Evaluation questions filmed.

For my evaluation questions I have answered all four of the questions by recording myself talking about them. I have answered the following, 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 task, what have you learn't from your auidence feedback and How did you use media technologies in the contruction and research, planning and evaluation stages. 

Evaluation question one. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

Evaluation question two. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary task? 

Evaluation question three. What have you learn't from your audience feedback? 

Evaluation question four. How did you use media technologies in construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Disk Label.

Disk label was the soft ware which aloud me to create my digi pak using there templates. Although I didn't pay for this version it wouldn't let me export the final product so had to print scree this. I will talk through some of the tool on here which you can use. 

These are different designes that the software have created themseleves and you can use some of these, but then putting different information on them to make them personal. 

This tool allowed you to chose if you wanted your font in a particular way. 

This was the tools tool box, which included the mouse, roation mouse, drawing lines, shapes such as circles and sqaures, adding text vertically or horozontally, or round in a circle, as you can see there wasn't much to chose from, but if you wanted something simple like I did it was easy to use. 

This tool lets you do random, background image, background effect, text colour, font and font format, being random the software would pick this for you. 

This was how I cropped my pictures, it sometimes took a few attempts to crop it perfectly but it turned out okay in the end.

Here are the choice of font you can use and this is where I created my brand image using Letter Gothic. 

These are the different effect the software allows you to use, so there's things like grey scale, sepia things like that, but I used photoshop to do my editing on there. 

These are the templates you can use for the digi pak, so there is a disk label, CD case, DVD case, there are alot to choose from. 

Final Advertisement.

After looking at a few band advertisement I noticed most of them include the same picture on there album although it is a different layout and usually has 'Out now' on it to advertise the band or maybe a date when the album is released. I did this advertisement on disk label and used the dvd case template and used one side of it. I have used all the same font to so the audience can recognise this element. The 'Out now' I have chosen to present in red to stand out from the black. I have then put  small comment and including who the band featuring, and also some quotes, so when the audience look at my advertisement they see that well establish companies are promoting which must mean they are good. 

Final Disk Label.

This is my final disk label, likewise to my back cover this is another shot of the boys in slow motion jumping. I like how I've caught the main singer in focus and the other band memebers out of focus, and also Reece is jumping higher, so he looks like the dominant one. 

I edited this photo using photoshop, which again i used a misty filter to give it an almost older vintage effect. I have used the same font again so my audience notice the brand image and can realte this to my band. 

Final Lyric's Booklet.

Here you can see I have taken a picture of all four of the band members in the same position. This is what I would use as the lyric booklet as it shows a picture and has a clear part where the lyric's could go and stand out on the page.

I have again, edited these photo's using Photoshop, and i've highers the exposer to put film effect onto the picture, I think Reece's picture is'nt as clear, which I could of worked on but the battery of my camera was running out which lead to the camera loosing it's focus, also the edit isn't as contrasting as the others and the others have darker tones to them. 

Final Insert.

I have'nt dont much for this, as you can see, but I wanted to keep it plain and simple so there isn't too much going off when you open the cd, for there to be an expolsition of different pictures, I wanted this to look professional, so keeping the insert plain, helped do this. 

Final CD Cover.

I finally decided to go to the drama room as it was all black and do a photoshoot there for the digi pak. I started out by taking a picture of all of the band members in the same place with a simple expression on there face, I did this as I wanted them all to look as simular as possible. I was going to do this image in black and white, but I thought the different colours shown the band members work well and signifies it's someone different. 

As you can see I have put the name of the band first, but it is smaller than the album name of Vanish, I have purposly done this to advertise the album. I have kept the same font as the brand image so the audience can relate this to my brand image. I have kept the brand image front white to contrast the black behind it to stand out, I have done something simular with the album name although it's a grey/white colour. I have kept the background plain black so the focus is on the band members. 

The back over I have done a picture in slow shutter speed to present the motion of the band, and I have done the band jumping to they are together and having a good time. Again I have used the same font on the back as the brand image, I have also used the grey colour, and then for the credits I have used red to again stand out against the black. I have also put a bar code on the back cover to make it look realistic. 

To edit these photo's I used photoshop, this allowed me to do more things, and it came out alot better then my last attempt on a my cd covers. 

Lyric Booklet and Insert Idea One.

These were the first idea formy lyric booklet nd my insert. I had just taken these photo's from the music video and edited them again using Iphoto, some of the quality of these photo's I wasn't that happy with but some of the edit's looked quite good. I was going to use the first one as my insert and the band are all together with the main singer in the middle and the other band members at the side with there intruments. The other photo's I would use in the lyric booklet, although some might be hard are there is alot distraction in the photo, so the lyric's may not stand out as much. 

CD Cover Idea one.

This was my first attempts for my CD front cover. As you can see I have attempted to do something simular to the kings of leon a CD front cover. 

