FINAL BLOG POST

It has been a long journey. From september until now. I can't say im not happy its finished.





Hope you enjoyed blogs 
bye.

Final progress review blog

My A2 blog is good in comparison to my AS blog. This year i added more deatail and blogged more consistantly.
This year i used different types of techonologies and websites. I used different websites such as prezi, sideshare, emaze etc... From there i then embeded the code and put them into my blog. Therefore my use of ICT has broadened this year

My blog is  effective when talking about the research planning and production. It's in alot of deatail from when we was choosing our songs until the final complettion of the music video. All our blogs are clearly labelled. The planning stages is where we done the most blogs. As this stage took a lot of organisation commitment and cuminication.

Personally in my work there gaps. When we finished filming and we had started the editing stages i fell behined in the blogging. This was becasue i was focusing on editing and for a week i forgot to blog. Therefore there was a gap in my work. However this was just me other members in group managed to complete it.
Indivual blogs i produced all together was 74.

If i was given another oppurtunity to complete this i rekon i would have over 100 blogs. I would have blogged in deatail all the editing I did in the first week as theres no evidence. I put the clips in order out transitions in, put markers in to edit to the beat and made sure the lip sync was correct. However i wasn't able to produce blogs about this

Evaluation question 4

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation question 2

Evaluation question 1

Final Ancilliary Products

    Front of CD

Inside CD

Advertisment poster

Ancilliary poster Progress

This isn't the finished product it's my initial idea.
Im going to change the colour of the tour title.  And may add a different background. im happy with the colours just not organisation of the poster itsself

Ancially Progress

I started doing the front cover and inside of the digipak. After talking baout it with my teacher iv'e decided to change the CD to colour and use the same effect which is on the image of the guitar.
Also the font of 'Lewis Jones' Is going to be changed to the same as the track list.

Ancillary- Images i may use

These are photos i plan to use on our digipaks. I dont not exactly which picture ill use, but these are my options

Ancilliary mock up

  This is an idea i had for the inside of the digipak
It has a image of our artist on the left with a lyric book, and tour dates. Addtionally on the actual CD we would have an image of his guitar witch in featured in the music video and that is his main prop

  This in the front. In has in big writing LEWIS JONES across the top of the CD benneth saying delux eddition, and under that would be a close up image of our artist face. On the back of the cover would be the song titles and who they feature. Another image of our artist but a long shot. And placed at the bottom would be the carcode cd number logos advertisement ect

This was another idea i had. but just for the back i couldnt decide between the two

Planning Anciallary products: Short list

Ideas of Fonts, Colours, layout and design.

Fonts 

 For our artist name on the digipak i was thinking it to be either bold and big and the top of the digipak or across the middle and a font covering the font of the digipak (Not over his face)

At the back for name of tracks ill include two fonts. One for the name of the song and one for the producer.

I wont include another font as thats 3 already. Ill resuse one for anyother writing.

Ideas of fonts include

• Font ideas
• Font ideas
• Font ideas

Colours

  For colours i was thinking white background with guitar on back of digipak, and picture of our artist face on the front. with white edges fading into a white background.

Or a greenish take on things. Ill use an our artist sitting on a tree with his main prop (guitar) on the back of the digipak and on the front still have a picture of his face but with green edges and fade out into green to correspond with the back of the digipak

I covered the layout and desgin ideas when talking about the colours and fonts because i mentioned how ill incorporate them into the digipak

Research ancillary products Three advertisements

This is Ed sheeran I did an analysis of his Digipak, I choose to analyse these posters because they correspond with the digipak. They used the same image that was on the digipak and they used the same colours and font. Its practically the same. They did they because theyre all advertising the same person and same songs. It needs to correspond so when people see the posters they know what its about and that it all goes together.

I chose to analyse this poster because devlin didn't have a concert poster and neither did Delihah.

So solid relate to our artist because they came from nothing and they diddnt have a label backing them they were independet for a while before they got signed. They was in the same position as out artist

Addtionally  they used 2 fonts for the whole poster to keep it mild. used one for the dates and info and one for the main bold tilte of there names  

Photoshop practice - ancillary

Today on photoshop I learnt how to add pictures and change there size/ angle
I learnt how to change font and changed layers
I learnt how to change capacity and add an effect to the picture
I also learnt how to get a CD template
Also learn how to place and image and expand it without making it blury
Also using magic wand which is where we can remove the background we dont want

Anclillary Do's and Don'ts

In todays lesson we researhed previous students work and existing degipaks. From this I have made some do's and don'ts for my work.
Do's

Firstly i noticed that you need to do a lot of research on your genre so you can create a digipak that goes with your artist and audience correctly 

Image- Use a clear image. Thats not been streched or blury.  For the front of the digipak make sure the face of the artist in clear

Font- Make sure u use 3 fonts max. Or it looks messy and packed. Additionally don't have and writing over the artist face. Make sure it's clear

Colour- Use maximum 3 colours otherwise it looks to busy. Make sure your colour scheem works together. Use the same fonts and colours for your advertising aswell.


