Evaluation Question four:

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evidence of feedback:

Evaluation Question three:

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

Here is a Prezi demonstrating how i used media technologies in this project:

Evaluation question two:


2 - How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary text (digi-pak and advertisement)?


How well does my ancillary products make clear visual links with my groups music video?
How does the audience recognise them as linked products?

How successful do you think your main and ancillary texts are?

Both the texts highlighted in Red is the 'text' we decided to use for our Digi-Pak and we could then choose how we used them, what colours we would make them depending on the three colours we chose to use as a group and where we placed them.

This is the text on my actual CD

This is the actual text on the outer panel on my front cover

This is my actual track list

These are the quotes I have placed on the inner panel

This is the text on my advertisement

This is the text on my advertisement

This is also text from my advertisement

I personally think the text on my Digi-Pak is very effective, it features the house style that I have tried to follow throughout making my Digi-Pak of white blue and grey. I decided by making the Artist's name a bold blue it would make it stand out and draw the audience's eyes to it, which I think it has successfully done especially on the outer panel front cover and on the actual CD itself. I think the 'Nor-Et-Blanc' text stands out more than the 'Unity Dances' which is why I used that test for my track list however I felt like the 'Unity Dance' text advertised the Album well on the advertisement well, it suited the colours and positioning on the advertisement better than the other 'Nor-et-Blanc'. However critically I think on the advertisement the grey text using front style 'unity dances' could stand out more.



What work influenced me when making my Digi-pak?

This question is answered in the Prezi below:




How have i used elements of real digi-paks?

This is a list of things our teacher said we must include in our Digi-Pak it is a section of things we need to do for our  ancillary to be successful.

Like I mentioned in Evaluation one, "My Digi-Pak uses a clear font and uses appropriate sizes of images and font, with clear images that are appropriate to the shape of the page, I have kept up a house style that I feel is effective and have used it throughout making the Digi-Pak on the inner and outer panels. I have carefully placed the text on the panels so they are reason-able but they do not block any of the images. I have also included a bar code and the right labels and symbols and logos needed, and did not forgot to include the title and artist name." 

By following the Do's and Don't s list I have managed to produce a conventional Digi-Pak which is show below.

This is the outer panel of my Digi-pak

This is the inner panel of my Digi-pak

Examples of real artists Digi-paks and how similar or different my Digi-pak is:

Like Rihanna, Katy Perry's and Madonna's Digi-Pak my main image on the front cover of my album is of my artist and promoting the emotion of the CD, like all of the Digi-paks I have a title and the artists name on the front cover for everyone to know what and who the album is and who it belongs to. Similarly I have a track list and effective images on the inside and outside of the album. I also have a copyright message on the back of the album and bar code and label information and symbols. However differently I have song lyrics on the inner panel on the left of an image of my artist to give a feel of what the album is like. Furthermore unlike these albums my album have a solid white background which could be seen as quite plain compared to some of these digi-paks especially Madonna's album, however i do think however effective her album is the detail on the outer panel could be distracting from who the artist really is. which is something i strongly didn't want to do for my album. It can be seen that my album is most similar to Rihanna's whose album cover is quite simple with a strong effective image of the artist looking down like my main image on my Digi-pak and a title and artist name in text that stands out.

Do you think your target audience would be attracted to them? why yes?

Evaluation question one:

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


Forms and Conventions of music videos - which of the main ideas of Vernallis and Goodwin did i follow in my video?

video one: Talking about Carol Vernallis
video two: Talking about Andrew Goodwin

Vernalis

Goodwin

Actual example of music videos that follow Vernallis view on a music video include:

Florence and the Machine - Dog Days are over

The Saturdays - All Fired up

Whilst examples of Goodwin view of music video include:

Disjuncture:

Telephone - Lady Gaga ft Beyonce

Amplification:

Paradise - Cold play 

Illustration:

Nikki Bronsky - I can hear the bells

Videos that we were influenced by:

We was particularly influenced by Christina Perri and her music video - A Thousand years

This video has great aspects of mise en scene that have heavily influenced our own music video, for example   the idea of a dark black background where there is a spotlight on her face and singing with a candle in hand. We have interpreted this into our own piece of work and have used this shot for intertexuality  The editing is also great in this video, there is lots of fading used to move one scene onto the next, in our music video we have done this, only we have done this by fading and dissolving multiple images together to make certain shots stand out and be more effective. We were also influenced by the close-ups and lighting of the video. These are presented so beautifully in this video which made us think they may suit our own music video. we wanted loads of base tracks of the artist just like in this video so the audience had a clear idea of who the artist was and what she was about.

This is a screenshot illustrating the fading and dissolving from one shot to another which I found appealing in the video and was influenced by in my video 

This is a second example of one shot blending and dissolving and fading into another shot.

