Final Products

Music Video



Ancillary

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

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

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

This is the second question of our evaluation

Second draft for the advert

This is the second draft for our album cover, compared to the first album cover i think that we have improved hugely. We've made a new background and managed to add to the main image of the two pixelated artists. I've also added the information of the release date of the new album and also a featured song called Techno Girl.

Zak Audience Research

This is the video which is me asking the three questions about our ancillary tasks, the magazine advert and the cd cover. looking at the responses from these questions I can say that we have received some positive feedback which is a good sign.Because our ancillary tasks are not yet complete having this good feedback means that we can continue to improve and make our ancillary tasks better.

 

design for advertisement Zak Swindell

For this post i will be showing my design for the advertisment for the debut single of Fast Forward. Below i will be discussing the design seeing what's good and what could be changed.

With this advert i have included the name of the artists and also the name of the of the new album Fast Forward. This is key for a album advertisment because it is showing to the people reading who they are and what there debut albums called. With the design i went with the two artists face looking at the camera with this i choose to draw this because it allows the artists to link with the audience. 

If i was to improve this then i could add much more colour to make the advert stand out also adding more information and maybe making the main image smaller so more can be put onto the page.  

Album magazine advertisement - Zak Swindell

With this first magazine advertisement for the cover of Eminem's new album "Recovery" straight away we can see that there is a lot of space in this image, a reason for this could be because looking back at the name of the album cover we can link these two together and say that with the artist on the advert we can say that this recovery could be linking in with Eminem meaning that more emotion and thought has gone into this advert to really show to people what this album is about. Key things such as the colour theme and also the costume of the artist it could be suggested that in this specific album their will be much more emotion and also more darker subjects and situations which could be discussed in his songs.Other information is placed on this advertisement such as the release date for the album, this allows the fans of Eminem to know when the album is released so they can go out and buy it. Other information such as the single of "not afraid" this gives the fans more information about the album which could mean that if they like that song then there could be others which they might like so this could mean more albums sold.

 

This magazine advertisement for Lana del reys album called "Born to die" With this advertisement we can see that the colour theme is bright and colourful linking in to the type of music which this artist provides. Some conventions which are followed in this advertisement are that the artist's name is on the advert, also the name of the album is on the advert "Born to die" also an image of the artist is at the centre of the advert. Extra information is placed on this advert such as the date of the albums release which allows the artists fans to know when they can buy the album. If we look at the artist we can see that with the shirt she is wearing and the make up we can see that she looks formal which isn't linking towards her music, a reason why she could be shown in this way is because of the album name "Born to die" is more serious and has much more meaning to it.

 

With this magazine of Tinie Tempah the magazine advert has an eye-catching layout and colour scheme. The background of the advertisement relates to space and has quite an futuristic theme. This has been done because the title of the album is Discovery and so it suggests something different and new in his album. With the advertisement the way the artist has merged his face in with the Milky Way, it allows the artist to stand out and it allows the reader of the magazine to instantly recognizes him and may want to buy his new album. The design links in with Tinie Tempah’s signature logo of his name as well as his number one single Written in the Stars this allows people who are reading to recognise and show of the fact that the album has number one singles on it encouraging people to buy it and listen. The date that the album is set to be due for is also on the advert in bold and bright numbers. This allows the readers and also his fans know when it is available to buy.

Construction Post - Taking photos for the album cover

In this construction post I'll be discussing when me and Robbie went to purley arcade to get some pictures for our album cover. A problem which we faced with this task was that both our artists couldn't come with us to purley because of personal reasons so me and Robbie though that we would still go there and take pictures. Below are some of the pictures which we took, from this we can take some ideas which will take in for the photos which we shoot with the actual artists. For next time we need to make sure that both the artists can come with us so the pictures we take can be used for the actual video.

when getting the images for our album cover we need to make sure that we have the artists in the shot also to have a more variety of images for example at a different location and also maybe different variety of shots types. Maybe having creative crops and costume that will make our album look more creative.

