Final Music Video Construction

This is the final construction for our music video.

 

Final Digipak

This is the final digipak. This is the final digipak we decided on after our first draft was changed according to our feedback. This digipak matches our synergy and incorporates the target artist image we were aiming for. This will appeal to our target audience as it is creative and colorful but still mature.

Final Website URL Link

This is our finished website link.

https://islamusic.wixsite.com/isla

Question 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here we evaluate in three parts how our media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
Part 1 Digipak


Part 2 includes a screen-cast of Isla's website and two websites that inspired us. The two websites that we looked at were: Ed Sheeran and Coldplay. This is because we wanted a couple of well-established artists so that we can take ideas from artists that were doing well and adapt the forms and conventions of these artist's websites to suit a new music artist. We chose these two artists in particular because Isla is an Indie Rock artist but with influences from Pop, also. This is why we mainly looked at Coldplay. The band began as an Indie Rock group but they have began to include more Pop influences in their music and branding. This is exactly the route that we wanted to go down with Isla.



Part 3 Music Video- Here we have looked at how our music video uses develops and challenges forms and conventions from real media products.

Question 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

https://www.canva.com/design/DACtMn2f0Pk/7Sdo3qXKz7J67L7pXIkUaQ/view?website

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Cross media branding and synergy is essential to ensure our main product and ancillary texts can be seen as one brand. Successful synergy ensures the Isla brand can re recognised across all album products, from the music video to website to magazine covers. The following presentation highlights the connections made between our products, demonstrating whether we have been successful in creating a brand for our artist.

https://prezi.com/view/DlAJs4gvfVPb2CzgMNMs/

Magazine Article

This is our final main magazine promotion.

Digipak Advert

This is an advert for our digital and album.

Question 2 Evaluation Plan

Created using Visme. An easy-to-use Infographic Maker.

Group Reflection

This is our refection of our work as a group.  

How did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?

As a group we split up the tasks equally, Leah and Lorna focused on the blog posts while Jess spent a lot of time editing. We used organisational skills and communicated on a group chat in order to split work load fairy but still ensure the work was getting done.

 How did you plan your sequence? What processes did you use? 

We planned our sequence by using shot lists and storyboards to properly visualize what the footage will look like prior to shooting so that we didn't waste time filming shots that wouldn't be relevant to our music video. This really helped us to prioritize filming based on natural light and changing tides.

What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?

We used a Canon 700d  to film our music video, we then uploaded the footage onto the computer and used premiere pro to edit our music video. we used you tube to learn new editing skills. the technologies we used were familiar  to us as we had previously used them before. when it came to editing you tube was a useful source of information if we wanted to try new effects we hadn't previously used before.

 What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?

when considering the creation of our music video we had to take into account each group members personal and school schedules to ensure we could all equally participate and cooperate in each stage. we also considered each group members strengths so that we could use those strengths to our advantage.

 How does it compare with filming an opening to a film?

Creating a music video allows you to be more creative in comparison to a film opening. Editing can be abstract and the video does not necessarily need to make sense of have a clear narrative.

What are your strengths as a group member?

Lorna; My strength as a group member is my organisational skills, I ensured that the group were all kept informed and up to date with work.  I created a sheet so that everyone in the group kept their  blogs updated. My weaknesses as a group member was 

Leah:I think that one of my strengths as a group member is that I was organised and able to get all of the work done that was required. I also was active when sharing creative ideas.

Jess:My strengths as a group member were that I persevered with difficult editing techniques and researched how to add some more technical effects in my spare time. My weaknesses were that I was not as organised as I had hoped to be, and relied on my ideas that came at the time of filming rather than brainstorming beforehand.

Production Diary

Magazine Reseach

Before making our own magazine article, we wanted to research ones that already existed in order to work out what are the most important things to include.

In the magazine article above, a large photograph of the artist can be seen on the left, with an interview on the right.
The interview is displayed in a 'question and answer' structure, with the questions in bold so that they can be clearly distinguished from the rest of the text.

Things to Include
When looking at many different magazine articles, these were the key features that we identified:

• Photograph of artist
• Q&A
• Quotes from artist in a larger font to break up the main body of the article