Final Product (Music Video)

Final Product (Digipak)

Digipak Outside panels

Digipak Inside Panels

Poster insert Side 1

Poster insert Side 2

Final Product (Album Advert)

Final Evaluation

Using Sony Vegas

Here is our finished Jeepers Creepers music video, I will show you some of the steps and editing techniques we used to reach this final product.

This is our final product before we rendered it in widescreen 720p.

We took the opacity down from the original shot of ou protagonist so we could have a flash of a shot fo the clown layered over the top. We did this simply by dragging the opacity bar down from the top of the shot, on the timeline.

For this shot, we realised that we had broken the 180 degree rule so we had to flip the shot around. We did this simply by clicking on the 'Event Pan/Crop'  symbol on the shot on the timeline. Once this box was opened, all we had to do was right click and select 'flip horizontal' now the 180 degree rule has not been broken.

On the shots of the clown, we decided that we needed make the colours more saturated so on each shot we selected the Saturation Adjust and then the Boost Midtones on the Media FX menu.

On the shots of the protagonist in the hospital bed, we decided we wanted a green tint on the shots. In the Media FX menu we selected colour corrector then Green Highlight, we applied this to every shot of the protagonist in the hospital bed.

On the shots of the band performing, we wanted a stylised effect to get across an urban feel reflecting the location and to contrast the woods in the rest of the video. To do this we selected Unsharp Mask in the Media FX menu and then on this, we created our own preset which gave the shot an almost cartoon effect.

Album advert feedback

We showed the AS media class our three different album adverts, we have recorded our feedback in this short video:

Evidence of Photoshop work

For our ancillary tasks, we used Photoshop to create them.

Here is our digipak front cover. We used different layers in photoshop to create the border and graphic text.

To create the red eye, I used the magic wand tool to select the section of the eye. once it was selected, I used the colour levels to make it red.

For our album advert we did three different versions, each one was different in terms of colour levels. We used the levels tool to make them lighter or darker.

3 Album Advert Versions

 We created this album advert in photoshop. I took a photograph of a plain bricked wall for the background. This fits with the urban theme of the performance element of the music video. It also fits with the inside panels of our digipak. The line in between information is inspired by White Lies' Ritual poster as it gives a sophisticated layout. The 3 main colours we have used are conventional of album adverts and the album cover art is used on the advert so fans or readers of the advert recognise the album when it is out. We have also put tour dates on the poster as a lot of examples we have looked at seem to have this information. We also created a record label logo for Milestone Recording ltd. this is in the bottom right corner. This first example is with normal colour levels on the background.









This example is with the colour levels darkened.

This example is with the background colour levels lightened and the main body of text black instead of white.

Milestone Recordings Ltd.

From our research into Album Adverts, we saw that there were always recording company logos to advertise their company as well as the album concerned. So, in Photoshop we created this logo. We simply selected a font and then coloured sections of it and added another layer to write 'Milestone Recordings Ltd.'

Poster insert for Digipak

From our digipak research, we discovered that some bands included posters folded up inside a slot in the digipak. We have used this idea and created our own two sided poster.

I created this side of the poster in Photoshop. I added the background layer, it was a photograph that I have taken of a night sky with lack of focus. I then cropped it to the size of a poster. Then on another layer I added Fear The Lizard's logo that we created and then finally on another layer with the lyrics in white text in the same font that we have used on our digipak cover.

On this side of the poster, I added 3 different photographs together to create the background. then I added the title in the same font that we will use on our album advert.

Album Advert Research

The album advert for A N N A in NME displays the album's front cover artwork with album information and tour information on a black box underneath the cover. There are 3 main colours being used, black, white and grey with some red covering dates which are sold out on their tour. In the bottom right there looks to be a record company symbol.

The album advert for Holy Fire has the album's front cover artwork cropped down to fit on a rectangular sheet rather than a digipak. The title is in big bold font and the information is clear and in one colour. There is also a short quote from a review central. Again, there are 3 main colours being used.

The album advert for Ritual uses only two colours, black and white, this portrays the band's image as serious. Most of the background is black but a section at the bottom is a photograph of the band performing live. The title of the album is in clear blod font and so are the review quotes. The use of a underscore line is used to separate the title, the quotes and the tour dates.

















The album advert for MYLOXYLOTO has the album's cover artwork on the front cropped to size. The release information is quite small and the imagery dominates the advert.

The album advert for Black & White America has 3 main colours, black, white and red. The album cover art is in the middle of the page with information underneath in small text. The featuring singles are in bigger text and there are record company logos near the bottom.

