Production Journal - 30th January 2012

In today's lesson, Megan continued to edit the music video where the green screen needed to be changed into the police height wall. This was going to be used so that the narrative of the music storyline has a conclusion, being that all four girls have been caught for kidnapping the male character. Once this is finished all we need to do is add the text at the beginning of the music video: 


Studded Roses
Scandalous


Other examples researched:
Before adding this text I wanted to research how different bands/groups began their music video with text, if any. One band in which I found that included their group logo in the beginning of their music video was, 'The Wanted', who included it in every video of theirs...

However, as I started looking at different genres of music and a variety of artists, many music videos that included text at the beginning of the videos. These are some of the examples below in which I researched and print screened:


Nicki Minaj included fading text covering the whole screen in her video...

In One Direction's music video instead of including their band name at the beginning of their music video they added the director's name instead.

Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah's video consists of the title of the song and the artists name as an MP3 image in a car, relating to video. 

Image for the greenscreen

While the video was being edited by Megan, I decided to start looking for the image in which we needed for the green screen scene with the band members with the crime boards. I wanted to put the white lined height wall behind us to replace the green screen.

When looking for this image, all the photos of Google had text, a person or a logo on so I decided to photoshop one of the larger images so that it was ready to be used for when it came to adding the image onto the green screen.

The is the image in which I photoshopped:

About the digipack...

As I began to create my digipack, I brainstormed some words and environments that linked to the idea of being 'scandalous', when doing this crime was something I personally felt could link in really well. I wanted to think about adding a background that could represent this to the audience, leading to the crime scene tape. Next, I started thinking about the different codes and conventions as well as the elements that needed to be added such as the logo of the group, the tracklist, images of group, album title and disc design, not forgetting the logos of 'compact disc, DVD rom and Song BMG'.

When it came to thinking about colours in which I could use in the design, I decided that red and black would be the main colour scheme as when we were making the music video we decided that the members of the band would be wearing black and red the most as it is a connotation of danger, linking to the idea of being different which leads back to the ideology. Photographs of the band members was shown all across the digipack so that there would be more establishment to the new created group. 

The editing...

Megan and Amy have been editing the footage in which we filmed of the music video of the girl group. We decided to use final cut pro as we felt that it would allow the video to have more effects in when editing than imovie would provide.

Making my promotional poster

When I began to create my poster design for the promotional advertisement for the girl group's digipack, I wanted the poster to have very similar features as the digipack itself. I decided to use the crime scene tape on the poster again like the cover of the digipack, as well as including all the group members so they could be established into the industry. 

The process of making the poster: Experimenting with the effects of images.

Continuing the process: Deciding what colour the images would be and adding the red lips.

THE FINAL PROMOTIONAL POSTER

Production Journal - Update of where we are at.

Tuesday 10th January 2012:

Where am I at the the moment?

In this coursework section of the course, I have currently completed my digipak design for the girl band as well as beginning the creation of the advertisement for the band for promoting the new digipak into the music recording industry for the band.


'The Saturdays' example: 

I decided to look at the girl band, 'The Saturdays' promotional poster as an example as I felt that they generally linked to our girl groups target audience. I realised that the main elements used in it was: the group main image, album release date, website and band logo with that name of the album (in my case the digipak).

'Rihanna' example:

When looking at the Rihanna album promotional poster I felt that it would be good looking at hers, as her album is about being unique to other artists. I found when looking at her promotional poster, it included: the main poster again, the artist herself's logo, the album name and the music recording logo.

My Final Digipak

This is my final design of the digipak, overall I felt that it was successful as it in had the connotations linking to the groups ideology shown through the images and the colour scheme. I also felt that it showed a clear understanding who was in the band, establishing the girl group into the music industry. I made sure that I included all the right logos and symbols as well such as: the DVD logo, Compact disc logo, copyright and the record label logo. 

The digipak creation process.

These are some of the screen shot images of the digipak of when I was creating it and designing it, I started with one side first, making sure it was completed before I moved on to the other side. I decided to add photographs of each member of the group holding a crime board to be a connotation of the group going against others.

Then, I began on the disc designs, I felt that as there was much link to the group name, 'Studded Roses' in the first three sides in which I had done, I felt that I would design the discs made of images from roses, remembering to also add the logo and what disc number it is. 

After, it came to the final stage, adding the wallet pocket for the leaflet from the digipak to be added. I also added the information of what was on each disc and an image of the girl band altogether. 

Production Journal - 17th January 2012

At this stage in the project we are all at the point of making digipacks and posters for the individual pieces. We are currently at the stage of editing the music video with all the shots involved in which we felt worked the best, we are at the stage of also filling any gaps that we felt needed to to filled as well.

Front cover of my digipack design...

When beginning to create my digipak I started by creating the design for the front cover, I wanted the connotation of the group having an 'out of control' attitude. Which made me think of the idea of crime scene tape and a dark colour scheme. I also wanted the images to all be black and white on the front cover as I felt that if there was too much colour, it wouldn't match and have the main three colour scheme: red, black and yellow. 

These are a few of the screen shots of the process of creating the front cover design of the digipak. The main two things in which I wanted to make sure was shown in the front cover was the logo of the girl group and an image of each member of the band to show who is in the band.

One of the decisions in which I found quite hard to decide from was where I would position the album title, as I wanted it to be in red text, however I couldn't decide whether to have it on a white or black background.

Or, having it on the bottom of design, leaving the top of the cover to be dominated by the 'Studded Roses' logo. I took screen shots of both ways and felt that adding it to the bottom of the digipak cover worked better.

This image below is my final front cover design for the digipak as I felt that it connoted the bands ideology for this album. 

Green Screen set up

Once we had shot the final scene with the green screen with the crime boards. Now that this had been completed we were ready to edit, create digipaks and the posters.