Friday, 21 January 2011
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I dvd which is also installed onto mac allowed me to burn my edited music video onto the mac and then give to the exam board etc. With the saved music video I imported it on a hard drive provided by the school. As I did not have enough memory space to put it on the school profile which I had, I used family relatives which had a bigger capacity of memory.
These are the types of computer that I've been working on to upgrade posts and information towards my project.
As you can see blogger is on showing that internet has access for me to edit posts and improve my project. This helps as I dont't have internet at home, I could saty behind in school and also use the internet such as Mozilla firefox or internet explorer allowed me to go on any computer but in the media department.
The usb Port at the bottom of the photo allowed me to transfer photos of my phone and upload pictures and annotate them on blogger, evidence of this is that the pictures on this question where uploaded from my phone.
Overall these are pictures showing what I used to improve my project of the technology which I could have access to.
Due to limited programmes on computer and not having the use of internet at home i struggled to keep up with use of technology. This presentation below show what kind of technology I used and how affective they were combined to the criteria of age and economic trends that mainly use the computer in today's society.
This presentation above basically shows how powerful the term of new technology and the use of mediation has created changes ways of me deciding what to put on my media blog and in ways it can entertain the readers / audience.
It was mostly down to what technology that I can publicly have the rights to use and if blogger had connection so that the programme had the rights to be present / broadcast on the internet of my blog so people can see globally today and tomorrow.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
This presentation above shows how the audience have influenced to make a positive critical project.
The photos below shows evidence that I got these comments, I only took out the main points in the positive and negative on the presentation, but covered the explanatory of why in the presentation. . It's good to have a wider age range as I'm appealing to more audience profiles in different generation, and if there any links/ elements in trends in the older and younger generations as such as fashion and social activity have changed which I mediated in my music video to gain a different responses such as these comments.
This paper shows comments from the final version compared to the draft. As you can see in the presentation I took the most positive and negative feedback and negotiated on why I had to make decisions to back up the mistakes that some people state.
My handwriting is used as I was just asking about the positives and negatives and taking the notes that affect me the
most and affect towards my projects performance.
Overall From my feedback I think I've achieved what my targets are and that audience have positive and negative criticism.
If I could change these comment would probably just teaking up the mise en scene and apply a bit more time but due to deadlines and use of technology it reduced me and overall I think I came out with a positive outcome.
Friday, 14 January 2011
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
When I came to this decision I was happy as I mostly covered the elements of my mise en scene in the video and the expressions, as the background of the front and back cover was scene one.
I knew from my music I had to incorporate the atmosphere and emotional contents from my music video. Most of the characters expressions are blunt in the music video and talking to himself and he's the conscience, which makes the outgoing look negative it.
So the thought that the character stares into the camera on front, back, and CD layouts and that close ups will be good to see the full picture and audience can easily read the story of the digipack. The front and back cover where my main target as they mostly stand out and audience tend to see them before they open up inside.
Going further into the digipack I wanted to express the sides that the charcter shows his good and bad side connecting my colour scheme red was negative so the red light was place above his head covering my colour scheme. But the character still remains blunt and vain so that hopefully the audience wants to know more about him and the album.
The photo where black and white as it was the dominant colour of showing the negative outlook. This influence and developed a cold character and makes the mise en scene seem more enclosured and the close ups show more affective of the expressions the character are presented. I wanted my audience to just focus more on him in the middle of my digipack.
I did have problems though as I wanted to include my partner in the digipack, but the thing is that I may of drawn people off the whole genre of the story in the digipack and selling off the album in the best possible way, as my comment from my draft said that was to busy with two people in the shot and was harder to present an story and the placement of where they both went. Also I knew the poster had to have a link to my digipack with the mise en scene.
Overall I am happy that I covered link from my poster and digipack making them look nearly the same, and that the format of presenting the photos in black and white are successful and shows the love for the conscience and that I shown the inspiration from my music video. The font was off a website called cooltext.com and the font was 'alien glow' but under the graffiti aspect and randomized it.
