Year 2010 Review

Part 1

2010 Media review on Prezi

Part 2

Media 2010 Review on Prezi

Year 2010 Review

2010 Review on Prezi

Audience Feedback: Digipak Draft

Front cover:

- The title on the side 'Those autumn days' is difficult to read.

- Image itself is good and relates to the title of the album 'Those autumn days'.

- Text is placed well and doesn't distract from the image.

- Font doesn't look very effective.

- The artist is in the image so audience can recognize.

Inside:

- The placement of the guitar image is well thought out.

- Hole of CD is hole of guitar.

- Image of mike is good photograph.

-The title on the side is hard to read again 'Those autumn days'.

- The industry logo good, not in your face.

- The images again reflect the album title, 'Those autumn days'.

CD:

- Text fits into guitar nicely.

- Image reflects album, 'Those autumn days'.

- Font doesn't link with magazine advert.

- Links with image under CD (inside cover)

- Font looks bland.

Back:

- Image is a good photograph.

- Text on the side different colour to the rest of the CD.

- Text in image is readable, good and clever.

- Title on the side is clear in this image, 'Those autumn days'.

- Text and barcode make the cover look realistic.

- Too much text on back.

- Image again reflects album, 'Those autumn days'.

- Industry logo included which is good.

Digipak Text Draft

After creating a draft of images we could use we then decided to create a draft of the text format. This is to see where the text would set in the images and how it would fit. We also had to get the right colour for the text. The fonts we downloaded for the magazine advert are on the mac in college and as it's the holidays we can't get access to them.

Digipak Draft

Draft of the digipak images: What we're using, how we'll cut the images and size. We will edit the images better later but this is just a rough idea of what we'll be doing. We will also add the typography at a later date. The typography will be the same as use on the magazine advert so the link is more obvious.

Front Cover

Inside Covers

CD

Back Cover

Research Home Video Style

Ellis Goulding's video for her cover of 'Your song' represents the idea of what we want to use for the home video style of the music video. We will be using this effect in the instrumental of the song we are using. The time of the instrumental is 30 seconds roughly, so we will record alot more so we can cut it all down.

In this video we also see lots of random short shots to give the idea of memories. The random shots often link together or link to the story. For our video we will include links such as a prospectus and suitcases to show they are going away.




The ending of Scrubs also shows the home video style footage. The grainy effect on the video reinforces the idea of home video. In this scene however, it is different as the grainy effect makes the footage look old but the video is meant to be JD looking into the future.

Filming!

Today we went filming to Bristol, we were filming the train journey for the bus scenes on the storyboard. We also got the handi-cam footage done today while in Bristol.

We had a few problems as Mike forgot his SD card and ipad so we had no way of recording the footage or being able to mime intime. We decided to go to tesco's and Mike brought a 4BG SD card so we could film, instead of going all the way back to his house, and he used his ipod in the shots to he could tell when he was in time. This might not look good though as he is singing, playing the guitar and listening to an ipod.


We decided to film on the train instead of the bus as it would be more steady and there would be more room to film. This was limitied time as a train to Bristol from Weston-super-Mare is rounghly 30 minutes, we had to get 9 shots done including the speeded up footage for the effect. Luckily, we managed to get it all done just in time.

Mike and Vanessa then went round Bristol filming their day for the handicam footage. They got some good shots but we will have to edit them after christmas now.

Magazine Advert Changing

We decided to change our advert as our audience said the date font size looked misplaced and wrong. We tried altering the size, the positioning and the font but wherever it was, it didn't look right. We decided to just get rid of the date all together as this made the image look good and nothing looked misplaced. Here is the new final product.

Filming on Weston beach

Filming!

Saturday we went filming on location. We were filming on Weston's beach although the weather wasn't on our side as the sun wasn't out. However, we managed to get everything filmed for that location.

We spent a lot of time with the tracking scene as we couldn't get the camera to stay straight enough. We tried walking with a gorilla stand, walking with just the camera and putting the camera on a push chair. We finally decided to keep the camera still on the stand and zoom out slowly to give the effect of tracking. If we had access to a dolly we would have used one.

Overall, a productive day of filming.

Magazine Advert Feedback

Good Comments

Need to Improve

Feedback On Magazine Advert

We got the other media class to look at our magazine advert and voice their opinions on the image and to gain feedback on what we can improve.

They said they liked the 5 stars and quote from the magazine we made 'Acoustica'.

They liked the different fonts on the advert but they said the size's need to be re-thought as the bottom line doesn't look too aesthetically pleasing.

By taking this on board we will improve what we can to our magazine advert.

Video Feedback

Good Comments

Need to Improve

More Feedback For Video!

We showed our music video so far to the other media group and got the response from the target audience, mid-late teens.

They liked the style of the video, part narrative, part performance. However, the performance wasn't very convincing to some people especially the strumming of the guitar. We find this hard to work on as the actor playing the artist doesn't know how to play guitar properly. We will try and focus on doing more CU shots to avoid the guitar playing being noticed.

They also 'aww-ed' at the romantic scenes in the video which showed good response as they are relating to the character and feeling sympathy towards the artist.

Filming!

We went back to the park location to re-film a few shots that we weren't satisfied with. Today, the weather decided to be sunny and bright, which wasn't what it was liked when we filmed last time.

We changed the ISO and the shutter speed of the camera to make the image much darker so it isn't too different. The shots are much better and look better than the previous ones.

We also edited the footage in the lesson and showed it to the other media class to get feedback.

Feedback so far

We have just started editing our video footage and we are about minute into the music video. Earlier we received some comments and feedback from other groups and our teacher on our progress so far. These are some below


These feedback will be helpful as we can see what the audience think of the video already, before it is finished. so then we can make changes on the aspects that need changes both in the editing and filming.

Editing

In todays lesson we were editing the footage we filmed on thursday. Most of the shots were good but we want to re-do some of the shots as we aren't completely satisfied with the result.

Our next aim is to film on thursday the shots we want to do and then on saturday film the bus seen. We decided to change the bus seen to train as we thought this would be alot easier to do and would effect less people who aren't participating in the footage.

We also tried the colour correction editing on a few of the shots. We feel that unless we can get it perfect it wont look right. We will be looking for alternate ways of editing this effect to make it look more professional.

Filming at Ashcombe park

Filming

Today we went filming on our second location, Ashcombe Park.
Although the weather was againsts us we held up through the cold and filmed most of what we needed. Unforunately, we didn't have enough time to film everything in that location so we will be returning there A.S.A.P

Magazine Advert - Magazine

We created a magazine title for the quote on our advert, we called this 'Acoustica Magazine'. We felt this fitted well with the genre of music and so it would be more likely to appear in this type of magazine.

Here is a rough idea of what the magazine front cover would look like.
We feel this represents the genre well and would be a good way of distributing our artists album.

Magazine Advert - Record Company

For our album advert we decided to create our own record company name and logo. The record company we created will represent our artist. We thought how record companies have random names. According to Wikipedia, the major labels since 2009 are: Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Group, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group. We decided on a random animal to be our record label; 'Leopard' was what we decided to use for our company.

We didn't feel obliged to link our record label to our music genre as labels gather so much talent they aren't defined by who they represent.

Magazine Advert

We have finished our magazine advert for our album, 'Those autumn days'. We used one of the images from our second shoot as we feel this was more successful. We photoshopped the image to make it look more professional, changing the highlights and shadows to get rid of the grainy look of the original image. As you can see the original image isn't very aesthetically pleasing. By altering the shadows and highlights we created a more cinematic image. We decided to use two separate fonts to identify the artist name 'Chase Coy' from the album title, 'Those autumn days'.