Feedback for Digipak and Poster

I showed both of my ancilary tasks to the class asking for feedback in how to improve and their reasons why. It was important for me to understand their views in not only how the CD and poster looked, but whether the connection between them two and the music video was clear. The one question that was repeated a few times was about the over-laying colour on both the CD and poster as they were different! I felt that because the image is the same, the colouring can be different as the puplic would more likely distinguish who the star was in the image and not the colouring. However, I took this into account and both colours are dark (one being black and white and the other sepia). 

Some questions were raised as to why we chose the "pigeon" and "TNT-bomb vest" for the inside of the digipak. Both things are featured in the music video and from mainly choosing them from random as this relates to our music video. The bomb vest is also one of the last things the audience will see in the music video before it dips to black, this allows them to connect it, arguably, making the CD more personal to them.

Updated Poster

This is our finished digipak magazine advert. we binned the first draft because of of some of the unclear information like the artist title and "OUT NOW" feature. On the first draft i had "OUT NOW" and the release date which with the feed back we got from the first draft we found it wasn't a very advertising look so we decided to lose the release date and just keep the "OUT NOW" because it is very attention grabbing. We also added places where the album is available like HMV, ITunes and Spotify. I did edit there logos a little bit so that they would fit in with the poster but I kept the main aspects of the logos so they could still be identified as big music retailers. I also added the record label but again edited it so that it fit in with the rest of the image. I would imagine this poster would be featured in a magazine such as "Q magazine" as our genre would fit in with some of there previously featured artist's and they do a lot of full A4 page for big artists. we have gone for a full page because Mercury records are a very big recording company so it would be in Just Jack's capability to make a full page happen. 

First Draft Advert

Here is our first draft of our magazine advert 

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Poster Screen shot

Here is a screen shot of the editing process of making the poster using the digipak as the basis so that you can relate the two media texts through synigy. 

CD Cover Digipak

Aspects of Our Digipak

To create of digipack we used the programme Adobe Photoshop CS5, "one of the top image editing programmes to date"



We have looked at the conventions of digipaks that are in the same genre as our own and then from there decided what we should include in our own digipak.
We saw that the record label is a very important thing to promote on the DVD cover and we decided to find out Just Jack record label which is Mercury Records and here is the lable we used...


We also decide that a bar code would be nessesary mainly because of authenticity but we did decide to make is look a little bit different and made it blend in to our cover by removing the white background layer. here is the bar code we used...


CopyRight is also a very big thing these days so making sure that was involed in out digipak was very important, so in small print we have a little parragraph for that.

Digipak Comparisons

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Drawn Digipak

Our Digipak Breif

"The brief is "a magazine advertisment for the digipak (CD/DVD package)"