Classmates Creating A Digipak For The Script

Today I asked two of my classmates to create a Digipak by designing the front cover, back cover and spine.I didn't give my classmates any images which I had used so they both wouldn't be influenced by any of my previous creations. I did this because I wanted to see what another persons perception would be of a CD Digipak for The Script would be, this way I could see if I am appealing to my niche audience (15-30 year olds).

Creating My CD Digipak

I have used one of my primary images to start creating my CD Digipak for The Script. I used this image on the back cover of my Digipak because I felt it would be very suitable for the track listing to be placed on it.

This print screen shows where I edited the original image in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I used the 'poster edges' filter to give the image a cartoon/pop art effect.

Taking Photos for Digipak

Today I have taken photos for my CD Digipak for The Script. I have taken a range of photos of a building and a brick wall with steps. These will probably not be my main image for the front cover and I will most likely use a couple of these for the back and inside cover.

Taking Photos For Ancillary Tasks

I have decided that on saturday I am going to take a few pictures for my ancillary task as we have to use primary images for the production. The photos will most likely be for the CD Digipak because I will not have my cast members with me at the time and I may need them to be in the photos that I take for the Music Magazine Advertisement.

Also if I am to use a photo of my artist on the Music Magazine Advertisement I will need another two males, so by taking photos for the Digipak first will give me more time to organise another two male cast members. The reason for this is because The Script are a three-piece group, however only the main vocalist (Danny O'donoghue) features in their music videos. I will therefore need the other two cast members for the Music Magazine Advertisement to represent

My initial idea is to take a range of photos of a tall town/city like building. I can't think of anywhere within Kettering where there is a building large enough and an area suitable to take these photos. So on saturday I will be going to Corby town centre where there is the newly built 'Cube' which I feel is suitable for my production and coinsides with the current images I have been practising with. I will post the photos I take on here soon.

Dealines For Advanced Portfolio

Term 3 ( By January 4th 2012)
Research and Planning Completed and evidenced on your blog for main task and ancillary tasks- assessment and feedback
Filming MOSTLY completed
Track downloaded and imported to FCE
Editing of main task begins using FCE or FCP
Editing of ancillary tasks begins using Photoshop Elements

Term 4 (By February 16th 2012)
Editing completed during this term if not before

Term 5 (By 16th April 2012)
Main task and ancillary tasks completed by April 16th 2012
Media Studies Coursework Screening takes place - audience feedback received
Evaluation completed and presented
Exam preparation for Section A : Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Continuing with Digipak Designs

I have created another digipak design of the front and back covers. This design is different to my previous creations because I have included a main image on top of the background image on the front cover. I did this because it looks similar to other front covers from The Scripts CD cases (below). I really like this design because it has a busy look to the page because there is a urban city as the background and also a large building surrounded by musical elements which are in bright colours so they stand out. I also like this digipak design because it runs through the digipak from front to back and it is also very simplistic.

Digipak Designs

Today I have produced the above designs for a suitable digipak for The Script. I used scrabble letters for the album and artist title so the digipak was unique, as most of the digipaks I have seen just use plain text for the title. Creating these digipaks has also improved my skills with the tools in photo shop. I used a selection of the cutting tools, image enchancing and filter tools to adjust the text and images.

I replaced the main image on the front cover for each of the designs. I did this because I wanted to see which images were best suited to the scrabble letter text. I think the best designs based on the colour schemes and the genre of the artist is the two designs at night with the stars. The original image was purple and I then converted the image to greyscale which suited the scrabble letter text much more than the purple did.

By using the scrabble letters in these digipaks it has allowed me to see that I do not have to use plain text on the digipak front cover. I am now considering using the scrabble letters or fridge magnets, or something along those lines.