Evaluation question 4

This is my question 4 which I did on prezi

Evaluation question 3

For this question our group made a video speaking on our audience feedback, research method and what we have learnt from it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSt2yBaQ7pI&feature=youtu.be


 

Evaluation question 2

This question I've chosen to do on PowerPoint, however blog spot wont allow me to upload this to its site so I will have to show my Evaluation questions by print screens/ writing it on this post. I have Emailed my teachers a copy of my power point for this question.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

DIGIPAK :

Does it fulfil its purpose?

I believe my digipak fulfils its purpose as it uses codes and conventions of a digipak. Not only that but in certain ways it also has developed and challenged theses codes and conventions. We incorporated logos, track list, band man, main image, age restriction, bar code and a colour scheme for our album. Whist the magazine advert included the release date, album title, band name, website of the band and recording label logos. We developed this by adding an image of the album on the advert and not using a set release date but a message “ out now!” and also the track listing of the songs within the album to give the audience a view of topics discussed within songs. The digipak is recognisable as the audience would be able to distinguish it as an album cover and poster from the music genre, based on the band name and the style it uses.

(This image is what is shown on the power point after I answer the question, its to give a visual example of what the question is speaking on)

How does it combine with the album advert?

The digipak combines with the album advert because they both use the same imagery background, colour scheme and font style. The background uses faded still shots from scenes within our music video made into a collage. The colour scheme of black and white was a better choice to use instead of mixing different colours for each element of the digipak as it would have looked like different products instead of the same household theme. The font is also a theme that’s been used throughout the digipak as we used it for the band’s name. The font originally came from the actual bands albums which include - minutes to midnight, road to revolution and songs from the underground. This not only shows intertextuality but also continuity within our digipak, connecting everything together.

Would it be appropriate for your target audience?

Yes, because they all link together to show they are a Rock music band with the bold edgy font used, the imagery of the album advert and album cover gives a sense of a message to the audience instead of just an image of them artist, so then its promoting the music not the person. The lyrics and experience of the song is what we wanted the audience to connect with most, not the just artist. Since this is a code and convention often used by rock bands/artist, as they would used their album main image to put across a message instead of a photo of themselves. I think we have made it appropriate for our target audience by how we have produced our digipak. 

How does it combine with your music video?

The digipak as a whole links in with our music video as we used elements such as the background we created by sit shots from scenes made into a collage. This is a theme background that we have used throughout our digpak. It’s been consistent. Another theme we used was the crumpled paper bag effect on our album cover. This was done to keep a link between our video and digipak as the paper bag heads are noticeable to our video and would then allow the album to also be noticeable to the audience.

How does it combine with the album cover?

The parental advisory logo is also placed on the album cover letting the audience know that there are some serious issues being discussed within the album, it’s more than just the music it’s a voice to be heard. The codes and conventions of album cover usually have this logo displayed on the album that we have used within our digipak.

ALBUM ADVERT:

How does it combine with your digipak?

Yes, since we used a specific brand identity as we realised that the band’s logo was black and white, the song subject matters is usually dark and intensive. We then decided to saturate the colours in the music video (not using bright colours e.g. yellow); we then had faded images from the music video. All the effects were then made then same e.g. setting the saturation of each image to the same amount and adjusting the vibrancy of each image. This is how we create our background for our digipak. Placing an image of the album cover on the magazine advert promoted the combination of the digpak and the album as it became recognisable to the audience. The used for the band name was also consistent within our digipak, it’s also the font used by 3 preview albums of the band we used.

Would it be appropriate for your target audience?

I think it is does to the style used since it come across as a rock music advert and not another genre of music. Pop would use an image of the artist whilst rock uses an image that sends a message and I believe this is what we have don within our advert. The target audience is appropriate as a child would be attracted to bright and bold colours whilst more mature people would lean towards neutral colours such as black and white. This established our older audience whilst the font style used would attract a teenage audience as its edgy and bold. Some youth can still be seen within this font. So they we get a mature young audience buy the way we have set out our advert.

Does it fulfill its purpose?

I believe so; we have promoted the album by adding an image of the band and getting a track listing of the songs featured. The main image and household style of the advert is very similar to the album and recognisable then for the audience to go and purchase the our product.

MUSIC VIDEO:

Does it fulfill its purpose?

