Further Inside Cover Ideas

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This idea consides with the ideas for our final front cover number 7. For this design we again have implemented the use of the jenga bricks as the background portraying a wall, infront of the jenga bricks we have positioned the many photos seen in our music video and we are hoping to fade these using the transparency tool on the coral design package. The use of both the jenga bricks and the photos helps to add to the idea of synergy between the video and the ancillary product. Finally we are also going to postion lyrics from the song next to the photos to help give an idea to the audienc of what the photos mean

Intial Inside Covers

These are the intial designs that will be used for the inside panels of our digipak. Again like the front and back cover designs we chose to include images taken from the music video helping to generate synergy; The bear, Photos and Jenga. The 3rd design is our most favoured, we chose to have jenga bricks in the from of a wall and then the bands name in the form of a street sign (relating to the bands name Up Carey Street), the two panels will then split open to reveal the Cd and Dvd. We also decided that is may be a good idea to include some of the bands instruments to make sure that the message of music isn't lost, Although we feel as though it does seem out of place and doesn't compliment the front and back cover ideas we have designed.

From top to bottom 1,2,3

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Further Initial Front and Back Cover Ideas

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For this idea we have decided to implement the use of the torn phtograph from our music video, which will feature mounted on a wall of jenga bricks. We have positioned the text of the band's name and album name around the photo as to create a frame helping to highlight and keep your eyes on the photo. For the back cover we decided to keep it quite simple. We chose to implement the use of the jenga brick wall as the background and infront of this we have the names of the songs and dvd extras. We opted to create this design as there is clear synergy between our 3 products; the video and the ancillary peices. I also believe the audience will immediatley recognise the jenga bricks as belonging to our band as they feature in all our products and are bold and vibrant.

Intial Cd Front and Back Cover Ideas

These are our inital designs for the front and back cover of our album digipak. We have aimed to include elements that are in our music video inorder to create synergy between the products, for example we have chose to incorperate; the bear, jenga blocks and finally the photos. Whilst drawing up these designs we also made sure to try and have the Band's name big and bold, so that if on shelves it would stand out the the consumer helping to promote the band more sucessfully. Aswell as takings images directly from the music video we also chose to include images that related to the band, for example; A photo of a street relating to the bands name Up Carey Street. As a group we also thought of ways to portraying the same message that is portrayed in our video of a reltionship break up, we were able to achieve this in design 6 in the form of Jenga bricks, the cover consists of the same image mirrored however in the top half representing a happy relationship the jenga bricks are together solid, in the bottom half representing sadness we chose to have the jenga bricks tumbling to show a relationship in ruins. We are happy with the desings we have generated as we believe them to be very aesthetically pleasing. After some feedback from our target audience we will move on to start creating our ancillary products on computer as a final product.

From top to bottom - 1,2,3,4,5,6

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Possible Net Designs

Before moving on to creating our final digipak we decided that it would be best top first draw up a few net ideas. We then took these ideas and showed them to members of our target audience (15-24 year olds), to choose which one they like the best. After compiling the research our target audience preferred the design with 4 faces that folds on top of the CD/DVD combo, as a group we proceeded to look over the designs again and eventually we decided that we also preferred the same design. The design we have gone for (the one with the most tallies) is quite a simple and easy design to produce however we believe it will still have that professional look once produced, we decided that having something simple works best as we have had past experience creating nets and complicated designs usually ended up a disaster and didn’t have that professional look to them.

Update: Unfortunately we have encountered the problem that our net design doesn’t fit onto A3. As we are limited to A3 we have as a group decided to change the face positions. Fortunately the way we have changed them still means that our overall look of the digipak will still be the same as the original design.

Intial Thoughts For Cd Cover

As a group we have decided to throw ideas together that we think will work well as our Cd cover. Below are some of the examples that were brought up.

• Image of a street - ties in well with the name of the band
• Include images from our music video such as the bear, jenga and photos - helps create synergy between our video and cover
• Name of the band needs to be bold and eye-catching
• Use the jenga blocks as a wall for the inside covers that then opens to reveal the CD and DVD

We will now take these ideas and develop them into intial thumbnails of different possible Cd designs.

Update Editing

After completing all of our filming we are now able to move onto the editing stage. Hopefully the editing will run smoothly, and we can implement the ideas we had planned originally.

UPDATE: We are almost at the half way house with our editing and currently the editing has been a great success and we are extremely happy with the outcome.

UPDATE: Unfortunately we have ran into a few issues towards the end of our music video. Firstly we haven't got enough shots to cover the whole of the song however as a group we have come up with some new shots that can fill the 10 seconds we need to cover. Another factor we are disappointed with is that some of the shots don't appear as good and as successful as we first thought, therefore we are going to need to film again. Hopefully this will be our final film, and once we have completed the shoot we will then be able to wrap up our editing.

Day Three Filming (Final Day)

We have finally been able to wrap up our filming, in our final shoot we were able to capture the concluding shots to our production. The final takes went extremely well and we were over joyed with the shots we captured and how they looked. Everything has gone to plan and we our now finally ready to move onto editing together our music production.