Possible Digipack 1

Here is our first idea for our digipack. Four of the six pictures on the digipack are screenshots from our music video. We then added background colours to go with the album title; "Technicolour". We choose the album title because of the irony it creates because the music video we shot was in black and white. The ablum track titles are stereotypical Brit-indie track names. These were named this way because the genre isn't necessarily known for having deep lyrical meaning which the track titles suggest. In the sixth and final image on the digipack, it shows a band shot.  

Technicolour Poster

This is the poster we made for the magazine. Again this fits with the "Technicolour" album title as we have a variety of colours on it. The poster is a large version of the album cover which includes made up quotes of large national newspapers in Britain. We created the stereotypical quotes you mainly we mainly see on all CD advertisements, such as; "Best Album of 2014".

Possible Band Shot

This is a possible band shot, the photograph was taken by a white brick wall. The photo was then edited using Photoshop. The colours used on the photo match the colours on the album cover. We used filters to make it stand out more. 

This is the second possible band shot. The difference is that we aren't stood up against a white brick wall. This time we are stood in an alleyway. The image has been cropped slightly we decided to take out the tree and the sky as we felt these weren't needed.

After reviewing both band shots, I've decided that I like them both. They both fit in with the criteria which is used for the Brit indie image. The colours also tie in with the album title "Technicolour".

 

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

We were constantly using new technologies throughout the development of our music video.

Facebook/Twitter
We used social media throughout the production of the music video, we would use social media to arrange times to meet at locations for filming etc. Instant messaging we used a large part of the time, especially when we were arranging the bouncer shots, we had to arrange who was being picked up etc. We also used this technology to say whether anything came up and say whether or not we could make it to a meeting or to a lesson.

YouTube
We used this technology to research professional music videos and other media coursework as examples to help us create and develop a concept for our music video, e.g. cutting rates, generic conventions etc.

Blogger
We have a blog to keep a dairy on the development of our music video. We looked at other students blogs to help us create a template for our blog. Overall Blogger worked very well, however it wasn't the most user friendly program  in the world, for example, putting images on your blog posts was just infuriating as they wouldn't move where you wanted them to.

Blogger did prove to be useful, obviously providing evidence to our music video to show our roles within the group. We also used our blogs to receive feedback on any work we have done from our friends and tutor. The album cover for example. We posted the drafts, and received feedback on how it can be improved significantly. As you can see you see from our first draft to the final draft, there has been a huge change on how it looks. As you can see, we added colour to the final draft by using colour pass

1st draft

final draft