Digipack Software Trial

In my lesson today i had to choose a band in the same genre as my chosen genre (Electronic) and design a didgi pack for their album.

1.I copied this template of a digipack onto publisher to help me with my design
2. I searched for a band photo on google. I chose the electronic/dance band Azari & III for my example band and chose to use this photo:

3. I then went onto 'www.picmonkey.com' to edit my picture of my chosen band. Because my chosen photo was more rectangular than square i cropped the picture in half making two square pictures of the band making it easier for me to fit it into the different panels of the digi pack.

4. I used the different fonts available and put the name of the band and name of the album on each different half of the original picture. i looked through the different texts that where available to use on picmonkey.com.  i looked out for an electronic font so i used the font 'Home Sweet' because it was the closest font to the electronic genre.

5. After i edited my first picture on picmonkey.com I put it into my digi pack template

6. I then searched for a back panel picture. I decided to stick with the black and white theme but show the electronic element by choosing a picture of lightning.  Using picmonkey.com again i wrote the song titles on top on the background.  The genre came through well in the song titles.  I tried my best to use language you would expect to se in an electrical subject.  for example 'Static Heartbeat'  I chose this because it was electronic and scientific. another example i used was '21/12/12' for the final song on  the album which is the date of what is believed to be the end of the world.  Again I used the idea of science and electronic ideas to create names linking with the genre.

 7. I then put a barcode and Facebook and Twitter links on the back cover showing that you could also find out more information about the band.

8. Finally i put all of the pictures together and added a picture of a CD to the CD panel and this is my final product:

I'm happy with my first trial of my Digi pack software because i think that i stick to the genre well. Although i do think i could hve sjown more of the electronic characteristics through the colour.  

Website Analysis

webpage analysis by

Peer Assessment - 2 Column storyboard

Today we finalised our narrative along with putting it into a 2 column storyboard.  We split into two groups, Kirstie and Daniel finalised the narrative and wrote it down with the timings and lyrics and then me and Becky added details and put it into a 2 column Storyboard.

This is what it turnt out like:

Once we had finished creating the storyboard we then gave it to another group so they could asses it and give us feedback.

The feedback they gave us was:

From this we are were told:

1) Describe the location/room that the filming is going to take place- this is going to be a lecture room, we forgot to state this on the storyboard.

2) What shots are going to be used for the opening sequence- we are going to use close ups on specific body parts and actions.

3) We had a good blend between the narrative and the performance.

4) we need to improve slightly on the narrative- Our narrative progressed on the other pages of our story board, when we showed them the other sheets, they was happy with the progression of the narrative.

The feedback we received we will take into account and incorporate it into our storyboard the next time we are all together. 

Freytag's theory. 'Sail' soundtrack

Freytag's theory suggested that drama is sectioned into 5 parts: 

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution

Freytag suggested that the tension will rise to a peak which is then followed by rising action to make sure that the audiences interest is still maintained.  Once the tension has reached the climax it is then it is released in the resolution. 

We used Freytag's theory to base our own track on it and how we are going to show the 5 parts in the narrative.  

Possible Logo Ideas

I have experimented with some different logo ideas.  

I focused on the different font styles i could used and different shapes and ways i could show my genre through my logo. 

I have decided to stick to my colour scheme as i think that it represents electronic well. 

The Narrative

This is our narrative of the music video.  We have shown audio, time duration's shot types and actions.

Analysis of Purity Ring's 'Fineshrine'

purity ring analysis

Analysing Questionnaires

In lesson today we worked as a gorup to look through our questionnaire results.  We have all taken note of the results and we are going to put them into a powerpoint analysing them.

Focus group

  

this is our focus group. we asked 3 people to come and give us their thoughts and opinions on the questions we asked them.  We based our questions around our chosen genre 

 

iWeb practice with website ideas

I used this font from Urbanfonts.co.uk to use on my website design as I think that it is shows elements of what type of genre we are as it is futuristic and scientific looking. 

