moodboard from earlier I think we might try a style like that of bullet for my valentine as it works with the genre of music and looks very good.
The digipak will list:
several songs,
A music video,
and a behind the scenes piece
as what is to go in it.
I will probably use dark colours like blacks and red but with a high contrast.
The digipak will list:
several songs,
A music video,
and a behind the scenes piece
as what is to go in it.
I will probably use dark colours like blacks and red but with a high contrast.
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Music video (Final Cut)
It's finally done. We decided against effects in the end as they often look tacky but the lighting in some scenes definitely helped and made it far more interesting.
Video
Over the weekend Vonnie managed to get the bass and lead guitar footage over the weekend. Vonnie performed the bass guitar and a friend of Vonnie's (James) performed the lead guitar. We now have a suitable amount of footage to put together the video with a good amount of performance and narrative.
Problems
There is a huge problem with the performance aspect of our music video, because the music department won't let us use any of their equipment (We have been trying for over a week but they keep telling us that the person who gives permission isn't there)
We can try to use our own but finding people who can and will play drums is difficult and not only that finding drum kits themselves are very difficult. We would just not use drums but the drum line in the song is too heavy to just be ignored.
Guitars aren't the hardest thing to get, the only problem is the drums. The only person we can ask to borrow the drum kit from might say no so we don't know what we're gonna do if it doesn't work.
We can try to use our own but finding people who can and will play drums is difficult and not only that finding drum kits themselves are very difficult. We would just not use drums but the drum line in the song is too heavy to just be ignored.
Guitars aren't the hardest thing to get, the only problem is the drums. The only person we can ask to borrow the drum kit from might say no so we don't know what we're gonna do if it doesn't work.
Friday 6 November 2009
panning
We were unable to book instruments to borrow from the music department as the head of music is only part time and wasnt in. On Monday she is supposed to in and we will then hopefully be able to use the instruments on the monday morning and record the performance part.
Today as we couldnt film the performance we just did some simple panning shots to use in the green screen part of the music video. We have some good shots for the narrative part of the video. These include stephen training for a fight , lifting weights , running and sparring. We also have a shot of the start of the fight where the first punch is thrown.
Today as we couldnt film the performance we just did some simple panning shots to use in the green screen part of the music video. We have some good shots for the narrative part of the video. These include stephen training for a fight , lifting weights , running and sparring. We also have a shot of the start of the fight where the first punch is thrown.
Tuesday 3 November 2009
attempting green screening
We attempted to use Stephen running on the spot in front of green material but we didn't think it looked very good because of the creases in the material. we also tried to use the material with Stephen running on a treadmill but this was too hard to cover the treadmill with the green. Next lesson we are going to try and use green card which will hopefully be much easier to hide the treadmill and have less creases.