Yes, we created a rock music video that was relation to the lyrics of our chosen song. By using black and white saturated edits we created a dim setting throughout the video, this was because the subject matter was dark and intense. We related the lyrics to the visuals again for example when the lyric ‘BREAK!’ was shouted our actor Terry (the teacher) ripped the paper with the previous lyrics written on into two. This carries the emotion of the song to the audience whilst keeping a link between the two narratives. We used intertextuality by including the band name on a White board behind the ‘Teacher’ in a scene at the beginning of our music video, this was also done on our album cover as we choose to mate the band name stand out.

How does it combine with the album advert and digipak?

We used a specific brand identity was with the colour scheme of black and white, the song subject matters is usually dark and intensive. We then decided to saturate the colours in the music video (not using bright colours e.g. green); we then had faded images from the music video. All the effects were then made then same e.g. setting the saturation of each image to the same amount and adjusting the vibrancy of each image. This is how we create our background for our digipak

Is it appropriate for your target audience?

The issues shown within our video are for an older age group of teenagers as it is set within a school, and uses students. It then deals with topics such as bullying which is most common in every school and is likely to be experiences by most students so they are able to relate to this.

Overall view:

As we have done this, I think it shows our vision to take something ordinary and make it extraordinary by giving it that push it needs to be better than ever anticipated. Whenever given criticisms we always took it into consideration, and then went back to the drawing board to see how it would work if we applied it to our work. By being this open minded and understanding we were able to communicate better as a group. Which then lead to us bettering our work as we all had the same mind-set goal.  Being created the album cover and magazine advert open minded to change as in the beginning they weren’t our initial ideas. We did the same for the storyboard of the music video as that also went through quite a few changes.

Evaluation Question 1

I used 4 different media platforms to construct my evaluation questions. Heres a list of how i set it out.

1. evaluation question 1- slideshare
2. evaluation question 2 - power point (some technical difficulties at the moment with uploading but it will be up shortly)
3. evaluation question 3 - video recording by our group speaking on the question
4. evaluation question 4 - prezi

A2 Media Evaluation question 1 from Kemika Watson

These blogs are among others that I've used to help and direct me on what I should do in terms of my own blog. As many of them are work from previous years and they have complete the course i get a great deal of insight and detail into the type of written work i should be blogging about and how the best way is on doing this.
I also use Wikipedia and official website to gain information on things i have research into. in turns of the evaluation question I've used Prezi and Slide share post to help. 
For images, I use my own or those from the internet i.g Google images
 Examples :
http://www.linkinpark.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/aquinasmedia/a2-media-suggested-ways-to-present-each-question-of-your-a2-coursework-evaluation

http://www.slideshare.net/RosiePosie28/a2-media-studies-evaluation-7750648

http://a2vid2012-katiem.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/evaluation-question-1-in-what-way-does.html

http://amyjonesa2media.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/features-of-digipak-different-styles.html

.... production n editing of my music video

This is the re-edited version of our music video. After taking back audience feedback and some constructive criticism we put it to use and tried to apply it to our video. our teacher advised us to add a split screen as it would reflect our technical skills but when we tried to do this it did not look appropriate so we opted to leave it out. it was better to leave the video without the split screen in case we ruined the whole thing by adding it.

Our teacher also send a chain email to other staff members of our video without letting them know we were the creators. They gave back more feedback than anticipated and was helpful in giving us ways to make our video better. For example one teacher said that we she make the edits clearer and speed up certain scenes within the video. We then went back and re edited it buy fastening the pace of the edit with Emmanuel running through the corridor as it seemed to drag on before. we also refined the video and made the entire thing clearer.

Even thought the things that we have change have been small, they have helped to make a big difference in improving the visual of our video.

IT'S COMPLETED !!!

After a few arguments, blood sweat and tears ... only joking, but yes after a lot of technical difficulties and extra filming we have finally finished our MUSIC VIDEO!

