Magazine Advert Task 2

When your magazine advert is created, there are still some tasks that need completing.

Firstly, do you have on your blog:

• The initial designs? These should be sketches on paper, possibly a range of ideas. 
• The first version you did of your magazine advert.
• Different versions that show how you made changes and edits all the way through the process.

Lastly, you need to get feedback for your advert and then make any changes based on the feedback. It's crucial that throughout this you upload all images and provided a running commentary for each image and why you made certain changes.

A great example can be found here:
http://rominamusicvideo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/magazine-advert.html

Magazine Advert

The final production task is creating a magazine advert for the album, featuring your single.

This should feature imagery and photos taken in the making of your digipack to create a style and coherent 'look' to your advertising campaign.

Before you create your electronic version of the poster, first plan as a drawing what it could look like and what photo/s it could contain. This will help in your planning section of your work.

Examples of which are seen below. Look at the small features and range of things included to get an idea of what you might want to use on your own.

Examples of digipacks

Click each image for a larger version:

Digipack templates

Click the image or load in a new tab for full size versions. 

Useful online photo editors

https://pixlr.com/editor/

RECOMMENDED:
https://pixlr.com/express/

http://www.fotor.com

PicMonkey

http://www.befunky.com

http://www.ribbet.com/app/?toolbar#/home/welcome

http://fotoflexer.com

http://www133.lunapic.com/editor/

http://www.sumopaint.com/app/

http://www.photoshop.com/tools?wf=editor

Artwork and photos for album.

In order to develop and create an album cover, artwork and subsequent posters/website/promotional material, you need a range of photos, taken by yourself. You should take a lot of photos to give yourself a variety of possibilities to choose from, meaning that some photos will end up not being used. The photos do not need to just be the artist/s, but can also be reflective of your video and location, themes in the song you've chosen and/or a general art style you want to aim for. When you've taken all of the photos you will need to be able to access these via your blog. These images must be created by yourselves and not images taken from others, especially ones which are subject to copyright.

Once you have taken all necessary photos these should be uploaded in full size to your blog and labelled correctly so that you can access these wherever necessary and also show that these images have been created by yourselves. Finally, when all of the images have been uploaded, each needs a simple evaluation explaining what you wanted/aimed to do, whether you think you achieved this and whether you will be using that photo in your final work or not. Have a read of these two articles before you begin to get an idea of how this process could and should work in terms of achiveing a consistent style in your artwork and promotion:

http://pitchfork.com/features/take-cover/9168-jay-zs-magna-carta-holy-grail/

http://pitchfork.com/features/take-cover/8791-sleigh-bells-reign-of-terror/

A useful example of how this might look can be found here:

http://lukegeorgiades.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/digipak-photoshoot-doobie/

Tasks update

Research on your artist/band should be complete and contain the following:

•Research PowerPoint via SlideShare.


•Original research files with links to relevant websites.


•Screenshots of websites/pictures uploaded separately again with links.


•Documents such as lyrics uploaded to slideshare, with links if downloaded from somewhere.


•Embedded videos from other sites.





To be complete by Tuesday 22nd October:

•Embedded videos of the same genre.


•Typical clothing/costumes of the same genre.


•Audience profile for the genre/type of music. (See example here: http://martynhollinsheadlcmedia1213.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/audience-profile.html )


•At least 3 analysis of different videos with both the videos and the analysis


uploaded. See last post on here for details.


•Examples of album covers of a similar genre.

•Treatment


•Finished storyboard as an animatic




To be completed by first week back:
•Actors


•Props


•Location photos


•Costume/clothes


•Schedule list


•Health and safety