Here I began to do the picture in quaters like the kings of leon CD. These photo's I took out from the music video and edited on Iphoto. I then took a small screen shot of the tree from the top right and then placed it there with my title name. As you can tell, I have edited these photo's by cropping half of there faces to create one face. 

Moreover, with this time, I have used thirds instead of quaters, I quite like how this acually made one whole face, I still put my title in the bottom left coner but the end of the text goes on the image and it's harder to see. 

After compleating this two idea's, I asked the class which one everybody prefered, so the quater one or the thrid one. From one vote more, CD cover one won the vote, so I decided to do something more with this in mind. 

I think the focus of these photo's are not the best and I wanted to use my photography and editing skills to make this look the best I could, so I need to decied where I am going to do this in order of it to look as effective as possible. 

Album Advertisment.

To begin with I wasn't sure how to present my album advertisement but by having a look at these two and doing a small analysis on the two it gave me abit more knowlege on how to present my own. 

As you can see here this album advertisiment is the same picture taken from there album cover so people can reconise it, if it was a different picture the audience my be un sure of what album they are trying to promote. I like hoe all the text is in a simular colour apart from the 'Out Now' which is capatilised to put emphasis on this word and for it to stand out to the viewer, I would also like to do something like this to let my target audience know that the product that I am promoting is out. The Title of the band Is in big writing at the top of the page, so the viewer can see what band the album is advertising. The kings of leon name it's self is a brand image and is reconisable to the public. On the bottom left corner there is a play.com symbol, having this on there will promote the product but also help out the other company by selling. Effectivly I like this album advertisment as I can clearly reconise it with the album cover and with the band name being so big I can straight away see what band it's advertising. 

The view is an indie band, so I thought by looking at there work I will see the conventions of this. The title of the band is most dominant on the advertisment, then it's to title of the album, again like the kings of leon advert, they have used there album cover to again promote themsleves. To contrast this advert has the release date of the CD so we can see here that the poster is advertising before the relase so the audience are aware of when they can by this ablum. I like all the little scribbles and annotations this links with the target audience and is something different, young and fresh. The love heart in the middle, tells the viewer that inside the songs are going to about love. I like how simple this advert is although it has everything the viewer needs to know. 

Analysis of CD covers.

After looking at this CD front cover I would like to try the same thing of putting all four of my band members as one, this is showing there connection and unity as three different people in a group together to make one. On this, the people do not match up perfectly this is something I would like to try, attempting to use three people to create one person. The colours of this album cover create a sense of jealously, so maybe this has something to do with the lyric inside, I like how this picture also includes some cartoon eyes and a beak of a chicken, although the band members faces look quite serious and sinister this creates a comical but mysterious effect, to question the viewer of why are they wearing a mask and why can we not see all of there faces.

This CD cover by the Beatles again shows a range of photo's of each of band members, this shows five photo's of each of the members pulling a different pose, again creating and showing the different personalities through this. However unlike the poster, these photos are all in the same effect and look as if there wearing the same top and also look like they have the same hair, which makes it hard to distinguish one another at first. These photo's are in black and white which I think is effective. 

This pop art picture, of the Beatles, is really eye catching, the way it uses different unique effect to show all four of the band members personalty through these effects. They are all doing different poses, and they are all shown in different colours. The composition of each of the photo's is a close up shot, of the shoulders upwards, this allows the viewer to focus upon closely to the faces. The angle of these pictures are all slightly from a low angle, looking down on the characters. The different colours attract me to this picture, but also the way each of the band members are presented I like how it allows them to be different and show there uniqueness through this. I really like this picture and I intend to look at other works similar to this and then hopefully to create my CD cover similar to this. 

Analysis Of Music Magazine Front Covers.

For my band, I will also create a magazine front cover in order to promote the band. I will look at a few music magazines that link with the same genre as my band, so they can connect and link together. My aim is to create a music magazine that is inspired by NME and Kerrang magazine. I will now analysis four different covers from each of the two magazines to get ideas for my created magazine. 

From the top, there is a black strip with white writing listing the name's of other Rock bands featured in the magazine. The juxaposioning colour's symbolise the rebellious feel the rock genre displays, these colours could also symbolise good and bad, dark and light, and heaven and hell. The band names are separated by stars, this links with the "Rock Star" lifestyle of living in Hollywood and having your name paved into the floor. This connotes the rich, relaxed, rebellious, successful life that celebrity is living. The star's are red displaying the dangerous, living on the edge, life the RockStar's like to live. 

Underneath is the significant, name of the magazine Kerrang, with an acclimation mark. The font includes the name looks as if it is shattered glass, this links with the stereotypical actions of rock stars when they smash guitars at gig's. This shows they have a attitude as if they don't care, and want to do as they please. 