This an image of our main artist interpreting the shot from the video above where she is singing with the candle in her  hand preparing to blow it out.

This is what the shot originally looks like in the music video A Thousand years

This is an image of the idea we liked with the dark background but with bright lights which highlights the artist.

There is a variety of camera shots in this video that we found to be very appealing: For example close-ups  wide shots and long shots: 

How conventional is my Digi-Pak and advertisement? - what conventions did i use and why?

My Digi-Pak uses a clear font and using appropriate sizes of images and font, with clear images that are appropriate to the shape of the page, I have kept up a house style that I feel is effective and have used it throughout making the Digi-Pak on the inner and outer panels. I have carefully placed the text on the panels so they are reason-able but are they do not block any of the images. I have also included a bar code and the right labels and symbols and logos needed, and did not forgot to include the title and artist name.

I followed the Do's and Don't s of a Digi-Pak

and below is the finishing piece of my Dig-Pak, they illustrate how I have or haven't followed the conventions in your eyes:

This is the outer panel of my Digi-Pak

This is the inner panel of my Digi-Pak

This is the advertisement for my Digi-Pak

Digi-pak and Advertisement:

Outside panel

Inside panel

Advertisement

why i made my digipak look the way it has?

I had inspiration from other cd and album covers for example

James Arthur impossible - This cd cover made me want to make my cd album a block white background. I did this because i felt the plain white background makes the image and the artists name and the song title stand out really well on the cover and draws your eyes to the main image. I feel that the background of a cd case can often distract you from what is really important about the album and by making my background like this cd the image on the front of my album stands out fairly well and the title and artist name.

Adele 21 - This main image on the front of this album is fairly similar to the one i chose to use on the front of my cd cover the artist is looking down and is resting their hand on their head which i think is a very strong main image and gives the audience a taster of what the album is about, sadness, loneliness, powerful songs which i think is a good thing to do as the audience will know what kind of album they are buying. The main image of an album is very important and has to be strong and i think by choosing an image of my artist that is similar to one that Adele has chosen makes my image just as strong and effective as hers.

This is what my front cover of my cd looks like and you can clearly see the resembilences to both of the cd and album cover above.

Digi-pak in progress:

This is the final version of my Digi-pak outside panel,
changes made:
- I have changed the background of my Digi-pak to white rather than grey to make the images and text stand out more
- I  have changed the colours of the album name and 'Angel's name to more stand out colours which meet the housestyle of my groups digi-pak
- On the back cover i have changed the size of the image of our artist to make her stand out more clearly and more visable. 

This is the inside panel of my digi-pak and i have made apparent changes to it,
- The image i have chose is different to that of the first mock up i created i have done this because i feel this image shows off the artist more clearly and is more appealing to the digi-pak, the original picture was quite dark and it was quite hard to see our artist.
- I have changed the arrangement of the song lyrics i have put on the left inside cover, they are now more or less in a straight line rather than scattered around the image which draws your eyes more to it rather than miss it completely.
- I have added blue stars to the inside spine just to make it look more attractive to an audience and have adapted the cd so the title and name of the artist is more clear to the audience rather than how it looked before in the mock up which was quite plain and did not draw your eye to it.

- This was the original picture i chose to use on the inside panel of my Digi-pak clearly the image in far too dark for the design i wanted to achieve and i believe the second image below which is the one i actually chose is better to the design.

- Second design,

Digi-pak in progress:

This is the outside panel of my digipak that i have been working on today.. although i have changed many features from my original mock up.

This is a screen shot of the inside of my digipak which has somewhat changed from the original mock up.

This is a shot from the inside of the inside panel before i made changes to it.

Decision on album name

Different Words We Could Have Chosen...

We typed in "Alone" into thesaurus.com because we wanted to come up with a synonym for the word so it will suit the theme of our music video. We chose "Solo" out of all of these words because, as a group, we all Favorited this the best.

Shortlist of Fonts

Blogging: Images i chose for my Digi-pak

This image I chose for the inside of the CD case with lyrics specifically chosen to evoke the audience's feelings. I chose this picture as it is a good promotion picture, it shows who she is, she's looking directly to the audience and it choses of the brightness of her blazer which is one of our main colours

This picture i put on the back of the cover of the CD case, i did this because i think she is in a perfect position which goes with my idea of having a Track list beginning from the left of the cover and fits right along 'ANGEL' in this image, it perfectly shows of the significant colours we have chosen especially with a bright white background which makes her stand out and her blazer, this picture is what encouraged the idea of a 'white glow' around the image for the digi-pak.

This is my main image that i used on the front cover of my album, it is more or less a closeup of my artist and it perfectly shows of the mood of the album and emphasises the emotion your'll feel from listening to it, she is positioned in a way to evoke feeling to the audience and she perfectly stands out in the chosen colours of our house style to make it very effective