Final Artist Logo

This is our bands final logo and there are various reasons as to why it is an elephant. The first being that the artist behind the music we are using, who is also in our production, loves elephants, they are his favourite animal and because we are actually using him and his own pieces of music we wanted to make it personal to him. The second being that it is part of the rock genre. The rock genre tends to be more personal to the artist than the more mainstream genres such as pop in our groups opinion so we saw an opportunity to personalise it and conform to what we believe. 

Making of the artist logo

Making of the Logo

This is how our groups band logo was made. It was made by Sulieman, one of my group members he came across some difficulties mentioned above but overall, it wasn't a very hard task.. It basically depicts what he had to do in order to create our artist logo.

Website Analysis

In order to understand how websites attract and keep their target audience interested I researched and analyse what a music website actually features and also how it is presented to its audience based on various factors such as age.

More Digipak Tests

I have continued to create more silk images using different effects to my previous video.

With this one I used the 5 point starting point and reflected it giving it 10 points of origins and made it move towards the center. I did this just to see how using a different amount of points would look and overall i'm pleased with the outcome as the overall pattern is very trippy and it is quite eye catching as it  looks like it needs to be figured out.

Similar to the previous image i used a large number of points this time using 6 but with the reflection, it became 12. This one I believe to better than the previous one as it is less trippy and it is much more clear as there is less going on in the image. The shape could be interpreted as a star and is overall a nice image and the colour of the image is a lot simpler which is why I think it is better.

This one was completely new to me as i used 4 points with no reflection thus only 4 lines appeared at once. Out of the 3 this is my favourite as it has no reflections so there is less going on and I think the colours work really well  together and  despite not having the move to the center effect the spiralling aroiund the center works well and may be used in our digipak specifically on the CD.

Examples of images created using Silk

When looking for other sites similar to Silk I came across a tumblr page where it featured other Silk users work and they were really good and some of them could give inspiration when it comes to creating a digipak.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/weave-silk

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/weave-silk

Previously I was using weave silk to create potential digipak images and when browsing the internet I came across other peoples weave silk work on tumblr and thought that they were very interesting and amazing in the sense that drawing a proper shape that you intended is quite difficult on the site.

Digipak Testing

In class today I used the website http://weavesilk.com/ to just create random ideas for a digipak cover just looking at what this site could do as I find the wispy effect of the work quite interesting and it could  lead to part of the digipak being made on this site. Here is my first attempt at the site:

I took my own initiative to create this as I found this website to be quite cool looking and experimenting with it was a great way for me to practice making potential designs for out groups digipak.

My Practice CD Cover

Today in class we were practicing using photoshop as we are now focusing on our ancillary task to create a digipak and so we were practicing making one, here is my first attempt:

The way in which this was created was by going onto flickr random and selecting an image that had been uploaded in the last seven days. The band name in the bottom right hand corner was selected by going onto wikipedia and selecting a random article and the name of the article was "Las Vegas Limited" and to get the album name we went onto random quotes page, found the last quote on the page and used the last 5 words mine being "Important and Wishing Never Works" which doesn't make sense so it was shortened to "Wishing Never Works"

Digipak Analysis

In lesson today my group and I were given a random digipak from a band we did not know, we had to analyse this digipak in order to familiarise ourselves with them, making it easier to create our own.

 

 

When looking at the digipak specifically the front cover you would think that it would be from a soul/R&B artist. However, the name of the Band, the digipak and the style of the songs themselves completely change this view. The songs are form the alternative genre as their music is not something you hear within the more noticed genres of music. I think that they used this kind of image on their digipak as a way to challenge their own image as previous album covers tend not to focus on people, there are a few but they tend to have covers that have focuses elsewhere. Challenging their image will lead to a potential boost in an audience as its unique imagery may encourage people to buy this album out of curiosity as they will already know the band but with this different style they may presume that the music may also be different and would want to hear it.

What is a Digipak?

What is a Digipak?

One of the ancillary tasks that is part of our media text is to create a digipak and this post breifly explains what a digipak is and its purpose.

A digipak is a type of CD box, which is essentially special editions and ten to be for re-released albums. They tend to be made of cardboard which is folded a number of times with CD case in the middle and it generally is has 4 or 6 panels. 

The aim of the Digipak is to promote the artist and they are usually specifically made in order for fans to buy and usually contain additional content such as booklets or postcards this additional content and the innovative designs on the casing cause the artist/band's audience to want to buy this more so than an ordinary CD or download.

Recording Sound for the production

Choosing the right sound

In the beginning scene the artists phone goes off and the ringtone plays. Realistically it wouldn't be extremely loud as its playing off a phone and so we tried to record it  as it would be very difficult to match up the sound from two different scenes perfectly. In the first 3 images above we recorded the sound at a fixed point and that was ok because the sound was constant, however it didn't come across as though someone was moving towards the sound as it didn't get louder. 

This brings us to the last 3 pictures where the sound was recorded from across the room and as the mic got closer the sound got louder. This didn't work as well as we thought it would as it was barely audible from far away but as it got closer it was audible.

In the end I we decided to use the first sound clip as the overall sound was better. To achieve the desired affect of someone moving towards a ringing phone we will decrease and increase the sound accordingly.