Evaluation: Q4

Evaluation: Q3

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

The technologies we have used have been vital in the making of this project.
To film we have used: new cameras and used memory cards to put them onto the mac computers to then use in final cut pro to edit the clips.
While this was all going on we were using blogger to update everything we was doing and also twitter to let the teachers know where and when we was filming.
the internet was used a lot for research purposes.



Photoshop was the main thing used for my digipak.

Evaluation: Q2

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

My music video and ancillary follow a clear visual link in many different ways.

Firstly, the setting of my front cover and one of our base tracks in the video are in the same location which is Alexandra Palace. The back of the CD cover is also a landscape view of Alexandra Palace although I put the focus more on the sky and clouds as I felt that they fit in with the theme more as the overall theme is quite dark and sinister and grey clouds create a dull dark theme too. 

I made all of it black and white as we also have black and white in our music video and also because of the theme. The artist is shown on the front cover for the audience to familiarise themselves with this new upcoming artist. 

My inside panel still continues with the black and white theme. The inside picture is an image of the artist which was inspired by james blake as he had a similar image for his album cover, and then i added a quote from the song we made a video to. The CD  has a city image on it in black and white too which also has his name and album name on it.

My advert has the image of the album cover so people can remember this image. The same fonts have been used to create the advert for synergy. The audience will remember this font which will always remind them of Nathan Grey as it will be his signature font and also the font for his album 'Overgrown'. I have made the font blue so it will stand out a bit more to the viewers especially as it is an advert so it will be the first thing people look at.

Evaluation: Q1

the making of my ancillary in photoshop

Planning

My album cover and digipak for our artist will follow a dark theme similar to our music video. The main colours will be grey white and black with a simple and bold font which makes his name stand out. The artist's face will feature on the album cover and will be the main focus as he is a new artist and should be recognised by the public. The back and tracklist will have the same font throughout and will be a dark background with clouds similar to something like this:

Analysis of Digipaks

Design Activity

This is a screenshot from my practise digipak activity.
I have cropped an image to make it square and so the woman is the central focus.
Added the artist name as the biggest font and the album name underneath.
Used a plain colour for the back that is the same colour scheme as the front image.

Deadline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Improvements for our rough cut

Improvements for final deadline - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Blogging health check 2

This is a screenshot from the feedback and grade I got for my blog. By reading the comments, I definitely need to blog much more then what I have been doing as my grade has gotten lower and I will be aiming to push it back up again. To make this happen I will be going through the blog list and making sure I have done all of these blogs and also doing extra ones on top of this.

Original Artist Website

Update

Since our last blog we have filmed and have continued to edit. As we have said, from the feedback we realised we needed to add more close ups which have been re-filmed and are now in our music video. Here is a screenshot to show an example of the new close up:

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We also said we needed a shot of scenery to show it going from day to night which we have done and adapted into the music video, here is a screenshot from a nighttime shot we have:

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Filming Schedule

As you know from our feedback blog posts we need to film more shots which have already been listed, here is our timetable:

Monday - from 2.45pm we will be filming a sunset shot so we can clearly show the change from daylight to night time and also be filming close ups.

and then Tuesday 5pm we will be filming more bike shots at night time

To do list

After our rough cut feed back we noticed that we need to some emergency re-shooting.On Monday we will shoot a base track of Cristian in a alley way and have some shots on the sunset so we can introduce day to night. - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Rough Cut

• We need more close up of Cristian as he doesn't come across as the main artist.
• We need to allow for Cristian to finish his words, instead of cutting away before he finishes.
• Try to cut on the beat.
• Show the development into the night shots; we could shoot some sunset shots to do this.
• We need jump shots when we are performing to follow Vernallis theory. 
• Some of our shots are too long we need to make them shorter to follow the fast pace of the rap genre.

Feedback

 

This is a video of the feedback we have received from our class members and teacher. We will reflect on these points and improve them in the lessons to come..

we will also be filming on monday and tuesday to film more close ups etc 

Today's Lesson Update

In this lesson we will be aiming to finish our first rough cut of our music video, once we are done we will show our class to get some feedback on how to improve it. I will be recording the feedback for our blog.

Andrew Goodwin

carol vernalis - unfinished

Carol Vernalis Theory from Cristian Gonzalez