A Magazine Advert

Our second subsidiary task was to create a magazine advert. Rachel has uploaded a few examples for inspiration.

Digipak layout designs

Here are the 3 designs, as a group we have come up with:

Design 1

This desgin in simple yet effective. Our original intentions was to only use a 4 sided digipak but we came up with many more ideas so will most likely not use this one.

Design 2

This is the layout we are going to use as we all felt it was the most practical and best suited to fit its purpose.

Design 3

It was a close call between this design and the one above, but we thought overall the above was more practical and was the most logical layout to use.

Photoshop Practise

For our subsidiary tasks, photoshop is a very vital part. Because I haven't used it at all I attempted it for the first time, just playing around with different effects, I learnt how to use different layers and cutting out out different shapes.

We have decided to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and produce both our didgipak and magazine advertisement. our school offers this software and also one of our group members Charlie has it on her laptop meaning we can work on this at any time with a skilled member. Photoshop allows us to have a wide range of effects and tools to choose from which will benefit us into making the most effective and creative subsidiary tasks possible. By using the effects we can try to create final products which attract our target audience and keep the same exciting themes throughout.

Band Picture Slideshow

Aswell as taking location shots, Alex also took photos of the band which she has put into a slideshow. This will help with the subsidiary tasks and to keep the continuity.

Our finished music video

Finally finished editing and choosing Youtube

At last the editing is finally finished after many glitches in the process.

With the new modern advances in internet technology bands and artists are able to introduce their music to potentially a massive audience, at low cost without having to join a major recording label. This makes it easier for independant labels to get their music out there.If an artist or band have decided to pay to record, produce and promote their album, distributing their music online becomes a major benefit for Independent artists as it is little or no cost at all to add to online websites such as YouTube. Online websites offer the opportunity to promote the artists or bands to new and existing fans which could lead to an increase in sales through online retailers such as Itunes, it could also be the case that it will apeal to their target audience. Also by releasing music online can mean it is alot quicker and accessible online, especially as buying music has changed nowadays and has become more popular to do so through online websites.

Because of our age as the makers and producers or this project and our target audience are part of the We Media generation. Social networking sites such as Facebook and online sharing websites such as YouTube are very popular within our own generation and also that of our target audience. It is a quick and efficient way to communicate and upload videos to promote new bands to their target audience.
Taking all this into consideration we have decided our music video for The Carpet Monsters would be most successful if we upload to youtube.


Keep On Rolling

Yesss Editing Finished...Well thats what we thought.

We finally finished the final copy of our video, editing completed and all video filmed. Although after saving the copy and thinking it was able to get back up we went on it to look again to find it had been lost. Even with technicians, nobody could find the final project so we had to re edit. Fortunately we had a saved copy of a half edited copy and so we had to stat editing again from this. It was a really annoying moment because we thought we had finished and could relax a bit to find out we were actually more pressured than we thought. But we WILL get this done.