My Evaluation

Final Magazine Advert

This is my final album cover that was also created using Adobe Photoshop CS. All I did was insert the front of my album cover which was already in a jpeg format. I then fixed the dimensions to make sure it was A4 and was suitable for a magazine advert. After this I changed my background and added text. I also used special effects on my "OUT NOW" text.

Final Album Cover (Back & Front)

This is the front of my album cover...

This is my back cover for my album...

Album Cover (Back & Front)

As part of our digipak we had to produce an album cover, back and front. For this I had to take pictures. However instead I used pictures that we took from our photo shoot and from pictures that were taken through out our whole project to save on time and energy. Using these images I used them to put into my album cover and edited them to make it all look like one piece of work.

In order to make my album cover I had to use Adobe Photoshop CS. I then had to make sure that my dimensions for my album cover was correct. Then after this I started producing my album cover.

Photoshop allowed me to use many different effects such as gradient, text that was inserted, and also text effects such as inner shadow, outer glow, inner glow, bevel and emboss, satin and stroke. I got these effects by playing about with the effects tools and inserting effects that I thought looked best on my album cover. Most of these effects were new to me and undiscovered.

As well as this, I inserted and cropped images and used opacity adjustments, layer properties changed and I also used the feathering tool. There was the use of imaging transformation and rendering adjustments. Again, most of these effects were undiscovered and unknown to me and were only discovered through playing about with the different effects icons. All of these effects mentioned so far were used on my front album cover.

As for my back cover, effects that were used includes mainly most of what I had used in my front of my album cover and also more text inserted, the cropping of images and inserting images, and then the imaging transformation, rendering adjustments and emboss tools. All these effects that I played about with contributed to the production of my album cover both back and front.

Final Music Video

Editing

During the editing process I learnt how to edit and produce an actual music video using the equipment that was provided for us. This included still cameras, video cameras, apple macs and the actual final cut software programme which we had to upload all of our images and footage's onto in order to use in our music video.

Final Cut allowed us to effectively use its functions to put into order our video. We had to first watch our footage and decide what we wanted in our video. we then used the "i" key to know where we wanted our footage to start and the "o" to indicate when it should stop. Then we needed to drag and insert the footage into the timeline. We also had to get rid of all unwanted sound that would cause any disturbances to the music. We continued to do this up to the ending of the music video to produce our video. We had to also make sure that everything was in order and our footage didn't jump shots making our video seem as if it had no story behind it.

As well as this, this software allowed us to use many different tools such as using effects and transitions. It also had a magnet tool which made all our footage stick together to make sure there were no empty blanks left in between the scenes to make our video look unprofessional and jumpy. We were also able to use the blade tool so that we could use this to get rid of unwanted small extras. I mainly used the blade tool in order to make sure that the lyrics of the song was in perfect timing with the video. This was very long and took time to make sure it was perfect.

Final Cut allowed us to hav a timeline for our effects that we used and where we used it. Also we had aseperate timeline for the whole song with no editing in between and another final timeline for the making of the actual video. Using all three of these timelines we were able to make sure everything fitted perfectly together, our song/music with the video and the video with the effects and transitions. Altogether this made our work very effective.

Photoshoot