Magazine advert with white glow

This is the magazine advert with the white glow instead of the red glow, we have decided to keep the red glow as we feel that it looks more professional.
We are still working on the contents of our digi-pak and writing out the lyrics for the songs, this should be finished by tomorrow.

Magazine Advert

This an idea for our magazine advert, we have kept the red and black colour scheme which keeps the link evident throughout all of the print products and some parts of the music video. We used some shop logos which make it look professional, this shows the audience where they will be able to find the album. We used the front cover of the digi-pak on the album which will make the audience familiar with what the cover looks like so they can buy the album. We felt like there was too much red and black and that we couldnt see the difference between the background and the album cover, as they sort of merged together; to overcome this we added a red glow around the album cover which gives a good effect. The magazine advert title is the same typography as the one that we have used previously in our other products, we have used this as it is the font that the real band use and also gives a good effect. The writing we have used for the information is white and simple which allows the audience to read it easily and get the information they need. We have used ratings from Q magazine etc which will influence the audience into buying the album as it suggests that the album is good. After adding the image of the album cover we felt like we needed something else to break up the things on the page, we thought of adding in an inverted cross which adds a supernatural feel which links with the bands genre. We used quite a few effects on the cross to reduce the saturation of it and add a sense of transparency. We also did this with the pentagram, we feel that these look good on our advert. We are going to try a white glow around the album cover which may break up the red and black and compliment the white writing but we arent sure and will post the advert with a white glow on my blog and then decide which one we will use for our final advert.

Updates

We are still working on the editing of our music video, we have added some more cuts with speed up the pace of the video and help it to fit with the song. We have also been working on the digi-pak, we have the front page which we changed slightly from our plans as we were going to have the typography plain black, however when creating it we changed the text and added a colour burn effect which we are pleased with as we think it has a good effect. The image used is one from our footage, we think it has a good effect as it is of the band playing, we have edited a lot, so much so that you can see the outline of the band but we like the effect as it fits in with the editng that has been used on the music video. The album is called 'shake off the curse' after one of the songs that is featured in the album. We chose to do this as we feel it is a good song name and it fits across the front of the digi-pak. We have also done the back page of the digi-pak; we have used a font from the 1001freefonts website which took a while as we had to use the website for each song name and the website was quite slow, we are finished now though and are pleased with the font as we think It has a good 'horror' effect which we have used in order to fit in with the genre of the music. We have added a bar code to the back cover of the digi-pak and the production logo, in order to make this we used another font from the website which we think looks quite good, we have placed the production logo at the bottom of the back cover as we have researched some digi-paks and found that this is often where it goes, the typography was originally black ad we have changed the colour to red but reduced the opacity which makes it look professional and it also helps it too compliment the other font used for the song list. Tomorrow we are going to get the rest of the digi-pak finished which we still are not sure what to do; ideally we would use the font from the 1001freefotns website as that has a good effect and fits in with the genre, however the maximum amount of letters that can be used at one time is 10, so to get a whole song would take up a lot of time that we don't really have, because of this we are going to look for a font on photo shop which will allow us just to type it up. As you can see the back page is quite bland and we are going to get rid of this prob;em by adding some images in, we will take these photos tomorrow. We were going to the images from the unused band footage by pausing it and making a screen-shot of the image, however it have proved difficult to get a photo that looks good and is what we want. So in order to get a good photo will will take some tomorrow. The colour scheme, as you can see, is red and black which fits in with the band footage in the music video, these is good as it means our print products tie in with the video which shows the audience the link between them.

Updates

Me and Greg came into school during the holidays and got a lot of editing done, we are quite pleased with our progress however we are still running behind schedule, we have most of the editing done and have done most of the changes that our teacher has suggested; such as making the shot changes on the beat and adding in some more edits in order to make the video a similar pace to the song. Also whilst in school we began our digi-pak and realised we need to shoot a few more pictures and sort out the lyrics for the songs; as the band are not very well known lyrics to some of their songs are not published on the internet therefore we will have to type them up; we have planned to stay in every dinner time this week to get everything finished. The magazine advert is now very close to being finished and we just need to change a few things around and get our image into photoshop. When this is done which will hopefully be by the end of today I will upload this on my blog. Whilst making the digi-pak on photoshop we used some of the edits such as colour curn which gave a good effect on the image; similar to the edit used in our music video which shows the link between the print based products and the actual video. The main link between the two products will be the red and black colour scheme which gives a good effect. Also there are a few extra chase shots needed to lead up to the ending of he music video as we spotted a continuty error when peicing them together. By staying in on lunch times and after school we should be finished by the end of the week.

Rough Cut 1

This is our rough cut, we finally got all of the shooting done and edited them together. We are aware there are a few things that need to be edited quicker and we will do this in the holidays when we come into school. We are pleased with the effects that we have used such as the red tint and the night vision on a few. We think that theses give a good effect. While watching our rough cut we have realised that the edits could be abit faster due to the speed of the song. Also the shot where Greg is miming had to be reshot a few times in order to get the sound to be in time with the video, we eventually got it right. During the holidays we will be working on the print based products and some of the edits; so we may have a new rough cut uploaded some time this week.

Filming

As you know, we shot our band footage last week, however when we watched it through we realised that we needed more shots than what we had shot. We then decided to shoot again last night and we have hopefully got all of the shots we need. We did find another actor which means that I can be in control of the camera which will allow the shots to be easier to film as I will be able to decide what positions look better on the camera. When filming last night we used the stage in the hall which we hope will look better than the drama studio as you could see some of the window in the background which made it seem unprofessional, when we were looking through our shots yesterday we played around with some tints and lens flares onto the band shots, we are thinking about using some of these effects on our band shots and leaving the chase scenes with the original lightening, however it is difficult to say until we have imported them all into Adobe Premiere Pro and put them into the correct places and made them in time to the music, we are going to import the music into Premiere Pro tomorrow in aim to have a rough cut soon. When filming yesterday we filmed from a range of shots including mid shots, close ups and low angle shots in order to make them band seem powerful and superior. We will have our rough cut uploaded as soon as possible.