Last post

I'm writing this feeling really relaxed and kind of happy but sad at the same time. I will dearly be missing blogger even though i did have some stressful times and sleepless nights, staying up and blogging. But I am relieved that the stress and sleepless nights will now be over. Its been such a great and a good experiencing journey for me and my group 2 (Me, AmaL, Farheen and Kavita) I will be missing working with this group and I really loved the joy it bought to me and i couldn't have done it without my group members. Its so sad to have to leave blogger knowing that I've been working on it from the continuation of last year. This blogger shows pretty much all the steps i took with my group throughout our journey of making the music video from and so on and so forth.  :) Bye-bye

Final Progress Review Blog

I know that from my AS year I've learned a lot and to be honest I wouldn't really change anything because I am really happy with my work but I would probably like to blog on time and not leave it until the last minute but i feel I've improved since our music video deadline. So everything is now good I hope. In terms of  individual posts I have made  54 out of my  88  blogs. Which i think is fairly good compared to last year.



What helped me through my whole journey :)

Audience feedback on ancillary products

Audience feedback on music video

This Abida who didn't get a chance to feedback on my music video giving me feedback because she felt like this was one of the videos that caught her eye and she was also one of the people who said that we looked like we had a lot of fun so I'm quite happy about it.

Evaluation Q4

Evaluation Q3

Evaluation Q2

These are the costumes that the artists wore for the photo shoot and in our actual music video. So this is one of the things that show that  my ancillary work links to my music video. Also the artists are the same and with similar hairdos and a tad bit of make-up. Also the white wall that was used was pretty effective because its where the artist first sings with the effect of having the lyrics on the wall and where  the images for our ancillary work were taken.













































A quick brief of question two's answer:

Evaluation Q1

Advertisement in process ( ancillary in production)

This is my advertisement, and i feel quite comfortable with it seen as i received good feedback from one of my teachers so i feel quite confident with my work also because i'm going with the effect of simplicity and i feel that this is good.  I feel that my advertisement goes with the genre of pop that i was going for. Also, i thought that if i use 

ADVERT DRAFT

Digipak in production (inside covers) and a done version

This is the inside cover of my digipak and this is where i was struggling to come up with an idea of what to put on my CD apart from 'Pressure'. I need something more creative but i can't go for something that's too over the top and too fancy. The reason being is that i want to go for the simple effect through out my ancillary work.

this is a finished version of my actual inside cover of my digipak. I've decided to play around with photo shop and then stuck to this quite original layout for my inside.

Digipak in production (production of ancillary) ( front and back cover)

So I've made good progress with the background colour of the back cover. After having a conversation with a teacher and seeing other actual back covers where the colours don't have to be the same.

this is an updated version and my final piece of my front and back cover. I feel happy with it because i was going for the effect of simplicity and the famous black and white effect. I had to put in some colours and i feel good with what i've created because the only other colour that i've used is pink which goes with the outfit colours and that means that i'm following the simple effect with the black and white.

Costumes (planning ancillary)

these outfits are outfits that the artists wore in the music video and we felt that it was appropriate for them to wear it for the pictures we would use for our digipaks. They are casual clothing yet quiet sophisticated for our genre because it is typical in Pop artists' music videos and album covers that they wear clothes from the music video. It also links with our audience which are mainly females and with the colours as well they aren't too bright or too simple. We felt that it was good enough for our ancillary since they wore it in the video and the back ground of the pictures is a white wall, so we didn't have to really worry about having to change the background because the colours would stand out one way or another. 

Analysis of magazine advertisements ( researching ancillary)

The close up of Rihanna is very important on the magazine advertisement and there always has to be something from the album cover on the advertisement and in this case it is her synergy , the 'R'. Rihanna's audience would be females as she is a female artist but her audience's age may start from 15-16+ because some of the content of her songs aren't exactly appropriate all the time. Also looking at her album covers its like an indication for those who may like a mixture of R'n'B with a bit of Rock.

Jessie J's album has the similarity on her advert and her album cover of her pose with her knuckles o her temples and the black hair. Also her name in the very same font and size but just different colours. Jessie J's audience would mainly be female and from ages such as 13+, which is the same as my audience.

This magazine advertisement appeared to me in a way where i wanted mine to be quiet similar to it. I know it isn't from my genre but what i really like about it is the location of the artist's name and the font size. Right next to the artist's head, this is a very god way to sell the artist to his audience because the first thing people will look at is the artist and his name being right next to him appeals to people. The age of his audience would be  teenagers from 13+ and mainly females.

Why this location? ( planning ancillary)

Our group decided to use the white wall because we all agreed that it would make a very effective background and it was also in our video. Something very special bout this wall was that it wasn't completely white, but it has a good range of texture and it works well with whether we would use a black and white effect or not for our digipaks.

Importance of a digipak (research of ancillary)

                                               Digipak:

 The importance of a digipack is to sell the artist/band to the audience. To present them to wider world.For this to be done, the artist names have to be on the front cover of the album cover and on the spine big and clear for people to see. The name of the album shouldn't be in a bigger font size than the artist name. Pictures of the artist or band need to be on the front cover or their synergy again to sell them. The back cover must always contain a barcode, record label and the track listing. The pictures displayed on the front cover and the colours and fonts used on the album cover is a main factor that indicates to people what kind of audience the album is aimed at, so they need to be sophisticated and appropriate.

Analysis of digipaks ( researching ancillary)

 

This album cover relates to my idea because they also use a synergy like the artists in my group, but Little Mix's synergy is the font and size of their band name. They use it in almost all their album covers. The idea of all the artists sitting on that sofa makes them most effective to their audience. Their audience would similar to my audience because they are young and so are the artists in our video. Also the big difference between the fonts and the font size of the album name and the band name is a very effective way and a good way to sell the artists and present them to the audiences.

The Girls Aloud are very different from the above band because they are Elder and less modern unlike the above artists. However, the similarity that appeared to me from this cover is the strong effect that the black and white effect has made. The artists costumes are pretty much the same and that is a similarity that my album picture contains, which consists of all the artists wearing dresses. Again the album name is in a different font and size and colour. The audience of this album will be very different to my album because of the Elder people that the band consists of. And Girls Aloud is an old band and as people know the age group of audience for this album would be approximately from early 20's +. 

This album cover is quiet different compared to the other two and mine, because this album consists of one artist only.But it doesn't create a huge difference as pretty much all the features are the same.The artist's name is is a different font and a different colour. However, what attracted me a lot is the connotations that occur within the the colours. My understanding was that the blood on Nicole's arm represented the word 'Killer' and the red surrounding the words 'killer' and 'love' represent 'Love'. But then the white font that her name is written with juxtaposes with the album name representing purity and innocence. Now the audience to this album would be earlty teens as they would be looking up to such celebrities as a role model.

Starting the digipak with stress ( production of ancillary)

So i was making an attempt to make the backgrounds of both front and back covers the same colour.But then i couldn't find that colour in the colour palette. So i need to take the picture of the wall.

Digipak-Last year ( research of ancillary)

STRENGTHS:

• Picture of artist and album name is clear on the front cover
• Songs are clear on back cover
• Barcode and record label are on the back cover and clear
• Name of album is clear on spine 
• Same font on both covers

WEAKNESSES: 

• Name of artist needed to be in bigger font size to sell artist 
• Name of album needed to be smaller and at the bottom
• Spine needed album name to be on it
• Back cover has certain substances missing and looked plain
• The word 'song' is irrelevant as the songs are clearly listed
• Font size could have been a little bigger to make song titles clearer

Photos of Artists ( planning ancillary)