Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Question 3: what have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

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

Finished print products JPEG Format

Front, Spine and Back Cover

Inside Panels without CD insert

Inside Panels with CD insert 

CD Insert

Advert

Researching and Planning the Moving Image Work

Post-Production feedback

From the feedback we got for our final music video many people liked the location shots, however they did find the studio shots of lower quality. They also liked the cuts and transitions from shot to shot and the movements of the actor were in sync with the music. Someone did mention how the lip sync might not have been on point at all times.  

For my final print products, I asked a few people through social media to review them for me. They liked most of the edits of the edits I did on the photos, however they mentioned how the colour scheme was inconsistent because I decided to add a hint of blue on the inside cover of the album. They liked the simplicity of the designs but found that it was a bit crowded on the inside of the album. 

Finished Print Products

experiments with album and advert

For the advert I experimented by creating 2 different types of posters one was inspired by one of the case studies I did by Jay Park. This is the first experiment where I printed a black background and the photo I was using and taped them together using masking tape. I then scanned the image in and replaced the scanned photo with a digital one as the quality of the image was quite grainy. For my second experiment I layered the image on top of one another and used colour dodge on one layer to make the image darker and to create more shadows. I them add the text and added a drop shadow to the text to make it stand out more.  

For the actual CD I added an image of the city at first and created white outlines for the CD. I then created the text in Adobe Illustrator to wrap around the circle by creating a circle in illustrator and typing on the path of the circle. I exported this to photoshop and resized it where I place it around the inner circle of the CD. When I added the CD with the image of the city to my inside inserts I felt like I had used too much imagery. Therefore, I created the second CD experiment, where I used a faint dark grey gradient to fit my colour scheme. I kept the white lines and the text where they were, but this was better as it did not over complicate the look of my inside inserts. 

Here I used the photo I had edited for the inside insert. At first, I had left the right side a plain grey gradient, however it looked odd next to the left side insert. So I decided to make it consistent by adding clouds to the left side panel. I lightened the images as it was quite dark at first and there were too many shadows, which did not match the outer cover of the album I had designed. 

For the front cover I used the image I had edited with the clouds. I covered part of his face to make a mood like he does not care like Jay Park. For the spine I added the company logo and a CD production number and the artist’s name and title of the album. I added the track list at the back. I had the back plain at first but thought it was too plain, so I added a picture of the city without a lowered opacity at softer light. I added the barcode and the company logo here too. 

Research and Planning draft

I worked on the write up about my research and planning 

design progress

I started deisgned the back of the CD cover with the track list and I added features like the barcode and company logo. I didn't want to add another picture of the artist at the back so I decided to add a picture of the city to link it with the music video.