Lesson 20th December 2011

In the lesson today our main aim is to finalize our filming idea's for over the holidays. We have picked up the equipment for filming and plan to arrive in lesson next term with a new tape full of film ready to edit, which will eventually amount to the final film material that we will use in our final video production

CD disc

This is the CD in progress for the background I have used to colours for the gradients i took the colour from the rust of the wall on the back cover and I also took the wall colour(grey). when designing the CD itself i chose a picture of a house that was old and had broken windows. i cut this out with the circle and smudged it in to match the background.

16th december work in class

Today i have started editing the music video. The first thing i had to do was the import the song so i could start matching up the clips to the song. While editing i have come across problems, some i have resolved but some i can't so we will have to re shoot.

Linking Up Our Blog To The Website

On our web-page we also decided to add a link to our advanced portfolio production blog. This will allow the audience to see how the video was made and the planning that was done to make the video a success.

Making Active Links On Our Website

On our website we have included active links to make our site more interactive and appealing to the target audience. This will also make our website more like existing websites for other music artists and keep our work up to a competitive standard.

Tour Dates On The Website

After researching other band websites we found that a conventional feature is that of upcoming tour dates. This could help with the bands merchandising and fan base growth as they will be advertised through the music and media industry. We felt that we should add this in to our work to make our website live up the a higher standard.

Website Development

Yesterday, in the final few hours before the deadline we decided to change the design of the website dramatically as the old layout wasn't working as well as we planned. We decided to make the features of the website more structured in to the design and change the background colour to black to make it more conventional to the genre and image of The Jam. 

Last Minute Portrait

Before we decided to make a collage of stills from the footage we shot, I took a picture of a friend's brother and we were considering using this.
He was wearing a shirt and we thought as a backup it would work well considering the circumstances.
Here is a picture of the back-up:

Finished Website Design

This is our final website design, we added a YouTube video and linked all of the pages to the correct web pages. We thought that this fitted in well with our theme and so we stuck with it. The pictures were taken by Matt in our group and we thought that it would go really well in our website and CD designs and it looks fine in the end. 
I have checked all of the links and they all work fine, which we were a bit worried about before we did them but it all works fine. It's a great end product.

Finished Inside Cover

This is a picture of our final inside of the CD cover. We thought having a collage would look good and fit in with the theme of the estate due to the backgrounds in the picture.
The CD itself looks very good especially having the building with the broken windows as the main feature on it.

Pictures on CD cover

As our actor didn't contact us with the pictures we asked him to send, I have decided to so a collage of stills from our filming day on the inside of the cover. 
This is the collage so far:

 Although this is a last minute idea, I think that it will look good once it's done. 

Back of the cd cover

Here is the back of the cd cover. This photo i took when shooting our music video and i was going to use it to put on the website but we came up with the idea of using it for the back cover and put the writing on the wall under the spray paint. To make the writing look like it has been wrote on the wall i had to us the arc feature when writing . This was tricky to get it right as it wasn't in perspective.

Finished front cover

This is the final version of the cd cover. We have changed it quiet a lot since the last post. first off i have changed the font as we had some feed back from some viewers saying they couldn't really see the font very well. Secondly i have changed the background colour as it didn't suit the photographs we are going to use. thirdly we made the descision to change the photographs as we thought they were more appropriate. Finally i've put the text on the wall so it looks like it's sprayed on.

idear for the back of the cd

This photo i took when shooting to orignally put on the website but, i came up with the idear of using it for the back of the cd cover. The aim is to put the songs and extra information on the wall under the graffiti so it looks like its been sprayed on.

Disc cover

Here is a photo of an abandoned house near where we shot, we are going to use this photo as our disc cover. I am going to cut a circle out of the main house, which will be a bit smaller than the cd itself, then i will lay it on top of the disc template and use the smudge tool so blend in the sides, so it looks like it is disapering. we have chosen to use this photo as it is part of the irony of the music video by saying Malice is a nice place.

Website change Tuesday 13th

Change in website font

Upon showing our album cover and website design to other students they mentioned that the font is hard to read in some situations. Because of this we are changing the font to a similar design, that is a bit clearer to read than the last. This will hopefully improve the quality and standard of our coursework, hopefully boosting our grade.

New photo of location we shot at.

This is a photo i took this week, of where shot our music video. We are currently thinking of using it for the CD cover or website.

Style Of Photography Research

After researching a few styles of photography I think that a black and white style of photography would be more suitable for our CD cover and website design. It will help make our coursework relevant to the genre that The Jam belong too and will add the the look of an 80's travel brochure.

Today

We're continuing to edit our CD and Website designs, I am looking at backs of CD covers so that I can see what the back of a CD cover generally looks like. 


Here is an album back that I found, This shows me that it had a barcode and the record label's logo. It also has the track listings but for our song we wanted it to be a single so there is no need for a track listing. 


I sorted out the background of the Polydor symbol on the CD back, as the background was white and it didn't look good.


Here is a screen grab of the changed CD cover parts:

Friday 9th December

Due to Matt's absence in todays lesson we can not advance any further with our website or CD cover and design without further research in what aspects need to be included in the production in both pieces of coursework. Today I will research a style of images that will be suitable in our web page and design so I know what to do when I go and take the images myself.

Keeping A Theme In Our Work

This is our website design so far, we have chosen to follow the design of the travel brochure as it is relevant to the theme of our music video, CD cover as well as the web site. Keeping the theme consistent throughout. The colour scheme will also be consistent throughout the three area's of our coursework, keeping the work relevant to the band and conventions and genre.

The editing has started

Today i have upload the my music video that we filmed last weekend. At the moment me and Ryan are editing the video

Making our music video, band and website integrated into social networking

 To make our website more integrated into modern advertising and marketing we are going to have links on our website to The Jam's facebook and twitter's official pages.

This will make the website more personal to the audience as they will be able to interact with the artist through the internet if they choose they want to. Adding a modern aspect to our website that was not around when the record was released.

80's travel brochure inspiration

Inspiration for our website design has come from travel brochure's from the 1980's. The design for the travel brochure is very similar to our website design and is similar to what we want our final website to look like. However, it has a lot of empty space that needs to be filled with aspects such as active links, video's tour dates and images of the band and surrounding area in which the video is filmed in. This will allow for our website to look interesting and a lot more interesting than the image above.