Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge conventions of real media products

Evaluation 4

Ancillary Feedback

After analysing these comments I can clearly see that my audience fully understood the synergy within my product as they pointed out things such as using the same location in both my music music video and digipak.In addition to this they really liked my ancillary work stating that really liked the colours that I used and the fact they could clearly understand what genre I was representing 

Evaluation 3

I have collect some data from my blogger work to see what type of websites I used during blogging, from this I found out that the most websites I used were creating websites and softwares such as Pixlr and Final Cut Pro, this is because creating was the main aspect in the course as we had to make a music video and ancillary. Whereas I used social media the least as I considered this to be the least important

Evaluation 2

Progress Review

After reading my teachers comments I am very proud to be rewarded with an A* as i believe I have worked very hard and made sure i put 100% in to all my blogs to make them visual interesting an resourceful As I am now reaching the final stages of my coursework I am going to set final myself goals in hopes of furthering my mark;

• Reach over 100 blog-post by the end of my evaluation
• Tidy up any blank blogs 
• Upload audience feedback on my ancillary 
• Find any new website to show diversity amongst my work

Final ancillary

Editing process

evaluation plannig

Ancillary Construction

Ancillary Pitch

planning for ancillary: inside panels

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CD COVER: for my CD cover I wanted to incorporate my logo as I think its looks visually intriguing and many artist who have their own logos do this.

Inside Panel: for this I have chosen a screenshot from my music video, where I wanted to incorporate some form of synergy withing my digipak and music video, also our music video was about showing our 'Inner demons' and the masks played a fundamental role in my video which helps makes sense to use this.

Planning mock up advertisment

For my advertisement I  have followed the rules of Do's and Dont's as I have chosen to have my font the same as my digipak  to show simplicity. Futhermore I plan to have a different photo of my artist but still have him in the same costume so I can avoid repetition while having my audience remember who he is.I will have a  big photo of my artist as the main task is to promote them and with the use of having a large photo will attract the audiences eye. In addition I have included  that my artist is a mercury prize winner, as the actual artist I took the song from is,so it makes sense to use this on my advertisement. Lastly  I have included ratings from magazines that relate to my genre such as 'NME'
which helps my audience identify with this as it they read these magazines.

Planning Ancillary: Mock up digipak

The front: I have used a medium close up of my artist as it is his debut album,  I want my target audience to understand who he his as a artist and a person by seeing his face on the middle of the album cover it will help them remember this.In addition to this I have used dark colours such as Grey/Black to show the audience that his genre is a dark tone with more serious meaning in his lyrics compared to pop digipaks where they use bright colours, my font is very big and above his head as within most digipak's which I have analysed ( Romy's students work and PARTYNEXTDOORS) use this. Lastly the colour of the font is also grey as a nod-on to his last name. 

The spine: For the spine I have included the artist logo which I made myself and the album name.

The back: I stuck with the same font as my album title as it adds to simplicity and makes it easier for my audience to read. Furthermore I have added my own creative twist by using a glow effect over the font,bar code and album label, this is something I used because I want the whole of my digipak to be appealing to my audience.With my track listing I decided to only have my artist use one featuring artist as I want the album to be about promoting my artist and showing his musical talents  by himself. Lastly I added a smoke effect feature to add to  the dark tone of my album.

Planning Ancillary: Short list

Feed Back Videos.

Planning ancillary: photos that I plan to use (Thinglink)

Planning Ancillary Digi pack

Planning Ancillary: getting used to photoshop

 Today I did a design activity where I had to make a digipak, I was given simple pictures of people and had to use photoshop to create something similar to a digipak. In my digipak I have chosen to follow the genre of rap music and followed the codes and conventions of this, I took inspiration from one of the highest selling rap albums 'Lil Wayne Tha carter iv'. I  used a close up of my artist and used simple colours  that complimented each other like below.
    

Planning: examine the Do's and Don'ts

Logo Nathan Grey