Ancillary Task: First Draft and Feedback (Magazine Advert)

Feedback from our media class:

-"Colours are quite dull and dreary."
-"It doesn't attract the reader's eye. It should be brighter and warmer."
-"You need to brighten her up, but not the background."
-"You need to brighten up her hair."
-"Maybe add some contact information, ticketline or a band website."
-"You need some standard font for the band name."

-"You have the wrong sizing for the writing. It swamps her."
-"The writing is really small and it overshadows her."
-"The costume is good."

-"The picture fits well."
-"The font is ok"
-"Don't crop her hand off."
-Someone else said "Not a fan of the font."
-"Up the vibrance."
-"The tour dates in a box crop her legs off."

Ancillary Task 1st Draft and Feedback (Digipak)

Feedback from our teacher and peers in our media class on how we can improve our digipack before the final deadline:

-The image looks good in the CD case.

-They liked the use of layers all through the digipack.

-How we highlighted the use of seasons effectively.

-The background links to the topic of nature. The background brings out the girls facial features.

-Eyes closed=mystical effect.

Don't be too wordy.
You could use swirly font, serif, kings + queens (da-font.com)

They liked the positioning of the girl in the foreground.
Name of the artist down the side of the cover.
Earthy colours=folkie
Collage of images=Indie

There was no company logo on there.
The text needs to improve.

Ancillary Task First Draft-Inside Booklet Designs

When we presented the first draft of our Digipack to our media class, I also presented my rough designs for the inside booklet. I created the inside booklet on a Publisher Publication and I recieved mixed reviews from my group, my peers and my media teacher. There constructive criticism was helpful because it would help me to improve the overall design of our digipack and inside booklet before the final deadline.

My intention for the inside booklet, is to use a various range of images ranging from daytime to evening shots to show the versatility of our actress. I have also incorporated snippets of the lyrics which was influenced by the Lungs album.

In my opinion, I could've improved the style of the writing and the colour scheme because people thought that the writing was very difficult to read and I should've used a simple font for the inside booklet and then used a significant font for the artist and brand name.

This would be the back cover of the inside booklet. The back cover has magazine reviews about the single and artist. I have actually used snippets of real reviews from various music magazines.

My intention for this page was to overlap two images to show the style and feel of our digipack.

Images for the inside booklet of the Digipak (1st Draft)

Image for the Magazine Advert

Digipak Research

-These two pages inside the booklet show a description of all of the tracks inside the album and the booklet also contains a thank you page from Florence Welch herself.

-All of the images inside the booklet are all focused on the artist. The artist has used a different range of camera shots and angles and a different variety of situations to show how the main artist can be presented. The situations link to the genre of indie and some of the situations juxtapose each other.

-This is the back cover of the album. In the foreground there is an x-ray type image of a Lung organ with labelled numbers to show what the name of the tracks are.

-This is the front cover of the Album with the artist as the main focus lying down. It can be interpreted as an aerial view shot of her lying down.

-Her white dress can represent purity and stands out from the rest of the action in the background and foreground.

-The writing style is a constant style that is associated with the artists.

Rough Layout of our Digipak

During the planning stages of our ancillary tasks, we created a layout of what our digipack is going to look like. We thought about colour, style, the inside booklet and how it will be different to the Lungs album by Florence and the Machine.

Ideas for our front cover:

-Having an image highlighting her face and mainly her red hair.

-Having her lying down looking up at the sky in a wood.

-Having the front cover in colour or black and white.

-We would keep the front cover minimalistic by just having the image of her face. We would not have the band name or the name of the single because we want our audiences to be captivated by our image.

Ideas for our inside booklet:

-Our inside booklet, would be a folded booklet that unraveles into several pages.
-Having images from our music video with snippets from the lyrics across the top or bottom of the pages.

-A page in the booklet with all of the lyrics.

-A "Thank you" page from our artist.

-A collage of different images layed on top of each other to create the background of the pages of our booklet.

-The CD would be decorated with patterns or swirls in colours that link to our genre of indie pop.

-We would experiment with a different range of colour for our booklet such as:

-Light Blue

-Peach

-White

-Cream

-Light Green

Ideas for our back cover:

-Our back cover would have magazine comments and reviews about the song.