6. How CD sales have changed in the last 5 years

5. Copying a digipak - Bastille bad blood

This is the front of the original digipak that we are going to copy.

This is my group finishing it in photoshop

This is the website where I downloaded the Bastille font

This is my group working on it in Photoshop

We have also added a letterbox style to the picture, now it looks similar to to original Bastille one

Now we have added a dark effect around the edge of the picture

Half of the above moon clip has been used, it has been made yellower, and a flare effect has been added.

Though this image is watermarked, it was still usable as the man needs to be so small. We have managed to reverse the image as well as add in some trousers.

This is the original image we are using as the base of the picture to work with.



 This is the back cover of the original digipak.

This is my copy of the above digipak cover

 This is the final stages of the photoshop process.

This is the car that is used in the above pictures.

This is the copied image that we have Photoshoped to go on the inside.

This is the original image that we have used for the copy.

Final cut Kids by MGMT music video

This is our finished music video. It is about a girl  who is imagining what her future could have been like if she had not had a child.  The video relays the feelings she thinks she would of had of this happiness and freedom, demonstrated with dance and open spaces. As a viewer we see that the character may not be as unhappy with her current life as she perceives, as she seems to love the child very much.

Almost final music video

This is our music vido in its very final stages. I have finished all the filming, and just need to do a tiny bit more editing as well as add some effects and overlays.  Almost there.....!

The making of the film...

The above image is me editing together my music video. I have got all the clips, and have started to do some rough cutting and editing so it goes with the plans. This is so we get a rough idea of what it is actually going to feel like before we synergise it.

This image is of the timeline; here you can see that I am now trying to get it to fit with the music more effectively, as well as apply synergy so it all fits together nicely. 

First session of editing

This is the beginning of our music video as it slowly starts to take shape, we are trying to use as many different ideas and angles as possible so as to keep the video gripping.

4. Digipak rules

This is the front cover to our digipak. As you can see it relates strongly to the feeling that we have portrayed in our video. Like in the video, we have used many bright colours, we have also tried to show the wacky feeling in the cover. I feel the this cover goes strongly with the with the video.
The rest of the digipak will contain photographs from sections of the film. These photographs will be edited in a way that makes sure they keep up the synergy with the wacky front cover.
The above font (pulp fiction) goes well with the other fonts that we have carefully picked for the rest of the digipak, we shall also make sure that the colours come across the same.

3. Research the differences between digipak's and CD cases

Above is a video of me, speaking about the differences between digipak's and CD's cases. It also includes information on what a digipak should include.

I have done some research on production costs of digipak's and CD cases. 

• I found that with digipaks, the average cost of making the whole case is about 24p that is if you buy in bulk of around 1000. Another advantage is that digipak's can be made of recycled cardboard, meaning people that are environmentally concious are likely to purchase. 
•  However, with CD's if 1000 are made, the average cost would be about 42p per CD, as plastic is more expensive. 

2. Digipack fonts

Digipak Test Fonts…

MGMT	Basic Sans SF
MGMT	Greyhound SF
	Pulp Fiction
MGMT	Stylistic SF
MGMT	Garamond
MGMT	Ar Bonnie
MGMT	Courier New

(Digipak fonts we are going to use...

	Pulp Fiction
MGMT	Courier New
MGMT	Garamond

Why I have picked the fonts that I have:

I have chosen these fonts as I find they are particularly memorable, this is exactly what I think is suitable in order to make my music video memorable. The fonts also have something playful about them which should make the cover stand out, and appeal to our target age group. The front cover is going to have the font 'Pulp Fiction' because the lettering style is bolder and more exaggerated. The sharp corners symbolise the simplicity that we are trying to portray when someone first sees it. Another reason why I found this font attractive is because it goes well with the 80's/90's theme used in our video.

1. Digipack Cover

Above is the current digipak cover for Kids by MGMT.

As you can see it is very simplistic, and has a slight old school feel to it. The writing looks like it could be a shot from an old news paper as some of the black in it is patchy. It is big and clear, yet has a rustic feel to it.



The above image is the front cover to there latest 2013 album. As you can see, they have used a more different approach and gone for a happier more chilled out feel. It is certainly less in your face than the art work for "MGMT Kids", as shown above.