Website

http://gracekeyte.wix.com/website

This is the latest version of my website. I am still updating as I'm still learning new techniques. Wix.com is something I'm finding quite difficult to navigate my way around but so far I have learnt how to manipulate text and images, and I have also added a photo gallery.

Going through video

Today we went through the entire video and taking the class feedback into consideration, above is a short clip of us doing this. We noted down all of the clips that need to be re-filmed. (the list may not make much sense but it works for us!)

By doing this we realised that the finished video we first thought was really good had a lot of glitches that need to be fixed. We can now start to film them again and put it all in place together

Pixlr collage for CD background

To create my CD background of the collage images I used a website called www.pixlr.com 

On this you can decide how many images you want to add so I chose a 3x3 and added all of the images from the same shoot.

Here I have them all added, but as some of them were taken with different lighting, with flash or different camera effects....

I edited each photo so they had the same tone and effect and were in regularity.

Things I've learnt using Photoshop

CD

To achieve this I cut out a shape of a CD using the magnetic tool again and pasted it into photoshop on top of my first layer. I have all my images underneath as I had first planned and wanted a plain CD to go on top. The effect I wanted was that if the CD was lifted out of the case, the background would be full of the photos.

I tried using plain white with the purple theme on top, however after playing around with a few colour I decided to just go for a darker colour and use plain white for the writing, this seemed to match more and although I didn't carry on with the house style of the purple colour on this I think it suits the digipak and matches.

Research

As we are using Ellie Goulding as our model artist and applying our artist of Natasha to her songs and information I thought it would be good to do some extra research.

For my inside cover I plan on having the lyrics of the hit single and with that I thought the writer's and producers of the song should be involved so I looked onto the lyrics pages on the internet and found this.

I also wanted to include on my back page the record label Ellie Goulding (Natasha) is attached to. I found out that she is attached to three, so I chose the one I liked the look of best and decided to use this for my artist's back page.

Colour change of digipak

After spending a lot of time working on the digipak with the black and white theme (shown in the spine of this image) I decided that it wasn't working. I thought about each of the components to do with the artist, genre and into the digipak's colours and fonts and changed my mind completely. I thought about how Natasha is an indie-pop artist and that the black and white was too bold and dramatic to suit this. She is a pretty girl with a sweet nature as an artist so I thought these colours would suit better. Flowery and purple just seemed to work best and now I am much happier working with this. This background still shows the main feature of her hair so I think this works very well. I can also use different tones of the purple which is good to create a house style.

In this I have also added in a barcode to the back page to make it into a 'real' album to be sold in shops

Front and back of digipak so far

This is the front and back on my digipak so far... This is a basic idea of what I want it to look like with the contrasting colours black and white. I want Natasha's main feature of her hair to stand out so I want the background to be dark to achieve this.

NME star rating

Looking into other digipaks I realised that it was a common feature to have a 'rating' from a company such as a magazine or newspaper so I decided to use one of the biggest music companies with multi-platform media publications, NME.

I chose to rate it 4 stars as this seemed reasonable and attainable for the new artist!

Photoshop: using the magnetic tool

Digipak

This is my completed digipak

 

 

 

Template ideas

I have been looking at templates on Google to follow and this is one that our teacher has also recommended and that I think looks very promising. This is the one that I have used as a basic layout idea of my digipak.

Digipak ideas

Today I have been thinking of designs for my digipak. I have created some basic drawings as a rough idea for what I want to do, but all of the plans will come together once I have put them onto a template on Photoshop, as I have drawn and written in pencil some of the details are quite faint. By doing this I have looked at common conventions that I can follow from other digipaks. I have a clear idea of what I want to do so now I need to put it into photoshop. I've learnt from this what ideas I want to keep and what ones that I wont use again other than on this paper version.

Photoshoot photos

Digipak photos

Website: Getting the colour to match

Through creating my website I have learnt a way of making sure I have the exact colour match. I realised that once I have chosen the colour, it then comes up with a colour code (shown in the bottom right of the first photo). I then copy and pasted it into the same bar that comes up when I edited the a different piece of text so I now have the same colour to match and continue the house style.