FEEDBACK

My Movie from Bahja on Vimeo.

This is the feedback that we received from our target audience regarding our music video. His feedback was very helpful as it allowed us to see his initial thoughts of what he thought our music video was about.

PEER ASSESSMENT- BAHJA AND SARA

In today's lesson, we did a peer assessment on our music videos. We went around the class and looked at our peer's music videos and filled out a sheet which had different marks band on it. The group that assessed ours will comment below with their feedback.

FINAL PRODUCTS

Here are our final product for our ancillary tasks.

This is our final CD Cover.

This is our final CD cover.

UPDATE ON DIGI-PACK

We have decided to change the pictures used on our Digi-pack as we was not pleased with how it looked. We decided to use different but similar pictures for our CD cover due to the fact that it adds more meaning and has different feel to in comparison to the previous edit of the digi-pack where we used the same picture but just changed the colours and effects on it which we thought it was quite boring. We also changed the pictures due to the fact that we believed that these particular images goes well with our CD cover due to the colours. We wanted to have a consistent colour scheme throughout our CD cover as well as our poster as it would make it easier for target audience to recognise.

UPDATE ON CD COVER

We decided to change our CD cover as this particular edit has more to give for example, the fact that we used the double exposure effect in comparison to the previous edit of the CD cover where we have only changed the filter and the effect of the picture. However, with this edit, we have merged two pictures together as well as changing the effect and the colour of the picture to fit in with the colour scheme of the CD cover as a whole.

CD (DIG-IPACK)

This is what our CD digi-pack looks like. We are quite pleased of how our CD looks like as we feel as though we have followed the conventions of how digi-packs are supposedly to look like. We were inspired by the Rihanna digi-pack as her CD cover have a simplistic feel as well as having the same colour scheme which runs throughout her covers which we wanted to include for our CD digi-pack. 

As you can see, this particular digi-pack is very image based. We liked this as the visuals of the digi-pack gives an insight or the feel of what the album will be about. We wanted to use as well as move aways from this convention as we did not want our digi-pack to be image based. However, we did not want too much writing as it is uncommon for people in this generation to buy digi-packs so too much writing may put them off. However, we did write a quote as we feel that it may satisfy the audience's needs.

The fact that only fans buy digi-packs as they would want a hard copy of product instead of listening to it on a device, or on an app such as, spotify; it was important for the digi-pack to interact with the target audience and make it worth the price.

CD- BACK (2)

We decided to re-edit the back of the CD cover due to the texts the we used. We have decided to use the font 'Seraveck Bold' as illustrated above in photoshop. 

We decided to change the font due to the fact that this particular font goes with the conventions of our genre- dance. We also felt that this particular text looks more sophisticated as well as more aesthetically pleasing.

DIARY

We have done most of the filming and have edited 3/4 of the video. We have also created the back of the CD cover as well as the poster for our CD cover. However, we are in the process of creating the front CD cover.
Today in lesson we edited some more posts as well as creating more posts and also finished creating the front of the CD cover.
We decided to re-film some shots as we felt that it did not look as pleasing.
We should hopefully finish everything by this week.

CD (BACK)

Here is the process of the back of the CD cover that we edited using Photoshop: 

 STEP 1. We uploaded the background of the CD cover onto Photoshop.

STEP 2. We then started to add the titles of the names of the songs that would be included on the album onto the image by using the text box in Photoshop:

STEP 3. We started to add copyright and year as well as who owns the copyright material and who the album has been distributed by

STEP 4. Finally, we started to then add the band name and the record label as well as the barcode.

We decided that this is the final product of the back of the CD cover.

CD COVER

This is our first attempt of doing our CD cover. We used a picture of Sara as the video is based around her and she is the character who dies in the video so it only made sense to use her as the cover. We wanted to use a fading tone or texture to the CD cover to emphasise that she is gone.

However, we didn't really like this cover as it does not look aesthetically pleasing. Also, we did not like this particular picture of the background of the city light because we felt that it did not look as exciting or more aesthetically pleasing so therefore we decided to use another image of the city lights which looked more pleasing. We decided that on our next edit of the CD cover we wanted to use make the image of the character more darker and also use some shadow effects to emphasise the significance of Sara leaving the world.

UPDATE ON CD COVER

We liked this edit of the CD cover in comparison to the previous edits due to the fact that we felt that this particular colour runs throughout the CD cover (digi-pack) so it made sense to use this image for our CD cover.

DRAFTS/PRACTICE OF CD COVER (DOUBLE EXPOSURE- 2)

Here are old drafts or an attempt to do the CD cover. We used images from the internet to practice on how to do double exposure. We wanted to see what it would look like if we used double exposure for our CD cover.

USING DOUBLE EXPOSURE ON PHOTOSHOP

Here is a practice of us  making the CD cover step by step using double exposure:


                                                    STEP 1

• We decided to use the same image of the character. we decided to cut put the image and change the capacity 50% so that when we add the background image of the city, the image can be seen through the image of the character  to cut the image we used the magic wand and rubber. the image was not cut accurately however this won't be a problem as we are going to make the image darker and the sharp edges won't be as visible.

STEP 2

• We were not happy with the city image we took previously as it wasn't as colourful and vibrant so we decided to change. reused a more colour full image of a city and place it at the back of the characters image. we adjusted the size of the image making it equal size to the characters image. using the city as a background did not look attractive and looked busy and we did not want the CD cover to look busy as most CD covers are simplistic. so we decided to cut out the city image  in the shape of the characters image( head) and use a simple black background as shown below:

STEP 3 

• Here is where we are so far. We adjusted the capacity of both images so that the city lights were visible through the character image layer. The pitch black background made out CD cover look quite mature so we decided to change the gradient to make it more appealing.

STEP 4 

• The next step is to add texts. we have decided to use this font for our band name and used a simple font for our music name. we used a white colour font to make it stand out more. most cd covers use simple fonts and colours however we decided to not follow this convention as out genre(house music) is more about being bold, colour, loud and dance so we used bold fonts that represent these feelings. the white font works very well as it contrasts with the black background and makes the text pop, allowing the audience know what bands CD cover it is and what album it is.

This is the final making of the double exposure using images from the internet. We wanted to use images from the internet to get a taste of what our CD cover would look like using double exposure. We wanted to use the image/s of city lights as it is a theme that runs throughout our music video due to the fact that the music video is set in a city- London.