Final Ancillary Feedback

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We showed a variety of people our final ancillary productions (both the digipack and magazine advertisement) and this was their feedback to us:

Positives:

• Definitely would buy
• Colourful
• Realistic
• High Quality
• Strong eye contact
• Like the kaleidoscope- creative and nice, unique
• Consistent with music video
• Creative
• Like the black and white

Negatives:

• Could be on the beach

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Final Digipak

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The above shows the complete edited digipack to acompany the magazine advertisement and music video. Here you can see (top row left to right) the front cover, spine, back cover, and image for the cd slot. You can also see on the bottom row, the insert images that have been edited, including the kaleidoscope images. I believe that the black and white images are creative and unique, and look professional and well done. The subtle colours in the kaleidoscope images not only reflect the alternative/dance genre, they also brighten the artwork and compliment the black and white tones. 

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Final Front and Back Album Covers

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Front Cover Final

Above is the final piece for the front cover of the digipack. The font Prisma was included as planned, however to make the album look more professional, a record label logo was added, and a small 5 star rating in the corner of the album. In real life, this would be more realistic and encourage people to purchase the album rather than it being plain.

Back Cover Final

This image is the back of the digipack, this includes a track list, a number of reviews, logo's, barcodes, and small print as these are all important features in an album which would appear on a real production. The image is also spaced in a professional way as there are no image-text colour clashes and the text is clear and easy to read.

Spine

A spine was also created for the album cover so that it would be complete. This is simply the edge from the image on the back of the cover so that the two images merge and are consistent. The font is consistent again as we used Prisma throughout the whole pack.

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Images Chosen and Edited - Front and Back Cover

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Front Cover

Back Cover

These are the two images that were chosen for the front and back cover of the digipack,  both of these images were edited in the same style as the other portraits in the insert. As described in a previous post, The above image was chosen as it is the strongest in terms of pose and eye contact. The below image was chosen as it was still glamorous and professional, however it allowed for a lot of space for text, logo's barcodes etc.
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Final Insert Images

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Below are the final edited versions of the insert images. These will be used alongside the earlier edited kaleidoscope images to create the insert for the digipack. These images were all chosen due to the strong eye contact and fashionable poses, they also all incorporate the models style and none of the images chosen were boring or simple close-ups with no emotion or pose so that they looked interesting and professional.

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Evidence of Editing Insert Images

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The above image demonstrates the changing of the brightness and contrast of the image, this is so that the white background and facial features can become more clear, prominent and without shadow whilst still maintaining that the colours are not too contrasted not are they saturated.

This image above shows the editing the image to black and white,  altering the colour levels whilst doing this so that different parts are darker, eg the Magenta section levels will be made higher so that her lipstick appears more statement and dark.

This above image shows the use of the burn tool. This tool is used to darken features such as her eye make-up, lips and roots in her hair to make everything seem stronger and bolder.

Here the dodge tool is selected, and used in the editing process to lighten Bellas hair and also to remove any dark circles from under her eye along with any make up smudges.

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