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The Task

•Package: album (digipack), website or advert, music video

•100 marks: research and planning 20, video 40, digipack 10, website 10, evaluation 20

The Blog

•Evidence of whole journey•Research, Planning, Construction of all

3 products•Evaluation•Finished products

Good blogs

•http://oliviadarceyhawthorne.blogspot.co.uk

•http://hurtwoodmedia12beesupavarasuwat.blogspot.co.uk

•http://gregfellows72.blogspot.co.uk/•http://mollyeve73.blogspot.co.uk/

Good Housekeeping

•tidy desktop•storage of footage•labelling files•tidy blog

Evidence 1•real music videos•real music videos of your genre

•any visuals that have influenced you (films, TV, adverts, music videos, photos)

•‘steal-o-matic’

•costume photos, location photos, test shots

Evidence 2

•real album covers•real band websites•early exercises designing album covers•changes to your designs- screengrabs•show how it is a ‘package’

Random ALBUM COVER exercise

Step 1: Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe title of the first random Wikipedia article you get is the NAME of your band.

Step 2: Go to: http://quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the TITLE of your album.

Step 3: Go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/The third picture, no matter what it is, is the COVER of your album.

Step 4: Use Photoshop to put it altogether and design the front and back cover of the album.

[Photoshop canvas size: H 12 cm x W 24 cm / 300 dpi]

Step 5: Upload your finished album artwork to Flickr

Re-makes

Evidence 3•student music videos, digipacks and

websites with comments•Jake’s videos and tips from today•photos and clips from today•edits from today•storyboard and animatic of your video

plan

Evidence 4•feedback from your peers•rough cuts of your video•screengrabs of your edit in progress•‘behind the scenes’

•regular commentary on what you are doing

when to do website/digipack

•in parallel, NOT at the end!•taking photos for later use•having lots of extra ideas•can do more than one design within the

group