Final Video

06. Nabilla Doma, Natalie Da Silva, Zaiba Hakim from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation: Question 4

From my thorough music video audience feed back I've learned many things. Firstly I've learned that editing was a strong feature of our music video. From the video above my audience have said that the cutting was on the beat and that the edits such as fast motion and the animation, were really strong. I am happy my audience liked the edits as when planning on the blogs, my group and I wanted thy to be a strong feature.
From audience feedback, improvements that could be made to make the video better, were more locations, change in costume and a variety of camera shots from different angles. Taking all this on board, I've thought of areas where I could have included these improvements. For example, I could have filmed in another location such as Canarby Street a it still goes with my genre conventions and its somewhere where my target audience would shop and be familiar with. This would have also allowed for a change in costume, maybe wearing clothes from one of the shops on Canarby Street. From watching back my music video, I've noticed how I haven't had many high angle shots. Again for an improvement, I could add have added in high angle shots when filming on Paget Street to make it make it more diverse.
From their overall feedback, my audience liked the artists performance in the music video, they believed what they saw (which was the plan) and would definitely buy Nabilla J's album.

From my in depth audience feedback about my digipak and advert, I've learned quite a few things. One of them being that both my digipak and advert fit my genre and still relate back to my music video ,even though its in a slightly different colour scheme. My audience also liked the strong images on my digipak as it shows 3 different sides to the artist (the first being a calm side, then a fun side ten inside, a wild side).
For improvements, my feedback has let me now that I could have added in an extra sign on my digipak of where it could be bought from and a bright sticker saying "OUT NOW" or something similar. I did think of this when making my advert but I thought I would just stick to the plain and simple version. I now know that adding it in would have made my digipak extra special.
Overall, from my feedback, my audience said they liked the simplicity of my digipak because many other CDs out now are way over the top; and they liked how strong the front panel picture is because it is noticeable.
The audience feedback was very useful because it let me go over my work and pick out what I could have done better. Self criticism of your own work is sometimes a lot more useful than getting other people to criticise your work.

Final blog post: closing down.

Aaaaaaah, it's all over now!! I've come a bloody long way but here I am!
It's been such a journey of emotions. First, there was excitement of doing a music video and picking out songs to do, then there was content with planning and research blogs, then there was annoyance at Final Cut Pro and photoshop and finally there was absolute stress at deadlines. My last emotion is relief! I'm not gonna lie, I am happy this is all over, but at the same time, I have enjoyed having an outlet to be creative. I'm happy with my products and it has been time well spent (even though time has not been my friend lately). I guess it's the end of an era...until next week rolls around and we have to start exam work *cue the stress*
So I bid blogger a farewell! I guess it's time to get catch up on sleep and head back to the normal media classrooms...

Final progress review blog

EVALUATION: QUESTION 3 (part 1 & 2)

*sidenote

I've just suddenly realised that 10yrs ago, nobody would have been able to do what I have done. These new technologies have allowed to basically become my own producer. I've created my own music video and digipak and advert literally at the comfort of my own home (sometimes). It's revolutionary to be honest, and I'm happy and proud to be apart of the movement.

EVALUATION: Question 2

"How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?"

EVALUATION: QUESTION 1

PRODUCTION ANCILLARY: FINISHED WORK

PRODUCTION ANCILLARY: PHOTOSHOP WORK

This is my finished inside panel of my digipak. As you can see it is just two panelled (like the outside) and follows the same colour scheme, font and design idea. My inside panel is quite minimal, only having a small personal message from the artist to her fans. I like the composition of the picture, it covers both panels but the main focus is on the left side, and the message is on the right side. The is also an invisible slot in on the right side, where the actual CD will go. The last thing to is the advert...

PRODUCTION ANCILLARY: PHOTOSHOP WORK

This my first draft of my outside panel of my digipak! I've added in all the conventions of a good digipak, and I've constantly asked the media teachers for help on any problems I have had. Hopefully this is a good enough outside panel, but if not, then I'm sure my media teachers will assist me in amending any problems.

PRODUCTION ANCILLARY: PHOTOSHOP WORK (COPYRIGHT)

Here are print screens of me adding the copyright details to my digipak. I looked at other Sony Music group albums for inspiration (Olly Murs' album) and used them to write my own. I also included a barcode to make the digipak seem real. In comparison to my other post about actually doing my digipak, this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. This was probably because I had a lot of help from the teachers!! I will be adding in logos of the record companies just above the copyright details as well.

PRODUCTION ANCILLARY: PHOTOSHOP WORK

Here are two printscreens showing the beginning of my photoshop work for my digipak. The first one shows the images fitting in the panels correctly. it took a lot of work due to the fact that I'm not very confident with photoshop, but i managed to overcome my insecurities of photoshop and get the images to fit.
The second printscreen shows me putting text onto the panels. Once i managed to get the right font and colour, I had to decided the position of the artist name and album title. I wanted the artist name to be the main focus so I made it big and put it at the top,; but i also wanted the album title to be important, so I made it slightly smaller and put it in the opposite bottom corner to the artist name.
I will eventually post more printscreens of more work I have done to my digipak...

PROGRESS REVIEW BLOG: ANCILLARY PRODUCT

PLANNING ANCILLARY: ADVERTISEMENT MOCK UP

Here is a rough copy of the mock up for the advertisement. This is obviously not exactly how I want my advertisement to look like but it will be similar in terms of structure. The background image will be the album cover blown up, and there will be reviews and ratings. I will use this mock up to do the real thing but obviously a lot will change to make it better.

PLANNING ANCILLARY: COLOURS, FONTS, PHOTOS

PLANNING ANCILLARY: DIGIPAK INSPIRATION

As an inspiration for my digipak, I want to base mine on Lana Del Rey's Born To Die album. I want the image on my front panel to be similar to her one (including the type of font and size).

I like how strong yet simple the image is on her front cover, and i also like colouring; it's bright but doesn't look artificial. The colour of the font also match the actual image, which I plan to do for my digipak on photoshoot.

This is the image I plan to use for my front panel, as you can see it is very similar to Lana Del Rey's image (the composition of the artist in the centre of the picture, facial expression, angle of the camera etc)

PLANNING ANCILLARY: DIGIPAK PICTURE PHOTOSHOOT

This is just a sample of images we took on our artist photoshoot :)

PLANNING ANCILLARY: MOCK UP FEEDBACK

his is some feedback from Dan, my media teacher about my mock up digipak. I plan to review what he has said and use his feedback to make my actual digipak a lot better.

Ancillary product planning: Discission on album name 'Filthy Angel'

PLANNING ANCILLARY: MOCK UP

This is the mock up of my digipak. It is a 2 panel digipak with the normal digipak conventions on the first two panels, and then a small message to the fans on the inside. This is just a rough mock up of what my digipak will kind of look like, obviously the real digipak will look 100x better!!!