Finishing up website

I just finished added the last few touches to my wesbite. I changed the cover photo on the home page to a photo of him wearing red instead of the neon green since the digipak had him wearing red. I also edited the show times sections and changed the locations to cities around Florida since that's where Koree lives.

I am finally done with everything and I'm very happy about it. I've come along way and I think everything looks really good.

Website improvements

I've been making some improvements on my website. For the home page I fixed the layout so my new picture could fit. I changed the photo to just a photo of him. Before I had it of him and his friends but it's better if the first thing you see is the artist himself. I then changed the background from white to these dark moving clouds that are more appealing. White was too bland

 I just made the sections under it  dark grey since it looks better than white. On the search bar I made it so that if you hover over the "home" the other sections such as music,video,about, and contact come up.

 For the "upcoming shows" tab I changed the background to the dark clouds. I did want to change the text to add locations in Florida but there is no option to do that. I've researched how to do it but there doesn't seem to be an option to change it unless you go to this other site and actually connect your artist on to there and create real show times which I can't do. I'm going to leave it like this for now.

 On my last tab I made a gallery page that consists of behind the scene photos from the music video shoot. I also changed the background from white to the dark clouds. 

That's my whole website and I think it looks pretty good.

merchandise editing

I had to change my merchandise because the font on the names of the original merchandise was different than the fonts I had been using throughout my digipak. I needed all the fonts to be the same so everything within the brand would remain consistent. I did try and ask Koree before what font his merchandise had and he said he didn't know and that he had found a png of the word "heartbreaker" and used that on his shirts. So i decided that I had to change the merchandise all together to add the bold font I've been using. I used Custom Ink to create my new merchandise. I still used Koree's design but the font is different and the heart is slightly different as well. I used all the same colors of his original shirts 

This is what the original shirts looked like. Both sets of these shirts are similar. I didn't want to make complete changes because I liked his design so all I really did was change the font to match the font I had been using throughout my project.

final digipack

I think I've finally finished my digipak. I changed the most of it. So for the first picture I changed the photo and the placement of the text. Before the work "breaker" was intertwined behind objects which made it hard to read and so here I placed it on the side with nothing over it so you can clearly see all the words. I changed the CD picture to the picture I had originally had for my cover and added who produced his music onto the CD. I decided that I didn't want to add any text to the second picture since it was a really nice close up so I added the information on who produced his music on the CD photo. Then finally I kept the last photo the same but changed the font of the text because I wanted everything to have the same font. 

Below is my final Digipak

more website editing

I began to edit his website a little more. I created his "about you" section that explains where Koree is from, how he got into rapping, and how hes confident in pursuing a career in the music industry. The 'for you' page is a great way where fans can go and find out more about who Koree is

the text on the website is quite small so I need to figure out how to fix that but this is what I have for that section 

I also uploaded the music video and I created a thumbnail for it to make it look more professional and more appealing. 

I kind of want to reorganize the website or just try and make it more appealing. I'm really new to making websites so I'm not the best at using them. I also was thinking about making a gallery tab and just use pictures that I took on the night of filming. After that I think I should be done with the website. I have added the merchandise, 'for you' section, contacts such as emails and phone numbers, the song, the music video, and tour dates section. I think I'm also going to add the digipak into it. Overall I think I almost done with the whole website

more digipak editing

My focus is now all on my digipak and website since I finished the music video. I started to create the interior

I'm thinking about using these two pictures as the interior

As I was going through actual CDs, not all of them have any writing in the interior. They only have the title on the cover and the songs on the back.

Here are some interiors of other CD packages.

So I think I want to do that same route as well of just putting the only text in the cover and in the back. I really want to use that close up of his face in the interior and I feel like any text over that picture would be distracting. I think if I were to put any text over it , it would just be a quote from his song like "I'm going M.I.A."

I'm also thinking about changing the back of the CD to this picture.

instead of this 

I just think the first one has a lot more room for text so it'll look nicer. 

DONE EDITING

Hi it's 5 am and i'm officially done editing my music video. I had been working on it for weeks and even though I couldn't get all the footage I wanted, I gave it my very best and I'm really proud with how it turned out. I texted Koree even though it was super late and he answered. I sent him the music video and he LOVED it.
 

He told me was watching it for 30 minutes straight. I ended with over 200 layers on my timeline and my software crashed maybe 3-5 times but in the end it still came out good. A lot of the music video is Koree and his friends dancing/ signing along to his song. I did not have the capability to get more B-roll because of the corona virus which sucked but I had to deal with what I had. I added some cool effects throughout the music video to keep it engaging. I don't like to just cut clips and leave it that way, it just seems bland with no effects added. I know that there are so many things that could've been improved on like the lack of footage and such but I know i did my best with the situation I was in. Of course I'm the hardest critic when it comes to my editing, I always feel like I could've done something better but Koree LOVES the video so that's really what I care about at the end of the day, if the person is happy with what I made for them. Anyway I'm super super happy that I'm done with the biggest part of this project. I can now relax a little and focus on finishing up the website and digipak.