All done

Hiya!

This has been such a great experience, I have loved working on this production and my team and I have done our very best with this project. I have made some great friends in Dan,Jess and Lily and they were amazing people to work with throughout. It's given me a taste of the music industry and media in a job sense and shows what hard work and great people can do!

Amber Adams is pure gold and I loved being her and singing for my team. 

It's been a blast!

Heather.

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 I have to have a general plan to make sure nothing goes wrong and I'm graphing my ideas and concepts along the way.

DONTS.

Copyrights: don't steal or take anything from anyone's webpages. Make sure everything is all my own work and I'm not just copying from other people's ideas.you need permission from the artists of some webpages to use their photos music and words.

With my webpage I can't write massive paragraphs as I need to be straight to the point and use all the platforms I have to persuade my audience to want to buy her album and buy tour tickets.

Make sure everything interlinks. My digipak,Music video and webpage have to have the same colour scheme to make the audience aware it is the artist from a first glance.

Don't make it about me. This is not about my personal preference it is all about the audience.

56, Mock up of Digipak

Q2:How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak/band website)?

Copyrights

℗ 2015 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Universal Studios © 2015 Amber Adams partnership under exclusive license to Universal Studios. This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.  © Universal Studios 5014016150821 Made in the Uk. AmberAdams.com

I will be using something like this when copyrighting my album. This is an actual copyright of universal records but with my artists name instead of the original artist. Copyrights are really important as it shows its your work and you have all rights to it so no one can rip you off or steal your work.

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For my digital pak I wanted to copy something similar to Gabrielle Aplin. She used a black and white setting and then had herself in colour with a simplistic text so all focus was on the artist.

My colour scheme is going to be greens and orange mostly. This links with the mise en scene of our video with the autumn scenery and leaves falling in arrays of oranges and reds. I want to incorporate these colours in my webpage and my digipak.

The webpage has to be eye catching. Paloma faiths website influences me as it is big and bold and colours that represent her are used throughout.  

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My main influence was Gabrielle Aplin:

http://gabrielleaplin.co.uk

She was our main influence as we wanted our artist to be like her. We wanted a down to earth vibe and a natural look and Gabrielle's music, colour schemes and synergy presents that. Her colour scheme for her digital pak of black and white and her in colour is sown thing I wanted to capture in mine. 

Q3:How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planing and evaluation stages?

The fig rig was a really important part of our filming process, it helped capture all of our tracking shots which is a convention of a music video. We used it for our establishing shots, panning the camera to show the location. I personally found it rather heavy to use and hold so another member of my group Dan held the fig rig majority of its use.

.After borrowing the media departments camera we realised we prefered Dan's because of its quality. This was probably the most important piece of equipment because without it the filming wouldn't have been possible. As it was Dans camera he was obviously the best at using it  because he knew his way around it.

Our social media was a vital part of our production process, it was our way of keeping the audience up to date with our artists journey. Throughout filming we took photos of the team and the artist mid film and the artist in photo shoots to give the audience a sneak peak into what the video would be. On instagram our captions were always from the artists point of view to give the fans a personal side of her. Our facebook page was the most successful its where we posted feedback, rough cuts and all the photos and little messages. Averagely we got around 42 views a day.

Blogger

We used blogger to document every part of the production process, we posted screenshots and all our ancillary and throughout filming kept it up to date with what is going on. It was also a way for our teachers to keep track of our work and the rest  of our team.

                                                     
Photoshop

I used photoshop when it came down to starting my digipak. Without it i don't think i would of got as good a product as i did. Photoshop was where i cropped all my ancillary photos, merged two together to create a cover that was suitable for my target audience. It gave me the freedom to choose what i thought was appropriate for my digipak like the colour scheme and font and using other digipaks for a starting point, mould together my ideas and make the come to life on a screen.

Premier Pro

premier pro was considerably easy to get the hang of as it is similar to the old software final cut pro. I used premier pro, alongside my group, to piece together all of the base tracks for our music video and slowly make the filming look like a conventional music video for our genre. We included effects that we made manually like flickers as the beat and bass increased so that our video was in speed with the upbeat tempo of the song. 

Q4:What have you learned from your audience feedback?

THIS THE OUR MUSIC VIDEO ROUGH CUT
After posting this video i encouraged students to watch it and give feedback ont eh rpos and cons of the video (link to facebook page with feedback below)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=vb.827999020631170&type=2



6. Dan, Heather, Lily, Jess from 283goswell on Vimeo.

This is our music video( final). We took in all the feed back and the asked the same students and a few different people to give feedback again to see if we had captures and pleased our target audience.

Feedback from students after watching out rough cut now reevaluating now they have seen the finish products:

what i have learnt part 1

What i have learnt part 2

Q1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Finished webpage

http://heatherlouisesimps.wix.com/amberadams 

Link to draft webpage

Link To My Draft Webpage

Photoshop Process

this is a picture of one of our base tracks that i think will be a great image to have on our cover.

After merging my two pictures of the artist i decided to add a natural background for the other side to create a naturalistic, earthy atmosphere.

My font was too bright compared the the rest of my pak so I changed it all to white to give it a softer tone. 

Research into digipak: Gabrielle Aplin

The black and white tones of Gabrielle Aplin 's are soft and subtle which relate to the type of music she sings. It is simple.but eye catching. It's very effective.

The cd is colourful and bold compared to the rest of the pak but the umbrella and balloons are also multicoloured like the rainbow which gives you a visual link.

All of her products link to each other which will make her audience immediately know it is her album which is what you want in a CD.

This is my favourite image from her pa. it's so effective yet so simple. I want something like this in my pak as we have similar audiences.

Ancillary photos for my digipak and webpage

This one will work well for my webpage cover as the artist is looking straight at the camera and it will make the audience feel personally connected with her.

research into music videos: weebly practice

http://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php

Music video research: Webpage

For my webpage I want it to be something like this:

Gabrielle Aplin keeps everything within a colour scheme. Going on the page you can find everything easy and fast which her targwr audience would want in a site. It's clearly labeled and simple text is used and the writing is long winded or rambled.

There are frequent photos of her used and little sign offs with the artists signature which gives the whole webpage a personal feel.

Production of Music Video: Photos of the Editing Process

Hello!

Here are some photos of our editing process:



- Group 6

Feedback from Cinema Screening

Hello!

On the 9th December everyone's videos were shown at the Screen on the Green, a cinema in Islington. We were shown first. We really enjoyed watching other people's videos and were very impressed as everyone's work was of a very high standard.

- Jess

Research: Evaluating Our Lip Sync Project

Hello!

Personally I think our lip sync video was rather good. Looking over it I think we should of taken into consideration the variation in shot types, we focused majority on mid shots and close ups instead of trying other shots out. Considering the lack of time we had I think we filmed and edited quite well, my favourite shot is the tracking shot. It is well framed and isn't shakey or blurred. The lighting was a little problematic, the glare from the sun was in the way of our artists at some points so that would be something to look out for when we film the real thing.
Overall we did well in my eyes;
The lip syncing looks generic and the mise scene is a main focus and works well on camera.