Production Diary - 23/03/15

Now that I have completed both the main task and the auxiliary tasks, I am now going to continue writing my evaluation questions. Although I drafted these before I had completed my two tasks I now need to go back and add to these evaluation question and find a suitable way to present these. When presenting my evaluation I am going to ensure that I use a range of different methods for example videos, prezi and magazines. By showing these in a range of different methods highlights my interest in media technologies and will make my work more interesting to people reading it.

Production Log - 20/3/15

Today I completed my final Digipak for my album. I decided to keep this very similar to my advert and music video to ensure that the audience know that they all link together and all promoting the same album. The front cover of the Digipak is kept simple, drawing the readers in through the boldness of the name of the album, and the mid shot of the artist. I believe the shot on the front of the Digipak is highly suitable and highlights the type of artist that Beth is. Moving onto the inside of the Digipak I kept the whole thing to studio pictures, but had the artist looking more directly into the camera. As well as this I included a note from the artist and her hand written name, once again making the audience more likely to want to buy the album. Finally on the back cover I included the management details and the barcode as well as the track names as this was the most suitable place to have all of this information. The white dress she is wearing is featured in the music video therefore making the audience notice what the promotion is for.

 

Audience Feedback

After completing my audience feedback survey I have gathered all the data together and presented this in PowerPoint.

Audience Feedback Survey

I have made a survey to collect my audience feedback using the website www.surveymonkey.com. I believe this is the best way of me collecting feedback as it would be anonomous and therefore the audience would give me honest feedback. In addition it is not restcited to the amount of results I can collect. Below is the link for the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7KR9SW6

Production diary - 5/2/15

Transcript:
I have continued working on the drafting stages of both the Digipak and the album advert both at home and in school. Whilst at home I have continued to look at existing products to gain ideas for my own work. Due to using the software InDesign to make my Digipak and album advert I am only able to complete this at school and in lesson time as I do not have this software at home. As a result of this I have been staying after school to work on all three of my products to give me more time to product the highest quality work. I am to continue working the way I am at the moment drafting my products and trying different things to see what works most effectively to create something unique and different to existing digipaks and album adverts.

Production Log - 26/01/15

I have continued to work on my music video ready for the final draft, however I have completed a photoshoot for the images for the digipak and the advert. I complete a photoshoot with my model in the studio to gain a large number of images which I could potentially use for my two auxilary tasks. For this photoshoot I made sure the settings were accurate and the lighting was set up correctly. Firstly I used continuous lighting which meant that it would not flash when the picture was taken. This was suitable to me as it meant that it would give me a much warmer glow and a much better finish against the black background to the image rather than a more bright picture. I also used a soft box which is a diffuser that makes it a lot softer and gentle than the white. If I was to use a flash for the images it would mean that I would have reflections which would mean it did not give more tone to the skin and more interesting lights. I also changed the camera settings to make them appropriate to the photography. I set the shutter speed to 15, F stop to 5.6, ISO at 200 and used a light meter to check how far the light was going. Below shows the set up to the photoshoot which I used:

Contact Sheet

This is my contact sheet of all the images which I took when I completed my photo-shoot. To make this contact sheet  I used the software Photoshop and then saved the files as JPEGs and then added them all to a PowerPoint. After doing this I saved the PowerPoint and uploaded it using the website slide share.
As you can see from this when I completed my photo-shoot I knew the kind of shots which I wanted to achieve and therefore took enough to ensure that I had a large choice to choose from but not loads that I had too many. In addition to this looking at the contact sheet the range of shots taken is evident where I took the pictures from many angles and positions, as well as some more close up than others. Finally when taking pictures I used two different costumes as I was most likely to use the images of Beth wearing the white dress however I wanted to make sure that I had a back up incase these were not suitable.