Mac problems

During the production of our video using the mac book at school the laptop we had was consistently rebooting before we could save the work meaning we had to redo a few scenes and even start the entire project again when it failed to boot the hard drive with our data on it. It also had a few faults within the programs its self that wouldn't allow us to add a few effects we wanted to add into the video which resulted in the lower quality of resolution of the video as we found it was the only method to play the video without the entire screen going completely black through playback and even on YouTube there is a notable difference between the draft video and the final video.

digipak

This is the Digipak I created for my project using photoshop on the computer at school.

website

http://maxwelliq.wix.com/beachboys

This is the link to get onto the band website I created using the wix domain name and hosting software.

CD design for digipac

Making this on Photoshop was relatively easy as after morphing the image into the shape I required I simply selected a circle in the middle with the selection tool then used a invent selection tool to remove the hole in the middle for the CD case holder to sit in.

Prop Shots

These pieces of cardboard were a simple prop that we used for the digipak band portrait and for the inside page of the digipak all it took was a simple rearrangement to take the image. We were inspired to do this after watching Cold play's Paradise video during the research then after some group discussion we agreed to implement the idea into the photo-shoots. 

digipak inside page

inside page of digipak

Tracklist digipak

Tracklist- back page of digipak

music video- wouldnt it be nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EVbDZaJmiTE

Photo rights and Merges

So of the images I wanted to create I couldn't make entirely from scratch so I recycled old photos that I could edit and merge with new images I took to create the designs I needed for my project such as my album artwork cover on the digipak and the track list artwork these are examples of merges of various pictures to create the desired designs I had planned in my storyboards.

tour poster for website

I made this on photoshop to use on the website promoting bands first tour

Storyboard for website

Storyboard Plan for the band website made on the computer at home.

sharing images within group

In our group we decided to share our images for our auxiliary tasks as all our ideas were very similar but we all used different editorial techniques and all made unique adjustments to the pictures on Photoshop.

Locations

Front cover digipac

These is the actual final front page pf the digipak I decided to create in the end after reviewing my storyboard plans, I used a merge of two images with the skew effect on the band portrait to create the illusion of the band on the floating billboard.

front cover draft

Initially I was just going to keep the album cover basic and simple similar to other bands I researched in the genre such as these below.