Album Art Covers

I have been using Photoshop to create some designs for my album cover

shots of me editing the first 1:48 of our final film

in the shot above i was at the 0:50 time period of the song and on the story board that we have came up with and all was going well and the storyboard was helping out with the timing of the shots and where to begin. in this section i was improving my skill of working with the story board

in the picture above i was checking the first minute of the editing and comparing it with our storyboard, although some of the shots were not of the storyboard I was still looking at the pieces of the film that were and they were on time and were looking great, for this part the storyboard did not help really as there was not much to look at on the storyboard. i think that my skills of previewing and deciding on what to change has improved and it went well

here is a shot of me adding shots into the software and i was on 1:20 so i was more than half way to completing the video, i was using the storyboard as a brief guide line and it went to plan as i then applied the missing shots that were not on the storyboard in and it all fitted together. i think that my performance in this part was good but slow.

here is a shot of me on the final stretch of my section of the editing and all of the shots that was planned to be used were not on the storyboard so it was not needed, this section was not going as well as there was no storyboard to give me a rough idea of where the shots needed to be cut ect... and i could have used a guide line to give me an idea of what i need to do

shots of me and nick joining up the two sections of editing

inspiration for album cover

the hand holding the heart on this album cover is the greenday logo and this has inspired me to think of a similar design with ours and I would like to fit the design around banksy as his work also interests me

a look into banksy 4

a look into banksy 2

i think that this would be a good idea for the digipak cover as it shows that there is a bad attitude to the artists as there is graffiti, if i do a design based on this art by banksy I would use an image of the main singer and then photoshop the image to make it look like it is a banksy, then there will be the name of the album and the groups name where the writing is in the image above

a look into banksy 3

a look into banksy

the image above is an image of some of banksies work and as you can see this suites the genre of music that we are creating and therefore it will suit the image that will be placed on our album cover as it fits in with most of the conventions that I have listed earlier on in the digipak analysis

Green Day meets Banksy

Album Art Inspiration

I have been researching Album Art and Posters. I have been looking at my favourite artists e.g. Green Day, LP, and Foo Fighters along with others like Gorillaz, Blur, Paramore etc

Filming - Props

For filming we used several props, these included,

• Drum Kit
• Guitar
• Microphone
• Keyboard and Stand
• Amp
• iPhone/iPod (for Music, wasn't filmed just used to aid our filming)
• seat/stool (for drummer)
• 4 Posters of Professional Bands (MCR, 30 Seconds to Mars, Green Day and Foo Fighters)

HWS ERA now has a URL

I have registered a URL for a website for my digipack.
At the Moment It only goes to the Group Blog but once I have designed my own site, it'll have it's own page.
WWW.HWSERA.TK
I'm not sure if we can access it from school although I believe we should be able to, as it won't contain anything it shouldn't.

plans of editing

as we are close to the deadline we hae decided that I will be incharge of the first 1 minute, 48 seconds and then Nick would finnish off the rest of the video.

poster inspiration 1

The image above of a poster from Green Day is a design that I like and I may think about using this idea of having a stencil man as it follows with the text font that has been used for the bands name and it also reflects different things such as graffiti, vandalism, it shows the rock genre and so on... this is an idea at the moment and I will be looking into more poster designs that interest me....
this is a copy of the Banksy art and I will be looking into some of Banksies art as I think that this will suit the genre of music that we are doing...

mcr digipack analysis

Here is the My Chemical Romance greatest hits digipak: and as you can see the design of this digipak is erupting with conventions and features of a rock genre of music, the design of this digipak is a shot of all five of the performers that are in the band and then it looks like the image has been Photoshopped. This cover has a black and white / greyscale shot of the band and then there is splatters of blood behind the name and logo of the band, the band’s name and logo is a dull gold so it stands out and this is the same for all of the text, the stance and positioning of the band is also typical of a rock genre as the lead singer is at the front and then all of the musicians are standing behind and this shows the power that the lead singer has.

As you can see in the picture below there is a shot of the inside of the digipak and the design is followed throughout the digipak and it is even on the disk. In the digipak there are: other shots of the band in the same location and the editing to the pictures are the same, there are blood splatters on the CD, the text is the same colour as the band’s name and logo the colours that are used are all dark and very dull and this is typical of the genre of music that they perform. The colour palette that this digipak has is very simple as there are four colours that are used, also the artists are dressed in clothing that is also typical to a rock genre of music as they are in black Gothic clothing.

Here is a list of all of the conventions that the digipak follows: the name of the band is shown on the front cover, list of the songs and other extras are listed on the back of the digipak, there is a brief and basic description of the band inside the digipak, there are reviews of that album inside the digipak, the design suits the genre of music, the colour scheme suites both the band’s name and the genre of music, the font of the text suites the rock genre, the company that has made the digipak have their logo and name on the digipak and the digipak has a simple design, the artists in the portraits of them look like they are rock stars and there are pictures of previous CD album covers.

After looking at this digipak I have decided that it would be best if I take some of what I think are the best ideas for making a digipak from the this pre-existing digipak and then use some of the elements for when I and making our Digipak draft and final version.

muse digipack anylasis

Here is the Muse greatest hits digipak: and as you can see the design of the digipak is based around a cartoon abstract design with a variety of lines and circles and although this design does not seem like it suits the genre of music, the colours that are used do fit in with the genre of music as they are all dark and there are then bursts of colours that are dotted around the cover. The images that are on the digipak cover are: a woman that is white with some elements of red and pink, white lines, a red picture of palm trees and then there is the band’s name and logo dotted around and this is in white.