Jeepers Creepers Final edit

For our final edit of the music video, our teacher pointed out to us that we needed to distinguish between our different narratives. What we have decided to do is:

• Add a Green tint over the hospital shots, this is inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo and this creates an uncomfortable response from the spectator.
• Add some sort of effect over the performance shots to make them seem more 'urban' and stylised. 
• Add some colour saturation on the shots of the clown, so they stand out more from the black and white shots which they are layered over. 

Digipak Template

Back cover

The Imagery of the Back Cover, links with the theme of insanity and different ways of interpreting things. Also, the image of the woods links with the Jeepers Creepers music video as a lot of the footage takes place in the woods. I took the photograph with a slow shutter speed and I twisted the camera as the photograph was being taken to create the distorted effect.

Inside panels (final edit)

From feedback on our digipak, we learnt that the inside panels of our digipak needed to show more information about the record and the musicians. We decided that we would put our writing vertical so that anyone reading it would have to turn it or turn their head. We did this because it fitted better with the photographs that we had already taken for the panels, it also fitted very well with the aesthetics of the digipak  as the font was the same as the one we used on the front and back covers.

Back Cover Track Listing

For our back cover we copied the vertical track listing from albums such as:

Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins

Hospice by The Antlers

Warning by Green Day

Digipak feedback

After finishing we lead a feedback session with some questions for the AS media class. We got some very promising results with little room for improvement. We recorded the feedback into a short video, here it is:

Inside panels (attempt)

    We have placed each band member close to each other because we want to create the feeling that
    they are friendly and a unit.

Photo shoot for inside panels

 These are the photographs from the shoot which we have decided we are going to use for our inside panels. All they will require is cropping into squares, turning black and white to fit with the aesthetics of the other covers and adding text.

3rd idea for inside panels

We have decided that the band should be represented as normal so they should be shown normally. Therefore, we are going to do a photoshoot of each seperate band member infront of the same plain background. The plain background focuses the viewer's attention to the band memebers.

2nd idea scrapped

We realised that these images dont' fit very well with the theme of our digipak and album. The whole idea that the band members' features are not recognisable doesn't fit with the branding of the band as they deserve to be recognised rather than being 'faceless'. Therefore, we are going to have to design some more inside panels, with the band on them.

Inside Panels (2nd idea) development

 The cut out of the drummer.

 The cut out of the lead singer and guitarist.

 The cut out of the bass guitarist.

The abstract image that the cut out images will be layered on top of.

The end result.

Inside panels (2nd Idea)

As our first idea didn't work, we took inspiration from the front cover of  Slow Magic's album, Triangle. We decided that we would use the photographs that we took for our original idea. What we were to do was to cut the body out of the photograph and then place the background with a silhouette of each of the bodies on top of an abstract photograph that I had taken myself.

James Blake idea gone wrong

As you can see, this design idea has not gone to plan. What we did was, in photoshop I layered 3 different photographs on top of each other, to create a blurred face effect. However, something has not happened as we would have liked so we are going to have to think of new ideas as this idea hold little similarities to the rest of the digipak.

Front Cover

We used the close up of the eye imagery to express the psychological theme of the album. The red of the iris is there to connote ideas of fear and danger. To do this, I selected the iris in Photoshop and altered the colour balance. I then added another layer with the Band's logo and put that in the middle of the pupil, to make it central to the front cover and making it noticable. The titles 'fear the lizard' and 'jeepers creepers' are small and not very noticable so the imagery stands out more making it more striking.

Inside panels

On the inside panels we are wanting to have imagery similar to The James Blake album cover, which I have shown in an earlier blog post. This fits in with the theme of the album, the theme being an alternate way of seeing things due to mental instability. We will be having a different 'James Blake-Esque' photograph for each member, one on each inside panel.

Digipak arrangement

Tall Ships Everything Touching

The Digipak Has only four panels. The abstract image is used throgh the front and the back page.











On either panel is a slot, on for the CD and one for a poster, on one side of the poster is an abstract image reminiscent on the front cover, on the other side is, the lyrics from all of the album.

On the inside panels is thank you and credits, to producers, family and friends.

Hot Chip The Warning

The digipak has 6 panels, the number we will be having on ours. The outside panels have a the same image in the background, the imagery represents the band well, it's full of colour, the band are a fun band. The songs titles are very prominent and in a different colour ot the background.





The inside panels, are of similar imagery to the outside, just with a black and white colour. Very simplistic inside.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums Heartcore

The digipak has 6 panels, again the amoun that we will want to be having. The front cover is very abstract as is the other oanel on the outside. The back panel contracts to this as it is full of colour and shape. The song titles are at the bottom vertically in small print, we will use this way of laying out the song titles.

The inside panels match with the back panel, they are very abstract still just with more colour and structure.

Our Digipak

• We will have 6 panels
• Inside the front panel will be the CD
• Inside the back panel will the the lyrics poster