Evaluation

Evaluation No.2 from daisymae96

Target Audience Opinion

My brother would be classed as the target audience for our band and Music Video and as a male who listens to the Indie genre I was sure to get his opinion and see if he would buy, listen to or avoid our band and their Music Video.

So what are you initial thoughts on this mini digipack?

Well my first thoughts are that its incredibly dark and not very colourful. I don't really like the name of the album but when I open it up I can see a lot of hard work has gone into it with the bright colours being layered against the background.

If you got given it for free would you give it a listen just on it appearance?

Yeah why not, seems fun.

What do you think of the Music Video? 

I think its great. I would definitely recommend it for others to watch. Its really fun and it's something you don't get bored watching.

Do you think both my print work go with the Music Video?

Yeah definitely, when you get to see the band at the end you can really tell.

And finally, what do you prefer the poster or digipack?

Um, probably the digipack I think the colours work better on the digipack compared to the poster.

Text Messages

Another way of getting our Music Video out there was we sent out the music video to a few people who would be the target audience to see their response and opinion of it. We thought word of mouth was a good way to see if people enjoyed the Music Video. The response was what we had hoped and it appealed to our target audience immensely. I am really pleased with these results. This method of gaining feedback from our target audience had positives and negatives due to you only being able to see the music video if you had 3G or wifi.

Facebook Feedback

After finally getting our Music Video finished we wanted to get some feedback from the public.We posted our Music Video on to Facebook in hopes that people would like it and respond. The results were good. Many people liked it and ended up sharing it to their page meaning more then just them could watch it. The feedback was positive and no one said anything bad about our attempts of making a Music Video. We are pleased people enjoyed it. It is a really good relief having people enjoy our Music Video after the long efforts we put into making it.

Final Viewing.

This is our final finished Music Video. This thursday we got given feedback. There wasn't much only to improve on the lip syncing and add the titles. The problem with the lip syncing was that it was fine on final cut but when it got exported it wasn't as good and it was slightly out of time. We have sorted this now and it looks much better. We also made sure to add the titles. All this was done after the final viewing. We were incredibly happy with the response and all three of us felt very proud.

Finishing Up

In todays lesson we finished up on the filming and editing. We have completely finished now and are ready to show it to the class next thursday to get out final feedback. We have no spaces left to fill when it comes to editing and we have tried our hardest to work on the feedback we gained previously. I am incredibly pleased with the final result and I feel our hard work has paid off. Everything we could possibly do to try and improve we have tried.

Behind the Scenes - Tuesday

Today we decided to film as many scenes as possible to try and bring our filming to an end. We managed to film about three scenes, one of them being the key ending scene. I am very pleased with them, they haven't been edited yet but scrolling through on the camera they are looking good. I am very pleased with the ending also. We literally have one more scene to film and we can end the filming process and onto finishing the editing.

Print Advert

This is the print poster I have created after gaining the feedback from last Thursday. I have made sure the poster and digipak has similar aspects and even though I prefer my digipak I do think its not overly bad. I feel maybe it is a little text heavy and there isn't much to look at but I feel like the colours work and by looking at the poster you can tell what the digi will look like.

DigiPak Printed

After adding the finishing touches to my developed Digipak I printed it out to ensure it was what I wanted it to look like and it is safe to say I am pleased with the result. Compared to my other digipak I prefer this so much more. In my opinion the colours and design are more likely to be seen with an indie band. I feel that if I had to develop it any further maybe I would think about putting an image on the front but at the same time it could be the case that it would be far too much to look at if I did so. My Digipak doesn't have any proper band photographs only silhouettes but in my opinion I feel this is okay considering the genre. I feel like they wouldn't be trying to sell their image only their music.

Editing

After we filmed on Tuesday we decided to take a head start on the editing process as it is incredibly time consuming. We had many issues today including the images being saved as CR2 files which weren't recognised by final cut pro. this made the editing process last even longer due to the fact they all had to be saved individually as JPEG's and with 300+ photos needing to be converted we lost a lot of time. Even though it took a while to finally edit these scenes we had filmed the results are worth it and we are all pleased with these individual scenes.

