Digipak Experimentation

Digipak Experimentation

This is the experimentation of the image I had used for my mock Digipak, the tutorial I had used was based around the blending options of Photoshop. I have been fairly successful with this tutorial so far yet it is only part finished as I have yet to finalise the image and therefore have not been able to balance out the opacity of the image as of yet. I have used a variety of tools for this job such as masking (which I used the quick selection, brush and levels options) and the colour blending options (hard light, overlay, soft light and linear) these options and tools helped to create the various different effects and colours shown here. I hope to further progress these options and also to help create the different effects within our own Digipak.

Narrative Ideas (All Members)

Narrative Ideas

Narrative ideas from NathanHunter_

This is some of the narrative ideas we have for the music video, it mainly focuses on the feeling of being paranoid, vulnerable, depressed and alone. This will portray some aspects of the lyrics presented within the song and also it allows the audience to make their own assumptions about the narrative and connect to it in their own way. We will expand on these when creating the storyboard and the filming in general, these are just draft idas and therefore do not show specific timings or shot numbers to be used.

Mood Board for Logo Design (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Mood Board for Logo Design

This is the mood board for our logo design, this has allowed us to collect some ideas to look at the different things we could incorporate within the design. This has helped us to look at the styles, colours, themes, images and text styles we could include specifically for our logo yet it is also useful as we can keep referring back to this when creating our digipak and advert for some ideas we havent used yet.

Text Effect Test (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Text Effect Test

This is one of the text effects that we have experimented with for our digipak and advert. This has now allowed us to have a visual representation of what kind of effects can suit our music promo pack and the genre of the band. This effect is good yet if we had manipulated the colours differently the effect could suit the genre a little more and therefore suit the band more. We are taking this as a test and therefore trying to see what different things we can have within our promotional pack.

Photoshop Tutorials (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

   

These are some images from the different effects we have seen on the the internet for some Photoshop tutorials, these have interested us and we have thought to use some of their ideas within the course of creating our advert or digipak. Here are the links below:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/royal-gold-text-effect/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/metallic-copper-text-effect/

http://textuts.com/shiny-sparkles-text-effect/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/wireframe-text-effect/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/eroded-metal-text-photoshop/

Recce Shots - Sixth Form (All Members)

Recce Shots - Sixth Form

Recce shots - sixth form from NathanHunter_

These are shots of the Sixth form in locations we are thinking and planning on using within the music video production. They consist of the Recording Studio, Rehersal Rooms and The Stage.

Storyboard ideas 1 (All Members)

Intro and First Verse

Storyboard ideas - First Verse and chorus from NathanHunter_

This is the ideas we have so far for the storyboard. It only shows the ideas for the Intro and First Verse yet only for the performance element of things. We are yet to come up with ideas for the filming of the Narrative part of the video yet within this file, it has detailed elements of the Shot type, where the shot would be, what would be in the framing of the shot, what time in the song it would appear and what different technical aspects of it.

Audience Profile (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Audience Profile (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

This is our Audience Profile page set up on the popular social networking site: Facebook. This page shows that the average member of our target audience keeps up to date with the more current affairs and recent trends and conventions. This shows us that to enable people like this to want to look and view our music video; we would have to keep things new and different so that the shots and video doesn’t seem out-of-date. Also it shows us that the people who like this type of music also enjoy other styles which leaves the idea open that we could include some shots similar to other styles that coincide with this track and the artist. Also our audience profile has been useful in enabling us to come up with the different questions for our audience research questionnaire as we can tailor our questions to things that are relevant with our target audience.

E-mail to "The Studio" (Nathan Hunter)

E-mail to "The Studio"

We have e-mailed one of our locations "The Studio" to ask for permission to use their venue for our music video as it would provide a realistic location for a stage performance. This has allowed us to start to plan our Shooting Schedule for our different locations and also to start to inform the band when we can start shooting the video.

Mood Board - Metallica (All Members)

Mood Board - Metallica

This mood board is a display of various images and stills from previous metallica videos to help provide us with some inspiration for our music video. We have taken images from these videos:

• The Day That Never Comes
• One
• Enter Sandman
• King Nothing
• Nothing Else Matters

These videos combine both performance styles (Stage and Studio) for different songs yet they also provide a mix of narrative and performance. These show us how we can provide an entertaining video yet still provide a compelling performance, convincing narrative and still stick to the conventions of the genre.

We have also used the Metallica logo and their cover for their album entitled "Metallica" later nicknamed "The Black Album" as this is the album that our song comes from, this also gives us some ideas for the digipak and advert later to be completed for the music promo package.

Risk Assessment (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment from NathanHunter_

Call Sheet - Sixth Form College (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Hartlepool Sixth Form College

Call Sheet - Sixth Form from NathanHunter_

Treatment Sheet (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Treatment Sheet

 

Treatment sheet from NathanHunter_



Logo Design (Nathan Hunter and Joe Tindale)

Logo Design

The following images are the production logo ideas that were created for our record label. For our record label we have decided upon using our initials therefore we have decided on the name NHJT, this is because it tends to be a common trend for smaller artistic companies such as photography companies and film producers.

Created by Nathan Hunter

Created By Joe Tindale

The first image shown was created by Nathan Hunter. It shows guitars which are a widely common convention within rock and metal genres of music and it contains colours such as red and black which can also be linked with rock and heavier genres of music. The contrasting colours are used within the image to give the text and the images a better sense of alignment and order as the position and colour of the text match with the colour of the guitar image.

The second image shown was created by me. I tried to keep with the second images theme of contrasting colours and  only used colours such as black and white because it is uncommon to find a rock album/record label logo which contain brighter, more vibrant colours. I also kept the image theme simple by only using text on a plain background and the end result is something that would more commonly be shown as a photography or a more artistic company logo.

Audience Research (Nathan Hunter)

Audience Research created on the website http://www.linoit.com

This Audience Research pinboard was created to produce the Quiz in an interesting way to entice the audience we are giving it to. We are handing it out to people who are fans of the style of music our music video is based around to help us with creating ours and helping us to narrow our choices down to what we need to put into the video. We are yet to produce our findings on the blog but we are going to present it with visual representations of the findings.