Finished!

We are really pleased with our final finished music video, and have really enjoyed creating it!

Evaluation Question 4

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

media evaluation #2

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Media Evaluation #1

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

My Poster (+ Poster Research)

This is the poster that i based my own poster on contrasted with my own poster. I found this when researching different posters and found that it was exactly like the one i was imagining.  I decided to use the same picture on the front of my poster and Digi Pak as I thought this would be the most effective in the way that many people would see the poster and then instantly recognize or link it to the CD. I also kept all of my text to the center to make it more clear, and used the same fonts as my digi pak. Overall i am really pleased with the result as i feel that my ancillary tasks all fit well with each other and the music video.
 

My Digi Pak

I have created my own Digi Pak to go alongside my music video, which i created in Photoshop.  Here is my front cover and back cover. I chose to do this in black and white because i thought it was quite simple and allowed the viewer to focus on the writing on the CD, and also links in with the 'home movie effect' of the music video. I took the photo of the eye with the leaf surrounding it because I wanted an interesting and different front cover using a photograph. In Photoshop I put the noise level up to 20% , just like the music video. This creates an old movie effect which also links in with the flashbacks, relating the ancillary tasks to the main music video. I also used the leaf idea all of the way through the ancillary tasks by photographing a leaf skeleton because I decided it on it as a theme. I was subtly making the link between the dead leaf and the alive one, relating it back to the music video idea. I used DaFont.com to find my font, and i used one called 'Blue Noon' all the way through my ancillary tasks because i thought it looked like an illustration and fits well with the look i am going for. I added a bar code, symbols and text to the back cover because this is what i found was on many of the backs of the CD covers i researched. I also gave a website link. Overall i am very pleased with my Front and Back cover and i think they relate well to the Band and the music video.

This is the inside of my Digi Pak, and as you can see i decided on a colour theme and also a photo theme of leaves. I have written the lyrics on the inside page because many CD's seem to do that. I have also added a middle section on both the front and inside that says Of Monsters and Men Little Talks.

Overall i am really pleased with my finished Digi Pak because i feel that it relates well to the music video, whilst showing the personality and target audience of the band.

This is my original image that i used for the front cover, before i edited it on Photoshop. You can see the difference in the colour and grain.