Final Advert

These are Mine and Andrew's final advertisements we chose these two because the pictures look similar and we used the same layout and design because it seems more professional if the two adverts are alike. We included the release date as well as an institution (Def Jam Records) for the album itself and for the advert (XXL). Again, we included the quotes from Q magazine and Jay Z to make our advert more appealing to the audience.

Hand Drawn Digipak Draft 1

Here is one of the layouts I drew for the panels of a digipak. After looking at and analysing other digipaks I realised that they are all very simplistic with minimal writing. I kept to this idea so we do not have to do anything that may be very complex. I used the conventions of Digipaks and included pictures, artist name, institution and a bar code. I also notices that there is minimal writing on a Digipak and so I only decided to put lyrics on the back panel, but for the final product I may change this to a track list.

Another One

This is the second picture we have chosen to use for our Ancillary texts. We chose this picture because it only shows half of the model's face. Once in editing the background will be cropped out so the audience will only see half of a face. We chose to show only half of the model's face because it connotates the the audience is not only into music, there is a side of him that people don't know.

The Chosen One

This is the photo we have decided to use as the main picture for our Digi-pak.
We chose this picture because it shows the artist clearly. Although the artist is not looking at the camera the audience can still see who it is. The main reason why the artist is not looking towards the camera is because it shows that he does not care for wealth and fame, he just doesn't want to go back to his old life. He is looking down towards the ivy growing along the fence because he doesn't want anybody to be living bad life and is willing to help them through the struggle he once faced.

Photographs for Digipak/Advert

Here are some of the pictures we took for the album cover:

We took the first picture to show that the 'ghetto' life in which the rappers came up from can be changed, they can become successful if they try. The hood is flipped up to show the anti-socialness which is stereotyped within the teenage generation, but the look on his face shows that he is interested in the rap genre and it could help him lead a better life.

Again, with the second picture, the car and the logo is highly visible to represent wealth. The model was told to dress very smart to show intelligence and over his jumper he has earphones dangling down halfway. The earphones show that the successful artist has not given up on his music career and is looking to go a long way. His leg is resting on the car to show that he is easy going and not worried about is struggles anymore.

When we took these pictures we wanted the car be involved in some way or another. This is because the car is a Mercedes-Benz and it represents wealth. Being wealthy is what rappers sing about in majority of their songs.

Filming Sessions

Today me and Andrew went out and filmed more of our video, the weather was perfect and it enabled us to film more of our outdoor shots.
Some footage will be posted up soon as my laptop does not accept memory cards because its a boring laptop :(
Also, in regards to filming, we have changed some of our shots so they no longer follow our storyboard but this is because either we did not have the right cast (amounts/members) or we could not gain access to our originally chosen locations. However, this has not affected our video at all because we have made slight adjustments to make up for the little loss that may have occured.


We have also advanced our work on our two ancillary texts by making drafts using the computers.

Back On Track

The adverse weather has cleared up and we are able to finish off our filming,