Creating My Magazine Advert

The first website I used to create my advert is Fotor. With this website, I changed the filter of my picture to black and white and added the text. Luckily, I managed to find a font very similar to the font I used on my website.

After I had imported all the text I wanted onto the advert, I then used LunaPic again and used their 'merge image' tool in which you can add a photo on top of another. I imported the edited image I created on Fotor and then uploaded the record label image and re-sized it to fit into the bottom left hand corner. 

I then had to re-save this image and re-import it so I could add the social media logos that I took from my website.

As I was unsure on the lay out of the magazine advert I asked two 17 year old girls to help me decide where all my text should go. This ensure that it will appeal to people of my target audience. 

Ancillary Task One: Final Website

Below is the website I have created for my artist, Imogen,

http://ebrown68.wix.com/imogen

Here is the homepage of the website.

Here is the page showing pictures from the artist's photoshoot:

The homepage shot of Imogen smiling remains the background for each page. The home page displays the artist's name, album name, social media links and a menu bar for other pages. I added social media accounts as this generation follow many celebrities and music artist's lives on social media. The text has an added 'fade in' transition to make the website look more sleek and professional.

I will use the same font for my magazine advert to add synergy so it is easy for my artist's fans to recognise the brand of Imogen.

Website Audience Feedback

Whilst creating my artist's website, I had 6 pictures of my artist to choose from for the homepage and to ensure my website suited my target age group, I asked five 16-18 year olds to choose their favourite. However it was a tie between these two photographs:

I made the executive decision to use the smiling photo (bottom) as the website and I will use the top one for the magazine advert. 

Bird Cage Stop Motion

After the success of last time, we decided it would be effective to use stop motion again. One line in particular where we think it would work well is when Kate Nash sings 'and I'm trapped'. Although a short line, we wanted to emphasise the fact that she feels trapped.

So, my co-director and I had the idea of drawing a bird cage with a bird trapped inside, but to show the bird is 'trapped' we would use stop motion and show the bird moving as if it is trying to fly away. To do this, we had to take photographs of the bed moving position so we drew the bird on a separate piece of paper that could be moved.

Differently to last time, Chaya could draw the bird cage and  birds off camera and only had to show the bird moving, but the camera was still set up directly above the paper, on a tripod.

LunaPic Online Photo Editor

Once I had downloaded the 'trapped' font, I realised that it needed to be transparent or we wont be able to 'overlay' it onto the shot of the bird cage stop motion.

I decided to have a look online to see if there was anything that could turn a background transparent and I came across LunaPic which is a free editing program online!

It was super easy to use; you simply upload the picture and you just have to click on the part of the picture you want to become transparent and save it!

This could then be used on the bird cage shot! 

'Trapped' Font

With the stop motion of the bird cage, we wanted the word 'trapped' to appear when the lyric is sung. I used a website called dafont.com as it allows you to browse a wide range of fonts within certain categories, I looked in the horror section to see if there were any fonts that looked 'trapped'.

I found this one and thought it was appropriate so I downloaded it.

Stop Motion Finished!

Below are all the shots put together creating our stop motion shot! This is only the rough cut as the one in our final video will be sped up and be split up as it is too long to have as one shot.