Kay's final evaluation media from Kay Ibrahim on Vimeo.

This are comparisons with my digipak and existing products. My album cover is similar to coldplay's parachute album due to it having a picture of an object or objects, rather than having the artist on the front cover, and the same goes with the CD, except the CD is from the arctic monkeys album whatever people say I am, thats what I'm not.
My back cover is from the same artic monkeys album, and has someone covering their face.

Can you please look at my survey, and answer them in relation to my music video. Thank you.

I will improve my digipak by adding more of a range to it. When it comes to the CD I will use my actual image of coffee to make the CD have a unique look to it. When it comes to my covers, I will not change much, apart from adding a series of images related to the back cover, and a cup of coffee or several acting as the image for my artist. I will change the tones on the poster to make it pop out more and look more effective.

Within the creative process of my album cover, I came to the conclusion that I needed to create an album cover, and I decided to create three so that I had choice. Through my research I concluded that the album cover's for my indie genre do not usually include the artist on the front cover, and I decided to name my album cold coffee, so I decided to use and image that incorporated that. The three first cover had a font which was nice to look at, but as an album cover the second font seemed more pleasing. I then had to choose from the last two album covers. One with a sepia type tone, and one that had very few colours in. I chose the one with very few colours, as it had some colours, and gave the album an organic feel as it seemed as if that was how London looked like.

To begin with I wanted to experiment with changing the tones and levels of my image, so I decided to experiment with this image that I had previously taken.

I went to image>adjustments>levels and then proceeded to change the effects so that I could have a misty effect.

The misty effect was done to give a nostalgic look.

To begin with I wanted to remove the blemishes from my artist’s face. I duplicated the layer, so that it could be edited, and I then used the spot removal tool, to remove minor blemishes, but this would not completely do the trick.

After I had used the spot removal tool, I then proceeded to try and attempt airbrushing the artist. To airbrush the artist I pressed filter > sharpen > unsharp mask, and set the amount to 92%, radius to 1.0 and threshold to 0. I then proceeded and pressed filter> noise> add noise, and changed the amount to 0.7. Then to conclude I pressed filter>blur>Gaussian blur and then set the radius to 2.6.

After I had done this the image was all blurry, but I only wanted his face to look smooth, so I created a layer mask, then used the paint bucket to paint the image black, and it was clear again because it was only showing the layer below then I used a white brush to paint the places I wanted my image to be airbrushed.

http://www.kwiksurveys.com?s=OMNEJH_90a48bea

"One time, I woke up because I was really hungry, but I couldn't find anything to eat, so I went back to bed" - Who... Me?!

Today we decided to film our music video, although we were uncertain weather we were going to finish the whole video. We contacted Tom Woolston to make his way for 12:30 so that we could begin shooting before dusk, and Lauren was unavailable until 15:00 so we decided that we were going to film Tom's solo scenes first, and then film the scenes with Lauren/Tom, then Lauren's solo scenes. We enlisted the help of Beans (Zeinab Jobber) for the inside of a home for Tom's scenes. We also decided to enlist the help of Matthew Nyugen who had advanced skills with filming with the NIKON D90. We finished filming our music video around 16:30, in which we completed a huge majority of the scenes apart from the close-up guitar scene. We came across many problems within this day. Firstly we came across the problem that the tripod did not work properly so we could not have steady footage, so I decided to go to the Art Department to borrow their tripod, we also did not realise that we could borrow a dolly for our footage, so we used our own hands for the tracking shots. We had to be careful about how many times we played the song because the batteries for the docking station we used were not too powerful, and we did not have spare batteries. The battery from the Nikon D90 almost ran out also, so had to be careful about the shots we took. We knew we were going to have problems when shooting at the DLR stations because of security issues, so we decided that we were going to shoot a majority of the scenes in the park. We also reevaluated the music video, and decided special effects isn't really ideal for folk music videos, because they are more natural.

It was too dark by the time we wanted to shoot Tom's close-up scene, and we already knew we were going to have problems when it came to shooting at Shadwell station, so I decided that we should shoot it under the tunnel that had efficient light and we didn't need permission to shoot there.

We used the Nikon D90, iPod touch for the song, iPad for our storyboard and a tripod.

We came to the conclusion that we were going to have to shoot the guitar close-up without Tom, because he didn't really know how to play the guitar.

We asked Tom to actually sing, so that the negative lip synching mannerisms did not creep it, which worked really well, apart from the last scene.

Equipment: Tripod, Nikon D90, Guitar, Coins, Guitar Case, iPod, iPad, Docking Station, Mobile Phones and Coffee Cups