Final DigiPak

Development for the digipak is now complete and you can see below our final product:

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Here are the individual parts of the digipak, this will be followed by the completed digipak:

Front Cover

  

                                                                                                                                               Back Cover

Inside Panel 1

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Panel 3:

Panel 4:

Final DigiPak Product: 

Website Update

Developing our website has meant that we have now made some clear changes to the layout and the appearance of it. We decided to change our colour scheme to the colours: grey, orange, white and black. This gave our website a professional look with an added touch of some colour to make it more visually appealing to the audience. We also incorporated these colours into the layout of our DigiPac so the continuity would be consistent and it would also add to the overall presentation of our artist. This also meant the consistency of our writing style must be the same throughout, however we felt using just one style of font made it boring to an audience and less appealing. To prevent this we decided to use one font for titles, one font for key information and another for smaller yet necessary details. From looking at other websites we found that this is a common method used by artists of similar genres in their websites. 

From looking at other websites we also realised that a simplistic approach to the website design is most effective for artists of this genre. We used simplistic and straight forwards ways to display the information of our artist in a way that would make the artist both appealing and interesting to perhaps potential new fans. 

The photography we took to use for our website was all done with the hope of making our artist seem intriguing but also down to earth with the aim of keeping away from the usual over the stop photos of artists of the pop genre. Most of our photography are simple photos of Paddy playing and singing his guitar highlighting the fact he is a musician and is purely about his music. Whilst taking these photos and looking back at them we realised that editing them would help give a better look. When playing about with ways to display these photos on our website we thought a simplistic yet effective way to do so would be to put on the effect of black and white. When looking at other websites, such as that of the band Daughter, we saw that the theme of black and white, although simple, made a very visually appealing site. We therefore decided to make our photos black and white in the hope of giving a special touch to our photos rather than simple and straight forward shots that have not been edited. 

The information given in our website allows the viewers to find any key information they may need about the artist. It gives information on upcoming events and also allows access to the old and newest music produced by Paddy. It also gives direct access to social networking sites of Paddy to allow fans to keep in touch, receive updates, and view any direct messages and photos posted by Paddy himself. 

DigiPak Development

      

Our digipak has developed and we are now in the final stages of development. The front cover for the digipak has been completed alongside the 2 inner panels. We are now just waiting for the text to be added to the back of the CD. This has taken longer because of issues regarding the colours and fonts used but it has been resolved and for this reason digipak development should be completed by the end of today.

 





Above these are the technical elements of how our digipak will be constructed. You can see below an example of what a digipak in this design will look like upon completion. This is simply to give a rough idea of what the final product could look like.

Our final front cover for our digipak can be seen below. We chose this format because of its neutral and plain colours and its simply approach. We like the font as it clearly states the digipak title and artist without being too over the top. Overall, we feel this digipak helps to capture some of the persona we are trying to create in our artist.

While making use of photoshop, we also employed a photo editor on Maria's iPad to assist in some more minute editing. This app was called Fotor and allowed us to add some interesting effects to the images.

 

For the back of our CD, I simply cropped a small portion of the pattern from the front cover. I then had to darken it down in order for the white text to be clearly visible. For the spine of the CD I simply blended the 2 covers intersection. This is then complete with simply text. The text still has to be added to the back cover.

The 2 inside panels will use the following images. The CD tray has been laid out with the CD picture edited in.

Changes Made / Diary Enter - Day 5

Due to the feedback from the target audience, about the last filming clips we decided that we needed to change our idea slightly because things were gettting to complicated, and the message which we wanted to protary wasn't clear enough.

Therefore, we decided we simple would have first half of the music video with all the essentially 'happy memories' in rewind and then have the second half of the video the young girl alone, going back to these places where the happy memories where but alone this time.
This invovled filming a few more memories scene with the family, and then filming the young girl in these places again, but on her own.

This however, lead to a complication because the mother character in our music video was unable to continue acting for us and therefore lead us having to re-film all our work again, because we couldn't use the memory clips which this mother character had been in. This was a major drawback for us, but we got on task and got all the filming re-done within the next weekend.