[Evaluation] Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

[Evaluation] Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

[Evaluation] Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

[Evaluation] Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

[Music Video] Music Video [Final]

[Music Video/Planning] Digipack [Final]

[Music Video/Ancillary] Band Website [Final]

Below is a link to the band website I made for the ancillary task. It helped us to decide on a name for the band to make out that we are different to the actual band. Using wix , a website creating site, and photos that were taken for the digipack, I created a website fitting for the band and its theme.


Link to the Website

[Music Video] Bloopers and Outtakes

Below is the outtakes and bloopers from the music video - this is something I planned to have added to the website as something extra for the fans - plus it was a little bit of fun to make this.

[Planning] Music Video Warnings

In our music video, after re-watching it, we realised that we would need a warning at the start of the music video to warn people that there would be flashing images. Below are some examples of music videos that are seen as most known to have epilepsy warnings for flashing images and the likes.

One of the two music videos I watched for this was Battles music video; "Tonto" which was seen as being seizure inducing due to the lights that were used within the cave. They flashed quite a bit yet were used in a way to make it better - this seems tamer compared to the other music video I looked at.

In the second music video by Kanye West ft. Rihanna is "All of the Lights" which is seen as having a lot of bright lights and flashing images almost constantly along with the flashing text on the screen which is very off putting for this video. Despite the low tempo at the start and how peaceful it seems, that differs completely when you reach the main song where the two artists start singing. This is seen as needing the warning a lot more compared to Battles song.

[Planning / Update] Music Video Deadline and Work Done So Far

The final deadline for everything to do with our music video is this Friday, lets just say that time certainly does pass by very quickly. So far, we have nearly everything done to do with the music video, with the ancillary still in progress and in the planning stages, time seems to be running up short.

The music video so far seems to be making steady progress - here's a picture of it so far;

We've also thought out the layout for our website which seems to be an easy task to complete which is as shown below;

[Music Video/Planning] Draft of Music Video

Below is a draft of my music video, I've received feedback for this draft and will be altering certain scenes and graphics of the video. This is because it doesn't seem to keep up with the glitch theme that I gave to the music video at the start.

[Planning] Digipack Cover [Front+Back]

Below was the former plan for a CD cover and we changed it so that it will be used for the digipack. Contained within the digipack, I will put in lyrics, feature more pictures from the music video and also hopefully include a QR code which will link people who scan it to the website of the group.

The first picture is the plan for the front cover, it has the original bands name though as we weren't sure whether to make up our own or to use the official bands name, after a lot of decision making, we finally decided to use our own name and chose "Ego Virus". The reason we chose "Ego Virus" is because it's represented in the music video. "Virus" is seen as the corrupted video that makes it look all glitch. The "Ego" is represented by the two characters in the music video and how they always hide their face and always appear to look quite strong and singular - always looking quite distant and trying to hide their ego, or so I intended for them.

[Planning] Music Video Preview

Here is just a preview of our music video, the start of it to say the least as we decided to make the picture glitch to try and make it seem like an issue or hacked footage. We made this preview to get a good look at the quality of the video when it is uploaded to YouTube and how we can up the quality to try and make it look better.

[Planning] Costumes for Music Video

Using a website called padlet, we thought through our costumes for the most part as well as ideas and what they represent if you look at them in depth, as explained in the screen shot below. This was so that we could try and incorporate different themes into our music video.

[Planning] CD cover - Editing

Above is one of the many ideas we had for the album cover - we used the effect overlay and from experiments, it worked better on an image with darker clothing as the overlay seemed to be better to see as well as it simply worked.
Though this is not the image we want to use for our final cover, we do want to use the image we used for the overlay, as well as this gives us an insight as to what type of clothing we should be wearing in order to make sure this effect really works.
This gave us ideas for what to do with the cover so we will be putting up some pictures of sketches and the likes of future ideas for the album cover.

[Planning] Location for Music Video

 

When deciding on the location for our music video to take place - we decided to take it somewhere close to home that wouldn't require too much time for us to travel to. That was when we noticed that a small portion of our back garden was quite overgrown and suited the theme of the music video. It gave that bit of a urban, overgrown and foreign look and would hopefully give that off for the music video to say the least.

This is what lead to us deciding on this place for our main location, other areas that are seen in the music video are from other places about the garden as well as in the house. We decided on this due to us wanting to spend more time on filming than having to travel about as well as us wanting to be closer to home, quite literally at this point, in case something was to happen.

There are a few noticeable issues with filming here as not only is there a lot of overgrown areas in this plot of land, there's also a few obstacles that will be risk assessed as the area itself does seem a bit too dangerous in order to actually do anything with.

[Research] More CD Covers

I looked at more CD covers and how they appeal to their target audience as well as let people know of the genre of the songs that are present of the album. This was to help me get a better insight into what I wanted for my CD cover and what I would want on it.

 

[Planning] Permission Request

I sent a message to the record label who produced the album which the song I'll be using for my music video is from. Below is a copy of the email I have sent them to request the permission to use such;

[Planning] Development of Ideas

I printed off a copy of the lyrics to the song and started to draw up some ideas as well as made notes of what could be happening during certain parts of the lyrics. This was discuss between myself and my sister - who will be taking part in this music video and we brainstormed ideas of what to put into the music video.

 

[Research] Case Study: YouTube

I decided to do a case study on YouTube and how I would use it to promote my artist.

Media Studies - Youtube Case Study from Croudinator