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Final Progress blog

EVALUATION QUESTION 1: In what ways does your media products use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

EVALUATION QUESTION 2: How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

EVALUATION QUESTION 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

EVALUATION QUESTION 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

FINISHED ANCILLARY

ALBUM COVER

ADVERT

Using Photoshop

Last minute update!

So with the deadline being later on today, I have come in to college very early on my day off (determination!). I am basically finished, just a few bits and bobs to be added then the ancillary misery will be over! So this is where I'm at:

So my advert is basically done, all I am yet to do is add where the album will be available and the magazine ratings. then I think I would have completed.

The inside  of my cover is completed. It is very minimalistic. I chose to do it like this because I think simple is better and more appealing to the eye. As I have previously stated, and you can see throughout my whole ancillary, I have stuck to three main colours: black, grey and white.

Digipack nearly done!

With the deadline fast approaching (this friday!!!), I am happy to say that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The outside of my album cover is finally done. What I am yet to complete is the inside of album cover is yet to be finished but it basically is.  What I am yet to start is my advertisement which I will be doing tomorrow.

This is the end result of the outside of my album cover. Here is what I've done:

• I have stuck to 3 main colours; black, white and grey
• The three most important things on the album; artist and album name and the tracklist have made to stand out with a small white background behind them using the eraser tool.
• I chose a font that is not typical and still looks nice
• I used the only close up of Stephane facing the towards the front that we had taken and removed the white background around him using the magic wand tool.
• Overall I have tried to make it look as close toa real Album cover as I could

Inside nearly finished: I have chosen the picture of a London street by night as the background to link with the concept of where the artist is from; London. I chose a black and white image to go with the whole grey,black and white colour scheme.
What I am yet to do is put the artist and album name on the cd with the same design as on the outside of the album.

So thats an update of where I am so far, I will update my progress in further blogs. :)

New ideas for digipak

Because my initial idea for my digipack were not approved by my teacher, I now have to change everything completely. So this is what I'm thinking of doing:


I wanted to put either one of these pictures of Stephane on the front to identify him as the artist.

I wanted to put either of these landscape picturesof london streets as the background of the inside because it would link to the whole concept of the artist being British and from london. I think this would've linked well.

I wanted to use on of these images of the block of flats at the back of the album cover because, again,it links to the whole concept of the artist beig from London and it would just make sense.

MINI PITCH

Five words to describe my idea:

IDENTITY, DARK, UNIQUE, CURRENT, URBAN

My ideas came from artists that are similar to our artist and the genre such: as Krept and Konan, Giggs, Schoolboy Q etc

My advert will mostly be placed in a music magazine such as NME.

I would like my 

Digipak initial idea

My initial idea for my digipak was to have the artists fingerprint on the front of the album. My reason behind this was to have a sense of the artists identity on the album cover without even having his face there, this would create a sense of mystery. However, my genius idea was short lived when when my media teacher slightly burst my bubble when he told me that a fingerprint was not the best idea because of the fact that it was not linked to our whole project from the start. I got the idea of the fingerprint from Nicki Minaj's latest album "The Pinkprint". My teacher also told me that Nicki Minaj is an already established artist so she doesn't really need to have her picture on the album cover whereas the artist for the digipak is not well known so his face needs to be publicised. In the end, I will have to change the design of my digipak. I will be keeping you updated.

DIGIPAK DO'S AND DON'T'S

Digipacks errors

1) Text and image overlapping
2)  Image streched too much
3) Spelling mistakes

1) Spelling mistakes in track listing
2) Effect makes image unclear
3) Bar code covering writing

1) Hole of CD not in the centre
2) Proportion of picture distorted
3) "Thank yous" are not really relevant

Celebrity didgipacks

Analysing previous student work

Student's in the class of 2013-2014 were also required to make DigiPacks too. I have looked and analysed their digipacks, I must say they are very good. I am hoping mine will be up to their standard. In this blog I will be exploring these students Digipacks and advertisements strengths and weaknesses.

Video 28

Digipack
 Strengths:

• The synergy is carried out throughout
• Theme of nature through out 
• She is wearing the same lipstick in all images (perhaps a unique selling point)
• Good mise en scene, it all relates- earthy tones and colours
• She also followed the conventions, she added a bar-code and small print 

Weaknesses: 

• I personally dislike the font, I find it looks unprofessional and hard to read

This Digipack got 10/10 

Advertisment

Strengths: 

• I like the use of the guitar in the image, as she plays the guitar in the music video
• The image is simplistic yet effective
• Theme of nature relates

Weaknesses:

• Yet again, I do not like the font

The advertisemt got 8/10

Video 19

Digipack
Strenghts:

• Colours- dark suits the DJ genre
• In the music video the artist was wearing blue lipstick, colour blue carried throughout Digipack 
• The video is dark, the album cover is also dark 
• Good synergy 
• Simple yet effective colour scheme 

Weaknesses: 

• The student has edited out the artists eyes in 2 of the images, but not for the advertisement, I feel this editing should have been done for all the images

Advertisement 

Strengths:

• Colour scheme- element of yellow is a nice touch 
• Really like the font, suits electro genre

Weaknesses 

• Eyes are not edited 

Video 21 

Digipack

Strengths: 

• I like the images, they look natural and she looks like a real artist 
• Synergy- bright colours 
• Good theme 

Weaknesses:

• A bit too much going on, harsh on the eyes
• Too much text and overlapping images 
• Dislike the font 

Advertisement 

Strengths: 

• Good image cutting, it is not pixilated 
• Also like the star rating 

Weaknesses:

• Yet again too many images, hard to focus on artist and music 
• Would prefer a different colour scheme

Ancillary work brief

Hey everyone!
Heres an update of where we're at right now.

We've finished our music video which turned out amazing (hooray!). It took a while to do but we did it. At this present moment I am going to start our ancillary work. This involves making a Digi Pack and a magazine advert. I am going to be using various technology including photoshop. This part is as important as the music video itself so I'm going to have to work quite hard. Hopefully this turns out great too...

Filming Process and Images

Improvements needed to be made before deadline

From all our feedback we gathered helpful opinions about our music video. As mentioned in other blogs we came to a joint decision to remove the footage of Stephane infront of the starry backdrop using the projector, as many people who watched our music video said it did not fit in with the rest of the video, as the rest of the video is all shot outside and in the dark, unlike this scene where stephane was inside. Our feedback was more positive than negative, so there was not that much to improve on. Mary did suggest that we add more slow motion clips to make the video more visually pleasing, we did that, and it has infact made our video look and flow better.
We conducted a questionnaire using the emelemnts of mise en scene to see what fellow students had to say about our music video, here's what they had to say;