Feedback from digi-pak

Me, Laura, Charlotte and Sophie presented our digi-pak on Friday 18th March to the rest of our media class and teacher.

Feedback

Photographic image: framing, focus, camera angle, lighting and colour, background and mise-en-scene.

• Lighting is relevant - nice and bright.
• Image is very good - fits the typical girl band image.

Typography and text: Choice of fonts, sizing, layout, colour, readability, language register, & content.

• Font is nice and appropriate.
• Great use of colour co-ordination with the text and colours of t-shirts.
• Spelling mistakes on all of the biographies need to be corrected.
• Text positioning on all images is good - in particular the front cover.
• Language register is good on bio's- talking directly and relating to fans.

Layout decisions: rule of thirds, text positioning, sizing, balance of image and text, focus of attention.

• Text across the tree on the individual pictures with the bios was effective - gave a nice theme.
• The focus in all the pictures is always on us. Very typical of a girl band and fits genre nicely.
• Consistency of size of all the shots aren't good. In particular the back cover is not square enough to be a CD cover - looks more like a DVD. Therefore all pictures need to be adjusted to make sure they are all the same size.

Genre codes and indicators of audience targeting.

• The colours of the costumes are nice - very girly (pinks & oranges). Well co-ordinated.
• Good posing. Very standard of a girl band therefore fit criteria well.
• Hair and make-up very professional and to a very high standard.
• Direct gaze into camera on group shots and individual pictures are very effective and will attract audiences.

Overall impacts - what works/what could be improved.

• Consistency of size of shots is the main issue and definitely needs to be addressed.
• All the photos look professional and glossy
• Very good use of the sun - images came out vibrant and crisp

Whats next?

• Presentation of ancillary tasks to the rest of our class on Friday 18th March.


• Once feedback has been received, many any adjustments according to the feedback.


• Finish the final draft of our magazine advert.


• Prepare both magazine advert and digi-pak for final presentation.

Editing the front cover

The final picture we edited was the front cover as I think this is the most important part of the digi-pak. Here is the final image:

We felt that this picture was perfect for the front cover as it is very typical of a girl band and is very posy. Editing the colour, once again we brightened the picture and contrasted it to give it more colour and brightness. For the text we used a simple font which we found on word called freestyle script. Charlotte created the text on word and gave it a black shadow which looks like a black outline in order for it to stand out more. We created a 5 star rating in the bottom left from Elle magazine. We did this because we felt the front cover needed more to it but not too much as we wanted to keep it as simple as possible. Overall I am very happy with the front cover!!

Editing the backcover

Here is the final draft of the back cover of the digi-pak:

This is my favourite picture as I think it really represents the closeness of our 'band' and really makes us look like a united girl group. The way we are walking away from the camera also looks good as the back cover. We have 3 songs on this single and have put the titles of these songs at the top above mine and Laura's head as there is a perfect space for it. We made each song a different colour so that they gradually get darker as you read downwards, this matches our colour scheme of orange, pink and coral. We found a bar code on the internet which I simply copied and pasted onto the picture as it is essential to have a bar code on the back of a digi-pak. We added The Saturday's record label - FASCINATION on top of the bar code in the colour red which is the actual colour fascination use. Underneath our shoes we have the copyright text in white which we copied off of JLS's album although we adapted it to match The Sundays.

We edited this picture quite a lot in terms of the brightness and contrast. We made the colours of the shirts stand out a lot more than they did before which created a really nice warm effect. Overall I love the picture!

Editing the individual pictures and creating the biographies

The next thing we edited was the pictures of us individually then created the bio's to appear on top. These pictures will be featured inside of the booklet and will be placed opposite one of the group pictures. Here are the final drafts:

The warmify effect

We used photo shop on the schools computers to create and add the biographies but decided that we should use the warmify effect which was on Charlotte's photo shop on her laptop (Picasa). Therefore once the bios were complete we copied the pictures onto Charlotte's laptop and used the warmify effect to make the pictures more colourful and warm. Here are the before and after pictures using Charlotte's as an example:

Before warmify:

After warmify:

Clearly the picture looks warmer and less cold and dull. We thought this looked much better and was worthwhile doing.

Editing the inside pages of the booklet

Today we also edited the pictures that will be placed inside the booklet opposite the individual pictures. Here are the finished pictures that will be used:

These pictures did not need much editing at all as the original copies were close to what we wanted. We played around with the brightness and contrast and decided we wanted every picture to be brighter and more contrasted as it gave the edited look to the pictures which we wanted.

Editing the CD and background behind the CD

In today's lesson we focused on finishing the digi-pak as we have completed our magazine advert and have a deadline to meet which is Friday 18th March where will we be presenting both tasks.

Here is our final picture which will be used for the CD as well as appearing behind the CD:

There wasn't very much to do to this picture to edit as the original version could have been used as it was not much different. We played around with the brightness and contrast and made the sun brighter so it really stands out. For the disk itself we will be using the same image but in the shape of a CD, we will also be adding text to the CD to make it look more realistic. This will be done in Fridays lesson.