The main feature of my digipak cover and magazine advertisement is a figure standing in a street, i got this idea from an album i own which is by the band imperial leisure and the cover from their album "the art of saying nothing"

However i chose to use an empty street as i would not be able to easily recreate the hectic scene that is pictured.

Magazine advertisement

I have started off constructing my magazine advertisement in photoshop, i am using the same premise as the inside cover of my digipak. I am using a black and white photo as the base image before editing the contrast so that it is barely visible, at the top i am going to have a collage of images at the top of the picture. I have yet to decide how i am putting the lettering onto the image and what it will say.

I have now made all of the pictures which are going to be in the collage black and white, whilst also keeping the actor in the pictures in colour. This took more time than i thought it was due to the frequent mistakes i made due to the fact i now have 47 hours

I have now finished putting in all of the pictures and now intend o start adding text and making it look more like an advert

I started off by editing the back ground to change the tones, making it lighter. However i wanted the figure to stand out so i cut him into a different layer so that i could keep him the same colour whilst editing the rest of the background. I am going to spend more time working out the lettering as it looks out of place at the moment due to it mixing with the background colour. In the bottom right i have also added the quote from the album cover, as well as the an image of the album cover to make it look more like a magazine advert.

I have now started to edit the lettering and change the font and size of it, so that it is more visible when you look at it. I am trouble making all of the lettering visible due to the fact that the background is black and white. To attempt to stop this being a problem i have lightened the background so that the whites are more prevalent over the blacks and the lettering is able to stand out more. This is a problem as there is a limit to the amount which the white parts can be lightened before the contrast between the light and dark make it almost painful to look ay. I have also darkened the figure so the he will stand out more against the white background whilst not looking to unnatural.

Whilst editing together my footage i have noticed  a problem with my filming, my actor whilst lip syncing sings out of one side of his mouth, producing a very strange look. The next time i go to film i am going to see if i can get him to sing to the music without doing this.

Now that i have a large amount of footage i am able to start editing together the footage i have which uses lip syncing. I still need to film more but i now have the majority of my filming done with only one small close up and two larger pieces of footage to get, including the scene where my actor jump cuts through and area.

The last footage i got was filmed with a hd camera, however when i went to put this onto the mac it refused to find the video footage. So instead i had to put the card straight into the memory card slot on my home computer, then i was able to convert the footage using a converter i found on the internet into an mp4 which the mac was able to recognize and therefore i am able to edit using final cut.

On the 8th i filmed parts of my lip syncing and other parts, however i am still going to have to film more as i did not get all of the footage i wanted to get and i also need to do some of my filming in a completely different location.

I am unable to film today as planned as my actor is ill and therefore am postponing my filming until Sunday the 8th when i hope to get the majority of it done. However because this filming will take place outside i am completely dependent upon the weather which at the moment is extremely rainy and stormy, which would create continuity errors.