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I have learnt a lot on the theory and practical side during the course of the last few months whilst working on this course work. I am proud of my final products and know that I will be using these skills again and will come in useful when I carry on my studies in university.

Evaluation question 4

QUESTION 4 - What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Pitch Feedback:




Rough cut feedback:

One of the Video feedbacks from after the cinema:

 

 

 

 

Feedback for Ancillary products:

 

Evaluation question 3

QUESTION 3 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

-CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH-

Blogging has been the most consistent use of technology displaying all of my research, planning and now evaluation. Below is examples of how i used different media's and inserted them onto my blog.

During the construction and research stages of the blog the main use of technology was the internet. Research was such a vital part of the process so it was important to be looking at the right websites and videos. Youtube was one of the strongest source of research. As we was able to get ideas of a conventional music video for our genre. Another website that came in handy for audience research was YouGovProfiler.co.uk which allowed us to have further research into our audience's preferences. 

 

 

 

As part of our pitch we made an Animatic Storyboard:

 



 

-PLANNING/ PROCESS -

During the process the main piece of technology we used was the DSLR camera. We stored all our videos on a memory card that were shot which then we transferred over to a group video drive so that we wouldn't be limited of space on the amount of video clips we could take. The quality of the camera was really sharp and in result of this we had crisp shots and not pixelated visuals. The DSLR Camera also had a setting allowing us to change how much light could go through the lens, this helped greatly with our lighting as most of our locations were dark.

I used photoshop to produce my Digipak, In the video below the process of making some of my Digipak is displayed:

Below are screen grabs of me working in Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects where i edited my videos. In Premier Pro we cut, edited and allowed our video to be in sync with the song. On After Effects we edited a mini green screen so that it appeared that the photo was being zoomed into.

I used Weebly to create my website, it provided templates and a structure for me to create my website Creating a website was time consuming and required an eye for detail.

We used Instagram to keep up LamieLDN's brand image and promote her single.

- EVALUATION-

For my evaluation I have used Camtasia 2, Emaze, video blogging from my ipad and video interviews. These methods of technology make the evaluation more stimulating and interesting.

Evaluation Question 2

QUESTION 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts(digipak/website)?

Evaluation Question 1

 

QUESTION 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

 

 

 

Final feedback from an audience member on ancillary products

 

 

Feedback from Rochelle age 20 with her views on my ancillary products.

Complete Website

Home Page:

Tour page:

Contact page:

Store page:

Complete Digipak

Front and back of Digipak

Inside and CD of Digipak

Audience feedback on ancillary products

During the process of making my ancillary work I asked members of my target audience for feedback.
I received both positive and negative feedback. The positive was that so far I had been following the conventions of a music video and that the colour scheme really suited the soul genre of music.
Constructive criticism was to change the font to a more feminine thin font, to change the second colour from gold to red/maroon and the inside CD should include the production companies logo.
Website feedback was really positive, people thought it was professional and showed a strong synergy with the music video and digipak. Constructive criticism was to change the font so it was the same as the digipak.

I will take in consideration of peoples opinions of the ancillary products and make changes where necessary.  

Name choices for the album

I decided to name the album Lamie Ldn as it is Lamie Ldn's first album and in order to get her name as big and known as possible, I think naming her album with her name, combined with all the pictures of her on the CD will increase her brand name and image.

I decided to base all the song names on heart break as when I was researching I noticed that most soul artists sing about being heart broken. So I wanted Lamie Ldn's album to fit in with her genre and audience.

Editing of CD cover - Wednesday 6th January

Today I stared to work in Photoshop to make my back and front cover of my album. As previously planned I stuck to a black and white filter however my other ideas came to quite a change. I decided on having pictures of LamieLdn on the back rather than a picture of the wine glass, I copied the same image and rotated it so it looks like a reflection. 
For the front, I am no longer having an extreme close up, as I did not really like any of the close up shots and this mid-shot worked out better. The back ground of the front is the paint tool pixilated out in black. 
As for the rest of the cover I still have a lot of editing to do. Tomorrow I aim to completely finish the front and back cover so I am able to move onto the inside of the case.

Progress with ancillary product, (website)

Today I started to edit the Home page of my website.I wanted the home page to have the same image as my digipak. Also likewise my digipak is black and white so i would like my website theme to be aswell. I still need to edit the font on the front page and edit the links before i can move onto the next page.

Reflection on blogging health check 3

I am really pleased with my Blogging health check 3, where I got a mark of 18 and a grade of A*. In order to improve my mark and maintain my grade my teacher set me some targets.

'Ensure you complete analysis posts 48 and 49 to a good standard'
- I went back over my posts 48 and 49 and bettered them to the best of my ability.

'Ensure your final posts feature your artist heavily - so there is no doubt about her star image.' 
- I will make sure to keep referring to my artist and feature her throughout the rest of my blogs.

56. Digital mock up of website

http://chrisbreezybrown.weebly.com/

Mock website made by myself, preparing for making my final LamieLDN website.

55.Digital Mock up of Digipak

54. Costume that artist will wear

The photos used for my ancillary products will be a close ups of Lamie LDN's face, she  will be wearing plain clothing along with the same makeup and hoop earrings that she wears in her music video. This will create synergy and allow her audience to recognise her from her music video and link all 3 of the music video, digipak and website together.

53. Photos for ancillary products

I short listed down to these two photos,

As mentioned earlier in my blogs the photos will be made black and white and cropped so it is a close up of just LamieLDN's face.

52. brief overview of the Do's and Dont's of design work

51. Where have my ideas come from

Front of DigiPak inspiration from Rihanna

Back of Digipak inspiration from Justin Timberlake

Website inspiration from Adele

50. Fonts, Colours, Layout and Design ideas, including flatplans.