Showing posts with label Tharek Rahman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tharek Rahman. Show all posts
Monday, 23 January 2012
Evaluation Question 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
The feedback given from this person states that the artist could have worn more costumes. In my opinion, I think the same as well so we could have made a better use of Mise En Scene. Just watch the video to find out more.
Evaluation Question 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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We used many technologies to construct our ideas for the video and ancillary work.
Camera
Memory cards
Blogger
YouTube
Internet Research
Photoshop stuff
We used many technologies to construct our ideas for the video and ancillary work.
Camera
Memory cards
Memory cards are used to store the video files and the pictures.
Blogger
YouTube
Internet Research
Photoshop stuff
Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?
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I believe that the ancillary work would be very successful because I think it's appropriate for the right target audience. Our product is mainly aimed at teenage girls and young females so they are our target audience. I think that my digipak would be attractive to the target audience because it has so many girly features such as the font colour and and the way the images and text are laid out.
Our artist is presented in 3 ways: Music video, Digipak and advertisement. We show our artist's image in many ways through the music video, album cover and advertisement.
I think there is a link between the video and the ancillary work, both promote the artist in a way which is similar. The artist in the video seems like she's having fun, she's careless, social and silly. We took different pictures for the album cover, many consisting of silly poses as we're trying to portray the artist as a fun and care free girl.
The video gives the audience a message saying that the artist does not care what they think about her.
As you can see above, I tried to make my album cover similar to the Jessie J's album covers. I decided to put a picture of the artist doing a pose, similar to what Jessie J does in her one's. I changed the contrast of the picture because I didn't want it to look exactly like Jessie J's album cover.
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I believe that the ancillary work would be very successful because I think it's appropriate for the right target audience. Our product is mainly aimed at teenage girls and young females so they are our target audience. I think that my digipak would be attractive to the target audience because it has so many girly features such as the font colour and and the way the images and text are laid out.
Our artist is presented in 3 ways: Music video, Digipak and advertisement. We show our artist's image in many ways through the music video, album cover and advertisement.
I think there is a link between the video and the ancillary work, both promote the artist in a way which is similar. The artist in the video seems like she's having fun, she's careless, social and silly. We took different pictures for the album cover, many consisting of silly poses as we're trying to portray the artist as a fun and care free girl.
The video gives the audience a message saying that the artist does not care what they think about her.
(MORE INFORMATION TO BE ADDED SOON)
Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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Which video(s) were you influenced by and why?
Our group were influenced by many pop music videos consisting of artists such as; Pink, Jessie J and Katy Perry and Lily Allen etc.
Here are some music videos that we were inspired by:
Jessie J - Who's Laughing Now?
Pink - So What?
Lily Allen - LDN
We used the song 'Domino' by Jessie J for our music video, here's a preview:
The official video of 'Domino' by Jessie J was released after we finished our video.
The thing that grabbed our attention the most in these videos were mainly how the artists look and the way they act in those videos, they seem rebellious and crazy which our artist mainly represents.
For example, in the 'So What' video by Pink, she performs crazy acts such as cutting down a tree with a chainsaw.
The video 'Who's Laughing Now' illustrates a young Jessie J having to live with bullies and what she does to overcome it. The story behind this video is that Jessie J probably used to get bullied when she was at school and kids used to laugh at her etc. Now that she is famous, she's laughing at them because she became successful. In the music video, the little girl in the video suggestively portrays a young Jessie J, it's set in a school as you can see there's classrooms and P.E halls.
Our artist is a female and we want our music video to portray a message of girls being free, careless and fun, as you can see in those videos above, the girls seem to be reckless and care free and we tried to portray something similar.
Andrew Goodwin's theory states that females are presented as objects of male desire, mainly in pop and R'n'B videos, but in this situation, we didn't try to do it because we wanted to represent 'Girl power'.
Some examples of women being used as sexual objects are in videos such as 'Candy Shop' by 50 Cent and mainly any other Hip-Hop videos.
There are three types of videos; Illustration, Amplification and Disjuncture.
Illustration is when the music video is portrayed as a story, it tells the story of the lyrics mainly. Dance is used often to express the feelings or moods in the song.
Amplification occurs when the videos introduce new meanings that do not contradict with the lyrics but add layers of meaning.
Disjuncture is where the is little connection between the lyric and video or where the video contradicts the lyric.
In this case, I think our music video type is Amplification. Our video doesn't really follow the lyrics but the artist does act out some of the things that are sung in the lyrics.
Conventions used in music videos, mainly consisting of R'nB and Pop videos include:
Camera Shots: Videos tend to include long shots, mid shots and so much close up of the artist. This is used to emphasise on the artist
Costume: The artist mostly wear more than one costumes in music videos. Costume could have a slight influence on how their viewers dress, because the celebrities could be role models to them. In pop and R'n'B videos, artists(mostly female) mainly wear flashy and bright clothing while on the other hand in rock music, artists mainly wear dark coloured clothing.
Lighting: Some music videos use different types of lighting to emphasise a particular mood.
In our video, we use many close up of the artist and mid shots of the artist. Close ups are used to show the facial expressions of the artist. Mid shots are mainly used to show what the artist is wearing.
Mostly in our video, the lighting is bright, we use this to express a happy feeling.
Visual motifs is used in the video. We use dominoes to reflect on the single itself, in our video, the dominoes are used a lot especially the word 'Domino' built out of actual dominoes.
My album cover for 'Messie M' our artist was inspired mainly by Jessie J album covers. This one above shows her face with some dark coloured make up on in a white background. Our artist's image is similar to Jessie J's image and my album cover is something similar to this but instead, I decided to make my album cover look 'Messy'
Which video(s) were you influenced by and why?
