Evaluation

This is our evaluation, for the Music video.

Magazine advert FINAL

For the final draft of our magazine advert we all help to produce this, with Millie taking the picture and me using Photoshop to enter the text and gabby thinking of what text to include we all worked as a team to make this look good. We wanted to shock our audience by using an image of a child with makeup on this is very unconventional as when we look at adults with makeup we don't see this as a bad thing but when a child is wearing it it looks so unnatural! 

We also added our website so our fans can find out more about the band and our 'cupcake productions' logo to make the advert look more authentic.

Digi pack Final ..

Front cover

Millie

Gabby

                                            ME!

The back cover

This is the final Digipack we decided to keep to the colour theme of pink, black and grey, as we thought it looked professional but still girly. I'm really happy with the images that i produced as i worked really hard to make them look the same and fit in with our color scheme, it fits in really well on the CD and i think it looks up to the standard as the professional ones that i have seen!

5th MARCH

Our production lesson yesterday was good as we knew we had mostly finished all our production, but now we really had to now focus on our ancillary tasks.

We needed to also retake our images that we took as they didn't turn out very good and the lighting that we used wasn't very professional. We stuck to our color scheme of black and white to keep it simple but effective We took the pictures in front of our white background and took some simple ones of us smiling and some on a chair so we could edit the chair out and then make us look like we was sitting on the letters of 'SugarDolls' like our original idea. Once we had these images i needed to use Photoshop to create us as if we were sitting on the letters of the "sugardolls" I did this by selecting a background of a grey brick wall and layering the words and images on top, once i had erased all the background and re-sized the images of us I was extremely pleased with the result.

Here is what the outcome was ...
 

Digi pack research

In the next week we would be creating our Digi pack so i wanted to do some research into what type of things we could include i looked at my copy of rhianna's CD -  LOUD
The picture she has used emphasises the feminine features of the artists and portrays her image as vibrant and colorful to the viewer. The font used on the cover is thin and coloured white to stand out against the bold vibrant colours that dominate the rest of the cover, over all this really stands out and it makes a statement i hope that we will achieve a look like this for ours!!

 

30TH JANUARY

This is our plan for production

The plan for our digipack is as follows:

On the front cover of our digipack we were planning to have white background with the name of our band on in black with us 3 small sat on some of the letters. Something like this: I designed this and hopefully i can create this on photshop

We have been planning to create a booklet in our Digi pack, this will include a large picture of each of the individual band members, a quote from each of us, a page with our signitaures on and a picture of all three of us together on the back page. 

On the back of our CD cover we are going to write the song titles and include a production label name and a barcode to make it look authentic.

These are the two ideas that we created : 

and:

After doing this we went back to see how our editing process was coming along and as you can see we are almost finished, we are all happy with our product as we have put a lot of effort into it.

16TH OF JANUARY

During our production lesson on Tuesday the final editing needed to be done. We editied all our footage from last weeks refilming of the masks and also editied the refilmed shots that Millie did with Maya at home.
The shots of the masks looked a lot more professional now as we had changed them and the flow was much smoother 
 We also changed the the shots of Maya and Millie as it was unclear about what person was who, since we changed this it looks much better.

This is the shot we changed.

A Few more examples

 

These are some more examples i came across looking online, although there not quite the style we are going for. From looking at these i understand that you need to have bold text and a stand out image to catch the attention of the audience. Taking inspiration from this the things that i think we need to include will be

• RELEASE DATE
• NAME OF BAND
• WEBSITE
  RECORD LABEL

9th Jan

Today we really needed to re - shoot our mask shots, as they really needed to be improved these shots were quite bad, so in this re- shoot we decided to put the mask on a stick so that  you were not able to see peoples hands, and keeping to a timing of when to raise and put down the mask so all the shots would be similar. We used lots of different students for this and put them in front of a large black piece of card to keep the background the same, as this would emphasise the change in people.
After this process we planed our ancillary tasks. We wanted to research some examples of magazine adverts for songs, that we could relate to as we were portraying a girl band. 

We used these as our main inspiration to get ideas from. We notice that they are all quite simple as they all just have the name of the band, the song name and a picture of all the band members, we wanted to try and recreate these images.

5th of Jan

In today lesson we planned our ancillary task. We have decided to create a a magazine advertisement and a digipack (CD/DVD package).

For our task we forgot that we needed a name for our band and after a long discussion we came up with the name 'sugar dolls', although its not original we don't have time to mess around with this name. The next step for the protect is deciding on the CD cover. So what we came up with is that we all wear the same clothing and that we will Sit on the letters of the name of the band

Here is an representation of the picture - although it is not very good.

I think the font should be curly but clear so people can read it easily, and quite big so that it is easy to read.It should be eye catching and bold so that it stands out, I like the font on this picture although it will be a lot bigger.

Photographic images: In our CD we will be putting booklet inside it to show images of us as a band and of us single. We should keep to the colour theme throughout the CD so that it links all together. We need to all be wearing quite Stylish clothing so that we can appeal to our main target audience.

Week beginning 2nd Jan

Over the Christmas period unfortunately none of us were free at the same time, so Millie kindly offered to do all the bits we needed to re shoot on her own since we had to use her little sister. We were so grateful that Millie did this as now we don't need to fill in any gaps that we have missed out over our production.

Here are some shots that she did.

This is the one of Maya reading a magazine
We needed to change this as the one before was jumpy and didn't suit the scene. She is reading an adult magazine as this is meant to be Millie when she was younger.

This is a shot of the shoes, this idea is to capture Millie as a little girl walking in big shoes that don't fit, and merge that into her as a teenager growing up.

The last shot is of Maya putting lipstick on as a little girl; this is reflecting her wanting to be older.

Week beginning 5th Dec

In our Tuesday lesson we really needed to re shoot us lip syncing in front of the green screen. Since the time before we did not set up the green screen in the correct way, and it had a shadow behind it we seriously needed to make sure we set up the green screen properly. We were kindly given a diagram from our teacher; from this we were able to capture that in the correct way and by this the editing process was much better as we knew that it would work.

After filming we had to edited these shots and replace them carefully with our previous green screen shots. By using the chroma key effect we could successfully change the background and this time there were no shadows! Perfect.

It worked really well, so the last thing we needed to decide on was creating a background, a couple of ideas were put forward such as a fashion montage, or even a still picture of us on a cover of a magazine and then our still image begins to move. These were the ideas that came to mind ...

I really like this idea as its unique and I like the fact that we created this idea for ourself rather than copying it from somewhere.