Final Edit- Ancillary Tasks- Digipak

The image above is the final edit of our front cover of our digipak.

The image above is the final edit of the back cover of our digipak.

Final Edit - Ancillary tasks- Magazine Advertisement

Below is our final edit of the magazine advertisement. After making a few adjustments to the other edit which we made we decided that we want the 'Out Now' to be on the side of the poster and the name of the song 'New York City' more towards the top of the page so that it stands out more and is effective for the viewers.

Final Draft- Feedback

Focus Group :

Phoebe: "The finished product looks really good and like it would fit into a magazine. All the features incorporated work and are in sync with traditional conventions of promotional posters."

James: "The text is clear and the colours are really cool. I like the reflectiveness of the expressions and it fits with the music video. The brand is recognisable as there is a connection between the products. The use of the logos is really good as it shows it to be in professional setting.

Alex: "This is a cool poster and I like that the writing is clear and in a large font. It fits the conventional features of a promotional poster. It looks better now that the sizing is correct."

Scarlett: "I think the poster picture and the picture on the album cover work well together as they're obviously at the same location. There is a clear link between the products which is good for the audience and the artist as the brand is recognisable."

Ben: "It's really important to make a link between the products for the audience and the girls have achieved this really well. I like that all the logos are incorporated and the text is clear which is also important. It all works really well, even better now it's the same size.

Teacher Feedback :Mr Kerrigan

 The images you have used are very effective. There is something striking about the difference between the image used for the body of your magazine poster and the image used for your digipak; I like the contrast between your performer facing away from the camera in one image and being side-on in the other. There is a clear sense of interconnectivity between your three products.

Personal evaluation:

In having received the feedback above it was very useful as we were then able to know how effective we were in creating this product. It was interesting to ask how well both the digipak and magazine promotional poster work together and what other people think of them working together.

Production Journal:-Ancillary Tasks-(Digipak and Magazine advertisement)

Ancillary Product 1 : Digipak Production Journal

We began by looking back at our 'Final Digipak'. We then used this alongside making our Digipak. We then began by getting a template for the digipak so that we have a rough idea of what the dimensions are going to be as well as the layout. We then used  Adobe Photoshop and opened the template along with the images for our Digipak. However from our final idea of our digipak previously done we decided after looking at the shots which we have taken for our digipak to use other ones which looked much  better and more effective and appropriate for a album cover. Therefore as a group we went through pictures which we had taken and decided on the most appropriate ones to utilise.

We decided as a group that on the outside ( front and back) we wanted the colours to be quite dark so at night time. Therefore we decided that the front cover was going to be Phoebe on  top of the  car-park in Maidenhead, just like the one which is in our music video. We thought this was appropriate for the front of the album cover as it coincides with the music video and will all interlink with the music video and the poster as well as the digipak. The outside back cover is of Phoebe looking out to the side on top of the Maidenhead Car park. On the back we used Photoshop to include a barcode on the back of the digipak, social icons such as You tube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter etc... This was included on the back as well as with the record labels ( Disruptor Records and Colombia records with both of their logos printed on the back. This was all important to include as we found that from researching  'digipaks ( album covers) by other/related artists' these are all conventions of album covers. We also had to include the writing on the back of the album indicating who holds the rights to the artist and the CD as well as the record label companies and which year  the album was released. Having researched many album covers we used them as templates and included the appropriate information relating to the artist which we were doing and their record label.

We then moved onto the inside front and back cover of the digipak. We as a group decided that we wanted to have 'daytime' inside of our digipak. We decided that we wanted the opening shot of our music video ( the white bridge) as the inside front cover. We then decided that we wanted the Photo of Phoebe looking out onto Maidenhead bridge as the inside back cover. We then used Photoshop to type a lyric from the song onto the photo. This was a good idea from one of our group members. This also looked very effective once we had finished.

This image above is how we re sized the image to fit the Photoshop layout and the template for the digipak ( front cover).

We then inserted text and typed in the artist name and song using white colour and made it bold in order to stand out.

 The image above is our final front cover for our digipak.

 The image above is the back cover of the digipak. We inserted the image which we chose to be on the back cover of our digipak and created a new layer for this. We then inserted a barcode into a new layer and experimented where we would like the barcode to be on the back of the digipak.

