Q4.Drafted Answer

Before producing a formal answer in Prezi, I have tried to write down my daft answer in Words document at first, and then, the final answer will be put in Prezi which has been improved comparing with this daft answer.

Q4daft from cherrycai11

Final Digipak (including disk)

Please find on this page the finished digipak, including a disk which has also been produced as part of  the product.There may be a very minimal reduction in quality.

The back cover in more detail

Digipak construction 3

The front and The back

I have been editing the front cover for a long time to be honest, but I finished it as the last one. Because I have tried some many different kinds of ways to combine different effect, image and also used many different editing soft ware in order to create the satisfactory one.

Here is a previous product with its creating process:

Firstly, I used Photoshop - Filter Gallery -Glowing Edges to change the original image into this quite artistic face. And then I just put it in the selected background.

 Here is the final image. The reason I did not use them is I considered that if I used this very nonrepresentational face image, audience is hard to recognise him. It is important for a pop genre singer to be recognised by the public, audience is the source of becoming famous. In this situation, I decided to create a new front cover of the album.

Although I did not use the previous image as the front cover , I used the same way to construct the front  as well as using the same photo and background as the previous one. I just chose different type effect of photo editing , which let the face of artist can be recognised clearly. Moreover, I adjusted the size of the original background photo and put them together in a blank layer, giving a different vision. I plan to use the same background shown again and again in both of my advert and digipak in order to create synergy, on the other hand, I was afraid that audience will feel sick and boring about it. As a reason, I jointed the same picture in different sizes so that a 'new' image is created.

The last but not least, I put all images into the digipak template,and my digipak construction was finished.

Evaluation Questions & Draft ideas

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

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? 

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

Level 4 16–20 marks

There is excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.

There is excellent understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.

There is excellent understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.

There is excellent understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.

There is excellent understanding of the significance of audience feedback.

There is excellent skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.

There is excellent ability to communicate.

Here is the initial idea of answering those four evaluation questions, all of them are written in one paper and then scanned it to computer. Hopefully the words on it are visible.

Final Magazine Advert

Final Magazine Advert 

Notice:

Please find on this page the final magazine advert. 

Please Not that when exported to web the quality and the colour shown in the picture shallowed. So that the real final magazine advert is looked brighter and more clearly than this one shown on the page.

Audience Research (Questionaire)

At first, I devcided to create a questionaire in order to do the audience research and get the audience feedback about music and music video.Although there were some problems after giving out some questionaires and I changed the way of doing audience research at last, I still maintain the audience research questionaire as part of my audience task. So that, my audience rearch was devided into two parts, one was questionaire part and the other was video part.

Here is the questionaire I had given out:

Audience research from cherrycai11

And here are some evidenve picture that I have recevided them back:

 

Then, here is the finding document which contain my analysis of this research I have done:

 



 

Audience research findings from cherrycai11

Audience profile

Key Media Concepts/Theory

As stipulated in my Personal Skills Audit, I have to learn and incorporate Media Theory into my research , it really helps me improving the depth of media studies and understand the media area better. Also, through using media theory to analysis music video, it will influence my planning and construction area of this project, as to produce a music video that is similar to a real media product. This  PPT. covers theorists within Genre, Media Language, Representation and Narrative.

Key media theory from cherrycai11

Digipak Construction 2

 Inside pane construction

I have finished the construction of two inside pane before in "Digipak construction 1", now I have finished the rest of part in my digipak. Here is a simple flow chart of the process of constructing this picture, the final image is shown below as well.

I cut the image into square which can be fitted into digipak, moreover, I used another picture editing software which comes from China to create this special image effect. It looks more colourful which is in  coloured pencil painting style. As a pop genre album, the images in its digipak have to be vibrant and sharp in order to catch audience eyes. In this situation, I just try my best to create some unusual art works to put into my digipak.

On the other hand, I have used the same editing software to create some more effect in the same picture.  They are shown below, as we can see, they are still normal even though they are edited. I think that they are not attractive enough as put into a pop genre album, so I do not consider them at last.

In media marketing, I have learned a kind of marketing method called"synergy". In term of synergy, I want to combine this image with the album front cover background( as well as the back background and the disc cover) I design them all in the same background because I want to reinforce audience impression again and again by seeing them ceaselessly.

This is the final image I have created, I think I have tried to make it look comfortable and special. Although I don't think that everybody can accept this is a good image, I still maintain to put it into the digipak. Because there are too many pop singer exist now, promotion and marketing method are becoming more and more important for a singer getting famous. Therefore, this image will be as one of the inside pane image.