Album cover designs Zak Swindell

These are the images which i drew for our album cover with these images i had to come up with designs which could be potentially used for the actual album cover. with the designs i tried to draw all my images around an arcade machine theme. For example i drew a shot of the screen of the machine and the name of the artists and also the album are on the screen. Other images which i drew was the two artists have there faces on the screen. The reason why i drew these were because i tried to link the album cover theme with the main song of techno girl because in that video we have a technology theme and video games loads of young people can relate to it.

In this post when we start to get the images for our album cover we as a group need to make sure that each image we use looks creative and appealing. ways in which we could do this is by doing what i have done above and use bright colours also being creative with the shot types and also the theme of the album cover.

Album cover conventions - Zak Swindell

The titles for our music video

These are the titles which i have made for our opening title for our pop music video. With the two which i have created me and my group didn't know what one to choose. 

What went well when making these titles are that i got a creative font which suited our theme of video games. Also with the effects i managed to add creative movement to the titles meaning that when the titles are on screen they are looking creative an effective.

With these titles we hope to have them in the pop music video i feel that they will both make our music video much more creative meaning that we could get potentially more marks .

Shooting Schedule 2

This is our second shooting schedule we had to make a second one because with the first we had some problems and we wasn't able to keep to the schedule that we originally created. So as a group we made a new one which we have managed to keep.

With this new shooting schedule it allowed us to plan more future dates for our filming plus it has allowed to plan for new scenes in which the previous shooting schedule we havent discussed any dates and times for.

With this shooting schedule we need to make sure that we try and stick to it because it will end up like the last one which when we didn't film on most of the days which we planned to. To make sure we stick to it we need to be more organised as a group and also make sure to remind each other when we are filming and also what we need to take and what were actually filming.

Creating The Titles In Photosop For Our Music Video

First font created i managed to get a font which symbolizes our video game theme, with this i played around with photoshop and changed the font size and searched for a variety of different colours. When doing this i learned more about using photoshop which was a positive for me.

Some problems which i had with this was that because I'm not that good with Photoshop so finding all the effects was difficult but i feel that now I've managed to make this opening title I've learned much more.

Other problems which i had was that was deciding the colour for the title as you can see below i went from grey, blue and also green.

Finally i managed to create this font i managed to cross the colours of grey and also red to give it a technological feel. Me and my group decided with this style and colour theme for this font because we feel it will be the most effective for our pop music video.

Filming at Greenwich Zak Swindell

In this construction post i'll be showing and discussing what we did when we filmed in the Greenwich underground footpath. By the images below we managed to get a good amount of footage which we can use for our pop music video. But there's a chance that we might have to go back because we might have to get a bit more footage to fill out the time of the pop music video.

From this shooting session we can take a lot of positives, for example we got more footage which we can include in our 2nd draft, the shots we got bring more exciting and creativity to our pop music video. This footage that we got now brings more to our pop music video which will hugely help us for when it comes to trying to get a high mark.

If we do go back to get some more footage we would like to get some more in the elevator this is because most of the footage that we got was on the staircase and also the actual footpath, the elevator looked good on camera but we ran out of time to get a good amount done so getting footage in the elevator would be something that we would try and get done.

Getting to Greenwich

Animatic Feedback - Zak Swindell

This is the feedback for the animatic me and my group made. From looking over at all of the responses to the questions that we asked, a high amount of the responses contained positive feedback which is a good sign, there are some things that we need to think about improving on, for example at some stages of the animatic it didn't make that much sense so for the actual music video we need to improve on that.

with this we can look at what negative feedback we got and make improvements so we can get a better overall make meaning a higher grade. when looking at any negative feedback we can go back to the animatic and make the changes which are needed.

Talent Release Form - Zak Swindell

In this task we had to get our artists to sign these talent release forms agreeing to be the artists in our pop music video. As you can see below both artists have signed our release forms agreeing to be the artists in our music video.

Album Cover Research - Zak Swindell

Music video Draft 1 - Zak Swindell