Throughout the whole of our production period, we have had to consider health and safety issues. In many cases we have had really good ideas that werent safe such as using our artists on the school roof to show a high shot to show his power  and in some cases have made scenes safe to use such as the river shots in our video. Firstly we have not filmed ny shots that would be of risk to anyone involved in the video and have only really used one shot in where we had to be safe. This was the river shot and here we had to make sure the stones were correctly placed in the water and wouldnt move to be entirely safe for filming.

We also had to take in consideration of normal filming shots like roads for cars etc so that our artists was safe at all times. The rooftop shot we wanted to do however was not safe for filming after we decided that firstly we wouldnt get permission and secondaly the risk was too high to take. This shows that we have took health and safety extremely seriously in our production work.

Here is my completed website in time for my deadline:

http://bradleystokes10.wix.com/ed-sheeran-webpage

All of the pages on my webiste are active links as I have completed not only the front page but the whole website as I wanted to create a more professional website and wanted to link all of the site together with both my video and my digipak. Please feel free to look around my site at my finished site.This is my overall completed ancillery task and I have now completed both ancillery tasks as well as my video with all being completed on time.

With the deadline coming up tomorrow, I decided to try and add anything extra to my website that would make it even better. For my video page, I had planned to upload my youtube video that as a group we had created. I did this by using the template already provided and changing the thumbnail and the link to the video I want rather thanthe templates. As the page was still really bare, I needed to add something extra and decided that I would research the lyrics of the song Grade 8 that we did and put these onto my video page. I found the lyrics and copied these onto my website either side of the video. This was perfect as it completed the page and looked good especially with the text being in Yellow to stick with the theme.

This was my website completed and just as I was about to finish I noticed that I could add a song over the top of my website. As I did the song grade 8 I decided to use this song over the top. I went on my itunes at home and uploaded the song from my itunes library onto the website. The music player symbol I also changed to be multi coloured to stick with the 'live' colours I used. As I viewed my completely finished website, I changed the playing of the song to repeat as if not the song would only play if you pressed play but now it plays as soon as you go onto the site. My website is now finished.

I went back through my website with most of it completed. I decided that I wanted to stick with the same colour scheme of my digipak which was red, yellow and blue. I started by looking at the text boxes and what ones I could fill and also changing the text colour of these. I changed the colour of the title to red from white. As I had no colour scheme, everything apart from my images were black or white so by adding colour it made the site more appealing. I then changed text to different colours of red, yellow and blue on all of my pages apart from my contact page as I wanted to keep this page simple. In some cases like the tour date pages, I coloured the writing in relation to the countries such as the writing for europe as blue as their flag is blue and red for the US. I filled the boxes in different colours however mostly kept them as black or white as I thought that it looked good. I only need to add in a few more photos and complete my video page and then I am basically done.

As I have started my other ancillery task my digipak, I realised I could use many parts of the digipak on my website. Firstly I started off by changing the website background. I used the same image on my digipak and didnt want to use the same one on my website. I went on photoshop and edited part of another photo and used this on my website. Here is that photo:

After changing my background photo, I could use my digipak front cover on my website to not only lnk the 2 together but promote the new album. I used this image on 2 different parts of the website firstly on the front page so that this was the main headline and also on the release page as it is the new release of his album. As I havent previously worked on my release page, I started working on this. I added 2 headings so that 1 was for the album release and the other was for the song itself Grade 8 release. I added some information on the release date and also came up with a good idea of includng the itunes download images so that it looked like you could download the music straight from the site itself. I was nearly done with my website however I needed to stick with my colour scheme of my digipak too.

I have decided to make changes to my CD digipak. I realised that the template I used meant that both parts at the top were meant to be upside down. This meant I had to rotate the image around. I did this so that if my digipak was produced it would look the same to similar ones on the market today.

Here is my finished digipak after rotation of my CD:

Here is my CD Digipak:

I realised that I hadnt added my CD, Inside page or my spine to my Digipak so had to do this first. I copied them onto my template so that I had a complete CD Digipak. The photos I have used in my digipak have also been used by my group members alex and darren. We decided after discussing what we wanted to do with each photos that as a group we would all use them wherever we wanted too, because we wanted to keep continuity amongst our groups but also, personally I wanted to keep continuity with my other ancillery task my webiste so that both together looked good, but as a group we all looked similar so that the theme of continuity was carried out successfully.

The only thing I needed to finsih on my digipak was the actual CD cover itself. I looked at my template and noticed that the shape was quite difficult. I decided to create my own template to put over the top as it allowed me to save time but also look similar to the template. I started by creating a new photoshop using the measurements again. I then started creating my template by using the shapes toolbar. Here I added a circle for the actual cd, a circle inside this for the ring in the middle of the circle and also added semi circles at each side for the extra parts in CD's. I started by having the inside circle and the background the same colour as all my backgrounds. This is because the inside circle in all CD's are 'cut out' and means that if the CD was produced, you would see the background colour. I then picked a photo I wanted on the CD.

Here is the original photo:

I only wanted the main charcter in the photo (on the right) so I had to carefully crop the image so that I only got him in the shot. I wanted to create an effect where the same image would be used twice on my CD, but coming out of the middle of the CD back to back. The effect would look like the character would be back to back with himself. To create the effect I had to use the eye dropper tool again to get the colour of the background of the image above. This colour I would fill for the CD itself as then the whole CD would be the same colour. This means that when I import the image onto the CD, the whole colour would be the same.

