Friday 3 February 2017

Final post

This has been a long though journey but I had a great group beside me throughout it all. Media is challenging and it has worked me very hard but it has been a great experience. I have enjoyed myself very much, to any other media students it's hard but go wild with your creativeness and... 

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Thursday 2 February 2017

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Evaluation Question 1

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Evaluation Question 2

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Evaluation Question 3


The video above is a screen casting of me explaining some tools that I've used in Photoshop, for my outer panel of my digi-pak.


The video about is my animatic storyboard that we created for our pitch in the planning stage.


The video above is a screen casting of me explaining the tools that I've used in Premier Pro to edit my music video.


The video above is a screen casting of me explaining tools that I've used in Photoshop, for my inner panel of my digi-pak.

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Evaluation Question 4

EVALUATION QUESTION 3


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EVALUATION QUESTION 2

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In what way does your media product use,develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?


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Monday 30 January 2017

EVALUATION - Question 1

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I have chosen Halsey as she is of the same indie pop genre. As you can see, her colour palette is also similar to mine with the pinks and blues. She also has a simplistic white font. My digipak has a similar aesthetic to Halsey's digipak as she has a plain cover for the back of her outside cover. This allows us to see her track listing clearly. As a convention, her track listing is centre frame and her product information is at the bottom. She has a barcode too. My digipak, shown above does the same and this supports the conventions used in my digipak. Unlike Halsey my artist is facing the audience directly and the title is at the top, much bigger than the album name placed at the bottom. This is because Halsey has chosen a more unconventional route, much like her aesthetic but I have chosen to stick with traditional digipak styles for a new artist so there is more chance of promotion for Sophie a as a new artist. The CD again shows an unconventional approach as "BADLANDS" is bigger than her name. The CD shows product information unlike mine which I should've done as a convention. The tour poster shows a picture very similar to the album cover but from a different angle, showing synergy between the album and advert. This is similarly done in my magazine advert. This time Halsey's name is bigger, following traditional format for a new artist, as I have too done. I have not included tour dates which is typical for this genre especially as live performance is key to indie/indie-pop.

 

Sunday 29 January 2017

EVALUATION - Question 2


Video explaining how I incorporated synergy into the music video and ancillary products. I also discuss the change in what we decided was the synergy

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Saturday 28 January 2017

Friday 27 January 2017

DIGIPAX RESEARCH

DIGI PAX FEEDBACK

EVALUATION - Question 3

- The first screencast shows the websites used for research and planning, specifically Blogger and YouTube. The second screencast shows some of the layers and tools used when using the technology of Photoshop. The different layers are shown to show the link of the graphics throughout the digipak. The last screencast shows some of the editing process and the colour grading used in PremierPro. The  fourth video is a technology used in my evaluation called Padlet. This was one of the many technologies used such as prezi, slides, thinglink and many more. This screencast shows how I used images on padlet to make part of question 1 of my evaluation. The video at the end is the animatic made for our music video initially, made with Windows Movie Maker on a PC and uploaded to YouTube






- Animatic




- Alongside these tools, on the blog a whole range of websites were used to showcase our planning and research including Prezi, Emaze, photo presenting applications online, google slides and many more variations of these. We also used social media to promote the video and artist, displayed below with the hardware.

EVALUATION - Question 4

Rough cut video:

Student feedback - Cinema screening



Student feedback - Ancillary texts







Saturday 21 January 2017

changes to flat plan

instead of using a side profile for the front cover I changed it to a front facing profile as my artist is new its better to use a image that presents the whole of her face, so that her audience can identify her. I also decided to not use a image of my artist on the back, as the track listing needs to be large and clear, a picture of her face would be crowded.

dos and dont for an album cover

Tuesday 17 January 2017

ANCILLARY FEEDBACK

  I WILL CHANGE THE LOOK BY ADDING THE ARTIST NAME AND THE ALBUM NAME AND CREATING A CURVE SO THAT IT FOLLWS THE SHAPE OF THE CIRCLE.

Monday 16 January 2017

Blog 56 & 59 - Digital Mockup and Feedback

Creating the CD

When creating the CD, I realised there wasn't a libre franklin font, I chose the font I felt would match the closest to this font and opted for Microsoft Yi Baiti instead.
This is how the CD looks so far

Update on ancillary

Changes:
 - The panels of the art wall have changed places due to the fact that the wall with the lady on it is harder to place font on, I want the album songs and details to be easy to read of course.  
- Instead of just placing pictures as planned, I will be selecting art from the wall to place on the back and I will be overlapping pictures to create a hazy effect. almost ghostly. These tones suit the more indie aspect of my artist/album.
- The front image and inside image will not be Sophie laughing and a microphone, instead the front cover will be Sophie resembling the lady on the art wall and the inside image will be an image of Sophie looking into the camera, focused on her eyes. This will be because it resembles the music video and creates synergy. 

Here is the progress I have made so far.