Media Product Survey

I have created a survey for my audience to complete via SurveyMonkey. I have made this to get feedback on my final products and to see peoples opinions etc. I think it will be a great way of collecting data and information as to if my products are successful and work well together. I have emailed the link to various people in my sixth forma and also emailed people outside of sixth form to get a variety of age's feedback. this will be very useful to me when completing my evaluation and I will post results when they are received.


Here below is my survey that I have created. It is made up of ten questions.

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Evaluation of my Project

Now that I have completed my music video, advert and dig-pak, I am now going to evaluate my entire project by answering these questions in alot of depth and detail. I will use a wide range of media's to create these answers such as vdieo, powerpoints and recording. Therefore I will be expanding outside of the level three criteria and will be able to show off my skills that I have adapted throughout this two year course.

These are the questions that I have to complete answers to and I will be doing this over the Easter Holiday period.

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

• What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

Final Product Digi-Pak

Here is my final product of my digi-pak. I have fit my designs into my digi-pak net to meet the measurements. I have included all the little details needed for my album such as the bar-code and the small print featuring the copyright information, aswell as the catalogue number and record company logo on the spine. As explained on my advert post, I have clsoely linked my design through both my print prodcuts and this can hopefully be evident to the audience through the use of my font, colour scheme, filters and choice of images.

Final-Product Advert

Here is my final design for my advert. I decided to use critics The Guardian, MOJO and NME as I felt they suited my particular genre very well and when I researched bands similar to mine and their adverts, these names are what were featured on the covers quite often. I follwoed the design of my digi-pak very closely when desiging my advert, as something I wanted to make clear was the flow and similarity of the design within both print products and the aim in which to create a certain identity belonging to my particular band.The text I used was exactly the same as my digi-pak and the bold, brightness of the white stood out perfectly. The layering of the text over the image was somehting that as very popular when looking at my research and was something that I wanted to include in both print products as it was very eye-catching. The filter of my image and the image itself, evidently shows the flow between both my advert and digi-pak as the image content is the same and the filter effects tone is the same.

Music Video- Final Cut

After months months of shooting and editing, I am finally uploading my final cut of my music video. It has took me an endless amount of weeks to edit and refine my work to get it in a place where I think it is the best I can do. I have added layers of filters, cut shots up, altered tiny aspects of my shots etc. Syncing my videos of my actor miming to the song and also editing to the beat of the song was something I found particurlarly hard, so it was good to overcome this and learn along the way. I am very priud fo my final outcome and relieved to finally not ahve to listen to this song all the time!!! I hope you enjoy it!

Chemicals Final Cut from Charlotte Greaves on Vimeo.

CD

For my CD part of my digi-pak I have took an image from the internet and to make it myown, I have edited it with the same kind of filter that I usedfor myimages and for my advert. Doing this,I thought would make it look individual and unique and would compliment the colour scheme of my products better, making it look more realistic. Here I have uploaded the image of the CD before and an image of afterI edited. This shows a clear change in the CD and how it looks much more effective with the filter overthe image.


 

This is the ordinary image that I took off the internet before I had edited the image. As you can see it looks very plain and uneefective. The colour is very dull and grey and this would stand out on my digipak, interupting the flow of my design.

 

 

Here is a screenshot of the CD after it has been edited, where the editing software on the right hand side of the image shows the filters and edits that I used to layer over my image of the CD.

 

 

 

Here is my final outcome of my image that shows the change after the editing. Comparing it to my digi-pak filters, it links really well and looks much better than the original image's colour.

 

 

Catalogue Number

A catalog number is the identification number a record label assigns to a release. It is used for tracking purposes by both the label and the distributor. Catalog numbers are typically printed on the spine of a CD and on the back of record sleeves, but you sometimes you'll find them in other places on the artwork - and sometimes on the CD and the info label on the record itself.

I have made my own catalogue number up FYC08 -This will be included on my didgi-pak on the spine.

There aren't any rules as to how a label decides to set its catalog numbers, but once you develop a system, it makes sense to stick with it. Catalog numbers typically include both numbers and letters - often some portion of the record label name combined with numbers that signify the number of the release for that label. For instance, label XYZ might assign their first release the catalog number "XYZ01," their second release "XYZ02" and so on. In this way, you can often trace a label's history by looking at their catalog numbers.

