Final Products

Music Video
Breaking Apart - Second One Down



Website

Second One Down - Band Website

Magazine Advert

Finished Website

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Creating My Website

Ancillary Task Two: Creating My Website

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Website Research

Band Website Research

Ancillary Task Changes

After creating my magazine advert, I began to create my digipak. I found a template on the internet with 6 panels.

I insterted my first image to the front panel of the digipak and the band logo/name.

As I began to plan how I wanted the rest of my digipak would look, I realised that the design and theme would end very similar to my magazine advert. Due to this, I decided that I wanted to do something a bit different, so I have decided to begin making a band website!

To create my website, I decided to use the free website creator 'Wix'.

Although there are a number of music templates to choose from on the Wix website, I decided to use a completely blank page to start from scratch. This would enable me to create the page exactly how I wanted! However before a begin I need to look at some examples of alternative rock band websites.



Choosing My Magazine Advert

After getting some feedback on my original advert I decided to play around with the layout of the text.

Above are two of the rough layouts I came up with. Someone suggested I try putting the band name at the top so I tried this. However, this made the middle space look very empty, so I moved the album information into the centre to fill the space.

Final Advert

It was pointed out to me that using a release date would significantly reduce the amount of time a advert can be shown for. I decided to change the release information so that the advert could be featured in magazines over a longer period of time. I also played around with the levels of the image, adjusting brightness and contrast to make it stand out more. 

Overall I am really pleased with my poster. I feel that my research into conventions of alternative rock advert and album covers really influenced my final product.

Magazine Advert Feedback

I posted a picture of my Advert on my Facebook wall and asked people to give me some feedback.

I am really pleased with the responses and have found all of the comments really helpful. I want to try out some different layouts for my advert, so I can compare them and see which work best!

Creating My Magazine Advert

My model came over to the photography studio after school so that I could take some photographs of her holding my signs. She was really willing to pose how I wanted and was comfortable with the shots. She is also 18 so there are no problems with the suggested nudity. I needed to take some test shots first to make sure the studio lighting was correct and that the camera was focused.

 

 

 It didn't take long because I knew exactly what I wanted the photographs to look like. I took shots with the model in different parts of the frame; below are a few of the results.

I decided that the last photo would look good on the magazine advert, where as the landscape, more centred photos would look best on the album cover. I was really pleased with the photos as they looks really effective and the signs stood out too.

I needed to create a new band 'logo' to go on both my advert and my digipak. This time I just went for black and white as I thought this would go best with my photo; I did not want the writing to take away from the photo, just to soften it slightly. 

I went online to look for a suitable font. In the past I have found this method really useful as you can discover some really unusual but effective fonts to download for free. I came across one called 'Bright Young Things'. When I gained feedback, many agreed that the font went with the alternative rock genre of my song, which was really good to know. I decided to use this font for my logo.

I did need to retouch the photographs a bit. I found this quite easy as I have used photoshop before. I used the clone stamp tool to edit the underwear out of the photograph as I felt it was ruining the illusion.

 Although some adverts do not feature a record label logo, I decided to add mine. I found the Beggars Banquet logo online and pulled that onto the poster. I decided to put it in the bottom right corner of the poster so it is not too obvious but can subtly be seen.

 I erased some of the background on the image to make it blend in nicely with the advert background.

The finished advert! I will be getting some audience feedback on it to see how effective it is.

Preparing for My Advert Photoshoot

I had an idea in my head of what I wanted my signs to look like for the album cover image/advert image. I wanted the signs to stand out a bit more rather than just write on cardboard, so I decided to try cutting out each letter and sticking them on another piece of cardboard. 

I started by printing out the words 'Naked Truth' off the computer, in a font I liked, large, on two pieces of A4 paper. I then cut out each letter individually, put it on a piece of cardboard and drew around it in pencil.

I then used a small craft knife to cut out the cardboard letter. This proved really tricky!

Both words completed.

I also had to make sure the cardboard was wide enough to cover the body.

To make the sign stand out more I decided to put a border of cardboard around the edges, made out of strips of leftover cardboard.

I just stuck the letters and border on using Prit-stick.

I found that when I took photographs of the signs using the flash, the letters didn't stand out. I coloured in the letters and borders using black marker pen.

The final signs! I am really, really pleased with how they look and hope they look good in my photographs.