Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Research and Preparation for Ancillary Task 1

As our presentation shows, we are going to carry out ancillary tasks along side with our production. The first ancillary task is to design and make a digipack. This digipack will go inside the CD case the song, 'Cry Me A River'. Designing a digipack will enable us to show information about the singer, Julie London and photos which will tell our target audience about her career. Also, by listing her songs in the digipack, it will show our audience that it is important to know about old genres of music, not just modern day music. However, we want to also include still images from our production with the female and male performers, as we want to relate to our target audience; if we had an image of Julie London on the front, our target audience would not be as interested as they would not recognise her.

We made a prototype of our digipack from white card to plan out what each page will include. We then took pictures of it as seen below.

The first picture shows how we have measured a model CD case and cut out two pieces of card that have four sides each. We are going to join these two pieces together to make a booklet for the digipack.



Similar to above, this picture simply shows the pages of the booklet at another angle.


We have now shown how the pieces of card will be placed together. We are going to make our booklet from scratch not by using any other ready made booklet, and it would be a good idea to use the paper that is used in digipacks to make it more realistic. Card could be too thick and stiff, whereas the over paper is shiny and will give it a more expensive look.


This is our digipack from a front view when put together.


We have shown the front cover of our digipack. We are going to have a still image of the performers hand in hand, in the location in the field/along the river. We are going to also include the name of the song in a feminine but bold font, and the artists name, with the year of the song below. Because we want an old fashioned aestheic, it shall be black and white with maybe splashes of colour.


We want to establish the singer first; our target audience will not know alot about her, so we are going to include a still image of her, and background information. It is important that our buyers know recognise her success because the aim of our project is to get the younger generation into older music.


The double spread inside out digipack shows a still image from our production of our performers in a romantic location. We are also going to include the song lyrics in random places over this image, almost blending in with the background image. We are including the lyrics as looking at style models has told us that most include the song lyrics, so the buyer can relate and enjoy the song.


Here, on the 5th inside page, we are going to include another image of Julie London along with 'thank yous' on top of the image. Like above, we have looked at style models and found that artists do this. With research we could find one of her albums and use the 'thank yous' from that, or improvise. On the opposite page, there will be a list of all her songs that she has realeased over the years, for the buyer to see what other music she has sung. This will also help our aim, if the audience enjoy the production and music.


The back page, will be the first thing the audience will see when opening the case, so we are going to create a collage of Julie London images. It shall be colourful and eye catching.

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Slideshow Presentation- Cry Me A River


This presentation explains our brief, and how we wish to fufill it. We have created a slideshow presentation covering different features of why we are using "Cry Me A River" as our production song. The presentation is the starting point of our project; it shows what we are going to do, why have chosen this along with our influences and how we plan to make our production look aesthecially pleasing to our target audience.
Our music does not have any copyright to it because it is from the 1950's therefore is dated, and the copyright has run out.