Digipak and poster

I printed off my digpak and poster to see what they would look like as real products and I glued my poster into a page of Q magazine to see what it would look like if my poster was published in a real magazine. I am pleased with the outcome of my digipak and poster as I think they look well presented and professional.

Evaluation- Question 4

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

Research and planning:

To help me with my research and planning, I used many different media technologies. Firstly, the main program I used whilst researching was Prezi, an online presentation software. I used this a lot to help me with the deconstruction and analysis of music videos. Another program I used was slide share, I used this to produce a presentation on Andrew Goodwin's theory on music videos. I also frequently used Google to help me research into the indie music genre. Wikipedia also allowed me to research the artist I had chosen to find out what genre he fitted into, what awards he had won and what albums/EP's he had published. Another program I often used was YouTube. I used YouTube to get inspiration for my own music video and to see what the stereotypical conventions of an indie music video was.

For my planning, I used Hotmail to email the record company, Island Records, to request permission to use the song I had chosen. I also used 'Survey Monkey' to produce a questionnaire to find out what people liked in a music video, what they expected and how they viewed the video. Survey monkey allowed me to analyse my results quickly and accurately, in my opinion, Survey monkey was quicker and more effective than creating the questionnaire myself and then analyzing the results by myself, I had never used Survey Monkey before therefore at first I struggled, however once I was used to it, it was easy to use very effective.  I also used blogger throughout all of the stages of my work. Blogger enabled me to quickly and easily look through my work and edit any work. Blogger also allowed me to put my work in order so it was easily accessible, I used Blogger last year for my AS blog therefore I had no problems with Blogger.

Construction

In the construction stage of my project, I used a Sony camera and tripod to film my footage, although most of my footage was handheld, most of my footage was handheld to make the viewer feel like they were apart of the adventure with the characters. I found the camera easy to use and I was pleased with the outcome of my footage, the only negative was that some of my footage wasn't very focused. I also used my phone to allow me to take photos of my cast. Once I had gathered all my footage, I had to import it onto the Mac to allow me to edit my video, my use of Mac's before this project was minimal and not very advanced therefore my skills were not very good, but once I got used to using the mac's, I found it very easy. To edit my footage together and create my music video, I used i-Movie. Before creating my music video, I had never used i-Movie before therefore I struggled with my video in the first few days of creating my video, however once I got the hang of it, I found it fairly easy. I-Movie allowed me to add transitions, effects, text, and slow/speed up/to my footage. Once I had completed my music video, I had to upload it to YouTube to be able to upload the video to my blog.
Once I had completed my music video, I moved on to creating my digipak and poster however beforehand, I had to research these to allow me to see the stereotypical conventions of the indie music genre. To display my findings, I used Powtoon. Powtoon is an animated presentation, I had used Powtoon last year and found it very useful therefore I had no problems with it. I also used PowerPoint presentation to display my results. I have used PowerPoint numerous times therefore I found it simple and easy to use. To create my digipak and poster, I used Photoshop. I used Photoshop last year for my AS project therefore I was pretty familiar with Photoshop, however, my ancillary tasks allowed me to learn skills that I did not have last year, for example, I learnt how to use the tool 'free transform' which allowed me to adjust the size of my images without effecting the quality of the image. I also learnt how to use the grid tool to allow me to make sure my work was fully aligned and wasn't wonky.

Evaluation

For the evaluation stage of my project, I used Facebook. Facebook allowed me to send my video and ancillary tasks to people and ask for their unbiased opinion. I also uploaded my video to YouTube, where my video has already received several 'likes'. To answer the evaluation questions, I used Prezi, PowerPoint and Blogger. I did this because I was familiar with them and they allowed me to present my work in an organised, neat and simple way that was easy to read.

Evaluation- Question 3

Evaluation- Question 2

Evaluation- Question 1

Weekly Blog

Week 15- This week I completed my music video and digipak. I finished my video by including some performance based footage of the 'artist' lip syncing and playing guitar.

Finished music video

Finished digipak

Digipak insert

 This is the photo that I will be using for my media insert page. I cropped the photo down to the size I needed for it to fit onto my digipak and added a black and white filter.

Editing

On some of the clips, I increased the speed when the beat of the song increased. This was so that the footage matched the music  because if I didn't speed up the footage, then the clip wouldn't have fitted with the music.

Shot Plan

Coombe-

• establishment shot of  location
• high angle shot of wellies walking through water/mud
• long shot of Rosie running through fields/paths and sitting on gates
• close up of Rosie showing emotion

Greenway-

• establishment shot of location
• mid shot of Rosie and the dog
• tracking shot of Rosie walking
• low angle shot showing the tree's, making the characters look small
• zoom in on sun
• panning shot

Hooke-

• long shots of Rosie and Shola running, climbing/swinging on trees
• high angle shots of wellies walking through water
• close up of water
• mid shot of Rosie and Shola standing on a gate

Galmpton creek-

• long shot of Shola and Rosie walking/giving eachother piggybacks
• close up of Shola

Video font

This is the font that I will use on my video, I have put it on a green background so that I can edit it onto my video.

Weekly Blog

Week 14- This week, I created the album poster to advertise my digipak. I used the same image for my poster as I did for the front cover of my digipak. This is because most album posters use the same photo on the poster as the one on the CD cover, this is to make the album more recognisable to the target audience.

Finished album poster

Creating album poster

Editing- importing videos

Editing

Editing

Weekly Blog

Week 13- This week, I continued editing my music video and digpak, I also analysed album posters to help me see what the typical conventions of an indie album poster is.

Album advertisment

Editing

Editing

Editing transitions

These are the transitions that I could use to make my video, however I only used cross dissolve as it looked more professional.

Jack Garratt Videos

Weekly Blog

Week 12- This week I continued to edit my video which is nearly complete. I have also nearly finished my digipak, I only have the insert page left to complete.

Digipak inside page 3

For these images, I cropped the initial image down to the size needed to fit on my digipak. I then added a blue filter to make it look more vintage and rustic.

Digipak inside page 2

 Firstly, I chose the image I wanted to use for my digipak, I then cropped it down to size so it would fit on my digipak.

                                                Then I added the paint daubs filter.

                                                        I then added a sepia filter.

Digipak inside page 1

 I chose the image I wanted to use for the inside of my digipak, cropped it down to the size I needed and then applied the 'paint daubs' filter. I then made the image darker.

Digipak back cover

 Firstly, I chose the image I wanted to use for my back cover. I then cropped it to the size I needed and added a black and white filter.

I then added a barcode to make my digipak look more authentic and realistic.

                                            I then added a track listing to my digipak.