Pete Fraser - Top Tips (2)

Top Tips

The Task

• Package: album (digipack), website or advert, music video

• 100 marks: research and planning 20, video 40, digipack 10, website 10, evaluation 20

The Blog

• Evidence of whole journey

• Research, Planning, Construction of all 3 products

• Evaluation

• Finished products

Good blogs

• http://oliviadarceyhawthorne.blogspot.co.uk

• http://hurtwoodmedia12beesupavarasuwat.blogspot.co.uk

• http://gregfellows72.blogspot.co.uk/

• http://mollyeve73.blogspot.co.uk/

Good Housekeeping

• tidy desktop

• storage of footage

• labelling files

• tidy blog

Evidence 1

• real music videos

• real music videos of your genre

• any visuals that have influenced you (films, TV, adverts, music videos, photos)

• ‘steal-o-matic’

• costume photos, location photos, test shots

Evidence 2

• real album covers

• real band websites

• early exercises designing album covers

• changes to your designs- screengrabs

• show how it is a ‘package’

Random ALBUM COVER exercise

Step 1: Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe title of the first random Wikipedia article you get is the NAME of your band.

Step 2: Go to: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the TITLE of your album.

Step 3: Go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/The third picture, no matter what it is, is the COVER of your album.

Step 4: Use Photoshop to put it altogether and design the front and back cover of the album.

[Photoshop canvas size: H 12 cm x W 24 cm / 300 dpi]

Step 5: Upload your finished album artwork to Flickr

Re-makes

Evidence 3

• student music videos, digipacks and websites with comments

• Jake’s videos and tips from today

• photos and clips from today

• edits from today

• storyboard and animatic of your video plan

Evidence 4

• feedback from your peers

• rough cuts of your video

• screengrabs of your edit in progress

• ‘behind the scenes’

• regular commentary on what you are doing

when to do website/digipack

• in parallel, NOT at the end!

• taking photos for later use

• having lots of extra ideas

• can do more than one design within the group