The Promotional Package (CD Album Cover) Ideas

As I had researched Noah and the Whale's earlier CD Covers and Promotional (Marketing) Campaigns, I had a few ideas floating around about how our CD Covers and Posters should look like. First I hand-sketched and coloured a few sketches.

Instead of photocopying or scanning them onto the computer, I drew them onto my computer with the use of a special wireless drawing tablet and pen. The results, as you will find below, roughly demonstrate the thoughts behind colouring, typefaces, and positioning of titles and pictures.

The final drawing wasn't one of the original sketches. I tried to replicate the "Welcome to Las Vegas" signpost for the title of the song (5 Years Time), and in all sketches tried to relate the band's name to the band's logo, as seen on the front cover of the album Peaceful, the World Lays me Down.

The sketches and drawings aren't accurate, or indeed drawn to a specific size and shape, therefore I chose to upload these ideas onto this Blog for future reference.

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FIRST EDIT

This is the first edited version of our Music Promotional Video. It hasn't yet had the 'Super 8mm Effect' added. This is basically a rough version of what we thought it would look like when viewing my Animatic version, but also shows our progress from Day One to what we have now.

Log, Capture and First Edit

Today we managed to sort out the problem we had last Friday with logging and capturing our footage. There was one minor hiccup, where we started to record instead of playback our footage, but we only lost a couple of seconds of footage which wasn't that important anyway.

After logging and capturing the footage, Josh started to piece together all the shots in a timeline in Final Cut Pro, whilst I continued my research into the aged-film "Super 8mm" Film Effect using both the internet and Final Cut Pro to experiment with different effects. Emily, meanwhile, continued to develop her own individual ideas for the Digipack (CD Cover) and Poster.

I exported the first edit from Final Cut Pro into a ".mov" file. The cuts and transitions are not yet perfect, as this is like a first draft of the project so far. Therefore, don't expect to see perfection. I have uploaded the file to my YouTube Channel, and will soon upload it here once I have compressed the file to a smaller size.

The photographs above are screenshots I made of the handheld shot which rotates 360 degrees in a circle - we used this shot in our editing.