AP: Newspaper Tutorial

This is the tutorial I hope to copy for my newspaper idea on the front panel of my digipak

AP: Digipak - Photoshoot

Today I took a series of photos for the digipak, I took them on a green screen so they would be easy to edit out in Final Cut Pro X before transferring them into photoshop to hopefully create the newspaper effect!

AP: Digipak Ideas 3 - Xtina Influence?

Ive been looking at the sleeve for Christina Aguilera's Stripped, and i think i will take a similar approach to the framing of my front and rear digipak sleeve. Within this i have taken lots of images in which i will use a long shot for the front and a 2/3 CU shot for the rear. Within this i will also incorporate the use of black and white to signify the newspaper but also keeping the red lips to stay with theme.

photos i have taken 

front and rear panel

FCP: Greenscreen #1

In Ideas post #2, I disccussed the potential for multiple gagas, since then the idea was scrapped, but I have now decided to try again with it. 

Here We have filmed Amber multiple times on the green screen, I carefully keyed out the green screen and decided to start layering her onto the scene, I went for a basic room background as a placeholder.

Moving Amber around

Here I set up the scene of two ambers, dancing around. I moved her to the places where she will be in the completed scene.

The timeline during this.

After moving her around, it's important to ensure the timeline is layered up correctly, otherwise one of the ambers would reach over another where it might physically not make any sense, which you disorientate the viewer.

Completed look

Upon completing this I added in the top amber, which gave me the look I wanted, however, I felt the scene was a little empty.

Timeline after a new pair

I then decided to add another pair into the scene

Another Pair

after doing this I realised that there would need to be considerably more, so I also added that in.

Lots of Ambers

Upon adding all these in, I exported the video, as Final Cut was running incredibly slow.

You can see it here:

AP: Digipak Example1 - Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster

I found this whilst scrolling through Amazon, This seems to be a fairly old one due to The Fame being released in the summer of 2008. I love the inside! it is something that I hope that we can recreate or at least take some strong inspiration from! The contrasting black and white is SO striking! Plus the photos inside just add to the effect created.

Rear panel

Inside panels

Inside panels

Front panel

Behind the Scenes - Greenscreen footage

Here is some footage of us setting up a greenscreen!

AP: DIGIPAK/MAG AD - Photoshop Tutorial Videos

Portrait Smoke Effect




Dispersion Effect




Manipulation



Water Effect



Portrait Special Effect

Ideas

Having suffered multiple setbacks, we are now planning on filming on Wednesday the 4th of march.

We plan to film:
Greenscreen footage, to place onto a Facebook page, of both Amber singing and have some shots of her applying for the #GlobalGaga video, this will then be placed onto a Facebook page and we will show Paige and Brodie scrolling through it and looking at the performance clip. The performance clip will be something of a preview for a show that Amber's character is doing.

We also plan to film Paige and Brodie in a cafe, I think this will include Amber stalking them, perhaps sat behind them or in the immediate vicinity hiding behind a newspaper. I plan to film this in the Media Museums cafe.

We will also film in the media museum, to get similar shots as we had with charlie, so we can replaces Charlie's parts with Paige.