Now for feedback we are going to post our video onto facebook and then we will look at the feedback which we get.

I have uploaded my video onto facebook. I will now wait for feedack from people saying what they liked and didnt like to help me with my evaluation.

Evaluation

Now our video, CD cover and Advert are done me and my group now have to do an evaluation.
Here are the questions that need to be answered...

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

2. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

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

I have created my CD cover for Florence and the Machines Kiss with a Fist. Me and my group took several photographs of our main singer in various posistions and using different poses. I choose the one where she is jumping. I then used Photoshop and edited it, this took quite some time to do. I made the image of "Florence" jumping look old by the effectt on it and the adjusted brightness and contrast, so it relates to the overall look of the video. Then i thought i would want my cd cover to stand out so i then drew hearts behind her using all different shades of pinks and reds. I did think that this may look a bit like a pop cover but i think that the idea of whats behind it, the shot of "Florence" and the text dont represent pop at all. I made the heart look hand drawn on and "messy" to make it unusual and exiting It relates to the video with the shots of the paper hearts. I put a TV screen in the background to again relate. The CD cover then relates to the video which is important and links it all together.
Here is my final CD front cover.



Me and my group want all of our CD cover and adverts to in some way match and link together so we decided to use the same font and have the same image on our back cover. They do not look the same but elements of them are so people would be able to tell that they were for the same thing.
here is my final CD back cover.





I have created a advert for Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a Fist, to be displayed in NME to advertise the artist and to get people to buy the song. I have again used photoshop to do this. I have used similar elements in my advert to my CD cover, this was to link the two together. I edited the images so that they appear old, like old photography paper, this is similar to the overall look in the video. My advert looks like a face a i have divided the page so it goes eyes, information, mouth. I feel that it is more effectivethat the eye are looking away, not to the center. I feel that it seems "fun". I have put reviews on there tis then persuades people to listen and therefore buy the CD as many other people like it, and if you like NME and KERRANG! (which i have used) then you would be more inclinded to get the CD. I put the CD front cover on the advert so that people will know what it looks like if they want to buy it. I am pleased with how it looks.

Here is my Advert

I am using adobe photohop to create my CD cover,

I wanted the CD cover to link into the video, so I chose the start of the music video where the artist is on the TV screen, this is a memorable scene so looking at the video then the CD cover you would know why the artist is jumping from a TV screen. I got the image of a TV screen from google images i saved this and then edited it to make it look"old fashioned", I then made the TV screen all one colour using the paint bucket "fill" tool icon. I then cut around the image of Emma jumping using the lasso tool I then used the brush to draw a heart around her, this relate to the music video (the paper hearts) and it links with the overall story of the video. This alo makes it bright and different, therefore it would stand out on a shelf. I then added the artists name and the title. I made sure this was clear and readable. My group and my self all agreed to use this font so that they all link together.

I created a CD cover and advert, but then decided against them, I took the ideas from them and created my final perlimenary tasks, here they are.

MUSIC VIDEO - KISS WITH A FIST

Here is the final and finished product for our music video Kiss with a fist by Florence and the Machine.

We have finished editing now and our video is finished, It took quite a while to edit, We played around with the editing to see what looked best, all three of us in our group are pleased with it. Our course work has worked well because as a group we have all got on well as a group.

I am now going to start making my CD cover. I chose this photo of Emma(our artist) for my CD cover as i think it intresting and fun. Althought the image i have chosen isnt similar to my original plan i think it works well. I will now edit this to make it into a CD cover

We have just finished editing the lip syncing part in our video, it wa going well to start with but then it got a it difficult to match so we had to film some parts again to fit in better with the song. Without realising some parts we didnt intend to put in our video look better than the parts which we intended too, We have had to cut some scenes down as they were too long and the audience would get bored so we added more. It was quite hard to fit everything into the video, we had a lot of footage we wanted to use but not enough time to put it in. We dont have much more to edit and we are pleased with what we have got so far.

We have now finished filming for our video, As a group we are pleased with what we have filmed and the time that it ha taken to film, i think ecause we had it all planned and organised what we was going to do that it has worked so well.
We are now editing. we started to edit before we finished filming so that we didnt have to rush allour editing. In our group Emma has a mac so we didnt have to rely on using the schools when they were free and we could do it in our own time, which we did. It was alot easier like this. We have enough footage and much more than we need to create our video. We are using Imovie to edit. As a group we have thought and talked about the editing both as we have filmed the video and now we are editing. This has been useful as we have an idea of what we are doing so we dont just rush it and not think about what we are doing properly.

We have sped up a few scenes, we filmed a scene where it appears that a heart made up of little paper hearts is growing, this we had to speed up otherwise it would have taken too much time in our video.
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#3 Filming

Today we filmed more for our music video, There was a range of shots used. High angle, Low angle close ups, long shots. mid shots, from above etc. we dont want our video to only use one type of shot we want a range of shots to make it more intresting to look at.

We filmed some instrumental part today using a guitar. We have finished most of our filming now, only have a little bit left to do. We also talked about the editing and effects that we want to put into the video.

#2 Filming

We have just filmed a scence which will go in the start of the music video. We had to film our singer then burn it onto a disc, we wanted it to look like the singer was on the t.v singing, we then played this on the dvd player, it looks good and is more intresting to watch as it is unusual. this scence sets the story for our video.
The story behind our video is that Florence is being ignored bu her boyfriend, he is playing the x box and she rings, he ignores her call. After this his TV screen goes blank then Florence appears and starts singing Kiss with a Fist. This song is then related to her feelings towards him.

#1 Filming

Today we filmed more for our music video, We filmed alot of miming which we will then lip sync to the music, This took quite a while to get the timing right, we ussed both close ups and medium shots, we shot alot of footage incae we need more when editing. We also filmed a few scenes with alot of balloons in the shot, we wanted them flying around, to make the shot fun and exiting, this wass quite difficult and took some time to get right but in the end it came out in the way which me and my group wanted it too.