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First Website draft

Ancillary Website

First Front Pane of my Digipak

This is the first draft of my album cover to Sam Sparro's new single called Black and Gold. I am very happy with the way this front cover looks, its very modern, simple, classy and appealing. Underneath the main image of Eoghain is the writing Sam Sparro, the name is included on the front cover so that customers are aware of who's album cover they are looking at, the title is in gold because the colour is very classy and it relates to the lyrics of the song. I will tweak and improve this album cover but I don't think a lot needs changing. 

First draft - Music Video

As you can see from above this is our first draft of our music video - Black and Gold, Sam Sparro. Over the past couple of weeks we have been constructing and filming our music video, on tuesday we finally finished filming for our draft. Once we had gathered up all footage, Ruby then spent time going over the footage and edited for our final draft. In our music video so far there are some good bits, but we know that we are capable of a much higher standard piece of work, over the christmas holidays we will meet up and have a talk about the things we need to improve and how we can do so. Creating interesting, meaningful and fun scenes is what our group does really well, and I'm sure for our final piece we will improve on our first draft massively. Improvements we have noticed we need to make so far is making sure that the green screen is on a flat surface, resolving lighting and miss en scene issues and creating more of a narrative based music video, working on the relationship between Sam Sparro (Eoghain) and the girl in the music video which is Ruby.

Inside cover first four digipak ideas (18/12/14)

Digipak Inside Cover first 4 Ideas

Here are my first four inside cover digipak ideas. I have gone for a very simplistic approach to all four ideas. The top left picture is a mix between black and gold different patterns and colours which relates to the name of the song. I like the font in this inside album cover, it looks creative and classy giving off a unique approach as it attracts customers to read it. The top right album cover is a bit more exciting and creative, the name Sam Sparro and Black and gold is written vertically in fancy font, around the CD we have lots of stars in gold infront of a black background. This relates to the song black and gold because stars look classy and they are usually the colour gold, and behind the stars is black which relates to the night sky and the name of the song. I love the bottom right cover, its very simple yet very unique and appealing, the background looks amazing as it entices you in towards the CD. The font of the writing is very simple yet gives off a classy approach. We have a simple gold star underneath the music production name to make it look of a higher status. The CD cover on the bottom right image is my favorite design. I like the size and the font of the writing on this CD as it takes up the whole CD and underneath the writing we have a gold star in a white circle to make it look classy.

Progress update - 02/12/14

On Tuesday, after school we went to Christians house to film for our music video. We ended up with some better footage which we could work with, but the main issue was that the camera wasnt very still, instead of holding the camera in one place, we followed the actor and this meant that we got some wall in the background not the green screen.

Here are a few images I took whilst at Christians house. There is a picture of our green screen on the wall, where our artist will be singing in front of. The second image is of us looking at our storyboard trying to plan what we were going to film next.

Progress update - 28/11/14

On friday, we missed fifth period to go to Christians house to carry on filming for our music video. We felt like we needed to film a lot more footage so that when we bring the camera in on our next lesson to edit we actually had a lot more footage to work with. We experimented with a lot of different ideas, to see what worked well and what didnt, this helped us realise what we wanted to include and what we didnt. We ended up filming some ok footage but we werent very happy with what it turned out like.