Final Music Video

Here is the final version of my music video.

Final Cd cover and Advert

Q4) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Below is a screen cast of me using some of the different technologies that I talk about above. It starts with me showing you what blogger is capable of. I run through how to make a post and how to add in pictures. I also then show you how to delete the post. I then move on to using Google maps. This again is just a short demonstration showing you how I looked at some of my locations. In the video I search for Brick Lane which is a location I have used in my music video. Next I go on to YouTube, this allowed me to embed my music video on to my blog and watch existing music video to look at the conventions. In the video below I show you how to embed the video on to blogger. Finally I show me using the Da Font website which allows me to choose a text that I want to use and then download this and use it on CD cover and my advertisement.

Q3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Q2) How effective is the combination of your main product and your ancillary texts?

Here is my advertisement and my Cd cover, I think looking at these to together they link straight away. I have used paper cranes on both pieces which links to my music video as well as it is a big part of the video. Also here you can see that the artist is wearing the folk rock clothing as he does in the music video. I have used the same background for both products which links the two pieces together. The text is the colour in both items, I have done this so that the audience can remember them and picture them together. I have also made it red which stands out on the background making it easier for the audience to picture and remember it. I chose to have the name of the hit single in the top right, this is becuase the audience tend to read from the top left across. I chose to have the hit single as this is what the audience would know. I thought that if the audience had heard the song on the radio then they are more likey to read on. They can then read the name of the artist and the other information that is on the advert. These both have the same text font and the colour. This helps the the Cd cover and the advertisement link because the audience will tell they are for the same artist and the same album.

As you can see with the screen grabs from my music they also link with my  Cd cover and my advertisement. The clothing that I have used is the same through out my music video and in my advert and Cd cover. I chose to use this clothing because when I did my research this indie clothing was a convetion from the genre folk rock. I used the guitar as well in both my Cd cover and my music video, this was because from when watching real media texts guitars were seen through out. I chose to keep the convention of having the guitar as it allows the audience to recognize the genre easily.

Below is a short video that shows part of my music video next to my Cd cover and my advertisement. I then talk through some of the similarities that my music video and my ancillary products have in common.

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here is my my Cd cover as you can see there are six different pictures to it, with the bottom right being the front and the bottom middle being the back to it.

There are a lot of similar conventions to mine and professional Cd covers, I have met some of these conventions but at the same time I have challenge the conventions so that I can make my Cd cover stand out from the rest.

As you can see with my front cover and James Blunts front cover, they are quite similar as they both show the artist. I have challenge the way the writing is placed. I have placed the name of the artist in top left which is more out of the way but put the name of the album in the bottom left which will draw the eye of the audience. As this isn't the artist first album he is already know and people don't need to see his name with his face as they already know who he is. James Blunt has used a black and white effect but I have tried to keep my front cover as simple as possible. I have also used a background unlike James Blunt, I feel that a background helps give the front cover a purpose as it tries to show people the type of areas that you would expect to see this artist.

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Advert and CD Cover

Advertisement

CD Cover Draft two

Creating My Music Video

Here are some pictures that have been taken to show that I have been making my music video. They show me holding the camera doing a tracking shot with the artist.

First Draft

FeedBack Video

Here is a video of some peer feed back about my digi pack. The three students all look at my CD cover and my advertisement and answer some questions for us. Some of the feed back was positive which I can use to improve my work and other parts were ideas on how I can make them better.

A positive from all the feed back is that the genre is shown through both pieces of work. This shows that the research I have done into the genre has worked and I have pulled out the correct conventions needed to make my piece seem professional for my genre.

Another positive is that the colour scheme seems to work as well. The feed back seem to show me that they like the blue as it is a calm and relaxed colour.

However, it could be improved with some of the locations that we have used, as said in the video "they seem a bit random" this can he,p me because I know that I should try and have a strong theme that can link the locations together making seem more professional.

Teacher Research Assessment

Here is a teacher assessment that I have been given. I have been given an A for my research so far. As you can see it is a low A and there is a lot of work that I can do to help improve my research to make it a stronger A. 

Peer Planning Assessment

This is my peer assessment that I have been given back. I got a B on my planning so far, and my target is an A. This means I will need to step up the detail in my work and try new ways to make my work creative and visual for the audience to look at. 

15. Photo Shoot Plan

Photo Shoot Plan-2

Here is my photo shoot plan, it is showing you what days we will take pictures for our Cd cover design and our advert design. I have also wrote the locations and who will be needed for the days that I am taking pictures for. This will help so that there is no confusion to when we are filming. I will take both pictures on the 17th of november as the locations are quite close and it will not take long to take the pictures.

12. Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule


This is my shooting schedule, it allows me to see the days that I am filming on. By having this schedule it allows me and my group to know when and where we are meant to be. It also tells us the equipment is needed so that one member of the group and book and collect it for the right day. The notes section is a little bit of information that we are not quite sure on yet. So on the 14th November we may need to filming after school if the drama room isn't free during school hours.

As I went through filming I could see that the days I had set out were not going to be enough to film everything. This then meant I had to make more dates were we would go and film.

I made another five days which me and the crew would go filming on these are as follows:

17/11/2012
23/11/2012
30/11/2012
5/12/2012
11/12/2012

These dates meant that we could get more filming done. However once we was back and editing we still had some pick ups and need to go out and film these. I decided to allow three days to get these pick ups and these are as follows:

7/01/2013
17/01/2013
26/01/2013