Evaluation - Question 4

What have you learned from your audience feedback? 

Audience are the group of people a media product is aimed. Audience feed back is vital for the producers because it is a way to see the reaction of the viewers and also you can find out what they think about the product as well as being able to give constructive criticism or any areas of improvement.   After gathering audiences feed back the producer can analyse it to see what went well and what could be improved for the next project more over the producer can learn if the needs to the audience have been met. 

Evaluation - Question 3

Evaluation - Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text? 

CD Cover and Magazine ad 

Shots from music video

In our music video we had a number of shots including a base track in a greenland theme. unlike the rest of my group who had a black white and grey theme i decided to have a different theme because i felt that it would be to simple. my ancillary products linked to my video as you can see above with the arist singing in a park in addition to the scenery shots the reason for using this aspect in my ancillary is that i think the camera work and edits gave a good visual of these shots which made me want to use this for my CD cover. In our planning stages as a group we decided that a watch would symbolise our artist throughout our project, i used this synergy on my CD cove and magazine ad as you can clearly see his watch on his wrist.

The other group members used a black ad white theme for their ancillary products. i think that both themes work with the music video as it has a mixture of both themes through the base tracks and scenary shots.

Evaluation - Question 1

MAGAZINE AD FEEDBACK

INSIDE FEEDBACK

DIGIPACK FRONT COVER FEEDBACK

Using Photoshop

Using Photoshop 

Before using photo shop for my digi pack i was not good at using it i lacked simple skill on how to use the different tools this is because i had no knowledge or experience in using this software. this made me struggle at the start not knowing how to use the soft ware i tried to do different things but found it difficult so i had to have assistance from my teacher and my peers after spending lots of time practising i started to get that hang of using photoshop and i was more fluent in editing and creating pictures.

Some skills I learnt: 

- ensuring my layers were tidy so i can change around layers

- change colour schemes 

- enlarge images with out stretching them

- how to get rid of red eye 

- change the contrast of images 

I used templates before starting my actual Digi pack to practise using mainstream artist to give me an idea of what to do for my work.

My first finished front cover 

My final product

I believe i have improved a lot from the beginning to the end of my digi pak 

Final Magazine ad

Final CD cover

talking through my magazine ad

Using camtasia I'm talking through my magazine ad 

improving on feed back mag ad

Ive spent a lot of time re arranging my lay out till it looks suitable and untill there aren't unnecessary gaps

Improving on feed back inside

My previous Cd cover was to simple having a white background so i added a photo that suits my theme

improving on feed back front cover

After receiving my feed back i understood the reason for changing my photo on the front cover because my previous photo didn't show my artist clear enough, being a new artist it was vital to have a clear photo of him on the front cover so he can be identified, after changing my photo i found my cd cover more appealing

Feed back on draft

Feed back on draft 

Front cover: My media teacher had told me that my draft was okay he said it had a good structure and it also had the right information he also said the fonts suited the theme however he said in order to improve was to change my back cover photo around with my front cover so that the front cover has a clear picture of the artist 

Inside: my teacher said it was generally okay but it would be better if i had a picture behind the cd 

Magazine add: my teacher said it was consistent in comparison to my CD cover but he said i should play around with the payout till it looks the best 

Magazine ad - draft

Inside - draft

Front cover - draft

planning divi pack

 How i created the design on my CD 

I used the Eliptical Marque tool to crop a circle out of my picture which i took to be my CD cutting out the correct circle gave me the background that i wanted for my cd

i cut out another smaller circle using this tool and put it in the middle so it look like a real cd.

Then i rearranged my layer

This was the out come, next i will be adding the name of the album cover at the top of the cd. 

planning Digi pack

Tools used on photo shop 

                                                            

 This tool helped me organise my different layers. I found this useful because i was able to out my text on top of my pictures and i could send my pictures in different order to match my work.

 This helped me open up pictures and edit them before putting them onto my cd cover.

 The arrow tool helped me experiment on my cd cover as it allowed me to
move layers about on my cd cover till i thought it looked the best it could
be.


                                                               Here i had a range of fonts i could chose for to be the font for                 my front cover