This is a link to the video so watch and enjoy because I know I did *happy dance* 

The dark clouds and sky match Emmanuel's emotion within this scene it helps to also portray his emotions to the audience watching

This is a flash transition which we have used to build up tension and also show our editing skills

Here's the alleyway scene of our protagonist walking alone, shows his isolation from everyone else

Emmanuel is getting attacked in this scene, the paper bag heads distinguished the difference between him not liking like them, fitting in with them and inferior to them

Here are some audience feedback we received from views of our video:

Created by ASAP Productions 

...... production of my digipak advert

 

Initially we wanted to just at the release date and website with record labels logos at the bottom of the advert 

                                     
Cameron got creative and developed this more by adding an image of the album along with a black rectangular box across the bottom of the advert which would make the information inside stand out more. We also decided to add the track listing giving the audience a preview of whats was included in the album.

 

This is our final magazine advert that we created. We wanted to keep a consistency of the imagery used on the album cover within our digipaks so we kept the theme of the faded still shots from scenes as a background. We also kept the same font used from our album cover and Linkin Park's album's. 

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..... production of my digipak

We originally wanted to use the paper bag theme for our album cover, which would show continuity throughout our media products.

This was used within our muisc video

From the image above we tried to recreate it as an album front cover, however it wasnt working as we couldn't transfer the 3D effect on to photoshop. so we went back to the drawing board for some new ideas....

... like this one, it's simple yet bold at the same time. The font for the band name is also used by the Linkin Park's album cover minutes to midnight. the background colour did not have any relevants to to our previous products so we changed it to white. Just like our paper back heads.

As we used the colour of the paperbag head we wanted to also add the crumpled effect. We realised after that one of our evaultion questions wanted us to show how por video related to our ancillary texts, which meant we had to be consistent through all our medi products. For that reson we added faded still shots from our music video into the back cover of the album covers front and back.

 

 

Analysis of Digipak Adverts

Conventions of an album advert that are included in this are the band name, album title and website for the band however what we do not see it’s the album release date which usually are features on adverts.

The Killers image is of a mosaic with a range of such as, purple, pink, white, orange, red, brown and burgundy. When looking at the poster you feel as if you’re in a dream world, like it’s an imagination. This can be a connoting of what the album is going to be like a fantasy that takes you out of your skin into something more beautiful.

The font for the band name is used throughout various albums of theirs and is seen to be constant. It’s bold and white which stands out significantly, especially surrounded by different shades of purple. The Album title is below in black with a smaller font which also is clearly seen.

 The bottom on the advert has a black fade effect with has a clear white bold font stating it’s a brand new album and the new single ‘Human’ on the line below in a smaller font size.

The wording and layout of this album advert is simple but still has an artistic feel to it with the imagery

The Kings of Leon used a frame work cut into four parts; each member face is seen in a frame merged with an image that resembles an eagle. The imagery is clear and is done as if shots from a camera frame.

The font used for the album title resembles that of 80/90’s computer game in the style green with space bars in-between each word. Underneath we can see a brief description of songs from the album that has already been chart toppers. This style is white and in a medium font.

The last line has ‘OUT NOW’ in red and positioned right in the middle of the line. This gives a clear view to the audience/public that this is the 2^nd most important information that need from this topic. When staring at the advert you first see the green as its bright and big , this is don’t to show the album name. Then we see bold red which has the release date aka now so then its connoting to the audience they should buy the album since it’s out now and the middle line written in white already shows that the music is worth whilst as the songs are topping the charts.

At the bottom of the advert we see logos for music website ‘play.com’ where you can purchase the album online.

Getting you up to speed

We recently shoot another scene for our video but this time it had Hayden singing.
We wanted to merge lip syncing into our video so that it used more codes and conventions as Linkin Park within their videos.

Location: Drama Room

Advantages:

• Dark room allowed us to use the typical setting seen in the rock genre music videos
• Light arrangement within the Drama room allowed us to manipulate the lights to whatever we felt would give the best quality to our video
• Black wall is an intertextuality that was also used in Linkin Park's Video 'Faint' showing that we incorparated some of the codes and convetions.

