Final evaluation.

For the past 18 Weeks i have been involved in different aspects each at six weeks long. The first six weeks we worked in groups to create a stop motion video with Julian. I enjoyed this Part of the work because me and the other Sam had a mad few minutes whilst taking the pictures for the final stop motion video and then choosing the music which went really well with the content of the stop motion real. After putting it all together and editing music over the top and effects at the end and beginning. We then moved on to the blogging aspect for 6 weeks which was basically adding everything from the past few weeks and making sure it is all up to date. During this time we also did some mini tasks on top of the bumping up our blog work. The final 6 weeks of the assignment we went on to creating a CD cover with Marie, i think i enjoyed this part of the assignment more because it gave me a chance to get all creative and arty. I enjoyed creating my final CD cover and it gave me a chance to look through my images that i have taken during other assignment to see what i thought could go well with the colour scheme of my final case design. if i were to redo this entire assignment i think i would have kept up with the blog and tried to have gotten more into it without getting behind. i think i would have also tried to create a better front cover for my CD case and got it all printed off as one so i did not have to cut each individual image out and stick them to the cases.

The steps of making my CD cover.

Above is an example of a CD case template mine was similar however i drew and cut out my own as seen below.

Above is the outer shell box net, and below is the two CD holders themselves in net form. 

Using A3 card a pencil, ruler and scissors. it took me a while to draw as i had to get all the lines straight and then my cutting out was a little wonky, so i had more than one attempt. The next step was to cut it all out as shown below.

Step three consisted of taking all the pre-cut nets and scoring along the lines in order for them to fold easily.

After scoring all the lines that need to be scored ready the next step is  to fold each of the scored lines in order to stick the case together. Below is how i did this.

The next step is to add the glue or double-sided sticky tape to make the card of the case stick together and stay together to make it sturdy.

 the first image in the section is the cutting of a piece of double sided sticky tape i then place it on the flap i wanted to stick down (picture two) and the final image is the removing of the backing so it is possible to stick both of the sides together to make the pouch that holds th CD.

The final step is to hold together the areas that i wanted to stick together to make sure that the fibers have fused together so that the case will not fall apart and the CD becomes scratched. Then the case can be decorated as the album artist wishes. I then repeated these steps twice more once to create a second CD holder and a third time with some alterations to create the box that holds both of the CD envelopes.  

 I enjoyed making my CD case as i got to raid my my back bedroom at home looking for materials to create my case.

 

Here is the cover work for the outer CD case that i made as there is one main outer box and and two CD slips that hold the actual CD. I edited this image in Photoshop, i created it whilst i was experimenting with different effects and fonts. I like this image because its different and it is one of my images for the previous 

assignment which i have done on a Monday and Tuesday alongside this six weeks with Marie.  

This image is the cover for the Disc one of the two discs my CD cover holds. I chose this photograph because i thought it fitted well with the theme of the main CD cover. I used a similar technique to edit this image except i desaturated the original image to make it black and white. Then i created the vignette using a black brush instead of the white one that i used in the main cover design.