Evaluation Questions

Evaluation Questions

Here are the list of questions I will be answering for my evaluation 

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?

Evaluation Plan

For My evaluation I will create a video answering every question of my evaluation recording each presentation on my computer using Camtasia. I will then form it all into one video including screen shots, clips of other artists music videos and clips of my own music video. This process will provide a creative and an analytical approach to my evaluation. 

Poster Finished

I have now finished my poster using Indesign. Overall it was fairly easy for me to complete as I am now used to all the functions and features the program has to offer after creating my digipak.

My poster keeps in theme of my digipak as the same colours and design is used

Here is my final poster:

Poster - Plan

Now that I have finished my digipak I have now started brainstorming my posterfor my song. 

The poster will be in a poster form and will have to keep in theme of my digipak. This means it cannot be a over the top poster or a stereotypical poster. The poster will have to be minimalistic and feature dark gloomy imagery. The colour scheme I am looking for will be navy blue, dark grey, silver and white. 

Digipak Finished

Today I have finished my digipak using Indesign. I have kept to my design plan of going with nature shots and keeping a dark tone using dark "cold" colours.


Front:

Inside:

Back:

I have included lyrics of my song inside the digipak and have used shots that resinate with my artist and his song. The shots of empty fields and woods represent the lonliness and the feeling of being lost in such a big world. The dark skies show the mood of the song and album and symbolise the bad things that have happened and what my artist is going through. 

Digipak - Creation Process

I am currently designing my digipak for my artists album: Dark Twisted Fantasy, The program I am using is called InDesign.

The creation process involved creating the front cover, four inside pages and a back cover. When creating I had to keep in the theme of my music video because I felt that a consistent, almost dark, theme to my digipak would be best as looking at other artists every album has a theme, therefore all styles and music videos go along with that said theme.

The Digipak is almost done as I only need to finish two more pages

I felt that going with a dark theme I needed to implement "cold" colours into my digipak. This is because the these cold colours would help bring life to my album and make it stand out rather than having a plain black and grey album. I feel the navy blue represents the sadness of the album with the grey writing complementing this theme.

The imagery in the background such as the empty field and woods,  I feel is very powerful and really cements what the song is all about , being lost and alone. The filters used helps with the darkness of the album and song, amplifying the mood.

Website

Websites

I have now created the website for my artist. I have used inspiration from other artists and have used features that I collected during my research.  

Here I have implemented designs that have been inspired by artists such as Bon Iver as seen in my research. I feel it makes links to my music video also keeping a constant theme. 

My website:

Here I keep to the nature shot theme whilst advertising new music, upcoming music, list of albums and most popular singles. This has been inspired by artists such as R.Kelly and Beyonce.

Here I have listed my artists tour information such as the dates and location. This has come from researching other artists websites such as Kanye West 

Here I have provided contact information for bookings and a fan mail account used for interacting with fans. This was inspired by artists such as R.Kelly and Justin Timberlake.

Digipak Decision

I have decided to go with Digipak idea2 as I feel it will help my theme of challenging the sterotypical conventions of my genre and help emphasise the theme of being lost and alone in both my song and video.

I will be using Indesign for creating my digipak.

Digipak Idea 2

Another idea I have for my digipak is to go with a minimalist approach and show my theme and mood through shots of nature. I feel this will help my artist stand out and it will help challenge the stereotypical conventions of his genre.  

This has been done by some other artists before, such as John Legend, Lil Wayne and Kid Cudi. This is where I have got my inspiration from.

John Legend:

Lil Wayne: 

Kid Cudi: