Poster Editing and Construction

 The following video above helped me to create a background for my poster using a photograph that I have taken of a floating smoke using self timer on my camera.



In able to create my poster I have had to edit the raw photograph that I have taken. I have done it by firstly increasing the exposure to create a totally white background. After that I have reflected the image because I wanted the character to face the other way. The next step was adding the smoke that I have managed to do due to the availability of the smoke as a photograph and the knowledge that I have received from the tutorial above.
Secondly I have done the writings, added the album cover, the record label logos, and at very last I have created a gold layer that I have applied in particular parts of the writings by keeping the ALT key down on my key board and clicking on the layer that I wanted the gold colour effect on.
Further more I have cut the character's head out in able to place it on front of the writings. I have done this by using a layer mask and brushing through with a black paint brush which allowed me to remove the parts from the writings that covered the characters face

  

 

Poster mock ups

Within this post you can see my mock ups for my poster. I edited a draft with two different photographs I have taken, and edited them to a very small extent to be able to imagine how they would look after they were fully developed. After these draft I have decided to use the first photograph where I am standing instead of sitting.

Album cover editing and costruction

-JPG or GIF
-Perfect square
-At least 1600 x 1600 pixels in size
-Best quality RGB Color Mode (this includes black and white images)
-If you’re distributing your music to the Amazon On Demand store (for printing physical CDs), you need a resolution of 300 DPI.

DON't -email addresses, URLS/websites, contact info (this includes Twitter handles), pricing,
-stickers from your artwork from a scanned copy of physical CD
-something that suggests format of the release “CD, DVD, Digital Exclusive, disc”
-cut off text or images
-an image that’s compressed into one corner with white space
-names of digital stores or their logos
-words that express temporality, like “new”, “latest single”, “limited edition” or “exclusive

http://www.tunecore.com/blog/2012/12/3-things-you-need-to-know-about-cover-art.html

The website above has helped me to ensure features and rules are included within my media products.

The Front cover of the album did not require a lot of editing. At very first I have increased the contrast by choosing adjustment - levels and I have increased it by 25 percent which made the background totally black. After that I have set the canvas size to create a perfect square by clicking on the image options and overwriting the pixel numbers. After that I have sharpened the image by clicking on filter-sharpen -unsharpen mask, and I have increased it with 10-15 percent. At very last I have added the name of the album, parental advisory logo and the name of the artist.





In Able to edit my CD cover I had to research tutorials on YouTube. I have managed to find one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1jXFUaEMKs which allowed mo to set up certain measurements for my media product

After I have set the pixel measurements I have added a photograph that I have edited earlier on of smoke, and added it onto my cd cover, then created a yellow layer that I have applied to the smoke by pressing ALT down on the keypad and then left clicking on to my smoke layer.  Which gave it the gold effect. At very last I only needed to add the writings.


The back cover did not require me to edit any photographs, I simply typed up the name of the songs with the artist, that were featuring and added the record label logos and a barcode



The insert however required me to edit the photograph I have taken of the gold chain. I have done this by increasing the contrast , then horizontally reflected it and decreased the opacity to get a nice and sophisticated reflection

Editing and Construction the music video

Here I am going to explain how I have constructed me music vide clip, and how I have added the effects that are present in the video. It will contain screenshots from the production for an easier way of explanation .

On the first image above we can see that the first thing I have done with the construction of my music video was adding the music. This only required me to grab the file and drag it to the empty space within Vegas pro

After that I have added my first video footage. A question came up saying "do you want to se your project video settings to match media. The reason why this came up, was because my footage had a 1920 x 1080p resolution, therefore when I have clicked on yes, that became the basic resolution. Of course I have used lower resolution footages such as the footages that I have recorded in 60fps instead of 30, that were 1280 x 720p which has not got a large difference between the footage before therefore we cannot see a large difference between quality.

I have inserted my first video. This was the introduction part which I have started with a fade in and fade out by dragging the top of the footage to the sides. This had a great intro like effect on my music video. Further more I have added another layer of the writings, that I have previously edited in Photoshop and saved as a PNG format picture without a background.

The following screenshot  shows the way I have set the frame within the music video. I have done this by right clicking on to the footage and choosing Video Event Fx, that allowed me to set the frame as I liked, and add any effects.

The picture above shows how I have managed to create the professional black background studio effect. Of course I had a black backdrop during the recording of the footage, however it was not dark enough, and it did not seem professional due to the reflections and shadows it contained. Therefore I have increased the contrast, set the contrast centre according to the environment of the footage, and at the end I have decreased the brightness due to the fact that a higher contrast has changed the exposure of the footage

The picture above shows how I have added each words separately to the top of the footage in able to match the song's lyric. I hat to listen to the song carefully to have the  perfect time when to put certain words in. These words have been created with Photshop in a PNG non background format.

The photograph above shows how I have created each word for my music video. I have created different layers and I have saved them individually in able to insert them in one by one on the top of the footage on a separate track lane.

The photograph above shows the way I have done the glitch effect that I have used. I have separated the footage in every 2 frames, and then I have changed the way the frame is being positioned. All the frames had a different frame positioning

which allowed me a smooth and professional looking glitch effect to create.

Here I am showing how I have created the so called "black flash effect". I have separated the footage to single frames and I have removed every second frame, which allowed me to create a black flash effect. This effect features in a lot of trap, hip-hop and rap music video clips, and I wanted to include it in my music video clip after I have watched some tutorial videos

Choosing Fonts

Here I am going to talk about my choices of fonts that are possibly going to be featuring within my media products.  Some of the following fonts are from a source called dafont.com that I have used in able to expand my font pallet within my editing softwares.

Bebas Neue is one of my favourite font type, this is because it is elegant yet cool, easily readable, and creates an impact, therefore I was thinking I am going to be able to use this font type for either the album cover or the poster in able to appeal to my potential audience and grab attention with its boldness.

The following font is called Copperplate Gothic Bold, which has grabbed my attention because it has a smart, and slightly oldschool look to it, which is easy to read and with certain alterations and colouring would be able to adapt to the hip-hop environment . Further more it is very simple which is key to appeal to my target audience.

I became interested in this particular font type when I have tested its capital Letter format. The slight tilt and distortion of letters create a cool look to it, which I was thinking could be enhanced by a "Bevel and Emboss " effect and a "Shadow Drop" in Photoshop

Hollywood Hills font has been chosen, because the media product I am creating that reflects Wiz Khalifa's original album is called Blacc Hollywood, therefore I have used my creativity to create a great combination in visual and audio elements to enhance the power of the album

Impact is another font that is one of my favourites, this is because its simplicity and power of status. It can be seem from a long distance, and it has clear and strong features with a slight softness in certain curvy parts of the font.

Mark My words has been chosen because its structure. It has an elegant twist to it while in capital the Hand written font type becomes almost graffiti  looking like which increases the feel of hip-hop . I am going to be using the capital letters of this particular font types

Brush 445 has been chosen due to its similarities with Wiz Khalifa's logo for his own name, this is because throughout this task I has not been able to use his logo.

This particular font type has also been chosen to create, Wiz Khalifa's logo for my album cover and the poster. This is because it is a font type that is easy to alter and edit.

Poster photoshoot

This is the contact sheet which contains all the photographs that i have taken during the photo shoot for the album poster. As shown i have used a white backdrop this time in able to create a great contrast

The two following photographs above were the most successful in able to create an album poster. This is because this selection contains one horizontal and on portrait. Which means i am going to have the chance to experiment with both and analyse the strength and weaknesses of both