Final Video

Final Website

LINK TO WEBSITE CLICK HERE  

This is the link to our band page that we have created. I think the design works well and that the page fits with all the codes and conventions we have worked to follow although I think it can be a little too dark in places.


I have asked some of my friends over Skype what they thought of the website:

[14:43:32] Daniel: I really like the design, I like how you have made it original but it still looks professional.

[14:43:33] Katie: I think the colours really suit the bands genre :)

[14:43:33] Kieran: It's a little slow to load sometimes but other than that I think it looks great!

[14:43:35] Becky: although the band isn't one i'd listen to personally, i think it will appeal to people who like that music and i like that the buttons are clear.

Digipak

This is the Digipak that we have created after several designs were suggested, as a group we decided that the design would need several features that included both the band and the managers logo, obviously the album title and song titles. I wanted the album to contain a photo that we had taken so that it would link into and relate to out previous work.

Ben was the best at Photoshop out of our group, so with suggestions we both decided what would be best for the sides of the digipak and he edited it on Fireworks and Photoshop until we were both happy, this included altering the contrast, colour boosting or reducing saturation/opacity (transparacy) on images and also adding titles to the sections so that we could include a track-list.

To create the reflected effect the original image was cropped and then mirrored to get the final image.

We wanted to keep the logo of the band in the image but since it was copyrighted we needed to design a new logo, Dominic created one that looked similar to the font which I think worked really well because they look comparative which is convincing to people viewing the logo.
Lastly, we created a logo for our group which is made up of the initials from each of our names. It was created on Photoshop with input from the whole group until we were all happy with the final design.

I then asked several people in our media class what they thought of the digipak, they said that it was "interesting and detailed and something that they would notice in a store since it stands out amongst plainer covers", the positive feedback settled the final design.

Before it was done however, we needed to fix some problems with the design since not every panel lined up accurately with clear spaces for the spine. We found this when we printed the digipak out and it was a little off, after some tweaking this was resolved however.
The canvas size on Photoshop that we also created was very large and when it printed out it took up too much paper since it did not re-size it in scale, this meant we had to alter the size of the design when printing.