Before and afters of the pictures from our digipak

 The progression of this one was quite easy i did it on Fotor and put a filter on it and made it look like a vintage photo.

 On this one i added a filter and smoothed out the hand and then made the lens flare go over the hand therefore exaggerating the hurt in the eyes as you can see then just added the smoke.






 This was more hard to edit as i did it on fireworks to get the black smoke at the back of the picture but then found out how to make it into the affect it is on the last one where we have added in the song list to the album and that became the back image of the Digipak.

Digipak draft 2

This is our draft for our Digipak, we were happy to call this our final one but after receiving feedback by a few people then we found that we need to change two of the pictures that we have used as they don't have the affect that the other ones do, so we are going to take pictures again and see which ones are the best for the Digipak.

Link to our website

http://massey1.wix.com/piperyoung

production diary

26/02/15
This week I was just getting myself organised, I wanted to put everything I have done together on the blog and sort out the blog with the labels so everything is easy to navigate and find on here. I also wanted to make sure I have everything I need on the blog and focus on my planning and research to get that up to scratch and make sure that it is full of everything we have ever done, I think if I never have enough research and planning then it will be okay. I will gain constructive criticisms from a peer on this area on things i may of missed and what to improve upon to make this area more strong. I will then show what my peer said to improve and show how i did that.

Key shots and inspiration for our music vidoe

Man down by Rihanna:

we chose to use this as inspiration because we had an idea to have shots of my being trapped in my bedroom as i am in an abusive relationship therefore it is a symbol of being trapped in the relationship and also the fact that he wont let me out, this is why we wanted to find the way to do this without it being boring and the shots being too long, so we looked at rihannas video and see that she also has this affect in her music video and got some ideas to how i should be sitting and how the shots would look the best. 

Digipak progression

 The progression of one of the pictures used in the digipak. We had to cut out the lips and then place it on background of the black smoke to show the two different usp of our artist.

Changes in video

Our first key change was the artist it was originally Katie but she didnt feel comfortable doing it, as she was going to be the singer and i was going to be the narrative (because there is only two of us) but then it changed to just me singing about my abusive relationship that i am in.
We then changed the concept shots as we didnt think they went with what we was trying to achieve and then we changed them again and again because we felt that the shots of me with the boyfriend looked fake and didn't fit in with the performance shots that we had now found to be a good fit.
We also changed the digipak pictures and the original website a thousand times to find our pop star image and what represents her as the artist, we didnt really know what we was going for but when we found it we liked the idea and finally agreed (red lips and black smoke).
We chnaged the singing shots about 4 times form katie to me then to me in a different location to me in the location that we are now, we looked at the video 'Man down' by rihanna and liked the idea of me being trapped in the bedroom at the start of the video through the first verse this is to show her getting stronger throughout the video by her getting out of the house and i think this shows a reliable representation of what an abusive relationship is like. the changes that we did make were for the best and i think that its good that we did trial and error a few things before finding our pop star image.

production diary

13/02/15
This week we was taking more pictures of our artist, this is the stages we went through to get it up to scratch and show the best ability of our editin, we found the website fotor which allows me to edit the picture and get rid of blemishes and smooth the face or any wrinkles it is a really good and fun tool to use to make it look as professional as possible. I'm really happy with the last finished picture.

3rd draft

Digipak plans

This is our digipak plan so far, we have planned a few pictures and are discussing what other ones to use for the last two, we knew what our cd was going to look like because we liked  the black smoke and it was going to either be the red lips or the black smoke and that is what we went with as it looked better.

Production diary

Production diary:
This week we i posted our 3rd draft, to see all the changes was amazing I fell it looks so much better and so much more improved than the 1st and 2nd draft i posted as there is more footage and less space to fill, this is showing the bits that we have got rid of for example this bit in the 2nd draft of me singing in the garage we got rid of, we pretty much got rid of a lot of the footage used here due to the fact that we didnt like it and it didn't fit so we changed it all around so what is in that space now is me singing in a different space, it looks much better now.

 However, we still have filming to do and take a few more pictures and then all we have to do is the evaluation questions, that I'm starting next week. We have finally established the artists look and the features that make Piper young a pop start, we have established her pop culture with her brand (the black smoke and the red lips) that fans should associate with her.