Digipak Advert

As a part of our ancillary task we had to complete a digipak advert. To promote the artist and their music. Before creating my own Digipak I looked at a variety of already made digipaks from different artist and also gained more of an insight to the conventions needed to have a successful digipak, which consist of things such as: the name of the artist, the album name, an image that relates to the digipak, the name of the record company and the release date.

On my digipak advert I am going to have a white background which helps to symbolism purity and innocence as well as the writing in bold black font so it stands out. I deiced to put a close up image of her face in the center of the digipak advert, this is due to the fact that it is a very emotional album and I feel that the close up image of her face helps to relate to the content in the album well as you are able to see the actual emotion in her face. I also put that the album is out now and available for purchase.
Below is an image of my digipak advert.

Digipak

As part of our ancillary task we had to create a Digipak for our chosen song which is Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name. My digipak consisted of things that related to the album as well as themes raised within the album such as love and lust. One part of my digipak contains lyrics from one of the songs 'You Don't Know My Name', the reason as to why I choose to do this is because those lyrics hold a lot of meaning to that particular song as it talks about the first time she saw this boy and how she is constantly longing for his presence.

Another thing that I decided to put on this is the artist name 'Alicia Keys' in bold writing as well as a few flowers around her name, I did this because I wanted there to be some attention to the artist herself within the digipak as well as that I thought to add the flowers as they help to symbioses love and peace which is relates to the mood of the artist and the emotions raised throughout the album.

In addition to that I decided to add a image on my digipak which consisted of a close up of the artist face, I made this choice due to the fact that her face contains a lot of emotion that relates to the themes in the album and also helps to express to the audience how she is feeling.
Below is a image of my Digipak:

CD Adverts in Magazine

During our lesson we looked at a variety of CD adverts which were in magazines, from looking at the variety of different magazines I could gather many different conventions that the magazines consisted off. All of the magazines would have either the artist name or the name of the ablum in bold writing. This is obviously done to attract attention from the audience. Another thing that some of the adverts had were different ratings and comments from critics that rated the album. As well as that some of the adverts may contain other artist which are featuring in that album.The adverts also would contain a picture of the artisit or a picture of something that relates to their digipak. Another convention that was seen on the adverts is that they all had 'out now' on them or some type of release date to inform their audience when it is available to be purchased. In addition to that they all had the record label logo/name of whatever company that artist is signed to. Another thing I picked out on the adverts is that the colour scheme seemed to be very minilastic or would contain colours that relate to the theme of that ablum and digipak.
Below are some examples of CD adverts.
          

                                   
                                           
               

Final Music Video

During the last process of filming I came across some errors such having a few gaps in which I didn't know what footage I would have liked to put in it. To overcome this problem I had to write down the exact lyrics to the part of the song and filmed lip syncing to match it. That way I all of my small gaps were filled up and I had my finished music video. I also had to re film certain parts of my music video for example the part when she says 'Thursdays perfect man' in the original footage she didn't say 'man' at the end of the sentence this was really obvious when it came to the editing process so we had to refill that part, once that was completed all the editing was done and I had finished my music video.
Here is a link to my music video:
http://youtu.be/ub0QuYj-7Kg

Digipak

A digipak is a form of packing which is often used for CD singles and for special CD albums editions. Digipaks often consist of a gatefold in other words a book style with a paperboard packing. The purpose of a digipak is to to make the album and CD look more appealing and eye catching, it also helps to promote the album to the customers. It also gives the customers and insight to the musician and the meaning behind their music, as art and images and used to to express a message. Another purpose of a digipak is that it lists the content of an album, and includes things such as lyrics and the images of things that took place during the process of creating the album. a digipak helps to not just attract people that are part of the fan base but to reach out and attract a wider audience, which would then help to increase the sales of an artist/group as well as then possibly having an increase in their fan base.
Below are some images of digipaks from different artists.

In class we looked a variety of digipaks from different female artist as well as a variety of different bands.  There were a few things that i noticed whilst looking at these digipaks, for example all of the digipaks that belonged to a female artist had a close up of their face on the front cover in which we could clearly see their facial expression showing their emotions. In contrast to the bands, the digipaks of the bands didn't have any pictures of any of the members and mainly consisted of a variety of artwork. The backs of all the digipaks consisted of the listing of all the songs in that album as well as a barcode and the record label that the artist/band is under. The inside of the digipaks tended to contain the lyrics of the different songs in that album, as well as images of the artisit and different artwork that reflects the artist theme.