I started to use the different tools and effects on iWeb such as the youtube link, showing the bands newest single.  I also searched a similar image to what I'm planning on using in my finishing product of my website.  I think that the text above the picture of the eye looks well with the picture but I would like to experiment more on colours instead of sticking to Black and White as it can be plain and boring. I also added a couple of social networking links which would take you to 'Mad Xibit's' Facebook pages or Twitter pages.  this would help gain the band more fans and followers as well as other easier ways for the public to find out more information on the band.

Lower down the page I added tour dates which would be in people's attention practically straight away as the first thing that should draw the audience's attention is the YouTube video.  The idea of this is that the audience would listen to 'Mad Xibit's' song, enjoy it and then become interested in buying tickets.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire
we have put together this questionnaire to gather data on what an audience from the age of 16 want to see in a music video.

Practicing iWeb Software

today in lesson I used iWeb for the first time. I made a basic lay out for a website about me. i used the tools shown in the bar on the right hand side to add a YouTube Post and pictures.  I also made a Welcoming page before the page shown above which was linked to the main page.

I found this lesson useful because it helped me understand how to use iWeb and gave me an idea of what I want to do for my actual website design for our band.

Website ideas

Our homework for this lesson was to come with a website idea with notes on what colours/fonts/images I wanted to use.

My first idea was: 

my main theme was the colour blue influenced by the podigy's website idea they used in their banner because i think that it represents electricity. (an example of the prodigy's banner above)  I also chose this colour because that was one of the most common colours which came up in my mood board when I was researching ideas related to electronic music. it isn't very clear to see but there is a washed out picture of the 'eye' logo in the background. The 'x' in the pupil of the eye would link you to another page.  I included advertisement on the left and a social networking link bar on the right.  My idea for the background colour would be black. 

I then came up with a clearer plan for my website with different ideas which made the website look more professional and creative:

I split my paper into two different halves showing the entrance page (upper half) and then the main webpage (lower half)  I decided to stick to the Eye design. I used the colour blue again as it was the most common colour that come up in my mood board.  I tried to show some elements of electricity for example in the eye (upper half) i drew electric waves of blue in the eye.  i then designed my main web page.  I thought it was a good idea to put a youtube clip at the top right corner of the page because it will be the first thing that catches the audiences eye because it will be familiar to the audience. I then thought that it would be a good idea to put the tour dates underneith the youtube clip because then it is an easy way of promoting their music. Myself and my teacher noticed that in the middle of the page where annotations are there would be a large blank space.  So i thought it would be a good idea to have a washed out effect on a picture of the artist/actor from our video.

MY MOOD BOARD IDEA FOR THE DIGI PACK

Our task was to put together a mood board of what ideas we had for our music video. I used Urbanfonts.com to find different types and styles of fonts which would suit our genre.  I then looked at what types of images the sound represents. The image ideas all linked together in a way.  the electronic images fitted with the genre's name and the images of the eyes were what my group had as an idea for the main image in our Digi pack. 

Filming and Directing of a band (pre coursework taster)

Today our media class filmed shots for a band to make a music video from it.  Our teacher directed the band while we each had a go of taking different shots and angles with the camera.

The picture above shows our plan we had before we went down and filmed.

I had the chance to work on different camera positions.  For example at first myself and Daniel worked on the static camera shot, which is camera 1 shown on the plan above. We then moved onto camera  2 which was the moving shot, we used a wheel chair (Drama Prop) to get the moving shot.

This made me understand that it isn't simple to record a whole band performance because of the many different types of camera movements and angles.

I found this lesson useful as I felt that it prepared me to expect the what is to come when recording our actual music video. It also helped me understand different camera shots that I wasn't clear on before.

group ideas - our pitches

Characteristics of our chosen genre Electro

Today we made note on what characteristics we need to produce a good music video.

we made our notes on videos in our chosen genre. These were:

• The Prodigy - Invaders must die
• Satboy Slim - Weapons of Choice 
• The Prodigy - Firestarter