Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Erica's Departure

Erica ha now left the course, so I will be working alone.

Throughout the production and research of mock digipaks I have personally chosen to use photoshop elements as it allows me to edit very precisely and creates a very proffesional effect as it is a commonly used programme in the media industry.

Here I have experimented with the use of all three of the painted masks combined to make one image, the outcome has been unsuccesful in my view although i think that furthur editing of the image to make it look more abstract could result in a very strong image that could be used on the front cover of the digipak. I will experimant with this idea at a later date and hopefully a postive outcome will mean that it may be used somewhere within our final work.

I scanned in this newspaper article as i thought it may give the image a homemade effect and also an artistic one. One way i could use this image would be the place ti entirely over a picture and then change the opacity so that the image below it is visable, this may give a surreal effect which would fit in very well with the whole abiance of the video.

I used a camera to capture this image of paint instead of a scanner so that i could leave the paint wet, I believe that this image would give the cover an almost 3D effct and would obviously tie in perfectl with the artistic theme, teh colour red may be to vibrant, i could combat this problem by either editing the colour on photoshop or taking a new picture of a more neutrally coloured paint.

Masking tape has been an obvious theme that has ran through the mock-up digipaks that i have created, I believe that the colour of this is a wonderful background to the masks as it really intensifys the vibrancy of the colours within the three pieces.

The image that I have scanned in here is parcel wrap, wnother image that works wonderfully when the opacity is turned down, this creates a much softer and almost mistier colour which would again work well in showing off the three masks which i hope will be used on teh front cover of the digipak.

Whilst using Photoshop for production of the mock digipaks I have come across alot of effects that may fit in well with the artistic theme that will hopefully be communicated to the audience through the use of imagery on the cover and thrughout the whole digipak.

I created this digipak on photoshop with the use of a few items i scanned into teh computer such as; newspaper, masking tape and teh three masks that I painted,i think that the combination of this pieces has created a handmade effect which ties in very well with the artistic theme that runs throughout the music video. this is also a style we can carry through with the poster also.

Poster

This is the wikipedia definition of a Poster.

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and convey information. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of (particularly of events, musicians and films), and other groups trying to communicate a message.

digipak idea

This was an idea I had for our front cover of our digipak. It is just a random photo I took, however it does include the sunglasses we have used for part of our video and the animal print background. After discussion with Erica we decided that this may be ok for inside the digipak but for the cover it doesn't work.

Idea for cover

This is a picture of the mask we use throughout our video that Erica painted into with watercolour in todays lesson, I then scanned it in to my laptop and uploaded it here to show how we plan to create an interesting front cover with an artistic random element to it.

Teacher feedback

a massive improvement on the first version. the video has a sense of style and makes much more sense. simplicity is everything here, the images match the music really well. i'm intrigued to find out what you are planning to use in the 2 brick wall sections. camerawork is appropriate to task, editing works very well - particularly in the stop motion (clothes swapping) sequence. lighting is a bit dodgy towards the final part of the video as i previously told you, but is good for the majority of the time. your 2 characters fit the genre of video (and music) really well and have enhanced your piece of work. the mise en scene is very simple and very effective. you have managed to communicate a real sense of purpose with this piece of work. this is in the level 3 band at the moment.

More inspiration

These dont necessarily look like album covers, however they are. I want on amazon and types 'the xx' into the search box, I then went onto featured items and found these. They are all by different bands.

This is another cover that is like an illusion is it very abstract and if you look at it closely it moves! I think this is a bit extreme in terms of how different we want to be with our cover but id did still inspire us.

This inspired us because we did think about using a range of images and this cover does that really well, it is really random but still effective and would be eve-catching on the shelf of a CD store.
This the debut album from Foals also doesn't have text however it isn't as abstract as some other ones we have found. It is still a good cover though and if we decide not to use the hand drawn style for our cover I can see us producing something along the same lines as this.

This is my favourite one is the one with the exclamation marks, it looks like it has been hand drawn and then manipulated on the computer, which is similar to what we were thinking of doing.

Digipak

Within our Digipak myself and Erica have decided to create the front for , spine and back of the digipak as well as a band information section and possibly a band free image to ensure the product is as convincing as possible and shows how creative we can be as we are using a fairly plain image for the front

Digipak idea

This is an example of a cover that we do not what to produce the ideas of using Jo and Miles on the cover is not one we are interested in, we think this is very cliche and is very obvious for a CD cover, to continue the random theme we have produced so far we are going to use an image or range of images on the front of our cover with no text as this again shows how our band is all about their image as you would then expect fans to recognise the digipak without the name and title on the front.

Weezer- Pork and Beans

We have been advised by our teacher to add this video to our blog as it shows the shots of the mans tshirt changing and it is similar to a scene we use in our video where Miles tshirt changes.

Colour Palettes

Video

Fonts for digipak

When looking for fonts I looked at a website called which I used and I assume Erica used for our magazine covers last year. It was really useful last year so i thought it would be a good place to start this year. When on the website I went straight for 'Scripts' and handwritten, I chose handwritten as me and Erica have discussed having an arty, handmade feel to our digipak and I figured these fonts would be most suitable for this.

Below were what I found to be my top 5 favourites.

Pastel Crayon,


Trash Hand,



Markus Ink,



Lauren C. Brown,


Lush.

Possible CD front covers

These are a few images I have taken a screen shot of from the filming we have so far. I have done this so that both myself and Erica can make moc-up digipaks. To make our work as professional as possible we will do another photo shoot next week for the digipak as you wouldn't usually see an image from an artists video on the front of their album.

Album Track List

1. ...
2. The Glaciers Have Melted Into The Sea
3. I've Found His Flesh & Blood
4. Im falling. I said i'm falling for you
5. The Eyes Are Calling
6. Letters To Make Words, Followed By Tears
7. Je Suis Desole
8. What Will This Become?
9. From Beyond The Death Vally
10. An Average Life Of Flowers and Fairytales

Album Title

THE EYES ARE CALLING

Myself and Erica have chose this as the album title as we thought that it needed to be unusual to fit with the name of the band and the style and genre of the music video otherwise it wouldn't fit the purpose and would ruin the continuing theme we have given to the work so far. The eyes are falling will also be a track on the album.

Re filming photos

We set Miles t-shirts out in order of appearance so that it was easy to change his quickly and we were more organised as we found that are organisational skills let us down when we filmed previously.

For part of the song there is a sequence of shots and still motion where Miles takes off his tops until he is left with the one he started with and the beginning of the shot, we took this photo to show the amount of layers he was wearing.

Another photo of Miles with 9 t-shirts on and the contrast of Jo being in black, we did this so that there isn't to much of a focus on Jo as Miles sings the majority of this part we still wanted her in shot however for continuity purposes.

I took this photo of erica styling the pair for the last verse of the song.

During the verse they swap clothes completely, we did this to add more elements of stop motion.

Miles wearing too many things!

Me and Erica looking 'pleased' with ourselves after we'd finished filming.

Jo and Miles clothes, similar to the ones brought for the first day of filming however certain other things we brought like different jeans and new tops.