Digipack construction

This is our front cover. We wanted our artist to have a bit of an edge to him, and be an image our Target audience can relate to and we thought we could achieve this by using graffiti art, as it is commonly linked to the youth, and this is our target audience.

This panel is original art work or the artist, this is common in digipacks, and we wanted to stick to conventions.

This is the track list for the album, which is necessary in a digipack.

This is the panel where the disk will be held.

This is a bio about the artist, we felt it would be a good thing to include as the artist is new and people will want to know a little bit about him

This is our back cover. We found a bar code on the Internet and added it to this panel for authenticity.

Through all the panels there is a running theme, which is the sound wave. We included this as the recognisable feature of this artist, something our target audience will see and link to the artist.

Website

Also in the last few months we've started work on the website. We were going to use dreamweaver but decided very quickly that would take too long, so we are usign a site called weebly.com, an online site which allows basic website building very easily and this is what e
we've got so far:



This is the top of our website, the links at the top all direct to a page that reads: currently in progress, as for this unit of our project it was not nessacarry to have more than one functioning page. The wave form is a common theme through out project, it appears in our digi pack also. The text visible reads as follows: DJ Ransome is a peterborough born artist who is very up and coming, he started his music career in his bedroom by using computer software to compose short beat loops, now he has his own collection of youtube videos and is aired on the radio. He focuses manily on dance music, but has progressed to trance and house anthems. He does his own remixs of other artists work, always giving credit where credit is due of course. He is soon to be a hit artist so you should definatly jump on the bandwagon now.



This section of the web page is in the middle, and is a rolling photo gallery. Every few seconds the picture changes.




This section is located at the bottom of the page, and contains two fully functional youtube videos of DJ Ransomes other songs, and information of some events that DJ Ransome is doing soon.

This is the link for the site.
http://a2mediadjransome.weebly.com/

16/11/10 ReFilming

On this date we planned to re film, using a simple suspended platform, to counter the shakeness of our last shots. This didn't go so well as the design was simple but not as effective as we had hoped and so we had to improvise. We got a moveable surface that was on wheels, then added other things ontop to add hight when needed. This worked well and we can now edit this set of shots into our introduction.



(This is not part of our final piece, but is still relevant proof of construction)

Filming

Today we started to film the entrance sequence, as we discovered that conventionally this genre of music has a big introduction. This went well and we feel we have enough shots to get a convincing sequence, there were, to begin with, some difficulties however. we do not had a dolly to place a camera on so the shots tended to be quite shakey, we fixed this by placing the tripod on something that slid across the floor. Once we'd fixed this problem the filming was easy, and the sequence came together nicely.



(This is not part of our final piece, but is relevant proof of construction)

Green screen practice

Today we practiced using adobe pro to edit footage filmed on a green screen. We did this as we plan to use this method in our final piece to place our choreographed dance behind previously filmed footage using green screening. Here is a sample of the images we got from this process.

This is a screen shot of an email i recieved giving me permission to use the attached music file. It reads :

Hi mate here is the song that I have done for your media project.


Here is a bit of info about the song.

Artist - DJ Ransome
Title - Rock The House!
Length - 03:36
Type - Radio Edit
Quality - 320 KBPS
Song Written & Produced By - Josh Ransome


Copyright - DJ Ransome 2010

All parts of the song do not infringe copyright.