Front Cover Ideas

Here are some of my idea for my front cover of my digipak.

I love the picture and the colours and have definitely decided on my font, which I will continue to use the whole way through. 

Not too sure about which one I'll use yet.

Our Final Music Video

I feel like a proud mother, but here it is:

Media Showcase!

Today is the Media Show Case!!

Our speech has been written, our video is on Foster's Mac and we have our camera ready for our feedback evaluations.

It's show tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!

Research for Digipak!

I've decided to scrap the old digipak idea. I really didn't like it and in a lll honesty, I didn't do enough planning or research for it to come out how I wanted it.

Although I love the 'ARLA' and teacup idea, what I envisioned just didn't end up happening.
It looks so great in my head, but it can't be marked from in there so I'm going to have to change my idea. Which is fine, now that I've been a'Googlin and looking around for some inspiration.

Here are some examples for the front cover that I love:

I love the simplicity of it. I'm going to try and find a shot of Rosie head on or maybe the one of her looking to the side that I got in the morning shoot we did. Then have 'ARLA' somewhere and the name of our album in the corner. I don't like how this is centralised, so I will develop this.

Also, her chin looks weird.

Again, love how simple and elegant this is. Such an iconic album cover, so I won't try and recreate it. I won't do it in black and white because that wouldn't go with the whole colourful thing we have going on, but the simple font in the corner will definitely be taken into consideration.

Again, what's with the chin?!

This is just as great as the above.

Finished!

We've finished the music video!! It's due today, so will post it later today!!

Here's proof its uploading, just in case you doubted us:

We're all really pleased with the end result. It wasn't exactly what we wanted but I for one feel that it's SOOOO much better.


My favourite bit if definitely this bit:

We layered two shots of Rosie twirling and put a pink effect over it to make it look awesome. 

Just because we can.

Track List

I think I'm going to layer this picture over a screenshot from the music video.

I really like the bright colours and how it is indented to the right and not the left like most track lists are.

You can't really see the yellow though, so I may have to change that. Also, it will be transparent so you won't see the white text box that it's in, it will wrap around the picture.

I used Word for this because I'm still unfamiliar with Photoshop. But Word is great, it's never let me down before.

Panic Over

So... I stress too much. Who knew?

The Digipak problem has been resolved; Ms Foster liked the 'A' over the tea cup idea, so I did the rest of the letters and have decided that I'm going to use the big rectangular 'ARLA' picture for my magazine cover. Which will come soon, given that I don't throw another strop.

The first A will be on the front cover, the R on the inside left, the L on the inside right and the second A on the back cover. So as you open it (and flip it, whatever), it spells out the band name.

So, here's the final(ish) thing:

I really don't know whether I like it or not actually. Woah. Mood change while I typed a post. This is definitely a new low.

Even More Digipak Stress

I'm getting really angry now. None of my ideas are working and Photoshop is my nemesis.

This is Photoshop.

On paper/virtual paper, my idea of cutting the "ARLA" picture up, diving it by the letters and then laying over the tea cup picture sounds awesome. If it had worked, I would immediately have 4 squares for my Digipak. But NO. It just looks stupid, as you can see:

I didn't even bother doing the R, L and other A, because I'm just so unsure about it. 

Ms Foster said it isn't about the quality and just the mere fact that I'm adhering to the conventions of a digipak or something. So maybe I'll give this a go? Who knows.

Dinner Scene

The Dinner Scene kind of evolved into the Tea Scene. This goes with the Alice in Wonderland scene more I guess! But none the less, we are done filming!!
Here's some shots I took of the props:

Cups and carrot cake. 

Here's a snippet of the shots we've got. Imagine Ellie Goulding singing over it.

Digipak fun begins...

I'm really struggling with editing my album cover on Adobe Photoshop Cs6. I uploaded the photo that I took on Sunday but the dimensions aren't what the digipak measurements need to be. I'm having to convert inches into centimetres and centimetres into millimetres, which you think wouldn't be a problem.... It is. So yeah, stressy Alice. When we did the mock album cover a few weeks ago, I found it relatively easy, but this is in a whole new realm of Photoshop and it's making me uneasy.

I'm going to have to watch many-a-YouTube tutorial before I go any further. Or, if it gets too hard, I will try a different version of Photoshop or a whole new software. I'm getting a bit worried about this side of the coursework. I guess its my own fault for taking a picture that doesn't fit the measurements but I didn't know at the time and this is the last of the powder paint so unless I order six brand new pots of powdery fun just to do this again, I'm going to have to look for a new idea.

Sad times. 

Mini Vlog!

Here's a mini vlog of Rosie's hair after the Powder Paint scene.. Pretty cool stuff!

Evalutation Q's

These are the four evaluation questions that have to be addressed. I have been taking these into consideration as we have been filming but because we are nearly done with filming and editing is coming along BRILLIANTLY, I shall now be documenting my answers as I go along to show to process:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
  
  
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
  
  
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
  
  
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Vlog!

Here's a vlog I did on location when we shot the Powder Paint Scene:

Apologies, it was windy and, in all honesty, I wanted to go home. :)

Jump!!

We tried to get Rosie to jump off of the tree trunk so that we could edit it to the beat of the bit where Ellie sings "star-ar-ar-ar".. You know the bit?
Well, it didn't work out... And here's why:

Today!

We all had a fantastic few hours filming in Forty Hall this afternoon. The powder paint looks fantastic and we are going to enhance the colours/edit it so it will look even better
This is the vlog we did afterwards:





Here is a picture I made/took which is a possible album cover idea. I will edit it in PhotoShop and then see how it looks:

Possible album cover?

This is what I looked like after our shoot today!

Scary!

Here's some of the shots we got today:

Filming Day

Today we are off our to Forty Hall with the powder paint:

We are all really excited!

We have decided though that Lucy can't be in the powder paint scene because she is in the dinner scene - she can't be Eliza's sister and then join her in the Wonderland group thing at the end!! More to be posted about this!