The front and back font was Gothic sans this shows a bold outlook, the use of red from the research shows anger and hate which was good to express due to the expressions that the charcter jestured, the front font was large compared to the back but hat was for advertisment in the balance as the front is the main cover that audience read off frist so it had to b big to read and stand out from other albums.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Final Cd Cover
How I gained this outcome is that looking back from reserch and feedback from my draft I knew I had to take out these main issues first;
- Change the mise en scene, to over whelmbing as doesn't have generic comparsion with combine another.
- That only one character should be in the shots, more easier for the audeince to read the story but harder to join it in with the expressment that combines into one narrative.
- The font and sizes need to altered to prefection in my final digipack.
- Keep colour theme simple and not too overcompliated, if can keep face clear so we can see how the character thinks.
Looking at other people digipack the cast are simply placed in mid shot, close ups. This gave me more confidence just to express my cast in the same way.
With the text I kept the same but just organisned it so it was spaced and the eye is drawn when only needed to be as the picture expresses the whole story.
In the middle I only placed my other casts name on an insturment so the other is not taking all the credit from my music video, also it's good to show how many cast members there are.
With the colour theme as my music video connotates a cold and dark story black and white was used to make it old, the props in the back such as the match is used for mystery and fire / anger. The dead tree show non life and maybe the type of season or that the character has generic links in the album the angle the charcter is stood shows dominance as the upper body is pushed out and staring into the distance which make me think that he his thinking about something from the past and gives of this tense and eriay atmosphere.
I took the shots with my phone and developed them on photoshop when transferred to media computer in school. One of my family members took the shots for me but I directed how to take the shots. Overall I am impressedand relieved with the outcome that I got, it was easy to ctach the lens flare so when the light effect was on it radiatied off and brung out the texture more.
Also with the middleI copyed the photos and reverse so it show good and evil hense different coloured light red being anger blue being calm, so I could express a dilemma and solution a combined comparasion in my music video with the conscience / hero interacting with the villain.
I find now that my digipack is comfortable with competetion my reserch has paid off and reference resources towards my final design and that the elements have been developed in a unique way.
Final poster of advertisment
I didn't do much research because I knew what I wanted, just a quirky and place where unexpected attention is encountered. I chose alley way as it closed quartered and there's not much escapism.
In had the character looking down which shows negative body language and depressed emotion, it like there something which is troubling him, also with the hands in pocket describe the teenage outlook, and I expressed this by the costume he is wearing.
It also can show dominance as he is placed in the middle, the reason why the character is placed in the middle so that the annotation was easy to be balanced and not suffer as much from the size and style of font, the bigger the space the better for advertisement.
I involved 'KERRANG' as it a high advertisement brand licensed in the UK, it shows that I've research higher brands and that I can show a larger fan base, as I wanted to hit mainstream estimates and if it happened my poster would would be advertised in this way. NME falls under the indie rock, alternative rock, and upcoming grunge which my category would fall under upon.
If my poster tour would hit thing such as radio the quote will be advertised as he is one of the KERRANG announcers which shows that it's been listen and critically analysis in professional standards.
In the middle lighting effects is used to draw the the clarity out and also its another technique of alternative elements to catch the audience eye, I just played around with effects but I wanted the black and white to be clear and the mise en scene not much affected. As it grunge and trance lights and nightclubs are normally in mind and as it a album or tour release it could reference to cultural age group e.g. young adults 18-24.
Overall I pleased and if I was just to judge myself may have the character starring or move out the bin in the background as may distract some audience and could think of non relagance and is useless in the shot making it un professional, but the text is covering most of it so it'snot much of an issue.
And I like how the shot and colour scheme links in with my digipack.
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
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Friday, 7 January 2011
Health and safety regulation due to mise en scne in music video;
Then i thought about if I'm doing this risk assessment surely there would be a contract of agreement to cover anything that did happen. This below shows this;