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Digipac construction and screen grabs

The image above shows the work I have done on my digipac. As you can see, I have enlarged sections of the design to fill the digipac. I have also taken sections of my design and re-designed them, filling up my design.

I created the two new designs at the top of the digipac by taking three separate sections of the design in the middle, at the bottom of the digipac. I then enlarged the sections and connected them using the rectangular marquee tool. I then merged the three layers together so that I could move the design to the place I wanted.

I then copied and pasted the design and flipped the new layer horizontal, and placed it on the opposite side of the digipac design. I chose to use the same design on opposite sides of the digipac as I think it will look good when the viewer opens out the digipac as the two designs frame the CD in the middle.

Music video construction and screen grabs

I have nearly finished the editing of my music video, I have about thirty seconds of editing left to do. I felt that the song was about a couple as the lyrics could be thought as romantic, which is why I chose to add a romantic narrative in my music video. I also chose to add a performance in my music video as this is a typical thing to see in all music videos, and I wanted to link well to videos now.

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Digipac construction and screen grabs

This is a print screen of the digipac I am currently creating. I chose to this design as I think it links very well to the genre of the band and also the title of the track. I also like how much detail the wing has which makes the digipac individual.

I learnt how to use Illustrator and experimented with my design by using different colours and backgrounds. Illustrator is best to use for creating smooth, flowing shapes, I already have my design and I do not need to draw anything using the tools on Illustrator, which is why I chose to use Photoshop. I have also used Photoshop for many years which means I know a lot about the program.

I downloaded a digipac design off the internet and I am currently using it as a guideline with my work. Once I have finished I will obviously delete it. I then used the magnetic lasso tool to separate the three designs I drew.

Next, I am going to cut sections of the designs down and use them on the other sections of the digipac which are blank. I am doing this as I want all of the digipac to be full of detail and this will also link the whole digipac together.

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Digipac construction and screen grabs

Here are a few print screens of the work I have been doing for my digipak using Photoshop.

The image above shows that I have experimented with colours by changing the drawing to a light brown instead of its' original colour which was black. This is the design I have chosen to manipulate further and use as the final digipak as I think it fits with the band well and also fits well with the songs title. I also chose it as it is very detailed.

The pictures above are of another digipak I drew as a detailed design idea.

This is my third design idea for the digipak I am going to create. It fits well to the band as there are five members, however, it does not link with the title of the song. It is also quite simple and I have seen this design in other digipaks which is why I am not going to use this as my final digipak.

Music video construction and screen grabs

I have also nearly completed my video editing using Final Cut Pro. I have learnt a lot using this editing software as I now know how to use it to its full potential and I also know how to create good-looking transitions to next scenes. I have one more minute's worth of editing left to do on my music video which will not take me too long as I am quite far already.

I like my music video so far as I feel that it fits with the track I chose very well due to the slow pace of the track in comparison to the slow pace of the music video.

Detailed designs for digipac

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I chose three of my rough designs to draw in detail. I drew the designs on A3 paper so I had to scan one half of the page at a time. I then had to use Photoshop to fix the two halfs together, the images above are the end product.
I have chosen to use the first design as I think it fits best with the genre of the band and also the title of the song.