Audience Feedback - Digipak

My digipak received positive feedback. The audience mainly liked the typography and colour of the digipak, they said it suited the pop genre well. However, it was plain and didn't represent my artist much, so I was recommended to add a picture of my artist and show his face on the cover. After this I had added a picture of my artist and edited it on Photoshop to make it look professional.

Audience Feedback - Editing

 

For my editing, I received a lot of positive feedback from my audience. majority of the feedback, was that I had used good lip syncing and good cut shots. However, I was recommended to use more transitions as there weren't enough. I applied these changes, and added transitions which improved my video a lot. Also my feedback said that the narrative and performance was good.

Audience Feedback - Mise en scene

 

The feedback I received for my mise en scene was both positive and negative. The feedback showed that my locations were good and suited my genre. However, the negatives was that there wasn't enough variation for my locations and that I should use more different locations. Also, that I should add more props such as flowers which would go well with my lyrics. I took the feedback on board and applied changes to my video by adding different locations and brought flowers for my props.

Audience Feedback - Costume

 

Majority of my feedback about my costumes were positive. My class mates said that the costumes fit the pop genre, and suits well on the characters. The costumes reflected current and popular fashion, which works well for my music video. The positive feedback meant I didn't have to make changes to my costumes.

Production Log - Editing Ancillary Tasks

Editing:

 

Are you on schedule?

Yes I am on schedule for my ancillary tasks. I spent time editing for my ancillary tasks at home, too keep me on schedule.

 

How is it going?

Editing for my ancillary tasks are going really well, and I find it easier to edit my digipak and advert better than my music video. I am trying to have the same theme for both my digipak and magazine advert.

 

What are the difficulties?

The main difficulty for me, was to try and crop round the picture for my front cover perfectly without there being easily visible mistakes. I had to erase the background of the original picture and place in onto my digipak.

 

What programme are you using?

The programme I am using for digipak and magazine advert is Photoshop.

 

What are the advantages/disadvantages of this programme?

The advantages for this programme is that there are various tools, which you can use for your pictures such as the magic wand, lasso and magnetic tool, which makes it easier to crop pictures.

 

What fonts did you choose and why did you choose it?

The font I used was called "coaster", which I downloaded from dafont. I chose this font as it looks very cool and it fits well with the pop genre and my artist.

 

Production Log - Editing Music Video

Editing:

 

Are you on schedule?

 

Yes, I am on schedule for the editing. I have worked on the editing out of school hours, to help me improve and finish my video.

 

How did it go?

 

The editing went better than I had first predicted. I wasn't used to adobe premier pro that much, however I got used to all the controls and the features, and managed to apply them to my music video.

 

What were the difficulties?

 

There wasn't much difficulty for the editing, except there were a few clips with poor lighting. There wasn't much I could do to change the lighting of the clips, so I had to re shoot them and make sure the original lighting was good, so for example I filmed in the day where there was bright daylight.

 

What programme are you using?

 

The programme I used for editing was Adobe Premier Pro.

 

What are the advantages/disadvantages of this programme?

 

There are many advantages for this programme. It offered various different tools for the editing of the video and audio. The different tools included transitions, mirrored effects, black and white effects, multiple screens and many more useful tools. There were very few disadvantages, as  I thought the programme was really useful.

Production Log - Filming

Filming:

The filming went well. My partner Luca and I, managed to shoot all the different scenes for our music video.  We went to our different locations for specific shots. There was a few shots where we had to change, as it didn't looked too good when we watched it back, so we tried a few different camera angles to make it look better. There wasn't too many difficulties, as we had managed to shoot everything smoothly and had no trouble getting to our locations or the actors turning up for the shoot. We were slightly behind schedule for the first deadline, however once we had shot all of our scenes, we were on schedule.