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Evaluation Question 4

Fourth response.

Evaluation Question 3

Here is my response to the third Evaluation question.

Evaluation Editing

Having to use Windows Movie Maker at home for editing my evaluation vlogs is proving to be the EASIEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE, especially when I've been used to using iMovie and such for the past two years!

Its really basic and I only need to be able to cut bits out that are irrelevant and enhance the audio so it suits me just fine!

Question 3 is nearly ready!!

Evaluation Question 2

Here's my response to the second evaluation question:

Evaluation Question 1

Here's my first evaluation question response:

Don't mind me!

This isn't some desperate attempt to get my blog count up by the way.

I've just forgotten my USB and putting screenshots of our film from iMovie from the big iMac to the little one that I'm working on onto my blog seems like the easiest option for me...

Prezi doesn't work on the big iMacs so I must power through and use two. First world problems..

So yeah.

These are the screenshots I need:

                           

                           

                  

                     

FINAL ALBUM COVERRRRRRRR

IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED!!!!!!

Here's the final thing:

The top two are flipped because that's how a template works..

The measurements aren't exact but putting a ruler up to the iMac is very hard and tedious so you all understand what I've done here.

I'm also half way through my first evaluation question, so WHOOP-DE-DOOOO

Last one!

Here's the spine!!

Nothing much to say about this little thing apart from the fact my good ol' font is back again.

Hardest till last!

As you can see in the title, I saved the hardest part of the digipak till last.

The inside right part of my album cover is where the CD goes, like pretty much every other album.

SO.

This is the whole picture of this side of the album:

This is that picture with a big circle in it. (where the CD would go)

                                     

But this picture is kind of irrelevant because my actual CD, although no part of the task, will be the same as it's background... For example:

So the CD would essentially look like this:

                                       

But without the squiggly lines and just general poor photoshopping skills. 

You all understand though.

My Album Poster

Just finished my album poster for the band:

Besides the big picture of our character, the whole theme of my poster is monochrome. I did this to draw attention to the colours in the picture of Rosie. I kept it simple because I think that album posters that have too much going on aren't as effective.

Digiiiiiiiipak!

I appear to be on a roll this morning.

Here's the inside left of my album cover:

I put a little message on the inside cover because many of the albums that I own have a little note where they thanks their families, Jesus and whoever else. It just makes it more real and authentic, which is what I'm going for. The plain picture of the tree just looked a little stupid to be on the inside of an album. The writing, is the same font again, just makes it look awesome.. in my humble opinion.

Also, I used Photoshop to enhance the pink on the tree so its no longer my nemesis. We're more aquaintances now, so the relationship is improving.

Front Cover!!

Here's my front cover for my album.

I went for this one because I love the simplicity of it, which, as you can see, is kinda my thing. I want the focus to be on my character and the colours that constantly surround her.
My other ideas just didn't fit and I like how "arla" goes over Rosie's body in this one - as if she's part of something.

'deep end' is in the middle of a little cloud of powder paint too, which was totally intentional.

Digipak.. Again

I've changed the idea of my digipak. Instead of stressing, I'm just going to get screenshots from our footage and edit it in Photoshop.

Here's my final back of the album cover.

I kept the font that I used on my album poster, so I think I'm going to do the whole thing with this too.

I also put a fake barcode on there too, just to make it seem real.

Album Posters

Here are some album posters that I found and liked whilst researching:

                                            

Kings of Leon; fantastic album cover; simple, effective. But not so fantastic album.

Florence and her good ol' Machine; Not too much going on but the focus IS on her and her 'Lungs'. This is pretty much what I tried to do with mine. Rosie's looking to the side too. Whoops.

Friendly Fires; LOVE the simplicity of it. It reflects them as a band too; just three normal(ish - I've seen them dance at V Fest) guys making sweet music. The font is all the same and in capital letters. I liked that, but for our band I thought it looked too aggressive so I stuck to lower case letters, much to Word's dismay.

As you'll notice, I took the liberty of reviewing my own made up album on behlaf of NME and Q. These two magazines would, should this be real, have been the main two we would have pitched to or whatever. They're indie/alternative music magazines and that's the genre we fit into, so they would have loved us.

Evaluations!

Now that the music video has been completed, it's time to move onto the evaluations. Riveting.

Here's a screengrab of the videos I imported from my phone that we took on the evening of the showcase. (We forgot to charge our camera... We ARE media students, I promise...) =

I shall be editing them soon and putting them into funky presentations for my final evaluations, so look out for them!!