Media products - Digipak and Magazine poster/ advertisement

These images/sketches are tho ones that me and Ben have chosen to use for our printed media. The crying eye will be the digipak image and we will use the image in different ways over and over again on the inside of the cd, or we will use another image of the band to variate our image choice. Then on the back of the Digipak we will have the track listings and the image of the band. We will have to also insert the informaton of the record company etc.

For the magazine poster, we want to use the image on the front of the cd as a background image and then one of the band at the bottom. We will have a small insert shot of the cd at the top with the bands name and some text to 'attract' the cd to metal listeners. For our text we will use colours of black and red, and the font of 'cracked' as this looks most like a 'rock music' font.





Image analysis:
Here you can see two images that me and Ben have chosen for the background of our magazine advertisement and our digipak.



We have chosen these images because they portray the feeling and emotion that comes across in our video. It was hard to look like i was crying as i had to make sure i gave of the right emotion, yet, make my eye look bold and the centre of attention. We shall emphasize this fact by using adobe photoshop. I feel that these images show an emotional connotation as of the emotion and colour in the eyes. I like that my eyes are slightly red which shows even more emotion as it looks like i am really crying, so we will not have to edit that part of the picture as it already looks effective.





Final Products:


The digipak:

Here is the 'digipak' that my group have created. We used all of our own images and edited them on photoshop. On the left you can see the back of the CD. We decided to use the same image and make it black and white at we thought repeating it would look effective. We have listed the tracks on the CD and noted that there is live footage and a music video contained on the CD.At the bottom we have pasted the record company the band belongs to and also a copyright sign and a dvd sign, these are found on digipaks and are always shown on the back.

The next image is the front of our digipak. We edited the image by using the burn tool around the eye to emphasize its importance a little more. We placed the band name at the top in red ad it stood out on my blonde hair. Then just left of my eye is the name of the album which is 'cries in vain'. It is unusual that we placed digipak at the bottom, but we thought that this would show clearly that this is what the CD was, and that it contained not just songs, but a music video etc. For this font we used 'cracked' as it looks most rocks and we gave the text a drop shadow to look like it was floating.

Finally there is the inside of the digipak. At the top is a quote from the song 'cries in vain' and the sophisticated picture under this suits the song quote well. (as they are expressionless). For the background we found an effect on photoshop that looks like a fuzzy tv screen, which suits the metal genre and emphasizes the fact that this band is shown on TV and there are music videos involved with this CD. This band shot is also shown on the poster but on here we used a fuzzy effect on them and darkened the image slightly to differ it slightly and to make them stand out on the inside of the CD.




The poster to promote our digipak:

Here you can see the magazine advertisement that me and Ben have produced. We have once again used the eye as the posters background image which we feel adds even more promotion towards our product. The font we have used is once again 'cracked' as we feel that we should stick to the genre we chose by using a font which portrays this well. We have used a poster effect on the band which makes them stand out in this image as we have given them an effect which emphasizes that they are in a rock band, as strange effects are usually used on rock bands posters. Me and Ben decided that by placing quotes from two famous rock magazines, 'Metal Hammer' and 'Kerrang', this would give readers of a magazine, that our poster would be issued in, an insight to how 'good' the CD, songs and video really is. In a digipak the video is the most important thing i feel, therefore giving the text 'digipak' a large font, it shows the main purpose of our promotion of the CD.


Magazines that would promote our advertisement: As our band are 'metal' and we are promoting a metal digipak, the types of magazines that we feel, as a group, it would be shown in would be Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Rock Sound magazine. They promote music all the time (of different genres of rock/metal) in their weekly issues, so readers of these magazines would definitely be interested in our poster, as it has aspects to capture the attention of our chosen audience a of the colour choice, the band shot and the layout. We feel that we have used intertextuality well as the typical colours shown in a metal advert of on a CD are black,white, red etc and we have chosen an effective font and layout, with the band's neutral expression, the choice of text and font and also where things were placed.