We then decided that we wanted the barcode in the top right hand corner sideways. We thought that this looked the best and most effective, therefore as a group we decided upon this decision.

The image above shows how we added the social icons on the right hand side going sideways like the barcode. We then added 'New York City' being the name of our song on the back cover. We then also decided where the record label was going to be placed.

We then decided as shown in the above photo that the record labels would be in the bottom left hand corner.

We then continued adding the social icons on the right hand side. We also moved the 'New York City' ( name of the song) towards the top.

We then had to type up the writing at the bottom of the back cover which shows who the record label company is and who holds the rights towards the album. We did this by using one of the 'real media deconstructions of a album cover' as a template to guide us towards what should be written on the back cover.


However after receiving some feedback from Mr Kerrigan our media teacher and some of our focus group after seeing our first draft of the digipak they said how the back of our digipak looked strange with just 'New York City' written on the back of the digipak. They said how we should consider adding more songs on the back of the digipak to make it look more like an EP rather than a single.

Therefore in having received this feedback we decided to take this on board and include more songs on the back of the digipak. So below is our final edit and what it looks like after receiving this feedback.

We then moved on to creating the inside back cover of our digipak. We decided as a group to include some of the lyrics on the image to emphasise what Phoebe is thinking about when looking out onto the bridge.

The image above shows what the template of the digipak looked like. The top left hand picture is the inside front cover. We thought that using the opening shot of our music video as the inside front cover for our digipak was effective and that we wanted to create a 'light' feel in the inside and 'dark' feel on the outside of the digipak for emphasis.

Above is an image of the spines for our digipak. We used a cutting tool on Photoshop to cut/crop around a picture which we chose to have as our spine. Below is an example of what the cutting tools and other tools look like on Adobe Photoshop.

Teacher Feedback: Mr Kerrigan 

The image you have used is very striking. I like the use of the tall, lit-up buildings in the background of the image; it is very appropriate given the title of the song. There is something about the use of soft-focus that makes the urban setting seem enigmatic. It is, however, fitting that the focus is on your performer. There is something interesting about the way she is looking ‘across’ the camera as opposed to away from or into it; again, it is very enigmatic. The type-font you have employed is simple but clear, meaning that it is easy to read and doesn’t distract from your image.

Ancillary Product 2: Magazine advertisement for album production journal

We began by opening Adobe Photoshop on the Mac and then exporting the photo which we were going to use onto Photoshop too. We then began to scale the photo so that it was A4 size and looked like a magazine advertisement. From looking back at our previous posts and research about existing magazine advertisements and our final idea for the poster we then began the editing part of the poster on photo shop.

We began by inserting the artist name 'The chainsmokers' along with the name of the song which is 'New York City'.  We did this using the typing tool on the left side of photoshop and then edited the font size and colour alongside the font which we wanted to use.We also made this in bold so that it would stand out and be effective so you can see it from a distance. Below is an example of what this looked like while editing.

The image above is what our magazine advertisement looked like without all the social media icons on it as well as the artist name and the name of the song as well as when the CD is available. We then placed the front of the digipak at the top right hand corner on the poster.

The image above is what the magazine advertisement looked like with the social media icons on as well as the record labels in the top left hand corner of the advertisement.

We changed the image of the CD cover from the top right hand corner to the middle of the magazine advertisement as we received some feedback and from our own criticism we thought that it would make more sense for the CD cover to be in the middle of the advert as opposed to the top right where no one could really see it and was not as effective.

The image above is all of the social media icons which we placed on our magazine advertisement.

Originally we had the record labels in the middle of the poster with the social icons next to them. However we decided that this was not very good and didn't look very effective and professional.


First Draft- Feedback

Alex: "This is a cool poster and I like that the writing is clear and in a large font. It fits the conventional features of a promotional poster. It does however look a little stretched out and not the shape of A4 paper."

Scarlett: "I think the poster picture and the picture on the album cover work well together as they're obviously at the same location. There is a clear link between the products which is good for the audience and the artist as the brand is recognisable."

Ben: "It's really important to make a link between the products for the audience and the girls have achieved this really well. I like that all the logos are incorporated and the text is clear which is also important. It all works really well, however isn't the right size."