Audience Research

I am currently getting audience feedback from my video. I have created my own questionnaire to hand out to people after watching my video. After I have collected my audience feedback I will add it to my evaluation.

DVD Design

Design Of My CD

I decided to make my CD a plain grey colour as I do not want it to be bright and colourful I just wanted it to be plain and simple. I decided to use the colour light orange and have the song names at the top of the CD curving round the top of the CD, I got this idea from looking at other current media texts. I decided to put some white italic font on my CD to have executive producers like other current media texts as I want my CD to look and resemble what current media texts look like. I have also included a website http://www.thisisjesse.com/ as most artists have a website of their own, which fans can look at tour dates and see when the artist's album is being released etc. I have looked at current media texts and seen that lots of artists have their own website so to make my artist feel more real I decided to put a website on the CD. From researching lots of current media texts I wanted to make my product as realistic as possible, I looked at lots of CD images on Google of current artist's CD's.

Digipak Photo

This image is a medium close up, I decided to use this shot as it shows the artist close up. I have also decided to tint this picture as I want my digipak to be continuous throughout. I decided to have very minimal make up on my artist as I want to represent natural beauty and sophistication. My artist is looking directly at the camera with no real expression on her face. Having my artist looking straight at the camera is showing she is connecting with the audience.

Picture For Inside My Digipak

This picture will be on the left hand side of my digipak, this will be were the CD is.

Research Of CD Designs

This CD design is also quite similar to the CD design of Rihanna's as they are both simple and straightforward. This CD design is a light blue colour with white writing, the white writing stands out against the colour of the background. This CD design also has the names of the songs featured on the CD but it is on the right hand side under Beyonce's name. The CD also has a few stars on it, this could represent being famous and being a star. This CD design has copyright information on the inner side of the CD in very small print.

Research Of CD Designs

This CD design is very plain and simple which I intend my own CD to look like. The CD is just a plain black colour with a blue/green colour writing of Rihanna and the text around the CD is the names of the songs featured on the CD, I like this idea a lot as I think it looks good. At the bottom of the CD, there is copyright information which most CD's have to stop anyone from copying the CD. Also on this CD design there is the names of who actually produced the CD and the songs on the CD.

draft of album cover

This is my ICT draft of my magazine advertisement. This is just a rough draft of how I want my magazine advert to look like, I may decide to change a few idea's to improve my idea but I will deffinatly have an image of my artist with her name and the album name on the advert. I will aslo have some text to say when the album is out and that it is available to download on iTunes. I will most likely change my idea for my poster as it may not look good after ive finished.

Back Of Digipak

This is my final draft of the back of my digipak. I have carried on throughout my digipak with the tint colour and the hint of brown in my design. I decided to make the artist's red lips stand out, from researching about the codes and conventions of R & B artists they wear red lipstick to show power. I have also put a bar code in the bottom right had corner as this is a convention of a current digipak. I decided to have the font of the text in bold writing so it is easy for the audience to read the different songs on the allbum. I have also kept the text the same colour of the tint in the picture as I think this goes well together. I wanted the back of my digipak to be plain and simple and have an image of my artist as the main focus to the audience.

Back Of Album Cover

This is my first draft of the back of my album cover, I may decide to change some things to improve it. I decided to use the colours red and black for the text on the cover as they go well with each other because the colour black stands out so that the audience know what number a certain song is. I also decided to use the colour red for the name of my songs because I think it contrasts well with the black and the rest of the image, also red can be defined as being a love colour represented by a heart and because my song is about a love story I thought that this ffitted in well with my video.

First Edit Of My Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8vFSosV-G0

This is my very first edit of my video. I have lots of blank gaps in my video, I need lots more footage for my video. I also have lots of shots which I need to reshoot because the shots are too dark so I need to shoot them with more light. One of my media teacher's has looked at my music video and said that it has a good narrative to it but I just need to reshoot lots of shots to make them brighter and to fill the gaps. I also have a part in my video were James (the boyfriend) sings into the camera "girl I love you your the one" needs to be more persuasive and sang better because there is not enough effort put into it.

Video

Today I finished putting my video clips together on the editing suite. There is lots of shots that I need to reshoot because they are too darky which makes them really fuzzy. I also have a few gaps in my video were I need to shoot some more footage. I didn't realise how much footage I would need for my video and this is why I have lots of gaps with black screen. I managed to get my artist to lip sync in time with the song, this was a challenge on the editing suite as I had to keep replaying the footage to get the song lyrics at the right time with my artist.