Monday, 13 December 2010

Digipaks and advertisements

Michael Jacksons – This Is It


Michael Jacksons Digipak has a house style on the front of the Digipak he uses 2 main colours, red and a greyish white. On the front he does not use a lot of space for text he keeps it to a minimal and has a silhouette of his body shape with another image within it this is the same as the back of the Digipak. He uses the same 2 main colours Red and grey and still uses a silhouette with a image init and both of these images are mostly red. The writing on both the front and back are the same black font, on the back he has the main conventions a barcode, music producer, thanks and track listings. Inside the Digipak the CD is gold which is using another colour but has kept to a 3 colour house style and again a silhouette is used on the disc but this time with no image in it.

A clear font is used, appropriate sizes for the text and images, a usable house style is used the texts are well placed, the 3 colour ruled is used wisely keeping the colours basic. There are no stretched images no layer styles or unnecessary effects.



This is the advertisement for Michael Jacksons - This is it album

 This advert relates to the album digpak it uses the same house style using the same colours red and greyish white, it also uses the same picture as the front of the album cover, at the top of the advert it has some text using the same font as the album cover. at the bottom of the advert the it has some producer logos and some writing explaing the companys who are presenting the album and some acknowledgment of who helped out with the album


Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Katy perrys digipak is very simple yet very brave. It has a simple house style a black background inside with pictures of her nearly half naked, which appeals to the males more then most females. In the pictures of katy she is wearing the same costume in the inside with different shots, a medium close up and a sort of establishing shot. The CD itself relates to the album as a chart song on the album is a video about everything made of sweets and the CD . Altogether the house style inside is easy. The front cover is a very high quality image of katy perry laying on some clouds which does appear in one of her music videos on her album.

Notorious B.I.G - Ready to die album







This album cover is very very simple it is a plain white background and a toddler on the front, very simple colours white, black and red. the back of the album has the same house style a white background with the B.I.G on it using 2 black males on the album is a good contrast to the white background, also on the back they have used red writing aswell this stands out well. also they have the barcode producers name and copyright info at the bottom and on the front as biggie uses explicit lyrics the warning sign is on the front .

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Analysis Of Digipaks



Chamillionaire - Sound Of Revenge

This Album has a consistant house style which they use through out the cover. It has all the info that is required on a cover (Dates, Barcode, Copyright Information, Title, Artist name, Websites, Record Company info)
The cover also has a Spine which fits in with all the other fonts and the background house style. I think that the cover goes well with the genre of the music, I think that anyone can tell what type of genre this artist is. The artist has even made the CD within the house style.




Micheal Jackson - This is it

This album also has a good house style. This Album also has all the typical Cover info (Website, Dates, Copyright Info, etc...)
This album has different pictures for the front and back but it uses the same house style. However when it comes to the CD the house style completely changes.



Flo-Rida

This album has a consistant house style and has most of the Info that is required on the cover but it is lacking a few things. They are dates, copyright info. Apart from that this cove is a good cover because the background runs through out the two covers, except wen it gets to the spine, where it is black but it has the title and artist name.

Friday, 26 November 2010





This is our final edit of our music video
Cold Play - Viva La Vida

Rough Cut Feedback




We got a mixed feedback from people some people liked it, but they said it needed improvement and others said the plot of the video was good but we need to edit and put more shots in, to get the plot across.
We have listened to the feedback and have taken it in to account and we will improve it in our final one.

One criticism we got from the feedback was that the lighting in Greenwich was dark, so we intend to go back to Greenwich and re-film all the shots again.







Feed Back From Rough Cut
The rough cut is of course a rough version of the real thing so every shot was not
cut down to size.  What i liked when filming shots for the rough cuts was the locations,
if there was one thing i would change about the shots would be the time limit we had to film if we had more time we could have perfected the shots.

When we asked friends about how they felt so far about are rough cut they said it was a good idea but could of been more detailed in a way you get the storyline easier. Also we have taken feedback about what people do not like about our music video and have taken this into account for the future.

from the feedback from our teacher we have decided to cut down the length of some of our shots as they were to long and insert pictures of various religious crosses. we have also re shot Greenwich park as the lighting on the first set was terrible and we have gone back and re done most of the footage.