Bloc Party - Truth

Bloc Party - Truth

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

MS: SurveyMonkey Questionaire

We made a questionaire for a screening on Wednesday the 5th of December. Here is the link to the questionaire.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YRBCXLQ

Here is our music video for you to answer the questions to.

MS: Digipak Design 4 (Finished)

The final Digipak draft was edited, resized and included a barcode, copyright, web address and record company. This is the digipak:
The top two are upside down due to the way a digipak folds. The top left is the back right cover, where the CD would go. The top right is the inside left cover where the track listing and CD booklet would be contained. The bottom left is the back cover which would include track listings, record company, barcode and copyright laws. The bottom right is the front cover with the strongest piece of album artwork and the largest font sizes to exhibit the band.
After inverting the album artowork we decided it would actually look better in Black.

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

G7: Concept Development - 4/12/12

  • In the final week before the deadline for our music video, Laurence and I speant a lot of time working on our music video. We often decided to change parts of it after recieveing feedback from teachers, for example, speeding up the cutting rate and adding more narrative than we had originally planned.
  • On 30/11/12, we finished the editing the music video. We made sure that decent shots were playing at each point of the video and that we had a suitable performance to narrative ratio.
  • On 4/12/12, Laurence and I reviewed and made some adjustments to our music video. For example, we found problems with the performance such as the singer moving his hands from the guitar to microphone in between shots.
  • Laurence also adjusted the contrast and saturation on the narrative shots to make them black and white.

Friday, 30 November 2012

LB: Advert Design 4


Stage 4

NME: 242X300(mm)
A4




















  • On this stage of my print product, I have two variations of the final product. One is a standard size for an A4 print, where as the second is designed for the correct dimensions for an NME full page, which currently measures  242mm by 300mm. However, the resultant printed version of the artwork had to remain as A4 due to technical issues with the large gloss print printer.
  • In stage 4, I made numerous changes and alterations to the final product aside from modifying the dimensions. Firstly, I decided to include the addition of a link to Bloc Party's official website, centred at the bottom of the page as a final addition for the reader.
  • One other alteration I decide upon was change the positioning and direction of the rubix cube as well as increase the number of cubes used from three to five. Instead of showing the cubes as if they're were a tower, I chose to show them as if they were tumbling down the print work about to fall out the page instead after some feedback from other members of my group and teachers as it looked more professional. As well as this, once again I edited the opacity levels of the cube to various levels to suit their position on the page, but also by rotating the image from it's original position, it helped to connote the tumbling effect.
  • One final addition I made was to add a drop shadow to both the title and the release date to lift the text from the page.

LB:Advert Design 3


Stage 3

  • In this section, I made numerous altercations and as well as additions to improve the final production. To start with, the background image seemed to simplistic for the piece making it look unprofessional and tacky. I decide upon using another design in the gradient tool, which gave a solid colour, then segmented sections across the page. I repeated this a few times as well as positioned one area where the background was solid underneath the title, thus amplifying the section, but also, rather than using black, I used a colour of grey near to black as not to overpower the other layers.
  • Another modification I made was to the title. In keeping with many of Bloc Party's styles, I changed the top line of text to a lighter grey than the background, in addition to changing the second line of text to with, to help separate the two lines of text.
  • Another addition I decided upon was firstly, to use multiple rubix cubes. I wanted to give the image a 3D effect as it the cubes where climbing out of the page in a tower formation. As well as that, I also used some image modifications such as the 'soft edges' or 'harsh edges' in addition to adjusting the opacity of each cube.
  • Lastly, I added in the release date of the single, in the bottom right hand corner as this was where the print had little detail, but also this is where the print drew the readers eye.