The colour of the font is black with a white background, this makes the brand name stand out. In the foreground, the band Panic At the Disco, are the main image taking up most space. The shot is from a high angle with the band members looking down at the camera. This makes the band look dominant above the audience, and almost powerful in a sense. 

Just below the the band members, is the band members name, which is in there brand image, which is the font, the audience recognise this. In what looks like red scribble the white words, and the capitalisation of the word FREE, are presented. 

Then there are some pictures to show what bands have speical articles in that issue, and also advertises the free poster which is in the magazine, the word PLUS, also capitalised and is excalmitive, creates emphasis on the word, and then tells you what is also included in this weeks magazine. 

Imovie.

The software I used to edit my was Imovie, I found that this software was easy to use and it had everything I needed to do was on here. Having a Mac at home aloud me to use Imovie before which make me feel confident using the software. There were a range of techniques to use on Imovie, some of them being, cutting, cropping, transitions, photo's, adding sound, video adjustments, audio adjustments, cropping and rotation, changing things like brightness, exposure, contrast and saturation, video effect and there are lots more. Below I will talk through the technique's I have used.

This was the tool bar which allowed me to take the photo's straight from Iphoto and drag them to my movie. Again I found this very easy to use. By press the command button it let me select more than one photo which I wanted to include. 

This slide bar, let me control the size of the screen. Weather I wanted to have it smaller of larger. 

This red line was the line that determined where the music video was playing. This lets you edit exactly what bit you want to maybe take out, crop, or whatever it is that needs to be changed. 

The little icon that looks like a bolt, gives you the options to, precision editor, which allows you do to do things even more precisely. The clip trimmer, lets you cut down the duration of the clip. 

The clip adjustment lets you change the duration of the clip, pick a video effect, change the speed of the clip, so if you want to speed something up or slow something down. And also the stabilization, so to allow the clip have a smooth motion. 

The video adjustment lets you edit the presentation of the picture, so the brightness, exposure, contracts, satureation, and also the white point allows you to adjust the white point on part of a picture. There is also an auto button which with adjust the shot automatically. By clicking the auto button it might to be to the way you wanted as it's not done manually, but it can work sometimes. 

The Audio adjustments lets you control the volume of the clip of even take all the volume off. The option of ducking, lets the volume to reduce of the other tracks been played. The fade in and fade out, makes the start and the end of the music, and again it allows a manual which lets you choose it by yourself, or automatically. 

As you can see there are lots of different effect to choose from, there is flipped which flips over the shot, raster, cartoon, aged film, film grain, hard light, day into night, glow, dream, romantic, vignette, bleach bypass, old world, heat wave, sci-fi, black and white, sepia, negative, and X-ray. The only effect I used was the black and white effect, I did this whenever I showed the narrative, in black and white to show the past, I have also shown the shows this as the shoes represent the narrative of the boy and girl. I have done everything eles in colour, to present that this is in the present. 

This is the speed opmiter that by either dragging or typing in the speific percentage, I used this when I filmed my main singer at the bus stop alone to show his loniness and vunerability. I sped mine up about 2000% this was because when I dragged the pointer to the fastest point it wasn't quick enough and the shots were still too long. So I had to change the percentage myself, but this worked alot better. There is a tick box underneith the speed, is a direction reverse, which allows the the clip to go backwards. 

This is the music table which lets you choose music from garage band, Itunes, music, movies, as you can see my music choice of vanish is on there which I simply dragged to my project, and the music played in the background of my music video. 

                                                                      

When I connected my camera to the computer to upload my footage, all I had to do was to click this button and it would show my footage with a tick box under each one of them. This lets you chose the shots you want to upload. 

This was the name where I put all my footage this allowed me see all of my footage from the different filming days, letting me chose different parts if I wanted too. 

As you can see the bottom where I have called Charlotte's music video this was where all my footage was, so I didn't get mixed up with anyone eles footage and made it easier for me to chose what I wanted to pick. 

This is the project gallery, where the different projects are kept, so here I've kept my first, second and final draft and this was easier and it helped me not get mixed up with my other drafts. 

Brand Image.

The dictionary definition of brand image : The impression in the consumers' mind of a brand's total personality (real and imaginary qualities and shortcomings). Brand image is developed over time through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme, and is authenticated through the consumers' direct experience. 

My brand image for my brand is the name of the band in the same font of Letter Gothic. I have kept this the same throughout so my target audience can recognise my band. I have used this by promoting my band though my digi pack. 

Pixilated

I am really happy with my finished project, although the thing I'm not happy about most is the quality of my product, I think it takes away the effect it has when its not pixilated. When  uploaded my footage to the mac's It went a tiny bit pixalated then and when I exported it to the desktop, it became a tiny bit more and when I uploaded it to blogger, it is just a really poor quality and it doesn't focus on little detailed like lip syncing which I wanted it to do.