DigiPak Changes

DigiPak

Me and Jack made a couple of changes on the DigiPak we produced. These changes are not major but important we feel. The first change we made on the DigiPak was adding the bad website www.proxiesmusic.com on the back, we felt this would encourages buyers of the album to check the website out and get more involved with the band and possibly buy merchandise from the website. The next change we made was adding a barcode on the back of the DigiPak. The reason why we added a barcode was because of the authenticity that it would add to the digipak and make it seem like a real genuine album that will be sold to the public. 

Magazine Advert Change

Magazine Advert

In class, Me and Jack showed the advert to our teacher. He said it was a good start but we need to add more colour towards the picture instead of just black and white. 

Orignal Advert: This was the version Me and Jack produced in lesson. Our teacher thought it was not standing out due to the plain colour of the text involved in the advert. 















Updated Version: To act on the comments made by our teacher, we decided to change the white text to bright red, this would go with the youtube logo in the corner. We then showed this to our teacher and we gained more feedback from our teacher. This version is now to bright and strain your eyes when looking at the advert. 

Final Version: This is the version Me and Jack produced and our teacher saw it as the best of all the above. This advert has the right mix of white and red text so its stands out but not to bright. We feel this will bring audience and viewers to view the band more and gain more viewers. 

Magazine Advert Process.

Magazine Advert Process

Below i'm going to show the steps it took to get to the completed advert me and Jack produced.

Step 1:

To start me and Jack got a plain black background, then we put the band name Proxies and name of the album in white writing this way the advert would stand out in a magazine due to the white writing being bright. 

Step 2:

Then we added the release date of the album to make the audience aware of the date. This gets the audience ready for the release, we did it in white writing to blend in with the band name and title of album. 

Step 3: 

The next thing we added is the DigiPak cover, we created this before and added to the advert to make the audience aware of the cover to allow them to buy it with no problems finding it. 

Step 4: 

Is the next step we included the four major social networking site, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Tumblr. This is to show the audience that they can keep up to date on all things proxies by following them on these websites. 

Step 5:

The next thing we thought we improve the magazine advert and that was including a picture of a trojan, this is due to the song being about a trojan. 

This picture to the right is a picture of the editing process in which I turning the red background black to allow the picture to be included in the magazine advert, we then added an filter to the picture to make it more detailed and stand out. 

Step 6: 

This is the last step in completing the magazine advert. In this step we went online and found a review for proxies on hit the floor magazine. This quote is positive towards the band and this is good for the magazine advert and it says the band are good and a good way of gaining new audience's. 

The completed Magazine Advert: 

Completed Magazine Advert

Magazine Advert

The picture below is of mine and Jacks completed magazine advert.

CD Idea

CD IDEA

Below is a quick idea me and jack came up with, as the X is a trademark of the band we thought we would try and recreate the X on the CD. We try to make it our own and more authentic.  

Completed DigiPak

DigiPak

The two pictures below are those of the completed DigiPak for Proxies album. The album is called Trojan (inside your chest) as this is the main track from the album and that of the one we made a music video from.

 

The picture above is the front page, back page and a middle page. The front page is showing the band name and title of the of the album. The picture behind the writing is of the ocean because of our music video is by the docks in ipswich so we thought it would fit well. Then the back page has the same picture but just listing the four songs involved in the album. Then the middle page of the album is the band saying thanks to the friends and groups who have helped them reach the position they are in today. 

The picture above is of the middle pages involved in the DigiPak. The X's are the trademark of the band. We created this using photoshop and then put the white on a black background to stand out. The middle panel above is pictures of the band and we edited them together, this is where the CD is going to go, we though this would look good when the Cd is removed. We are happy with the results of the DigiPak. 

DigiPak Ideas

We have gone on photoshop and added filter effects to our chosen image however we came across four different effect, which we like a lot and stand out from the rest. We asked a teacher and some students in our class for there input to see what was the best one. Below are the chosen four filter effects: 

Artistic: Plastic Wrap 

Brush Strokes: Ink Outlines

Sketch: Reticulation

Texture: Craqelure

The one that was voted the favourite amongst people was called 'Ink Outlines' in the effect group Brush strokes. Our final choice is to use the 'Ink Outlines' as the majority favour it.