Creating of the Website

For one of the ancillary tasks we had to create a webpage to promote our music artist. I took the lead role of creating this site. I did this by using the Program Dreamweaver where i had to create a site and than inset in a table as shown below

By using a table, you are able to insert things on to the page with ease. We did this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the table options.

I also inserted images such as the navigational links, photos and other images of headings onto the page. I did this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the image options. The navigation links were also rollover images using two different images so that it looks that the link changes from the colour white to blue when the cursor hovers over it.

We wanted to create a user login on our webpage. We also wanted to create a form for competition where the user has to fill in their personal details and answer the competition question. We done this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the form options

We included a multimedia feature in our website which was our music video. However, we wanted to insert our music video on a different page on our website. We done this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the ‘Media’ options and down to ‘Plugin’.

Creating the Music Video

In our to create our music video we have to firstly import all of our footage from the video camera into the Program Final Cut. We then imported our choice of song into the same program and dragged it down to the timeline. All of the shots was then listed in a folder on the program where you can then re-watch the clips and start editing.

Here are a few explanations of what we did and what sort of effects we used to edit the video

This image is showing how i used different effects and changed the speed of clips. We wanted to make the video seem dream-like so we used quite a few crossdisolves so make everything flow together. To add to this dream-like effect and to make it seem more dramatic, we also slowed down the speed of some clips.

This image shows how i changed the colours of a certain clip. We also wanted to change the colour of a clip of the main fantasy girl to black and white for when the main male character starts thinking about her. We done this by fiddling around with the colours and saturation options.

Creating the Digipack

I order to create our digipak we used the programs Photoshop and InDesign. These are the stages we went through in completing the digipak

Stage 1

The first things that we did was to open up our chosen front cover image in Photoshop and use the clone stamp tool to cover up the pattern in the middle of the shirt. This tool simply uses the grey that is already on the t-shirt to cover up the other colours on the t-shirt

Stage 2

We then changed the brightness and contrast of the image to draw it out more. We did this by clicking on the ‘Image’ option at the top of the page and scroll down to the brightness and contrast options

Stage 3

We had to then insert the pictures of the fantasy-like girls in Photoshop and cut away the background so it is simply just the figure of them. We did this by using the the magic tool which selects certain parts of the background to be deleted so it is just the image of the girls. We then save the two images.

Stage 4

Next, we inserted the pictures of the girls onto the main image going to be used for the front cover and positioned them where appropriate on the image. We clicked on ‘Layer’ on the main tool bar across the top of the page and scrolled down the Layer Style options. We then used the blending options to bring down the opacity of the images of the three girls to give out the dream affect. We also added in the main title using a text box and the bit at the bottom right corner of the screen saying 'American Dream'

Stage 5

Now the the front cover had been finished, we next made the inside panel which we simply done by inserting a nice image of the woods scenery from the video and added so information about the album and record company

Stage 6

This is the making of the CD which is again, just a photograph of the artist sitting on a log with the forest around him, giving the audience that sense of spacial relationship between him and everything around him. We then drew a big circle and a very small circle to make the shape of a CD and then made the image fit to the shape of the CD.

Stage 7

This is the final stage of the making of the digipak which is the back cover. We used another image of the artist sitting on the log with him back to the audience. We changed the brightness and contrast of the picture slightly so that the artist is drawn out from the dark background. We then inserted a bar code at the bottom right corner of the digipak and text saying 'Rulin Records' at the bottom left of the digipack. Finally we inserted the song names on left side of the digipak.