Wednesday, 15 November 2017

My Creative Journey, 15th November

I have recently finished producing the digipak for my music video. the main aim of my album cover was to make it happy, colourful and positive. I wanted the product to be colourful as I wanted it to reflect the colours of the gay pride flag which is used a lot in my music video. I feel as though this would attract a young, liberal audience to buying the CD. I also wanted this to come across as a positive, happy message to promote social equality.
Whilst making my poster I wanted it to come across professional as though it would not look out of place in a modern and diverse music magazine such as Rolling Stone and NME. I think I achieved this by keeping it simplistic and not making the advert look too busy.
Whilst making the initial digipak drafts on publisher and powerpoint I was concerned that they did not look professional. As I have limited experience using photoshop I decided not to use it as it would be very time consuming to learn. I then found a website called Canva which has lots of free templates for you to model your designs on. It was very easy to use and easy to implement your own pictures. I think this website really worked for me and my digipak look very professional. 
Alongside creating my digipak I have continued to edit my music video. It is starting to come along very well. I have had to re record a few of my clips as the lip syncing did not always match and look realistic. I think I have now achieved a better look and made my music video look increasingly professional. 

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

CD Cover Drafts

To draft my CD covers I used a powerpoint presentation. To begin with I thought this would be a good idea as I know the software well and I thought that it would make it easy for me. Although after making my firsts drafts I have decided to change this as they look unprofessional. I do like the idea of having one picture of my artist on the cover of my album. This is conventional as seen in albums by artists such as Adele. However, I feel my photos need more editing to make the text stand out more.  

Evaluation 4- How did you use media technologies in the contruction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

To conduct research into my artist and other music videos I used the search engine google. To find other music videos to inspire my own and ...