Final Video

14. Hannah Dang, Hanna Stollery, Remina Akhtar, Nadia Begum from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation: Question 4

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

An ex media student's feedback after watching my music video

Evaluation: Question 3 using Camtasia

Evaluation: Question 2

Evaluation: Question 1

Final Digipak

Final Music Video

Digipak and Advert

I have decided that I will keep the inside of my digipak simple with the same background that is used on the front and back of my digipak for continuity. However I am going to use an image of our artist on the CD as I feel there should be more than just one image of her.

For my advertisement, I am going to use a long shot of our artist so consumers will be able to see the whole image. I am also going to incorporate the same theme of aurora borealis so it links to my digipak.

The image I have used for my digipak

Examples of adverts

 I will use this as inspiration for when I create my advert. I like the idea of having the image from the album cover as the main image on the advert. 

Analysis of three Digipaks

In Media we looked at the use of digipaks and whether they are effective today as the percentage of consumers purchasing music from iTunes and Amazon are higher. A digipak is a modern approach to CD/DVD packaging, usually made of thick cardboard and it allows the possibility of including a lot more information on the band/artist. 
A digipak could include these following things :

• Name of the artist/band

• Name of the album

• Track listings for the album

• Production information, including copyright and company details 

The overall digipak style should include elements of graphic design- not just images taken from the video. It should consist of 3-4 colours max and no more than two fonts. It also must create some sort of visual link with the advertisement.  The advert should include the release date and it should display the artist name and title. It also should include tour dates, reviews, websites and the record label.

I analysed two digipaks...

1. Rihanna 'Loud' 

There is a close up shot on Rihanna looking down with a feminine pose. The artist doesn't reveal her face or her body which shows that she is already a well established artist in the industry which a huge fanbase. Fans will already know who she is therefore buying her album. The colour red is used throughout the digipak as Rihanna's hair, lips and the use of roses are all red. This fits with the overall style of the digipak. The design on the CD's is very simple yet effective and goes along with the theme of roses. There is a sense of femininity with the artwork. The cover is simple yet it goes with the name of the album as the colour red is 'loud'.

2. Florence + The Machine 'Lungs'

The album cover is simple with an image of Florence and an emphasis on the lungs as it is the name of the album. I also like the simplicity of the CD design and will also use this for inspiration when I create my CD design. The back cover of the album is simple yet effective. They all link together using the colour black and the fonts used for the album name and tracklist. 

Digipak so far...

My Front cover so far, not finished yet!

How it looks with the back cover and Track List 

Shortlist of Fonts

Here's a shortlist of different fonts we liked on PhotoShop. The fonts we liked and might consider using are written in black! 

'AURORA' Tracklist

X Factor Final 2012- 'Spectrum' Calvin Harris remix

On Saturday the X Factor Finalists performed a mash-up of different songs and the Calvin Harris remixed version of Florence + the Machine's 'Spectrum' was one of them! This shows how popular our song choice is! The finalists sung it well too!

Digipak Photoshoot Photos

There was so many photos from the photoshoot for our digipak, 

so here's a few photo for the blog!

Digipak Photoshoot

Remina taking her photos for her digipak. 

As a group we wanted to follow the same style of album covers of Marina and the Diamonds, Rita Ora etc. They all have plain, background and a close up portrait of the artist as the album cover. We booked room 333 to use the green screen to act as our plain background that would be easier later to photoshop out the background. We used Hannah D's Canon 600D to take the photos.

Location of the album shoot                         Hannah S. testing out the camera                                          Action

We took 171 photos! 

The photo shoot was a success! Everyone got a turn to take photos for their album cover and took quicker than expected! 

Digipak remake

In our 3 hour lesson, we had a go at creating a digipak. We were shown a digipak that didn't follow the conventions se we had to re create it again using Photoshop. This is my end result although I would have liked to be more creative and also make an advertisement to go with it. My digipak for our artist will be a lot better!!

Eliza and the Crystal's - Album Name: AURORA

The original 'Aurora Borealis'

As a group we have decided that the name of our artist's album will be Aurora. The name was inspired by the Aurora Borealis or The Northern Lights. This came about when we were discussing Rihanna's video for Diamonds as she had included something like the Aurora Borealis in her video. We thought the name would be appropriate for our single 'Spectrum' as it is about lights.

"An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions."

Rihanna's Diamond Music Video.

Album title ideas!

Our title track for our album is obviously called 'Spectrum'. We wanted our album to have a consistence theme and wanted the name of our album to revolve around the word 'Spectrum'. When you think of the word Spectrum, you think of colours and light. We first looked out the definition of the word 'Spectrum'.



To generate ideas around the word Spectrum, we looked up 'Light' in the thesaurus to help us with different words that mean light, that will be suitable for the album's name.

As a group, we came up with different words and ideas for the title of our album. Here's some of the suggestions:

As highlighted we decided to go with Aurora. We all agree that Aurora as the album title name is different and really suits the title song and the image of our artist.

We're Finished!