Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Sunday, 22 March 2015
EVALUATION - questions/how to answer them
I have now practically finished my planning and research, music video, and the ancillary texts. Therefore I have finally came to the evaluation questions of my music video.
The questions include:
1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
How will they be answered?
To answer my evaluation questions I will make a video for all of them, but use a variety of different platforms and technologies within these videos. For example although it will be a video we will be able to see interviews, or running commentary. (In this way it is a form of technological convergence). Therefore by using a video it will be an ideal to present my answers because it will maintain the attention of the viewer/marker, whilst a variety of different styles and media technologies are use which help to reflect the massive range and development of media industry.
The questions include:
1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
How will they be answered?
To answer my evaluation questions I will make a video for all of them, but use a variety of different platforms and technologies within these videos. For example although it will be a video we will be able to see interviews, or running commentary. (In this way it is a form of technological convergence). Therefore by using a video it will be an ideal to present my answers because it will maintain the attention of the viewer/marker, whilst a variety of different styles and media technologies are use which help to reflect the massive range and development of media industry.
Poster
As part of my ancillary text, I had to create a poster. To create the poster I used the same software as I had previously used for my digipack, which is indesign as I had now gained experience about how to use the software and is practical for creating such a product, as its fitted into the school computers which we use. Creating the poster was a relatively quick process compared to that of the digipack, as I feel it was more straight forward of what was expected.
Here is a look at one of the final drafts of my poster:
Here is a look at one of the final drafts of my poster:
However the mouse curser is obviously not included in the poster, and the 'future class' emblem has been removed.
I choose to have the same picture on the front of both my digipack and poster to make a clear link between the two. Further more it captures a nice image of my main actor, who is representing the theme of mystery as her face is half hidden.
I decided to place an image of a park at the bottom, which shows both an urban and rural environment which again relates to the setting of my music video, it also fills in the space.
The date given would be the release date to make viewers aware of when the album is released.
Writing on the top and bottom is in a unique but rather simple format which helps capture overall feeling of my digipack, with the slick look to attract viewers without going over the top.
Overall I am pleased with my poster and ancillary texts.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Digipack - FINISHED
First of all we have the front cover of the digipack.
Next we have a range of double page spreads which would be in the digipack.
Finally we have the back cover of the digipack.
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Digipack - Software used.
The software used to create my digipack is 'InDesign'.
The software proved difficult to use at first as the layout was confusing. Furthermore I didn't know what certain effects would do to my digipack so had to experiment to get it just right, this wasted quite a lot of valuable time. However after a few lessons I understood the basics such as importing a photo and placing it, making the process smoother.
After I understood a little more of the software I started to experiment more with the digipack, trying to use different photos whilst using different effects, which helped me to produce two different styles of digipack, this helped me to improve the quality and uniqueness of it.
Overall I found using InDesgin quite complicated due to its complexity, and the fact I only used it for a small amount of time meant that I could not fully understand the software. However I feel that what I produced was of good quality and could reach a high grade.
My digipack Ideas
Recently I have had to start to think about my potential digipack for my music video. I have done a small piece of research into EDM digipacks and as looked at before they're usually rather simple, as they can be quite broad and unspecific as they don't often relate heavily to something.
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I have a few ideas of what I would like my digipack to look like. I believe that certain albums such as Alesso's album can act as a guide as it has a similar colouring to mine, and is of the same music genre. Furthermore its very slick and simple making it catch the eye of consumers as they attract to something of good quality, and not too complex.
The pictures that I'm going to be using for my digipack are coming from screen shots of the filming shots I took, when I was filming, some of these are in my music video. So why use screen shots?
For the colouring of my digipack I will use the colouring of black and white as its the same effect of my music video, so can it relates to my song. Furthermore it makes the album seem vintage which can make it unique to some, and attract them to the album.
In the album I will also include a small message to the consumers, and names of other tracks that will be on the album, to make it seem like a real album.
I've came up with two ideas for my digipack. One idea is more simplistic using standard pictures in the black and white effect, surrounded by black border, which makes the picture stands out. The other idea is to have the picture in a pencil drawing like effect, surrounded by a white boarder. By having two ideas it can allow me to come up with more creative ideas, and maximise my digipack potential.
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I have a few ideas of what I would like my digipack to look like. I believe that certain albums such as Alesso's album can act as a guide as it has a similar colouring to mine, and is of the same music genre. Furthermore its very slick and simple making it catch the eye of consumers as they attract to something of good quality, and not too complex.
