Blog Update: Ancillary texts near completion

I have now fully completed my digipak. I have made a four sided digipak using a template and images i took on the day of the shoot and screen grabs of the footage. I have also created the front of the CD using the same image as what it will sit on. I have used two corresponding image to improve the iconography of the artist and intrigue the audience: on the front cover I have an image of my artist gazing into the distance, this would intrigue the audience to open the digipak as they would wonder what she is looking at, I then placed an over the shoulder image on the panel that they would first see when opening the digipak, this is showing what she is looking at and gives the audience an aspect of closeness with the artist as they feel like they are in the same room and seeing what our artist is seeing.

I have also nearly completed my webpage as today I imported the front of my digipak and added a gallery slideshow to give the user a glimpse of what our artist is like. To complete my webpage i will need to complete my music video and embed this onto the page.

here is the nearly completed draft:

file:///Volumes/machomes/05rsimson/Sites/Amelia_Lee_website/Home.html

Proof of editing

I have now replaced the content marker on my banner design with an image of the real artist. AS my banner is now complete i have transfered this across to my webpage. By having the convention of a banner on my website it will reassure the user they are visiting a webpage; as seen below.

I have also nearly finished my digipak design. I have finished the front and inside left cobvers but I have still got to add some details to the back and inside right covers. To complete this I need to add the tracklist, barcode, production company details and terms and conditions. I am still debating whether to change the panels as they are well designed but are not showing of creativity as they are dull compared tho the other two sides.

Digipak- planning

This is the conventions list I have made after assessing real life album covers.

The conventions I have listed are used for various things. For example the logo of the artist is considered to give them individuality and recognisability to the audience, this is similar foer the use of an image of the artist as the audience will keep seeing the artist and therefore become more familiar with them. The use of the tracklist is to inform the buyer of what is on the CD as they may be buying the album just for a specific song and if they do not see this on the tracklist they may not buy the CD. The album and artist name is very important as this is showing whos CD it is and give the buyer  an insight to what type of genre the CD is. The barcode needs to be present as this will be how the shops process the transaction of purchasing the CD. the production company logo should also be present as this is also advertising the production company as well as the artist. Also extra details (like copyright) should be present as thisis showing it is an official product and shows that it is professional.

Design 1:

Design 2

Design 3

Design 4

These are four designes I have created from looking at the convention list above. I feel that all of these would be applicable as they include all of the different aspects of the list. as they vary I will be able to take aspects from each and combine them if I feel that I have a good design but could it could do with a little bit of improvement such as placements of text.

Ancillary text 2- Digipak

Today i have started to design my 4 sided digipak.
I first found a template so I know the dimensions I need to stick to.
I then added layers onto my template so I could overlay images onto the template.
I designed the kaleidoscope pattern using the spray tool, I knew that the spray tool would create my desired effect as on an edit I have made before I found that when overlayed the saturation of the colour had increased giving the effect of it being darker.
I still have a long way to go to complete my Digipak, I still have to import the logo of the, import some images for my front cover and add all the text I need to add; such as the tracklist.

Website draft 3

In todays lesson I finished off my webpage apart from adding the correct photos of the artist, images for the gallery and posting the newest video. Recently I have been having a problem when trying to include a shout box for the fans to post in, as either the html has not worked or they are not compatible with iWeb, but I have overcome this problem and found a shout box which works and allows guests to post messages to the webpage. I have double checked that this feature will work by asking a fellow class member to post a message, of which was successful and I could respond.
This is the messages posted between me and my class mate:

Here is the link for my website
file:///Volumes/machomes/05rsimson/Sites/Amelia_Lee_website/Home.html

I have now started on my four sided digipak, this was started by analysing covers of actual artist and seeing which features kept repeating themselves and started to hand draw the drafts for my own designs.

Website draft 2

file:///Volumes/machomes/05rsimson/Sites/Amelia_Lee_website/Home.html

Album cover analysis (digipack)

Album Cover Analysis

Website draft

file:///Volumes/machomes/05rsimson/Sites/Amelia_Lee_website/Home.html