How My Magazine Advert And Digipak Will Link.

Both my magazine advert and my digipak will contain images of the band members, and in both they will be wearing the same costumes as they did for the music video. The colour scheme will also be roughly the same and the McFly logo I have designed in orange will appear on both pieces. The biggest link between both projects is that in the magazine advert, there will be images of the actual digipak being used as a prop to advertise itself. Although the digipak will be full of information, the advert will be very simple as its main task is to catch the eye of the reader and to show off the digipak that I want them to purchase.

Font Research.

Here Is The Font Shop I Used.

I think that the font should be the same on the Digipak and Magazine Advert. I want it to represent my band's genre and their image.

Ambrose™ Std Regular

I like this font because it is from the 1920's and so represents my band's vintage theme.

 

 

 

Dan Panosian International

I like this font because it makes the text look hand-written by one of the band members which would make it seem more personal to the audience.

 

HWT Catchwords OT

I really like this font because it represents my band's vintage look in a fun and eye-catching way, but I'm not sure that it is easily available to me to use.              

On the album below,the band have used a typewriter-style font to show their simplicity or that they write their own songs.

On the next album, the band have used a very straight font with hard lines. Everything is in capital letters to make it stand out.



 

They seem to stick to this same style.

On their latest albums, they have used images to illustrate their font, such as the number plate below.



Here the band have chosen to modify their logo and the font below it is pretty much the same. It is bold and stands out, with no detailing.

 

 Here are some fonts that link with their past albums:


 
P22 Typewriter



or Courier New

Planning the digipak.

 

 

Planning for Digipak.

I started by figuring out the size of a normal Digipak cover and creating a paper template to fit these sizes. The margin on the left is bigger to accommodate the hinge of the Digipak.

This is the front cover of my digipak, obviously I will use photos in the final piece, this is just a rough plan so that I can see what I am doing. I have used a type writer-style font to link with my pop-rock genre and also to link with previous album covers that McFly have released. In the final piece there will be trees in the background. I made the McFly logo orange to go with my colour scheme. This logo is in the wrong font because I forgot to change it, but the logos throughout the rest of the digipak show how it will actually look.

This is the back cover of my digipak, the real thing will have a photo rather than stickmen on it obviously. I added a bar code to make it look more realistic. I used the font Courier New in size 10 in the end and I made it blue to look like blue ink so that it appears informal and hand-written/typed. This is where the track list will be, and I have made it look like torn note paper to link with McFly's previous album covers. The umbrellas will also be different colours/styles in the real thing but I haven't coloured them because I am not sure what umbrellas we have available to us to use yet.

This is where the band information and tour dates will go. The random letters represent band info and I have tried to create a lanyard shape (I will obviously use a photo of a plain lanyard for the final piece) to write the tour dates on (there will also be actual dates on the real thing). It is supposed to look like a VIP pass which is why I used red because it is an important-looking colour and it is also part of my colour scheme. This is how the McFly logo is going to look. I used the font ConcursoItalian BTN because I think it makes the logo look sort of simple and hand written to go with my genre. I might make the background coloured so that it makes the lanyard tag stand out.

This is the inside of the digipak, it is where the song lyrics will be written. The background is a pretty, light, picnic blanket effect. I will take a photo of a picnic blanket for the final piece so that it is all my own work, but this plaid pattern shows what it will look like. I will also take my own photos for the picture frames that the lyrics will be typed in (in the same font). The titles show what song lyrics will go there. I'm a little anxious to see how they will fit in the boxes, but I will make it work.

 This is the middle panel and so it leads on from the last one. It is basically the same really, but all of the frames will be different sizes and shapes to link with the randomness and simplicity of my genre and obviously different lyrics will be written in these frames.

 This is the final piece in of the inside panel. The background obviously leads on from the other panels. This is where the CD itself will sit in the final piece, not just a picture of it. The CD will have a photo of the iconic tree scene on it (the same as the front cover but without the band members in it). I could copy an image of what the CD looks like to put underneath it so that the customer will be able to easily see where the disk go and also which CD belongs in this case, but I don't want to do that because the simplicity of this design links with my genre.

Sample of Signed Contracts.

 I printed out 21 contracts for our prospective actors to each sign and date. They state that we are allowed to film these people, and that we own all rights to the video being created by us: 'The Crew'.

 

These contracts are signed by seven of our extras. 

These are siged by our four band members. 

 

These contracts are signed by our narrative characters...... 

 

......and this one is from the waiter. 

Casting.

Matthew Barrett                         Band Member                                 4 Male Band Members
Joe Gamble                                Band Member                                  2 Female Characters
Lewis Barnard                           Band Member                                  4 Male Characters
Daniel Hudson                           Band Member                                  Extras 
Ryan Clarke                               Gay Couple                                      1 Bouncer
Louis Chamberlain                    Gay Couple
Daniel Oakley                            Cinema Boy
Akshay Kishor                           Restaurant Boy
Ewan McConnachie                   Waiter
Edgaras Kobzaruk                     Bouncer
Ellie Shannon
Molly-Mae Taylor
Erin Bell                                    Extras
Gertruda Dambrauskaite
Samanta Cichunovaite
Angel Bows
Libby Smith
Arianna Gamble
Heather Patterson
Sarah Edwards                           Cinema Girl
Freya Hind                                 Restaurant Girl

Finding Actors.

I emailed the senior teachers in our school to help us try to find students to be in our video. The text reads:

'For our media studies A level, we are creating a music video. For this we need students to act in it and it would be very helpful to us if you could please show this PowerPoint presentation to as many students as possible next week, perhaps through their form tutors. For the final scene we will be filming a concert so anyone who wants to be in the video, but not as a main character can be an extra in this scene to help create a large crowd. If there are any questions then please contact myself, Toni-Marie Warden or Paige Etherington.

 

Many thanks,

Elizabeth.'

I attatched the PowerPoint document proposal.










I also put a notice on the whiteboard in sixth form, and as you can see below, the students responded positively to our PowerPoint.

Structure of my Music Video-Animatic Timeline.

Editing Software.

The main software I used to edit my projects were:

 Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 for editing the music video together.


 Adobe Photoshop CS3 for creating the digipak and music magazine.

I briefly used Microsoft Publisher for creating plans and drafts. I decided not to use it for the final projects because the software was not capable of editing to the standard that I needed.

Analysis of Song Lyrics.

  

Finished Story board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There have been a lot of changes made to our storyboard since our first plan of it, so I drew up a new storyboard to show what the final product actually looks like. I have drawn the real shots used in our actual video in the order that they appear in on screen, with the correct lyrics for that second: