Year 13 Media Music Video - Revolution, Half The World Away

Evaluation Question 1: How have you used digital technology in the research & planning, construction and evaluation stages of your coursework?

Revolution Questionnaire

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Today we created our own questionnaire to ask people questions about what they thought of our music video. We did this through survey monkey, and after thinking of our 10 questions to ask, we inserted them into the right format, producing our final questionnaire. Above is the link to our questionnaire, where our audience can answer our questions online, and survey monkey will calculate this data for us, giving us figures and statistics on each question. Once we have gathered all our data and enough people have competed our questionnaire, we can use this as one element of evaluating our production work.

Blog Update: Editing in Final Cut

Here is a screent shot to show evidence of us editing our footage. This particular screen shot shows the footage of the band playing, and here I was putting in 3 shots at the same time, so that all 3 members of the band appeared on screen when getting their instruments ready. When using final cut to edit, I found it very useful as we were able to use multiple timelines at once. This meant that we could layer footage, it didn't have to all appear on the same timeline. The effects were also very interesting to experiment with and see what looked good and what didn't. 

Digipack Designs

Before I could begin to produce my digipack on the mac, I designed a layout on paper, so that I could use this as a template. It also meant that I could explore my ideas on paper, before I went onto the computer. Below is a photo of my paper design.

I then went into Gimp and began to design my ideas on the mac. Our digipack didn't just include an album cover, but an album back cover, and 2 inside covers. This meant that I had 4 covers to fill. After researching into the conventions of a album cover's and digipak's i knew there were some elements which i had to include and these were things like a track list, the band name, the album name, a bar code etc... I looked at all the images we had of our band and I decided that I wanted to include an image of the band on the front cover, rather than a design or another image. I experimented with the effects in Gimp, to create my back cover with the track list and below you can my first design coming together. 

I then went on to finish my design and as I did this I adapted my ideas further. Firstly, I decided to stick to a house style and use only a selected amount of colours, rather than lots of different colours. This was easy as I had used only 3 colours on my webpage, so I used the same 3 colours on my digipack to connect them both and create a sort of theme to our artist. As you can see form the image below, all the colours are similar and blend together. Therefore I changed my front cover to a photo of the band which I had previously edited, and I decided to put their band at the bottom of the cover, because that's where it looked best above the image. I kept the inside right cover image the same, but just edited the tone and colour of it, so that it looked the same as the rest of the digipack (maroon/red with black and white). I also liked the background effect I had on the back cover, where I had put the track list, and so I kept this the same (especially because it used the house style colours). Although, I changed the way the track list appeared, and made it into an actual list as  I felt that this look more professional and clear. I also included my bar code and production company on the back cover. Finally, I designed the inside left cover by adapting an image of the band's instruments I already had and putting the song lyrics to half the world away over the top of the image. I made sure that I used all the same font and text colour through my digipack and after completing all the finishing touches, like the spine of the album cover, I had my final digipack completed. This can be shown in the image below.