I chose the image I wanted to use for my advertising poster, I wanted to have a close up of my models face so that the audience would recognize him immediately and bond with the artist. I wanted the eyes to be looking at the camera to give it a personal effect. I edited the photo on Photoshop to even the skin and brighten up the image which would make it look more professional. I did this by using the 'laso' tool to highlight the area i wanted to edit, then I 'refined the edge' so the boundary of what i was editing was feathered so it blended in and looked realistic, i then added a surface blur to even the skin, however it looked slightly to 'porcelain' in some areas so I 'added noise' which made it look more like the original skin again and blended in well.

I have decided to take more photographs of my artist to use in my digipack on the inside cover I will put it in the empty space on my CD case, I received this idea when doing audience feedback and two of my evaluation sheets included the idea to have a close up of the artist in my digipack.

This was the original image taken, i had the model look at the camera to give a personal connection with the audience which helps create a bond with the audience and also follows conventions.

Here is the slightly edited image I put it into Photoshop and made it the size I want and made it a square by zooming the image in, I did this so I would fit into my digipack correctly. I also edited the image to soften the image and give it more of an album style look. To do this i duplicated the original layer and then put a Gaussian blur onto the image, I then used the paintbrush tool on black to bring back sharpness to facial features such as the eyes and hair which kept it looking like the original image but gave a softer look.

I have decided to add another question to my digipack to gather data for a question of what would fit in the audiences point of view in the gap in my digipack. I also printed out another version of the digipack however this time I cropped it so I could make it larger and then I enlarged it but I did it to scale so it would look like a scale down version of the real thing. I also made it into the same shape as it would be when all the pictures would be put in the CD case which brought the digipack to life and helped the audience understand and make a better decision.

Here's an example of the new questionnaire 

 Here i made and audience feedback sheet for my digipack however I thought the questions weren't quite sufficient so I have decided to add another question. Also the first set of pictures i was using for reference was to small to get a good idea of the digipack and secondly the other picture I printed was distorted and was also not a good enough reference for my audience to look at.

I have made most of my CD cover, it is a 2 CD, 6 sided case.
Order of photos:
Middle bottom- Back cover
Right bottom- Front Cover
Top left- CD part 2
Middle top- CD part 1
Top right- Middle cover

I have tried to keep continuity from my music video to my CD cover by making all the photos set in an urban scene, i have kept the colour scheme neither very dark or bright vibrant colours. The mise-en-scene is quite conventional for Indie, Pop/Rock.

I have uploaded my second filming to YouTube to make sharing it easier and hopefully improve the video quality slightly.

For my music video I thought it would be valuable to film the artist lip syncing and playing the guitar to the music so I could add a performance element and make my music video more realistic and interesting to watch. I filmed my artist in a park with a slight downward camera angle which connotes his vulnerability, I kept the mise-en-scene similar to the original filming to keep continuity and make sure there was no inconsistencies. However due to issues I could not use the same camera for filming so this video is lower quality than the original filming so I will add it into my music video and see if it works and in the case that it doesn't I will have to take it out.