As you can see it the picture above there are some parts of the inside of the digipak showing and the design of the inside looks like it follows the design on the exterior of the digipak and this is shown by the lines continuing from where they end on the exterior of the digipak. The CD that is in the digipak is also following the colours and some aspects of the design as the CD is black with the band name on and there are red and white circles on the disk near the middle.

Here is a list of all of the conventions that the digipak follows: the name of the band is shown on the front cover, list of the songs and other extras are listed on the back of the digipak, there is a brief and basic description of the band inside the digipak, there are reviews of that album inside the digipak, the design suits the genre of music, the colour scheme suites both the band’s name and the genre of music, the font of the text suites the rock genre, the company that has made the digipak have their logo and name on the digipak and the digipak has a simple design.

After looking at this digipak I have decided that it would be best if I take some of what I think are the best ideas for making a digipak from the this pre-existing digipak and then use some of the elements for when I and making our Digipak draft and final version.

green day digipack anylasis

here is the green day greatest hit CD digipack: as you can see this CD cover is the colour green and in the picture there is a shade of buildings, also the text is like grafiti and the font looks to be like an army font, and this shows that there is an urban / punk / rock feel to the CD cover as it fits in with most of the conventions of the genre of music which is rock.


below is a picture of the inside of the digipak and this follows the design of the front cover of the digipak as it is the same colour and most of the conventions that have been used on the cover have also been used on the inside such as the colour scheme, the text font in various places and there are also features inside of the digipak that have not been used on the cover and they are: shots of the band under where the CD goes, there is an image of a black stencil man being electrocuted and this image is also followed in the CD's, there are images of the bands other CD albums and there are finally CD trays/holders.

here is a list of what conventions this digipak follows; the band are shows in the digipak, the name of the band is shown on the front cover, list of the songs and other extras are listed on the back of the digipak, there is a brief and basic description of the band inside the digipak, there are reviews of that album inside the digipak, the design suits the genre of music, the colour scheme suites both the bands name and the genre of music, the font of the text suites the rock genre, there are pictures of previous CD album covers, the company that made the digipak has put their logo on, the artists in the portraits of them look like they are rock stars.

after looking at this digipak I have decided that it would be best if I take some of what I think are the best ideas for making a digipak from the this pre-existing digipak and then use some of the elements for when I and making our Digipak draft and final version.

Flickr images of us filming and Editing

There are more to come, I didn't get chance to upload all of my images.
The images consist of us editing and filming What I've Done

What I've Done - Trailer

Filming and Editing Completed

Finally after weeks of filming and Editing we have completed our Music Video named "What I've Done",
I will burn it to a DVD tonight as well as upload it to Youtube and Vimeo (If Vimeo allows me), I also plan on posting on Facebook and Twitter about our completition of the music video, I will also post links to the video, so we can get people to view it.

Completion of Filming

Tonight we completed our filming for our final version of our music video.
Although now we have to edit and complete the video by Friday 3:10 and put it on DVD.

I will update blog with evidence of filming etc tomorrow.

By the way if I haven't already posted about our final choice of editing software we will be using Sony's Vegas Pro 9

Thursday 18th of November filming

on Thursday all of our planning and researching was put into good use as we used our old storyboard to copy some of the shots that we had performed in our draft, we used the animatic storyboard to decide what happened and when it happened and we also go all of the drumming shots done so we will not need the drums for the second stretch of our filming...

the next date that we plan on filming the second half of our final music video is on the 23rd of November and this is on a Tuesday, then all we need to do is edit all of our video clips.

location of where the logo will be placed

I have came up with the idea of placing the band logo on the drum kit as this is most common in rock bands, I have chosen to place the logo on the centre bass drum as this is a place where the logo will be seen with ease and here is a shot of the logo on the on the drum kit:

final decision on the band logo

I have been looking into all nine of the different colour designs that the logo that I have created can have and after looking at all of the different designs I thought that the best design to use would be the one that is in black and white as it is simple and plain colours... he reason I chose this colour scheme was because it would then fit perfectly into who genre of music our band will be performing.... here is a shot of the final logo:

now that we have a band logo you will now see shots of this somewhere in our video although we have not decided where to place it... I will be posting where we will be placing the band logo later on...

logo colour designs

here are a few experiments with the different colours and designs of our band logo:

final logo decision for our band

after thinking about what one of the five designs would be best for our band and also discussing it with Nick and Damon, I have concluded that we use the 3rd logo design as this looks more professional that the other four and it also looks the best as it is a simple design but it is really effective as it has the band initials, but they are not very clear so it also looks like a grenade and here is a screen shot of the logo:

logo design ideas

Album Front Cover Design Drafts

This is an idea for our Album Front Cover.

I like this because its looks different to a general album cover, I like the colours on this, although the image won't be the same as we use on our

filming shedual update

as we have not finished all of our filming we plan to film the rest of our film on Tuesday, 23rd of November and this will be the last time that we are filming.... after we have filmed we will start our editing of our music video.

instruments that we have used in our music video