My Finished Digipack

Update

To kickstart our evaluation, we each decided to answer one evaluatory question. We took into consideration every element of research and planning that went into our music video and what decisions we made that reflected the music industry as it stands. We have given in our first draft of the music video, ancillary texts and evaluation and have received feedback from our media teacher. Overall, we feel the evaluation has been a success with all of our questions not needing altering other than question 1 by Katie. Having said this, if we all work together to fix the errors in the question we are sure that we will make it as effective as the other questions. The feedback for the ancillary text was even more successful because there were merely a few minor alterations to be made such as:
-making the text bolder
-add more conventional aspects to the magazine advert

we are extremely pleased with all of the help we have received and we will now be working extremely hard to make the changes needed!

By Holly and Megan.

CD Cover Analysis

What I found particularly appealing about this CD cover is that it isn't much but it says lots. The CD cover suits its purpose, which is to promote the artist Jesse J. The image is very striking, with the use black and white which connote good and bad, perhaps suggesting that she has 2 sides to her personality. Also, the way she is positioned in the frame, in the centre with the focal point her face and all other parts (hands) leading the eye towards her face which forces you to look at her dramatic style. Her facial expression is also very interesting because it says that she is fierce and fiesty and doesn't care what people think about her, tying in nicely with her album title "who you are". Also, the addition of the colour gold adds a sense of class and importance as well as glamour. This is also very effective because it suggests that she as a singer she holds all these qualities and therefore tries to get people to buy her album with the assumption that it is good. Lastly, the fact that she is in front of a bright white background suggests that she stands out as a singer, therefore appealing to people who like something different. This also leaves you with nothing to focus on but her face.

By analysing this CD cover, it has made me realise how much you can get from something so simple and how many underlying meanings there are in the smallest things. When we produce our own CD cover, I think we will have to think very carefully about the tiniest details which make the most impact.

Ancillary

This is my website to go with our music video!

http://www.wix.com/katiebenha7/rrsmomw#!

Update

In recent weeks, we have been focussing purely on our ancillary tasks and our evaluation. As our deadline is this friday, we have been working hard on our evaluation as the ancillaries are pretty much done! The evaluation is taking a long time because we have decided to fill every available moment with pictures and videos to illustrate what we are saying, as opposed to just having talking heads which can be very boring to watch. Considering that we are aiming for a 20minute long evaluation, it takes hours and hours! As for our music video, it needs some work before the final deadline as our teacher has suggested that it needs some changes to improve its clarity. Overall, I think we are using our time wisely and should finish for the deadline.

Evaluation Analysis

To help me to understand the sorts of points that need to be covered in an evaluation and for inspiration, I have looked at a previous groups evaluation from last year...

After watching this, I can see that talking into the camera makes a very basic evaluation and I think this is something we will make sure we avoid in our own video, because there is nothing to look at and all you have to rely on is what you hear! I think what they have said is quite good, if not a bit repetitive, because they have given a lot of points and examples but thats exactly where they should have used pictures or stills from their films to prove what they are saying. I liked what they said about using Youtube as a way of getting audience feedback, that is something I think we would also find useful, but there isn't much time to upload the film and get the feedback as we haven't even finished it yet, but that is also something I would have liked to have done. From listening to what she said, I have had a look at wix.com and have changed my mind from doing a advert to doing a website I think, so that has been useful for me. The main problem with this video though, is that it is just waaaaay too short, they are meant to be 20mins ish long and its only four which suggests that they ran out of time, which would also explain the 'talking into the camera' to get it done. Overall, I don't think there is really enough there to be able to look at it closely although I have taken some things from this to help me with our evaluation in that they have modelled some of the points we are expected to make.