Digipack & Magazine Advert

From receiving feedback on the digipack and the magazine advert they had some specific parts to each that they felt should be changed. For the digipack the main one was on the inside panel (top right) to change the font to match the font which we have on the back cover of the magazine advert. The way in which I was able to change this was by instead of trying to match the colour and effects the first time using Indesign I instead decided to look at what the fonts we originally used on the back cover were and looked at the different effects we had used on them. In order to adjust it I put the photo back into photoshop and then double clicked on the writing on the side and then from this I added the outer glow effect and coppied the effect which I had originally used on the back cover. The only other adjustment which I made to was to change where about we had the writing about the artist on that panel as well. The reason for moving this was that our group thought that the bottom of the panel looked too empty without anything and that the space left at the top would look better without the writing being cramped and squashed into that space. By moving this it allowed us to use a larger space to put the writing across and made the image look more full. The majority of the feedback which we recieved about our magazine advert was that they liked the idea which we were going for however they felt that there were too many empty spaces and gaps on the advert, as well as this Jack Garratt also won the brit award for critic's choice so we felt that it would be important to get this onto the advert as he is still a relatively new artist and by having this on the advert it would build up more interest around him. The new font that we have used is American Typewriter Condensed Light which looks a lot lighter, is easier to read and suits the the rest of the photo on the advert better. I also removed the social media icons as they looked out of place on the photo but I have left @JackGarratt which is his Instagram and Twitter name. As well as this I have used more up to date icons from Spotify and Apple Music. I have also increased the size of the front cover of the digipack on the magazine advert so that customers will be more aware of the crossover between the two.  For the date release I have also changed it to just numbers as it looks visiaully smarter, is bolder and takes up less space than writing out the full date like with what I had originally done.

Rough Digipack & Magazine Advert

Here are more detailed designs for our groups digipack and magazine advert. When making the digipack and magazine advert we used the effect of glowing edges to create the look that we wanted. Some particular things which we had to do relate to the front cover where the screenshot we had, had parts of the mirror that we didn't want and along with ths it also had the mouse print screened onto the photo. In order to get rid off this we had to use the clone stamp to take another area of the picture and use it to cover over with the colour it had there. Along with this around the names of the songs on the back of the digipack we also put an outer glow to appear around the back of them and make them stand out. Another feautre that I learned was when inserting the star ratings due to the orignal image that I took being only three stars I had to crop two photos together and along with this I used the magic wond tool to remove uneeded parts to the stars. Creating the digipack and magazine advert at first was a challenge becuase I had bever used Photoshop or Indesign before making these however it has taught to look for an attention to detail, make sure that work can get links made between it and to also to make the most of the space which you have.

The Love You're Given - Jack Garratt (Final Cut)

Here is the final cut of our music video. We decided to cut down parts of the song in sensible places to keep enable the audience to follow the storyline which we were trying to create. As well as this we also have put in more quick one second shots and have used a flashbacks to help reinforce the idea of Connor being angry and upset with Anna.

Evaluation Question 4

Here is my evaluation to question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages

Evaluation Question 3

Here is my evaluation question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2

Here is my evaluation for question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Question 1

Here is my evaluation question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Rough Version Digipack

Here are the designs which we made originally for our digipack. The idea which we have gone for is to keep up partly with current times and electronic music which makes up a large part of the music created by Jack Garratt. A group which has done a similar idea to that of what we wanted to create was Disclosure who have also gone for a the same style with their album covers. This is different to the original idea which we had planned which didn't include this look and was to be done without filters however with the digipack now looks more aesthetically pleasing to look at as well as actually being more relatable to our genre of music as well.

Rough Cut Audience Feedback

Here is the feedback which we recieved from our audience research based on the rough cut of our music video.

Rough Cut Music Video

Here is our groups rough cut of our music video with all that we have filmed so far. There are still a couple of gaps in it which are being filmed later on during the week. As well as doing this we are currently getting some audience feedback based on our rough cut so far on what they like about the music video and what they think that we should improve. There are also ideas such as considering what shot the  music video should finish on.

CD Template Draft

In our group we wanted to look at the possible ideas which we could use and what it would look like if we had a CD with the inside panel of the digipack over it. In this version we have created a black and white version of what the CD would look like to give us an indication as to ideas we could use in the future. If we were to use this in the future we will make sure that it matches the colour scheme whcih we already have with our digipack.