Our group were influenced by many pop music videos consisting of artists such as; Pink, Jessie J and Katy Perry and Lily Allen etc.
Here are some music videos that we were inspired by:
Jessie J - Who's Laughing Now?
Pink - So What?
Lily Allen - LDN
We used the song 'Domino' by Jessie J for our music video, here's a preview:
The official video of 'Domino' by Jessie J was released after we finished our video.
The thing that grabbed our attention the most in these videos were mainly how the artists look and the way they act in those videos, they seem rebellious and crazy which our artist mainly represents.
For example, in the 'So What' video by Pink, she performs crazy acts such as cutting down a tree with a chainsaw.
The video 'Who's Laughing Now' illustrates a young Jessie J having to live with bullies and what she does to overcome it. The story behind this video is that Jessie J probably used to get bullied when she was at school and kids used to laugh at her etc. Now that she is famous, she's laughing at them because she became successful. In the music video, the little girl in the video suggestively portrays a young Jessie J, it's set in a school as you can see there's classrooms and P.E halls.
Our artist is a female and we want our music video to portray a message of girls being free, careless and fun, as you can see in those videos above, the girls seem to be reckless and care free and we tried to portray something similar.
Andrew Goodwin's theory states that females are presented as objects of male desire, mainly in pop and R'n'B videos, but in this situation, we didn't try to do it because we wanted to represent 'Girl power'.
Some examples of women being used as sexual objects are in videos such as 'Candy Shop' by 50 Cent and mainly any other Hip-Hop videos.
There are three types of videos; Illustration, Amplification and Disjuncture.
Illustration is when the music video is portrayed as a story, it tells the story of the lyrics mainly. Dance is used often to express the feelings or moods in the song.
Amplification occurs when the videos introduce new meanings that do not contradict with the lyrics but add layers of meaning.
Disjuncture is where the is little connection between the lyric and video or where the video contradicts the lyric.
In this case, I think our music video type is Amplification. Our video doesn't really follow the lyrics but the artist does act out some of the things that are sung in the lyrics.
Conventions used in music videos, mainly consisting of R'nB and Pop videos include:
Camera Shots: Videos tend to include long shots, mid shots and so much close up of the artist. This is used to emphasise on the artist
Costume: The artist mostly wear more than one costumes in music videos. Costume could have a slight influence on how their viewers dress, because the celebrities could be role models to them. In pop and R'n'B videos, artists(mostly female) mainly wear flashy and bright clothing while on the other hand in rock music, artists mainly wear dark coloured clothing.
Lighting: Some music videos use different types of lighting to emphasise a particular mood.
In our video, we use many close up of the artist and mid shots of the artist. Close ups are used to show the facial expressions of the artist. Mid shots are mainly used to show what the artist is wearing.
Mostly in our video, the lighting is bright, we use this to express a happy feeling.
Visual motifs is used in the video. We use dominoes to reflect on the single itself, in our video, the dominoes are used a lot especially the word 'Domino' built out of actual dominoes.
My album cover for 'Messie M' our artist was inspired mainly by Jessie J album covers. This one above shows her face with some dark coloured make up on in a white background. Our artist's image is similar to Jessie J's image and my album cover is something similar to this but instead, I decided to make my album cover look 'Messy'
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Photoshop Tutorial: Advertisement
This is my advertisement for the album, I decided to use the colours; purple and black as a main theme colour because I think it looks attractive and represents a feminine theme. I used to Trajan Pro text font in the text underneath the album cover because I think that it's appropriate for the audience as it stands out clear. I highlighted the tracks; 'Domino' 'Unbreakable' and 'House Party' in the advertisement to make them stand out. I included the HMV, iTunes and amazon logo to show people where it can be purchased from. At the bottom of the advertisement, I added the Island logo advertisement and the websites of the artist and the record label
Monday, 9 January 2012
Digipak draft (Late post)
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Behind the scenes of the photoshoot
Having major difficulties uploading these videos
So.... i am unable to upload the videos onto blogger which is annoying because the videos are funny but it seems like blogger doesn't find it funny.
So.... i am unable to upload the videos onto blogger which is annoying because the videos are funny but it seems like blogger doesn't find it funny.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
fonts for digipak
We had a look at different font, and decided that we wanted to use a simple and not too fancy font.
Photoshoot Behind The Scenes
Today we had a photoshoot.... well something similar to that. We didnt have much locations but we were sure that we wanted to film in front of a white wall. We found a place on the lower ground of the college and we took pictures there. Then we went outside and took really good pictures out there. I decided to start filming the behind the scenes so that you could see what we got up to.
I forgot to film the stuff that we did inside.
1st up just a couple of pictures of stylist Chau putting fake lashes on Michaela. Then after that a few pics from outside in the park field whatever.
I forgot to film the stuff that we did inside.
1st up just a couple of pictures of stylist Chau putting fake lashes on Michaela. Then after that a few pics from outside in the park field whatever.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Planning for the digipak
Today in class, we were given a task to plan our digipak. Our group came with several ideas of what to put on the digipak.
Further analysis to be added. (pictures will be included too)
Monday, 5 December 2011
Album artwork analysis: Part 2
This is the album artwork for the album 'Meteora' by Linkin Park
This album is one of Linkin Park's best in my opinion. The album shows a man wearing a gas mask who looks like he is holding a graffiti spray can who is about to spray on something. The environment on the album cover suggests that the guy is on a rooftop (this is shown because of the sky in the background and some wires on the floor, also there's no ceiling or walls. The colour of the album cover makes it look grungy and messy.
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