Completed Ancillary Task: The Digipack

I personally find it difficult to visualise it when it is presented like it is above, so i printed in out and now have a more 3D version of it below (sorry its poor quality):

Completed Ancillary Task: The Magazine Advert

The Magazine Advert draft one

I didn't want to waste the weekend so using trusty old Picasa I began to create my magazine advert. This is what I ended up with, but I'm really not happy with it as the software isn't quite good enough to get the effect that I want. I like the overall setup of my advert, however I want to try and make the text look more like part of the image rather than something slapped on top. So I will post what I created however I intend to re-do it in Photoshop.

Pretty Pictures

300 photos and 3 days later I have images of Sophie to be used on the 6 panels of my digipack and for the magazine advertisment. I have made a video of the best images and I edited my favorites to be used/shortlisted for the digipack.

I then edited the images using Google Picasa on my home computer as it is the best photo editing software I have.

Putting pen to paper

Below are some rough sketches of ideas for the design I will use for my digipack. (If you click on them they are easier to see, I promise. And if that doesn't work then tilt your screen and that will definitely do the trick)

Ancillary Task: The Magazine Advert

I have already done some research into the magazine advert, feel free to take a look if you need to, it's here.

Now that I have looked at other music magazine adverts I have found that they come in two main varieties; lots of little ad's on a page or a full page ad. The little ad's tend to be more focused on the bands tour dates etc, where as the album adverts are given the full page.

As the criteria for my ancillary task is to create an advert for the digipack I make, I am going to use a full page rather than a smaller box on a page.

The template for this is obviously a lot simpler than the digipack as all I need to do is keep inside the lines of an A4 piece of paper.

Ancillary Task: The Digipack

I have already done some research into the digipack, feel free to take a look if you need to refresh your memory.

Now I need to make one, or at least design it. My first step is to find a good template from which I can work. This site provided a great variety of templates and I found it extremely useful.

After trawling through all the templates the site had to offer, I picked my favorite 3. I found it really hard to visualise what these packs would look like in real life so I printed them out and had a play around with the different designs.

In the end I decided that this template was my favourite and I am going to edit it a bit to better suit my use of it.

This is the final version of the template I plan on using when creating my digipack. However, I will be moving the DVD/CD to the the middle rather than the far right as labeled.