Evaluation 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Below i have looked at how we have used various technologies for the construction, research, planning and evaluation that i have completed. I have analysed each technology, and written a little about it, in this powerpoint presentation. Due to a size limit on Slideshare, i have unfortunately had to split it into three separate slideshows, but all the information is there.

The following Wordle demonstrates what technologies we have used, and to what extent we have used them; the bigger the text is, the more we have used them.

Evaluation 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts (Digipak and Magazine advert)?

As part of our coursework, along with our music video, we had to create a digipak and a magazine advert to go with it, as if the product was really to go on sale. We tried to keep certain things in each product similar, or the same, as shown in the presentation below. This continuity heightens the effectiveness of how we present type of band and song that we were trying to portray.

We have not only considered our own opinions of the digipak and magazine advert; to get a real analysis of these products, we asked members of our target audience what they thought in a series of interviews, with mainly positive feedback, and the answers which we were hoping for. The questions which we asked were;
What were your first impressions of the Magazine Advert and Digipak?
From the two products, what type of music would you guess this band makes?
What themes/ideas run throughout the advert, digipak and music video?
Do the two products make you want to watch the music video?
Would you consider the magazine advert to be 'eye catching'?

Evaluation 1: In what ways does your media product use, develope or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Today, for the first time  i used a website called 'Prezi' to create this powerpoint to answer the first evaluation question. It is a great way to display all information, in an interesting and easy way.

Our Final Products

Below are the three final products; A music video for the song 'Oh Me Oh My' by the 99s, accompanied by a 6 panel Digipak and a Magazine Advert.


Music Video

Digipak

Magazine Advert

Creating Our Survey

Today we created a survey on surveymonkey.com, to gather audience feedback. Although we are unable to post this on Facebook due to school filters, i will text people asking them to do it, and also paste the link below, for anyone who looks at my blog to get as many results as possible. Results will be collected in a few days time.

OUR SURVEY LINK.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QCQFRDL

Theory Work: Andrew Goodwin's theory of how to analyse a music video.

I have created a Prezi to demonstrate the 5 aspects of Andrew Goodwins theory of how to analyse a music video.

Filming/Editing: Making the 'Oh Me Oh My' video title

On a music video that is shown on a music channel, such as VIVA or 4MUSIC, at the beginning and end of the song their is a caption telling the audience the name of the song and the artist. In our case this is;

Oh Me Oh Me
The 99s

We had to make one of these for our music video, which we did on the same program as when we made the credits for our thriller; Livetype

We did this by putting the text in, changed the colour and font, and effects, to affect the way it came onto the screen, and faded away. We also had to adjust how long it would stay on the screen. This had to fit in time with the video.

Here is the finished article on the music video.

Our Song/Artist: Tweeted by The 99s!

My sister Katie tweeted James from the 99's, explaining that me and the boys had made the video, and that they should check it out, sending him a link to watch it. In response, he said he really liked it, and that they would like to put it onto their website if that was okay, which of course we told them it is! I told my sister to then give him the link to my blog, so they can see the digipak and advert. We will keep a look out on the 99s website for the video.

Digipak & Advert: Creating the Digipak

I have put into the table below a range of aspects, tools and processes i have used to make the digipak for our music video on Photoshop.

Digipak & Advert: Creating the Magazine Advert

We created the digipak on Photoshop, and it really allowed us to extend our skills with using the tools on photoshop.

To begin with, Tom took a picture of a brick wall in school and then i made it to the size i wanted; A4. This was for the background, and is the picture we continued to use for our digipak panels.

Then, we took the pictures that we took for the digipak, and individually cut them out using the magnetic lasso, which attaches itself to recognisable edges. Any mistakes it makes can be changed by pressing 'Q' on the keyboard, in order to 'tidy up'.

From here, we had toput each picture into the 'Filter Gallery', where we could add effects to make it look more graffitied, as if it had been graiffiti'd onto the wall, as shown below. We had to apply the same filters to each person.

Someone else recommended to us the website www.dafont.com, which offers a wide range of free downloadable fonts. We searched 'graffiti', and 'spraypaint', and ended up using a font called 'cityburn'. We then continued to use this font on our digipak too.

The below image is the original magazine advert that we created, however upon analysis of it, we decided it was too crowded with too much text, and so we removed one of the ratings, and rearranged the positioning of the HMV and iTunes logo.