First Draft!

My Digipack Mock Up

This is My Digipack, I had fun recreating this, i really like the front cover which is on the bottom right corner as i like the Indian Hena i think this works well. I also Like the back of the digipack which is the bottom Left one, i put a lot of work into this one to make it as realistic as possible which i think i have achieved. On the left is the spine of the cover, i took the pattern from the front cover and croped a part of it to use as the background of my spine. The font which i used for most of the writting is called Ancestory SF, which is used on the front cover, back, spine and on the first picture which you would see if you were to open my digipack. I also tried to keep the colours quite dull and mutual to match my video, as my music video has not got a lot of colour in it as i have used an old film effect on it.

My Advertisment for releasing album

I created my advert on Photoshop, I changed the colour of the origional into black and white so it would match my digipack, and what the music video is like so that it all linked together.
To make this advert it cut out my actress 'Lulu' and put it on to another blank photoshop page,I then took a screen shot of my music video turned it in to black and white and used it as the background, i again done this so it would match my music video.
I made this advert as if it were to apear in a magazine, i have included important information such as release date, what song will be in the album, the copyright company and my production company logo, I have also put on areas where public can find out more information, such as Twitter and Facebook.
I think this advert works as it is clear, has the information that is needed and matched my Digipack and music video and looks quite realistic.  

Investigating how important the print advert is!

The Print advert which is used for promotion is very important!! it comes with so many advantages to the Artist.
 

The print advert tells the potential customers important information, such as release dates, shows fans what the album cover will look like, By doing these things creates hype and makes people exited and want to buy the album. This way of promotion is not as expensive as TV advertisement and gets the word out, the good thing with the method of posters you can plot it in areas where your potential customers are likely to be. In this casae you would probably see Lady Gaga's poster advertising in goth shops as a lot of her fans are of this ethnic group. It can also attract other customers if in more public place such as busy bus stops, tube stations on buses, train stations etc... as people are more likely to read poster if they have a longer wait.
 
 It also allows you to advertise the songs which the artist wants the public to listen to, for example on the poster to the right it is also advertising Bad Romance and Telephone.

Here are some other posters which again contains the same information, songs, release date, album cover etc...

Flat plan for my advert

To create this advert i will need to get my actress to take a shot like this, i will then need to use photo shop to add writting, background which i will take a screen shot of my music video and use it as the background, i will then need to change the effect to black and white. So that it will go with my Digipack. The Advert will be the same image as on the front cover of the album as this is very common as it gets potential customers aware of what the album will look like.

Flat plan for my digipack

This is  a flat plan of my digipack. my Digipack will consist of six sides, and on each 'page' there will be a different image, which has either been created or has been a snap shot of when i was filming. 
Sorry for the drawings as they are not that clear, but the top 3 are the inside of the digipack, there will be two pictures of the 'couple' in different locations and in the middle will be the disk with fire printed on the CD. The bottom three shows the front cover which is on the left of a face and will have the album name, and the back is the bottom right which will show the album name, song, copyright production company etc...

Researching the conventions of CD advertising

         Bellow is my prezie I used a prezie to show conventions of CD advertising in my genre.

Advertisment poster recreation

Here is my attempt to recreate a poster of Lana Del Rey which She used to advertise a concert which she was doing. Using Adobe Photoshop I tried my best to make it as close as a match as I could. By doing this poster it showed me what artists especially in my kind of genre of music do to advertise concerts. Lana Del Rey's one is very simple and clear.

This is the origional poster which i coppied.

 

Researching CD sales!

Recreating Digipack

This is my attempt to recreat Dermot O'leary's Digipack. To recreate the front cover i took images similar of google and eddited them on Adobe, i found this fun but time consuming, cutting round images and colouring in certain areas and trying to find similar fonts.

 

This is me working on my front cover on Adobe photoshop.

This is my recreation of the CD here.

This is the origional Front cover.

This is the back of the CD cover.

Editing my Music Video

I have started to edit my music video, getting there! but i need to re-film a piece back at home as it does not fit properly and i need more of it, i also need to redo my time laps as it did not work properly. I am going back home today to re film and should be  finished soon! (around the 6th.)