Ancillary Text

This is my final choice designs for my ancillary text. I feel they give the good impression of the bands image, they look professional and work well together.

Digipack final design

POSTER

These are my choice of designs for the magazine poster as part of my ancillary text. The Last two were my favourite choices but i asked five other media student which one caught their eye. The poster below was most popular as everyone thought the texture in the background was grunge and juxtaposed with the light. Two people felt the piano poster was very effective which is also a favorite of mine but i thought it wouldn't represent their genre best, as they're more like You Me At Six, alternative rock not alternative post- brit pop like Coldplay. I have picked aspects from my digipack design to keep synergy such as the title, the fonts, the snake textures and the light patterns. After experimenting on Photoshop with the composition and layering by taking inspiration from The Verve's (an english rock band) poster i previously analyzed. They made the title clear and large a the top of the post making the photography the focus point, while adding the important information such as date release, what form of media it comes in and where you can find out more information while keeping the text small at the bottom to minimize distraction and keeping it to the point.

trial and error

I have looked at the bands preivous album covers to get a better feel of thier brand image. I noticed they maily consist of photography, symetry and a slight bit of texture. Personally i dont feel they represent what the band sounds like as the photos have vintage simple effect giving the impression they are going to sound light and classic. Although their single 'Boy' is asoft acoustic simpkle song, the rest of the album i have chosen to put together is more indie rock.

Francesqa

Sine my last few ideas hadn't worked to plan, i have re-designed my storyboard to suit me more so i can film at school. This means i am able to use actors around in their free lessons to shoot my video. I have selected a few people who are taking AS music so they can imitate the bands actions and mouth the words. I have changed the song to a similar local band who i already got permission to use their song for as i feel this suits the black and white effect i am going for better. 

After effects

After cutting and editing my attempt of the start of my music video, I decided turning it black and white would look effective as it does in videos such as Canterbury's video i analyzed, gloria. To do this, on premier pro i dragged video effects onto each clip, changing in to monochrome, and editing the lightness and contrast of the grays to make the image appear sharper and give it deep blacks so it's got an atmospheric appearance.