Question 4

Question 3

Question 2

Question 1

Inside Album (With CD & Lyric & Artbook)

Poster Final

Front Cover Final

Photography Shoot (9/1/17)

Today we conducted our photoshoot to gather images for the music single and advert. The images were taken of the singer of the album in Leyton Sixth Form Photography Studio using a canon DSLR camera. The images that were captured was a range of shots at all angles as this would allow us to use different images for the front cover, back cover inside and advert. In this time I was also brainstorming last minute ideas I can do with the images as this would stop a generic image being carried throughout the creative process. In this time I decided that I was going to change the edits of the image to leave some in colour and make some monochrome to suit the concept

Back Cover Research

Whist looking at the final ideas for the back cover I took inspiration from Rae Sremmurd SremmLife as I want to use the half and half effect between the artist in the song and have the track listing going down the middle of the the image. The way that  am planning to adapt this is by using a smoke effect on the artist making him look like poison gas in relation to the song title.

Mock-up Designs (Cover art)

In this post I came up with three concept designs for the front cover of the music cover. The aim of this was that I can gain feedback on aspects of the designs in which they likes and what one is the best of the three shown overall as well as how in which to improve them. The first design produced was a long shot of the guy sitting down and the girl leaning against a bottle of poison as it connotes to the song title poison. The bottle would be made using photoshop along with the cupid's as they connote love which is usually reminiscent of love. This design got a positive interaction because of the relevance with the actual song because of the poison bottle and the cupid's. However the negatives that occurred with this is the shot type as the majority of music album covers have as shot ranging from close-up to medium-shot and not a long-shot as a person cannot see the main artist of the song.

The second Design proposed was a side shoot of the main artist however, has a merged image of a man and woman about to kiss extending out of the back of the guy head. Thais was meant to combine real photography as well as Photoshop editing in relevance with my case studies on music albums as I was looking at the combination of graphic designed covers in cohesion with real images. The positives from this approach would be the shot type as it is more conventional for for album covers as a similar shot was used in Drake's 'Nothing was the same' album and the design would be reflective of the majority of music covers interpreting a graphical aspect. The negative comments came from the image that was to be displayed graphically as it wasn't reflective of the song. As a result I am attempting to create an extension that would be more coherent with the actual song.

Music Video (Final)

Jahkoy - Poison (Media Work) from Ismail Parlakbudak on Vimeo.

Research & Planning print

CD & Advert Pitch (Part 2)

CD & Advert Pitch (Part 1)

CD cover and advert pitch

Ninth Day Of Editing (22/10/16)

As a result of the focus group we began continuing to improve on the aspects people stated needed improvement. The first was the font as people stated it looked too feminine for the song so, we decided to change it to something more elegant for the song. In addition to this we also had noticed a problem with the sizing of the font a sit was at a point where it looked like it was positioned in the top corner of the screen so, we adjusted it so that all the words would fit in perfectly in the frame. In addition to this we also picked out another clip we could apply the drawing effect to as we were also told to continue to do this effect as it looked interesting however, we decided to apply a multi-colour effect to the line to make it provide variation to the previously used black outline.

Music Video Progression Screening (Focus Group)

This video consist of the progression screening of the music videos editing as we pitched it to a focus group to receive feedback as to points which stood out and parts we can improve upon. In this we showed the parts we had edited (second verse chorus) and after explained the concept of the video.

Positives

• Storyline made sense
• Range of locations and castings
• Editing (Outline & Text effects)
• Shot transitions
• Camera quality (exposure)
• Lighting in each shot

Point of Improvement

• Lip-sync slightly off in some shots
• Text effect font looks slightly feminine so change it to something more appropriate
• Continue the line effect in all of the parts captured in the studio

Eighth Day of Editing (21/11/16)

Today we continued editing through to the second verse. In this we used the shots captured on the wall against Stratford International as we were able to do the text effect when he is rapping. This was to work in commune with location shots against the wall as a side shot this was to support the rule of three as we didn't position the singer directly in the middle of the shot but, on the left hand side with the text appearing on the left hand side of the shot. This was done during the rapping as he talks faster in this verse so by displaying the words on the side one can keep track of what he is saying in the track. In this we had two shots of him doing this we had one as a close up and one as a long-shot so, we were able to cut between the two clips.

Seventh Day of Editing (17/11/16)

In this session I spent 3 hours alone polishing some of the editing in the clip by completing the writing effect on the clips against the wall and started doing more of the drawing on the clips in the studio prior to the lesson. During the lesson we began placing the clips in order up until the bridge of the audio. In addition to this we also got feedback on the parts we had edited so far as a result we got the feedback of:

Positives

• The editing effects of the outline around the singer
• Camera quality of the shots taken
• Range of locations
• Cutting rate of shots

Improvements

• Changing the font used in the introduction
• Continuing the line effect throughout the shots taken in the studio
• Match up the lip-sync of the Singers and the track

Sixth day of Editing (16/10/16)

In today's lesson we continued with the text editing but, was also planning on what to do for the bridge of the song as this is a part of the song that is slower than the rest of the song however would not require us to do additional filming. As a result we decided that the best thing is to merge the clips we have got already seeing that we already had a lot in a concept where we could slow down the clip to sync up with the music as we already have clips of him singing it but, we also had clips of him acting to the particular part of the song in which we could use. To conclude we decided that we would make the best with what we already got because of how hard it is to arrange filming sessions with both the actors at the same time.