Filming

In today's lesson we took to the music room to attempt to get a few filler scenes filmed for our Music Video. Part of the feedback we received once the music video was shown to the class was that they wanted to see more and so we literally have been trying to film as much as we can to keep the Music Video looking interesting. Other scenes we need to film are a couple with the men but also we need to film more with the actual band as that is our closing scene. We should be done on time if we stick to what we have to film and when and if it keeps going to plan. The scenes we shot today included a microphone getting wrapped up but a head phone lead, two head phones going head to head and a part of the drums slowly moving up and down. These scenes which don't include the men will be just before we have a shot of the actual band playing in the music area.

DigiPack

In an attempt to improve my digipak this is what I have created. I have changed the background and used the text as a way of representing the name of the album. The typography and the colour scheme of it help represent the creativity yet at the same with it against the black background it kind of brings
in the indie genre. It is simple without tones of pictures but I feel it is effective.

DigiPak and Poster to show on Thursday

This is the poster and the digipak I designed to show the class ready for feedback on Thursday. My feedback was that it felt a bit childish and really didn't help represent the indie genre of music at all. I wished to make it colourful and creative to go with the feel of the music video and name but now I have taken in the feedback I can understand where the points came from. I created the background myself to try and gain a sense of tie dye or paint splatters but I feel like it maybe does look too childlike. I feel like the silhouettes make it kind of child like also. Another comment was that I need to think more into the layout and what goes where I didn't take this into consideration either.

What I need to do next in order to improve will be to change the colour scheme of it, maybe play around with more darker colours. I want to play around with the opacity of the text so I can layer up different colours on a one colour background. Maybe that will help represent the title of the album too. The digipak as as a whole seems a little empty and so I plan on trying to fill out the panels more.

Other things I will need to consider and include will be the spine and the more information on the poster.

Feedback - First Screening

The feedback we gained through the first screening of our Music Video and Prints media was both good and bad. All the feedback was well received and meant that we now have plenty to work on and improve before the due date. I am able to understand the comments on the Music Video and i agree with everything that was said but now one of my main focuses will be the print media. My problem was that it did represent the indie genre although i tried hard to add colour consider the name of the album'Colour Spectrum' and the creativity of the Music Video. I plan on keeping different colours but toning it down and maybe add some less vibrant colours to represent the genre.

Editing and Filming

We had a very successful day of filming and editing. We found plenty of objects that we were able to use in our animation. We found an old turn table which we used and plenty of switches we could use to create more fun interesting scenes for the stop motion. After hours of filming we went back to school and edited it all in a fast amount of time.

Filming

Today in our free's we went to back to my house in order to film a few scenes before we show it to the class on Thursday. It worked out well because it meant we could film for period 1-4 and then we came back in for period 5 to edit. We did so and got everything done on time. I am pleased with what we have accomplished today as the shots we filmed look pleasing.

DigiPack Images

 

In today's lesson we went on a hunt for guys to photograph. Our intentions were to get guys older and more similar looking to our band members but we had to make do with these guys we found. Even though they weren't what we were looking for we took them to Photoshop to make do with their silhouettes. I feel like these images can definitly be used on my digipak. I like the fact you can identify each member but you cant see their face in my opinion this will make the digipak seem more about the music rather then selling the band image.

Blur - Coffee and Tv

Coffee and TV from daisymae96

As part of creating our own Mucic Video I have looked into other existing Music videos including Coffee and TV by Blur.

DigiPak

Over the Christmas holiday I have been trying to improve my digi pak in multiple ways. To start with I changed the format to make it easier to read and view. I have been deciding on backgrounds and what works best I have also been taking photographs for the other members of the band. Here are a few images of the things I have changed about my DigiPak...


As you can see I have chosen the background I prefer and will want to use. The only thing i am still trying to think about is the pannels and if the lyrics should be there, etc.