Information-    Make sure the bar code, cd number, record label information/logos, copyright information, website and aritst are included on the digipak

Don'ts
 Layout- Use a complicated layout that makes it difficult to read text.

Font- Use more than 3 fonts or a font that doesnt relate to your genre or artist

Image- Use images that doesn't relate to your genre or artise

Analysis of three digipaks and three advertisements

 Devlin is an English rapper from Dagenham, East London. This is represented in his album cover. The brick wall shows urban street life and the colours have been destorted to sepia effect to show a kind of slum life.

The title is bold and clearly highlights the name of the artist. However the righting beneath isn't clear as i cant read it.






This is inside the album, its very similar to the front cover it just has additional information witch is usual for an inside cover. 
It informs us who its featuring and that its his debut album

Throughout the album they have included three fonts 

One or the title, subheading then the additional information. 

Devlin relates to our genre and audience as he isn't fake or tries to be somebody he's not he dresses in normal clothes and the picture could have been taken anywhere not in a professional studio. Devlin reminds me of our artist as he tries to show his supports hes not so different from them talking about real life.

The track list is the same font as the subheading.

However its not very clear to read.













Delilah is a very basic front cover

the Aritst name is clear and is the only righting that bold and clear.

The image represents her and her normal self
shows off her tattoos and who she really is shes not trying to hide anything about her, Shes trying to prove to her audience that she can do what she wants and shes nor different to them. She doesn't try to hide her tattoos to pretend to be somebody shes not she shows them off. This reminds me on our artist because he's also like this he doesn't like being somebody he's not.

The promotion poster has a clear link to the album cover
same image and font used. Same colour scheeme






























Ed sheeran,

The main obvious colour is orange. The righting however is white or black and the main images are extreme close ups of his face..
This is to let the audience know who he is and to get him known. The image at the top has a message of hi on it.. This is him trying to get a relationship with his fans. Ed sheeran likes to be different and stand out. thats why he used these bold colours and funny images

Research ancillary products Class discussion

In class we discussed the importance and fuction of digipaks to the music industry.
We talked about how it advertised the artist more and gives the fans/ supports a type of connection to the artist. As a digipak may include extra things such as another song just for digipak holders. Or it may include a person message of some sort. However it brings the artist closer to there fans,

Evaluation question 4 notes

http://prezi.com/cw-9c9vynaaw/present/?auth_key=6jtiqeo&follow=q1gyjqtyixsb

I made a prezi presentation. If link doesnt work please see below.

Evaluation question 3 notes

To do this I used an app on my phone called ABC Notes. Its a free apps that allows you to right down notes and have them all safe in one area. I thought it was practical to use it for this task because itll be there when I come around to writing the evaluation question. 7


I understand the picture isnt clear but i will copy n paste exactly what it says beneath here. Both pictures say the same thing. The top picture it when its completed and on the homepage of abc notes, and the second was when i was in the process of writing it.

Evaluation question 3 (ideas and notes)

• How other people see our video and how they feel about it
• What they liked and disliked 
• how we could improve it

The feedback they gave us was useful and we went ahead to change some things to further improve our video. Additionally our teacher gave us some professional feedback. She said we needed more obvious effects and a smooth ending. We then went onto create another base track so we could put plenty effects onto it. We also did research into other music videos with story lines and most of them had a cliffhanger so we then decided to make it obvious at the end to what happened but diddnt want to give it away to much. So we ended it in a way which will make the audience think. As when you do that they tend to remember it and will speak about it with there friends giving us free advertisement

Filming and Editing: Deadline week Wednesday

We decided to come into lunchtime media workshop to go over the last bits of our music video.

As we had trouble with this shot, we thought about deleting it. but since we added the smooth cam effect and slowed down the shot, it looks much better and useable.

During yesterday's session, we put a space between this shot and the one before; but today we decided against it and put them together and made it look more continues.