XL Records

XL Recordings is a British independent record label owned by Richard Russell. It originated as a 1989 offshoot of Beggars Banquet Records and is part of the Beggars Group of labels.

 Artist belonging to this record company are:

ADELE

Atoms For Peace

Bobby Womack

Dizzee Rascal

East India Youth

FKA twigs

Friendly Fires

Giggs

Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx

Ibeyi

Jack Peñate

Jack White

Jai Paul

Jamie xx

Jungle

King Krule

Låpsley

M.I.A.

Novelist x Mumdance

Radiohead

Ratatat

RATKING

Sampha

SBTRKT

Shamir

Sigur Rós

The Horrors

The Prodigy

The White Stripes

The xx

Thom Yorke

Tyler, The Creator

Vampire Weekend

 

As you can see, I chose this particurlar record company as it is British and independently run. My genre matches this perfectly and bands such as Vampire weekend, which have had a big infleunce on my entire projectare signed to XL. These artist are low key which is another reasona s to why i chose it.

 

When I visited the Media Aesthetica Film Festivalin York, I attended a workshop with The Beggars Group which gave me alot more insight into what they are and influencedmeslightly within choosing this for my project.

 

Here is the logo that I will include on the spine of my digi-pak.

 

Font for my Advert

I decided to link the same font on my album cover to my advert. I have done this as it will create an image for my band that everyone will recognise and it will continue an identity. The same font flows nicely and effectively though my entire packaging and the same filters are used also. This creates a continuity through my project and compliments well. By using the same filters for all of my images on my digi-paks and advert as well as the font looks much more effective than changing the font and filters as that would confuse the audience on what they are buying. This is similar to the adverts and digi-paks by bastille that I have researched. They use the same style of font through each product they produce with only slightly changing the colour at time, but using the same pastel tone to their font. This is easy for people to identify their album as one of Bastille's and this is a successful artist identity created for the band. I hope to achieve this also within my advert and digi-pak.

Sticker

I have decided that instead of placing the album name onto my digipak front cover- I will in fact create a sticker that the purchaser can peel off with the details of the album etc. I think this will be alot more effective as it still supports the simplicity of my album cover, aswell as including the vital imformation needed on the cover. This will then link nicely with my advert where I have included the information in my text about the name of the album and where to buy it. Once I have completed a draft of my front cover with the sticker added, I will post a comparison to explain how it will appear to everyone on the album cover.

Advert Photograph

I have chosen this image formy advert. I decided that it links really well with my digi-pak as it is an image of my littlesister and my digi-pak is based on kids pulling stupid faces. The fact she has a toy guitar also goes well with the fact my artist is a band and there are guitars featured in my video and on the track. As yo ucan see I have imported the image into Photoshop and will be editing it with filters the same way I have with my digi-pak and then will eb adding my text onto it. I will upload a final outcome once I have completed this task.

Few bits and bobs to shoot

I am almost at the end of editing my music video however, there is a couple of little clips that I want to shoot and add into my video. There is one smalll shot right at the beginning of the female character brushing her teeth that I will refilm as it has someintereference on the video due to the sun shining through the window and flashing. This will only take me five minutes maximum as it is only half a second long. I also want to shoot some new footage of my lead singer in my band with an extreme close-up of his mouth singing the first line of the song as I think this looks more effective that my previous door shots of each house. Once this is completed, edited and added into my shot, this will hopefully be my music video finalised.

Adding filters

For my video I have decided to alter the effects on my clips to distinguish the difference between my narrative and performance clips. I have played about wioth the brightness and contrast on my performance clips and decided that a cooler effect looked much better than a warmer one. Altering the contrast to a more defined look, made the video stand out more and look bolder. Here I have screenshotted my first clip on my video with the layered effects on top to show what it will look like in the final outcome.

 

 

As you can see there is a huge difference between the footage on the left to the enhanced version on the right, giving it a more cinematic feel and professional touch.

 

I have also edited my narrative footage with  more warmer filter to it. I found that by doing this, it could be a representation of the hot and cold behaviour within the relationship in my narrative story. The change in quality of colour is fantastic and it really gives a clear, bright effect that makes it look more professional and stands out than just the ordinary footage, that looks quite dull and boring.