Disadvantage:

• Distrubances from other students
• Working around the Drama teacher schedule

What we filmed:
We shoot Hayden lip syncing and playing a guitar which supported the codes and conventions of 'one step closer' as within the first 28 seconds we see a guitar solo starting the song of. Another thing is shown through that video is the band playing in a dark alleyway with their instruments this was used in our video by Hayden playing his guitar.
Crew:
Me
Cameron
Jahquani
Hayden

Here is a PREVIEW of OUR VIDEO!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=PvO9jYqR0O4&feature=endscreen 

This also uses an over the shoulder shot

Album Cover

This would be the side of the front cover:

Digipaks are a patented type of CD packaging which is made out card/paperboard. Usually, digipaks can open up like a book or they could have a more unique design, such as a three-part digipak in which one portion of the packaging opens to the right and other to the left. The part of the digipak which is made to hold the CD(s) is made of plastic, which is attached to the paper background. Digipaks are often used for special edition versions of CDs and are typically filled with designs and graphics

Codes and conventions of a digipak:

·         Album art

·         Track listing

·         Card/paperboard packaging

·         Lyric booklet

·         Credits

·         Copyright logo

·         Artistic cover

·         Pictures of band members

·         Quotes from reviewers

·         DVD(s) depending on the type of digipak.

·         Barcode

·         Web addresses

·         Folding packaging

·         Date of release

·         List of band members' roles

·         Square based packaging

Front:

The name of the artist, the name of the album and song list will all be in the same front style and colour.

Spines of the cover:

It usually has the artist and the name of the album. It always has the disk insides format like the CD logo and also would have a serial code, which would define it.

The album uses a cardboard styled casing, which opens like a regular CD case, but then opens again additionally on the right panel to expose the CD inside the digipak. There is also a little pocket (which also folds outwards) on the inside of the front cover on the left that holds the Digipak's booklet, and tour information. When the Digipak is folded out to it maximum potential and the CD removed from its casing, there is a band photo that stretches across the whole of the Digipak.

This is the front cover which uses an illusion effect of darkness when you can see clear light. This is done by the grey water at the bottom of the cover that goes off into a foggy type mist.  The 6 silhouette also add to creating a form of edgy darkness to the cover as they are black. This creates a contrast with the white background that takes up most of the cover. 

                                             

Opening the cover it exposes two panels one has a photo of two of the band members on the left and on the right shows a collage of the band when they were recording the album and the band logo in the middle. These panels keep the house style and it is kept consistent throughout the whole of the Digipak.

 

This is the collage on the right panel with the logo within the middle

CD case open fully

It has three compartments

The first compartment holds the booklet within its pocket. Its also has the image of 1 that makes up of 3. 

The second compartment holds the CD disk with the bands logo on the cover, which usually is the one that holds all the music from the album. This compartment has a plastic disk holder instead of the slit and also the strongest and heaviest part of the digipak. The back has the 2nd picture of to 3 that make up 1.

The third compartment has the 3rd picture that completes the image .

 

Cover flaps over the CD

CD is removed showing a large close up shot of the band

Inside the inside cover is a front pocket that has a of tour programme and CD booklet

The booklet is located inside the front panel in a small pocket, on the front hold the same image that is on the front of the CD case and hold information and lyrics to the songs on the album as additional pictures.

CD

It was a very creative way to incorporate  the bands logo onto the CD with the song list written within the logo at the edge. Whilst still keeping the theme of style.

Back of the cover:
The back cover of the digipak, again shows the band in the same location, with the rack list above them located in the sky, between the clouds. Has a barcode which most albums and any product would have.
Has parental explicit contents logo on it as like a age restriction thing has all the makers and publications at the bottom with billing in small print a back ground for all this information to go on and the main code and convention the names, the numbers of the songs and any special features.

Elements of a Digipak:

Getting up to speed

We re shoot some old scene since on Monday 4th March 2013, we felt they need to be done again

Monday, 4 February 2013 … Shoot 3

What was being filming:

We had issues with filming the original hall scene, as we didn't not have enough extra or paper bag to fill up the crowds.  We then took advice from our Media teacher by using the English block.

Emmanuel was screaming and shouting, drawing attention to himself. This was done to show his frustration and anger towards everything happening to him.

Setting:

English department consisted of a balcony so we could see Emmanuel looking down on the other characters; it also allowed us to see the other characters look up.

Props:

 Camera

Paper bag head

Tripod

Characters:

As we used our media lesson to film it was not easy to film actors so myself and Jahquani took on roles as actress’s as we only needed 2 more people.

Emmanuel

Myself

Jahquani

Roles and Responsibilities:

Cameron - Behind the Camera

Myself - Actress

Jahquani - Actress

Problems:

There weren't any major problems but there was an issue with children walking into scenes when we were filming as it was break for the lower half of the school. All together it was a good day to film as we got the shots needed.