Saturday, 9 February 2013

Digipak Evidence





First of all, for the 2nd inside panel of the Digipak, I took an image of Alice's eye (that we already used for another panel of our Digipak) and zoomed in on her eye.



I then took a screen capture of the Ghost's face during the cloud/mystical sequence to reference the video and to recreate the effect we had on the shoot day as the smoke machine was no longer available.

 I then cut out the ghosts face and merged the two pictures together. To do this I used Adobe Fireworks to cut out the part of the ghosts face and rotate and free transform, and finally fade the picture until it took on the effect of being a reflection in her eye.



For the CD I cut out a circle from my inside panel of my digipak so that when the CD was put in the case the images would fit together. I did this as this follows conventions of artwork for my post-hardcore Digipak.

To edit the circles I used the Ellipse tool on Adobe Photoshop.

To get the text to align around the edge of the CD I went back to Fireworks and drew my line where I wanted my text to go and used the attach to path function that can be seen here.






Some images in this post are courtesy of Google images due to the fact some screen captures I took of my work could not be uploaded due to technical difficulties.
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Friday, 8 February 2013

Evidence for Website contribution



First and most importantly we needed a clear banner to establish the band as soon as you enter the website so, using a photo we already had, and the font that runs across our marketing campaign I created this Website banner.



We then needed to provide information about the band, who they are and their sound and influence so I wrote this short biography.



Social Networking is an vital side to marketing a band and so put links to their Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and SoundCloud accounts. As you can see I also made their Twitter feed and SoundCloud accounts active on the page so that you can read their Twitter and listen to their music whilst on their website.


I then proceeded to make a slideshow using the images taken and edited by Connie Ball to give fans some interaction with the band.


After this I knew it was vital to put the cover of the digipak on the website as this promotes the release of the new album.



Also a tour goes hand in hand with the release of a new album so I made up some possible dates and venues for our UK tour. As this is what makes the artist money I gave it a prominent feature on the page.



Monday, 7 January 2013

References and Inspiration


Concept Mood Board

This is my concept mood board for our song idea - As you can see it involves:
  • Schizophrenia (Mental Health Issues)
  • Substance Abuse (Drink and Drugs)
  • Relationship problems
  • Parent - Child Relationships

Analysis of 3 Music Videos