The pictures that I'm going to be using for my digipack are coming from screen shots of the filming shots I took, when I was filming, some of these are in my music video. So why use screen shots?
- It can relate to my music video, so has something in common.
- Its simple to do, and would be a quick process.
- The effects I can add to the clips are interesting and make the album interesting.
For the colouring of my digipack I will use the colouring of black and white as its the same effect of my music video, so can it relates to my song. Furthermore it makes the album seem vintage which can make it unique to some, and attract them to the album.
In the album I will also include a small message to the consumers, and names of other tracks that will be on the album, to make it seem like a real album.
I've came up with two ideas for my digipack. One idea is more simplistic using standard pictures in the black and white effect, surrounded by black border, which makes the picture stands out. The other idea is to have the picture in a pencil drawing like effect, surrounded by a white boarder. By having two ideas it can allow me to come up with more creative ideas, and maximise my digipack potential.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Music video and lip syncing
Lip syncing is the ability to match lip movements with the actual words/noise which is being projected, so it does not involve the individual who is lip syncing to make any noise.
I find my song to be unique. I would have to classify it as being in the EDM genre, where usually these genre of songs focus on the musical beat rather than lyrics. Therefore the song I used had a very limited amount of lyrics being sung. When lyrics were sung they were usually repetitive, such as 'go insane'. This meant that lip syncing was not so critical in my music video as there is not a lot of it, however its still important that it looks good to keep the music video of high quality, looking professional.
So what was the lip syncing in my music video like? The word inconsistent comes to mind. This is because there are times where my actors managed lip sync well as they opened their moves widely making it look like it is them actually singing, and times when they did not. This was a slight problem as it looks as if they are mumbling and not actually singing. This is quite evident at the beginning of my music video, where some of the shots do not have very good lip syncing.
Overall I have managed to edit my music video so that parts of clips where the lip syncing is of very low quality have been removed, leaving behind the better quality parts. Lip syncing has proven not be such a problem due to the very few lyrics in my song choice. However if a song with more lyrics was chosen it would have been more of an issue.
I find my song to be unique. I would have to classify it as being in the EDM genre, where usually these genre of songs focus on the musical beat rather than lyrics. Therefore the song I used had a very limited amount of lyrics being sung. When lyrics were sung they were usually repetitive, such as 'go insane'. This meant that lip syncing was not so critical in my music video as there is not a lot of it, however its still important that it looks good to keep the music video of high quality, looking professional.
So what was the lip syncing in my music video like? The word inconsistent comes to mind. This is because there are times where my actors managed lip sync well as they opened their moves widely making it look like it is them actually singing, and times when they did not. This was a slight problem as it looks as if they are mumbling and not actually singing. This is quite evident at the beginning of my music video, where some of the shots do not have very good lip syncing.
Overall I have managed to edit my music video so that parts of clips where the lip syncing is of very low quality have been removed, leaving behind the better quality parts. Lip syncing has proven not be such a problem due to the very few lyrics in my song choice. However if a song with more lyrics was chosen it would have been more of an issue.
Monday, 19 January 2015
Filming Process - 2
After filming a majority of clips for my music video on the first attempt, I have now almost edited them all. Therefore I had to set out to film again, to capture all the clips needed. My second outing of filming took place on January 11th, and we set out at about 12pm. We filmed around an urban area, my local town Potters bar, filming for about an hour.
Filming here on a sunday was practical, as its not a very busy area, meaning there was not too many distractions so we filmed relatively fast, without the actors made to feel awkward in any way.
However one issue we faced this time out was the weather conditions. It was rather windy out which meant some clips were deleted as the wind made certain shots look amateur, moreover the actors were complaining of the cold.
Overall I believe that the filming process went reasonably well as we managed to get some good, unique shots/clips, however in future I believe I could plan in more detail for each shot which will improve the quality and understanding of what the shots are trying to represent.
Filming here on a sunday was practical, as its not a very busy area, meaning there was not too many distractions so we filmed relatively fast, without the actors made to feel awkward in any way.
However one issue we faced this time out was the weather conditions. It was rather windy out which meant some clips were deleted as the wind made certain shots look amateur, moreover the actors were complaining of the cold.
Overall I believe that the filming process went reasonably well as we managed to get some good, unique shots/clips, however in future I believe I could plan in more detail for each shot which will improve the quality and understanding of what the shots are trying to represent.
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