Friday 20 March 2015

Evaluation Q1.

Evaluation Q2.



Morgan-1, 2 frames
Briony-3, 4, 5 frames

Evaluation Q4.

How we have used Technology?

Morgan & Briony 
In the research and planning we used a website called survey monkey. This allowed us to get feedback on our rough cut. We set particular questions that included what we could improve on, what existing artist it reminded people of and the ages and genders of the people to see the audience we have impacted on the most. 

We also used youtube to upload our rough cut on to, seeing how many views and likes we could get. We also used other social media sites such as twitter and Facebook to promote our rough cut into being seen. This type of technology was essential in getting feedback and making sure our video was out on the internet being watched by people.

For our Digipack we used keynote to create a template and then rearranged our own photographs onto the template. We colour corrected all the photos so they had the same theme, we then decided to edit them on photoshop. 

Using this technology benefitted the aesthetic appeal of the DigiPack. We added the track list, the CD, spines, the album title and all the copyright information needed to make it look like a real Album. These software programmes made it a lot easier to edit and arrange the photos.

When creating the website we used Wix. It is a website designer, it gives you simple templates and you can add pages and links and pictures. We took full advantage of this technology and create a fully functioning website that had a home page, a merchandise page and a keep in touch page.  We linked social media sites through the website such as the artists twitter, instagram and soundcloud. We added a magazine cover and photos of our star in text. We also used other websites that allowed us to create our own merchandise for our artist. We experimented with many different technologies to make our website look appealing.

This helped us to let our audience feel an attachment to the artist making her more sellable and our branding more successful. We used yourdesign.com to make merchandise for our artist, this included hoodies and phone cases. This helped us to sell and promote our artist even more.

In the construction of our music video we used Final Cut Pro to edit all the shots and to beat edit so we was able to make the music match the visuals. We showed this by our strong lip syncing, we used this as a tool to show our skill with using Final Cut. we also connected the on screen visuals to the lyrics throughout the song. The lyric "as my head hits the pillow" was our inspiration for the use of feathers falling. We kept this a theme throughout the video, having shots of the feathers was our conceptual meaning. 

Final cut allowed us to beat edit, colour correct and lip sync our video so was a very useful form of technology that we used, allowing us to create a particular feel and theme. It was important for us to do this to make the video higher quality and like the videos that we took inspiration from.

In our evaluation we also used different technology to present our evaluation questions. We have used Prezi, which is a presentation website that gives a presentation a creative twist.

We decided to use this because it fits in with our blog rather than having a long text. We embedded the Prezi on the blog and it is available to play. Using digital technology was important in producing all aspects of our project from planning to the construction of the final products. Even using the camera and the Go-Pro to film the under water scenes was a type of digital technology. A strong technology that has developed in the past years to promote artists are social media sites, and we were aware that this is a way existing artists promote their new albums so this is why we have linked all social media sites from our main website.



Evaluation. Q3

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Thursday 5 February 2015

Album- artist image

I have also created a album that can be bought on iTunes for the artist as well as the album cover. The songs reflect those that are on the album and i have chosen a theme to run through the album and image to create a brand we can sell to the fans.