We showed our music video to our class and received feedback, this gave us a quite a good idea of what peoples thoughts were. Overall the feedback was quite good. The comments we received were:
The way in which you sped up the shot to make it more fast passed to fit in with the music worked really well.
Good narrative, most people said they pacifically liked the alarm going off at the end, which rounded the whole story off well.
The use of colour and contrast made it very affective at times.
An improvement that we could of made was:
There was too much walking away from the camera, instead of filming it from the back of the main character we should have filmed the main character walking towards the camera so the audience could have related more.
My ancillary tasks for this coursework fit well together as they use very similar aspects that work well together. The picture i have used is very similar to a typical boy band photo shot, this fits in well as it is what the viewer would expect to see. The font style and layout is similar on both tasks which makes it clear that they are both relating to the same thing. However the video does not share as many common features and similarities but i feel that it is clear to the audience that they are of the same genre but we have tryed to make this clear through using bold titles in our video. Unfortunately the band were not available to film therefore we could not have them in our video.
Here is a picture of the actual band 'Not advised':
And this is the actual image i used in my additonal tasks:
As you can see the images have some similarities which is why i chose to use this image as i felt it would fit in with my project.
For my ancillary task i chose to create a album cover and a flyer. To create my album cover I researched other production album covers to try and ideas and aspects that i liked and could carry forward into my own work.
Firstly I searched for a Busted album cover as i new they have covers that would fit in with our type of boy band. The cover i found appealed to me as it had bright colours and the picture of the band on the front, the layout of the album cover was also useful and i also liked the text used. It inspired me to create an album cover along the same lines. Here is an example of the busted cover:
Here is an example of Kasbian's album, i feel that this is relevant to my research as it is very similar to the Busted album. The colours really catch my eye and the layout of the album:
These album covers gave me the idea of using bold colours and text that stands out. It also gave me the idea to create an album cover that would draw the consumer in and was also eye catching.I think by using these to covers for ideas has benefited me largely as I have created a very appealing cover which has used and developed a real media product.
To create my poster I used the same process, research a band poster/flyer and find an existing one which appealed to me. I looked at existing posters on the Internet but the one that appealed to me the most was a poster for the band Not advised ( the bands song we used,) this is because it was the actual band we were using. I also liked the aspects used within the poster such as the layout, colours and pictures. It represented a typical poster for a boy band. Here is an example of the poster:
In a sense my ancillary tasks have also challenged real media because I have changed and adapted to my own style.These posters and album covers are another example of how I have used and developed a real media product. For example, the text used in the Busted and Kasbian album covers is very bright coloured and stands out, and i feel this appeals to the target audience as it catches their eye. For my flyer i decided to use the aspect of bold text but i also decided to not over crowd it like the example above.
The music video we have created is fairly conventional, it doesn't have many abstract moments and conforms to the normal 'pop punk' genre by using a main character of which the audience can relate to, simple shots, a basic storyline, close ups of the main character and performance based shots. Other bands from a similar genre also use this technique with their music video's, an example of this is Blink 182's video 'all the small things'. Although the story behind it is very different it uses close ups, performance based shots and has a main character just like our music video. Here is an example of blink 182's music video:
I have now finished making my final changes to my projects here is an example of them:
Poster/Flyer
Album cover front
Album back cover
Overall i think the improvements and changes i have to these projects have been successful, the choice of colour schemes, types of texts and positioning etc also works really well with these projects. The flyer/poster i have created is simple yet effect, the dark background and picture really creates a contrast as i have used white text. I feel that this makes the text stand out and draws attention to the reader. My album cover really captures the style of the band we made our music video about, it portrays a typical boy rock band, as i have referred to earlier in my blog eg: Busted and Kasbian, this is conforming with typical stereotypes which also makes it successful. The colour scheme i used really work well with each other as the red draws attention and the white does also. I feel the effects that i have used on the texts also work very well as they are quite different to other types of text that i could of used, they also add a depth to the styling of the album cover, finally i think that the picture nicely fits in with the rest of the album. The back of the album cover also has the picture on and this makes it a little more interesting as there is something for the viewer to look at. I have also used different coloured texts this adds a difference to my other projects and therefore works as it does not look as consistent. Overall i am pleased with what i have created as i have developed skills that i never had before.
Next lesson i plan to make further changes to the back of my album cover and my flyer, this is because i feel they are not quite fitting in with the theme of the band. I will be changing things such as colours, text and editing of images. Hopefully i will have completed this by the end of this week but i feel that what i have created so far is really starting to develop well.
I have decided to make a few changes to my album cover and will be doing so to my poster. I have done this because i feel that my album cover needed a few changes, i have changed the colour and added a border. Here is a picture of what i have created:
I feel that this is a development to what i first created and is possibly better, but i still would like to change the sizing of the text '' Fight for this '' this is because i think it needs to be bigger to have more of an effect on the viewer, as it is the name of the album this need to be empathized.
To support the work i have produced for album cover for my additional projects i have decided to provide some research, including images of existing album covers that have a similar resemblence to the one i have created and also were i have got any ideas from for mine. Here is my first example:
This is busted album cover, i feel that the bright colours used really bring out the style of the band and this also makes the actual album really stand out to the viewer. The editing that has been used to create this image of the band gives a very rock style image and this creates a good feel for the album. I have taken influence from this album and will interpret similar ideas into my album cover.
Here is an another example of an album cover that has influenced me:
This is Kasabian's album cover, i have taken some influence from this because of the bold text and bold colours that have been used. Although this album cover does not have an image place on it, i still feel that it represents the theme and style of the band to viewer. I really like this cover as it is simple, yet it really suits the type of band that Kasabian are.
