A2 Media - Digipak credit page

Upon researching the requirements of a Digipak Credits page we found the website: http://www.slideshare.net/taniavicera/digipack-6738995This website, while not suited to our particular genre, it gives an insight as to what is required with a Digipak credits page telling us what to put for each song and how best to layer and to keep it in theme with the rest of our album. This is obviously helpful in telling us what is needed in the credits page of the digipak. Our research has informed us that we need to state who produced the music, wrote the lyrics and created the music. We also need to copyright the music and have an image on the page or I the background of the page to make sure it is still interesting and not just a blank page.

A2 Media - Creation of the Advert

As already posted on James blog this is the final version of the album poster me and James are also going to create another poster for a double page spread but this is the final version of what we have so far. We are very happy with how this has turned out, the general quality we feel is quite high we took the majourity of our inspiration from previous album adverts such as:

From this you can see the influence through the general structure of the advert and the set up with regards to the band name at the top with the name of the album underneath the artwork. We feel this worked well with the original artwork that we had, we added the lightening bolts into the background as a way to fill the black area mainly but also the green on black look is something that we are using as a motif for VORTEX and so it felt appropriate to do this for the album advert. One part of the "Sworn Against" advert that we did like was the advertising at the bottom of where this album could be bought, especially the way in they had been changed to the predominant colour of the advert itself, on this one being orange. So as can be seen when looking at the two adverts we took this convention and so made the same logo's (being that this was also a metal advert and we knew these types of brands would be best to use as they are already being shown in the genre)and so instead of orange or doing it green so that it fit in with the vortex colour scheme. Furhtermore the inclusion of "destruction productions proudly presents" was influenced from several adverts seen in my blog (posted back in October/November), this seemed approriate to us and also the inclusion of this seemed good to us.

A2 Media - Reflection

As me and James are nearing the deadline of this project, we are worringly behind with the filming but we are quite comfortable with the print products. We feel that the quality of our print products is very good and we are happy with the progree we are making and feel very confident that we will film eventually.. We are making headway with the filming as well having arranged a few dates to film and having now got confidence that we will have some footage by the end of next week. As for the editng process we will be putting in hours and hours of work after school to film the project, the school is open till half 6 and so me and james intend possibly to stay a good 3 hours after school in order to make sure that it gets edited to the best of our ability.

A2 Media - Digi pak

Working together on photoshop me and James began to create the first pages of the digi pak we took two pictures of the members of the band first cutting out the background of the photo and going onto make it only the outline of them but we edited that out and then added a green glow that of which has become a regular sight in our print products. To finish these pages we will merely add the lyrics alongside the name and instrument. The files will be uploaded on James blog and on mine on my next post.

Action Plan

Action Plan

Music Video: Fully Completed for February 10^th

Filming Dates:

·         January 7^th-January 8^th or January 14^th-January 15^th

Contingency Filming:

·         January 21^st-January 22^nd

Editing – Beginning as soon as the filming is done

·         January 9^th- January 23^rd  or January 16^th- January 30^th

Contingency Editing:

·         January 23^rd- February 6^th

Ancillary Products: Fully Completed for January 13^th

Album:

·         January 13^th

Contingency:

·         January 20^th

Album Advert:

·         January 9^th

Contingency:

·         January 13^th

A2 Media - Update

Over the course of the holidays I have continued my research into the digi-paks regarding their content and how me and James can reflect that. As a general comment it seems most common that the inside of the digi-pak is decorated with pictures of the band or extensions of the front artwork, while showing these things the digi-pak also contains the lyrics to the songs on the album which is standard for pretty much any album. As of this i have been working on getting all of the lyrics from the songs on the album so that we can quickly copy them into the digi-pak. Furthermore regarding the back of the album cover, the way in which me and James have done it so far seems to reflect what could be a combination of many different examples of CD artwork at a later date i will gather these examples and post them on the blog.