The next thing was getting the image onto the circle with no extra parts coming off. As I created my own template I had to select the image by the eliptique marquee tool. This is where you select the image in a circular way and can edit it from this shape. I tried this many times as I couldnt get the curve correctly with the circle I had created. This was very time consuming as the image would either be too small and not fit the curve or would be over the curve. Finally after many attempts I got one correct and put this onto my CD. I then used exactly the same image as the curve would be the same but flipped the image horizontally. I positioned this iamge the same as the other side and it created the effect I wanted. I then added text to the CD with the artists name and album name again in the red colour font whilst filling the extra parts of the CD in the other two colours, blue and yellow.

Here is my overall CD:

From my template, I realised I needed to do a spine for the digipak. I got the measurements of 125.5 * 6 mm and created a new photoshop page. I had taken a photo especially for my spine which was of a guitar as I couldnt use an image off the internet as this wouldnt be my own work.. I wanted to put a guitar in the middle of the spine with both the album name and the artists name on top or beneath the guitar. Here is my image of my guitar:

I firstly had to crop the image size down and then to just get the guitar had to use the magnetic lasso tool on photoshop to cut only the part I wanted. This took some time as I wanted to make it look perfect. After this I added it onto my background. My background was the same colour as my front and back pages to keep continuity and I did this by using the eye droper tool from the front cover and using the fill tool.  I then added my original plan of having the name of the artist and album on the spine, whilst using the red font again to stick to the theme I ahve used.

Here is my Spine:

Here shows the guitar cropped and cut out from the image.

After completing both my front page and my back page and adding them to my template, I started on my inside page. Looking through my pictures I had taken, I noticed that my character was facing in different directions. I came up with the idea of each photo looking at one another. I originally only had 2 photos that did this however in this lesson I went out too take 2 more photos in the remaining directions I needed. Here are the 2 photos I took this lesson:

With the other 2 photots I had already taken, I had my charcter looking at all directions. I cropped the photos and added them into each corner of my page. The page still looked a bit boring so I added lyrics from the video I created Grade 8 in the same colour scheme I had already used. I decided to use red because it stood out more over the darkish background. Here is my back page:

As you can see the images I have used all look at a direction, in which the way they look will always continue to go round. This is the effect I was looking for and I am very happy with my work. The only thing I needed to do was flip the image. This is because the 2 upper parts on my template need to be upside down because if the album was produced, then they would be upside down.  By flipping them to upside down, if you folded the template they would be the correct way round.

After completing the front page, I started doing my back page. I firsty started off by researching Ed Sheerans album song list. I went onto google and searched for the song list and then added them to my back page. I changed my backpage background to the same colour that I used on my front page so that again it was kept the same. After adding the song names I decided to stick with my colour scheme of Red, yellow and Blue by putting each different song into a different colour. I split the songs into half as I wanted to positon them differently than the normal position of the middle of the page. I then added some of the photos, I had taken to the back page. I decided I didnt want all of the photo so firstly cropped them and edited them to what I wanted. I then copied them onto the back page I was working on. From looking at my CD's at home the other day, I realised that all CD's have a barcode too. I asked my teacher if I was allowed to use one off of the internet as it wouldnt have been oour own and that was the ONLY thing I was allowed to use. I opened it up and coloured the background to match the background colour of the back page and inserted this onto it. Here is my back page completed:

I then had to copy this onto my template. I hadnt copied my front page either so I did both at the same time. Here is how it looks currently:

I had started my digipak, however didnt really have an idea on what to include on the front cover. I went how and looked at CD covers I had at home, to see what kind of things they include. I noticed that on most new CD's there was a sticker that had some information on the songs included. I decided that although I couldnt have a real sticker that I would create the effect on photoshop. I decided to create a box with some of the information I wanted to help 'sell' the product. This also made the cover look better and more professional. The only other thing I needed to make was the title of the album. I decided to add the artists name Ed Sheeran to the cover and put this down the right hand side. I needed a title and came up with 'Coming Home'. The reason I did this is for 2 reasons. I noticed on my website that I had tour date information. With the name of the album as coming home, I could play on the words and call the tour the homecoming tour. This sounded good but another reason why is because I found that the last letter of home 'E' is the same as the beginning of Ed. I decided to link the title with the artists name so that it gave a good effect. I had stuck to a black and white coloured theme however I believed that it looked to plain and boring. Most CD's are colourful to help them stand out, so I decided to go for a Red, Yellow and Blue colour theme. Here is my Front Cover completed:

As you can see, the CD would stand out quite a lot amongst others. By using these colours, it means that I will have to follow this throughout both my digipak and my website as I want to keep good continuity.

As most of my information was complete I started at home to add images onto my website. I started adding the logo's for my contact details onto my contact page and added some photos I had taken too of the artists with another character. This made the website look better and I also began to add other images. I also added the flags of the UK, Europe and the US on the tour date pages so that people knew for definate where they were. I had completed my news, contact and tour date pages however I probably will go back to make them better after i have finsihed completely.

After completing my video, I decided to start the last of my ancillery tasks today which was the digipak. Our teacher said from past experiences using a template for our digipak would help. Here is the template I have chosen to use:

I have used this template as it shows what the measurements are for the CD. After opening my template up on photoshop, I decided to do the front cover first.  Whilst as a group we were filming, we took pictures of the charcters in the video. As a group we wanted to use the same photos each because we wanted to keep continuity between us regarding the ancillery tasks. I chose one of the photos I had taken which is here:

I picked this image for my front cover however realised that this was the same as the background on my website. Although I wanted them to link, I thought this was too similar so decided to keep the image on the digipak but change my background on my website. I then began to start my front cover on photoshop.

I have now added more information onto my website. I have added some tour information onto my tour page. Most major artists tour in the UK, Europe and The US so I decided that I would need to create a worldwide tour. I had 3 different sections which would show where and when he would be touring. This took me a long time as I had to research places where artists perform in europe and in the US. This in the end looked quite good and all the dates were linked together. I will expand on this with images to make it look better.