Final Design

This is the final outcome of my T-Shirt design from our webpage.

Webpage T-Shirt Design

As shown above our website consists of a "Store" page, for this I created and designed a T-Shirt using the workshop Paint. I ook screen shots in order to show the process of the design as evidence.
Rather then copy and pasteing images from the internet I wanted to create my own for originality and to show skills in design and creativity.
Finishing touches are still being done to our webpage.

Evaluation Process

We are currently in the process of editing together our evaluation, we are still yet to re-film ceratin parts of our evaluation due to continuity aspects.
I am currently applying alot of effort and time in to creating a T-Shirt design to include on the Store page of my website, when finished pictures will be embeded to the blog.
I am also creating a band logo which we be incoperated on to the T-Shirt designs.

Finishing touches are also still being added to the webpage to perfect the technical inperfections.

Script for Evaluation - Question 2

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your own main product and ancillary texts?

The links we have made between our three products are the themes of happiness and the colours are very similar, i.e, the bright cheerful colours

We feel that there is a similar feel, because for our music video and digipak, we tried to use similar settings and locations. We used Black and White on some of the pictures to creates an image for the artist, rather than for the actual single.

The colours and images that we think are associated with our product are green trees, and bright reddy colours.

Webpage Update

I am currently adding the final touches to our web page, i am finding this task challanging and enjoyable. I've gained skillls through creating the website, through learning how to use Wix.com. Through research and various analysis of other webpages I am now able to recognise whats expected within a good webpage, which hopefully reflects on our artists webpage.
Our webpage includes photos of the artists and their album covers, a latest news page, store, gigs and a homepage. The image on a webpage are very important as they are representing the band, portraying an image of what they want to convey to their specific audience.
I am still in the process of adding an interactive section on our webpage where fans can leave comments or questions for the band, I believe this would make the audience feel they are more on the same level with the artist, appearing the artists to be more relatable.

Evaluation, Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Based on our audience feedback we can conclude that;
- The music video audiences are very specific to the certain genre of music in which their intrested in.
- Music audiences usually stick within a small range of genres, i.e. usually sticking with one specific music genre, rock for example.
- Therefore having a very specific audience, limiting but also pin pointing what footage, narrative and shot types to include with the music video.

Evaluation, Question 4

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

- The technologies which we used are as follows; Photoshop, Final Cut, wix.com, YouTube and Slideshare. We used Wix to create to create our webpage, slideshare.net to embed on our blog, final cute to create our music video and YouTube for research purposes for textual analysis.
- The technologies we used for our research were mostly used as a source to under go textual analysis and background research and conventions of a music video.
-Photoshop was a very dominant choice regarding the technology in which we used, ecspecially within the creation of our digi pack. We learnt to use photoshop and how to apply it to our media piece.
- Goodwins Six, directors studies.
- We gained skills from using PhotoShop.
- The research in to theories and theorists.
- Evidence of updates and progression within our music video.
- For the planning stage technology was most dominant for the reseach stage, i.e. analysing music video and reseaching the background of the music video and the industry.
- Within the construction stage, Final Cut, PhotoShop and wix.com were dominant when creating our final peice.

This is the basis of what Question 4 consists of.

Evaluation, Question 1.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- Through textual analysis of various music videos and research in to the background and conventions of a music video I gained understanding and knowledge of the conventions and elements in which make a music video a music video.

- Through my research I came across Goodwins Theory, we decided to apply Goodwins theory to our music video. The majority of Goodwins Six was applyed to our music video.

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics. (e.g. stage performance in metal videos, dance routine for boy/girl band, aspiration in Hip Hop).
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals. The lyrics are represented with images. (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals. The tone and atmosphere of the visual reflects that of the music. (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, mirrors, stages, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6. There are often intertextual reference

These are the elements within Goodwins Six that point out characteristics and features that can be found in a music video.
Our music video doesn't really challange the conventions of a music video as we created a conventional music video, although we do use and develop the conventions. Our narrative and shot choices are conventional shots within our music video, we used extreme close ups in our performance part of the music video, close ups and mid-shots in our narrative sections, these are all conventions of a music video.
An unconventional aspect within our music video is no instruments are included, this could be seen as challanging the conventions within a music video.

This is the basis of what our question one consists of

Evaluation Planning

I have written up and scripted all of the evaluation questions and we plan to film our evaluation tomorrow.
We have decided that for one question we will use voiceover, here we will import footage from our music video and still images which link to what we are discussing. For the other three questions we plan to use directs address towards the camera and to eachother when evaluating. We plan to import footage of me and Ciaran using the certain technologies stated in question 4, for example using PhotoShop and Final Cut.
Titles will also be used, each question will be titled, with an extract of the song we created a music video.

Editing

Editing pictures

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Webiste Picture Ideas

These three pictures are a sample of the style of pictures incoperated on our website, the style of the same image but edited in a change of colour could be seen in a sense as postmodern, i.e. the artist Andy Warhol who produced the different colour images of Maralyn Monroe, suggesting the celebrity culture of that time. Our webpage consists of many images of the artist with a few images of the location of the music video.

Digipak

As the Ancillary task designated to me was to create a Digipak to promote the band's single, I used a template (see below) which I acquired from DiscWizard.

Webpage Research

Through researching various different webpages I came across the Paolo Nutini webpage, here its mentions the latest news abot Paolo Nutini where the fans can write comments about whats being said, the news coloum consists of various dates and venues of his up and coming gigs.
I intend to include a similar coloum within our blog. I believe this is effective as it is interactive and conveys exclusivityfor the fans.
Mumm-Ra To Play The Oxegen Festival. This is the type of example in which I would include within my latest new coloum on our weboage.
One of the links in which I am in the process of creating for our webpage is a Fan Club link, with two different choices of the type of membership you want, for example the Fan Club Standard and the Fan Club Premium. This also creates the feel of exclusivity for the fans.

Webpage Process

I am currently in the process of creating a website for our artsit. We have taken the inspirtaion of our pictures form the artists Mumm-Ra and the solo artist Paolo Nutini as he is a solo male artit as shown in the image of above. Our style of shots are similar to his of a natural action shot edited the style to be in black and white.

Ancillary Tasks

Me and my partner decided it would be best if we had split up the ancillary tasks together. We felt that this would benefit because that way each of us would be devoting time specifically to our own task. We decided that my task was to do the digipak, because I felt more confident with using photoshop than Sophie, and she decided to do the website because she felt that she would be more interested in that.

YIG adjust

For the lip synching parts of the video, we decided that the shot as it stood was too bland and we wanted the lip synching to stand out as not part of the video, so we gave it a "light" effect using YIG adjust (Yellow Indigo Green Adjust) to create the desired effect and I think it worked well.