Media Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages

Media Question 4

Voki Problems

Voki 
Whilst using a alternative method for the evaluation I encountered a problem in which I was embedding the Voki's onto my blog but when I came to publish it they didn't seem to play the audio it was meant to and so I tried a few things to fix it like put it in a power point and try and upload that but that did't fix it either. So what I did was to record it on an audio recorder and then uploaded it to a power-point and that seemed to fix it and I will be uploading it later.

Question 3 - What have you learned from audience feedback? (Kieran Winrow)

Question 2 - Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? (Kieran Winrow)

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Kieran Winrow)

Music Video - Final Draft

The final product is now finished and has been uploaded to youtube for the public to view. The group are now happy with the music video that we have created in regards to the changes and adjustments made. We believe that we have created a better product in this final version and we all believe that we have successfully completed our journey into creating a successful music video.
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Final Editing (Charles Mossman and Ian Pelgrave)

Charles Mossman and Ian Pelgrave are now in the process of constructing the final editing editions before publishing our final music video product. Taken from our audiences responses to the music video we have made a number changes in order to make the video more professional and suited towards the genre of indie/pop. Below are some screenshots of our final process before we publish the final music video.

Preview (Ian Pelgrave)

Before we publish the final product the group have decided to create a small preview for our music video product. we have decided to do this as providing our audience with a preview will help to stimulate an excitement before our final product is published. The preview can be viewed below and will be posted within our twitter feed and facebook page shorty.

Imposed CD Packaging (Charles Mossman)

After Kieran creating the design template for the group’s cd packaging and album cover, I have decided to impose the design on an actual package to provide the 3D view of the cd packing. In order to do this I have used a blank CD wallet to help me create the design.  I have inserted the 3 dimensional version below.

Final Album Cover/CD Package (Kieran Winrow)

Through the feedback given from other people in the class, I have now developed the album cover and cd packaging and now constructed the final version for the CD Packaging. I think that I have done a very good attempt at this and should contribute to a successful promotional package.

Final Tour Poster (Charles Mossman)

Based upon the final results collected, most of our audience prefer my tour poster that I have designed. I have now finished the tour poster for our group. Through the comments and feedback I have been given from people I believe that I have created a professional tour poster that will be used to promote the artist and our music video. In addition my research into tour posters has benefit me as well, which has allowed me to construct and put together a professional poster. I have used the typical codes and conventions in order to put together this media product. Below I have inserted an image of the final tour poster. You can visit my individual blog page to view my progression post throughout making the product. Fell free to leave any comments below and tell me your review of the media product I have designed.

Twitter Page Set Up (Charles Mossman)

Today I have officially set up a twitter page for the artist who the group are promoting. As you can see the image we have used are the same images used on the facebook page so it will make it more simple for the audience to recognise the artist.

The group will be posting tweets as often as possible as well as facebook posts in order to show that we are working on producing our final media product of our music video as well as presenting the album cover and tour poster.

All these media products we are producing will contribute to promoting the artist himself. The use of these social networking site page will also help us to widen our target demographics of indie/pop fans by more everyday web users making the artists more recognisable.

I have again inserted a screenshot of the twitter page and embedded the web page below. On the right hand side of the blog I have also included a link to the feeds posted on our twitter page. This will show you the groups most recent tweets based upon promoting the artist.

Sam Smith (@artistsamsmith) | Twitter

Facebook Page Set Up (Charles Mossman)

This week I have now been able to set up a facebook page in order to promote our artist and music video itself. From our research into websites and social networking pages I have set up a facebook page. It has just recently been set up so it will take time for the group to receive a number of likes in order for web users to become more familiarized with the artist himself. Below I have inserted a screenshot of the page as well as embedding the website in order for anyone to view. Later on today I will also set up a twitter page in order to promote the artist.

Sam Smith

Profile Picture Logo and Cover Image (Charles Mossman)

We will be soon creating a Facebook and Twitter Page based upon marketing and promoting the music video and artist himself. Below I have created a simple logo design for our social networking profile picture as well as a cover image using the elements of photoshop. This is so that when our target demographic view the page, they will know and easily recognise this logo in regards to the artist's identity.

CD Packaging First Draft (Kieran Winrow)

As a group we have started our cd packaging. This is only a first attempt and there are things that we need to add to it in order to give it the professional look it deserves The inside lyrics need to be added, on the back cover we need to add the song title and change the text/font style in order to meet the genres outlook. Overall we are pleased with this and  how it looks, however we will be changing the images and be making adjustments for the final product. 

When reviewing the final cd cover packaging I will screenshot my work using the indesign software and identify the features that have been changed. 

Tour Poster Response (Anthony Black)

In regards to voting what tour poster will be most suitable to use in the groups final draft, we have finally collected the results. from the results collected we now know that the most suitable tour poster to use is tour poster 2 as many of the people who filled in the questionnaire  voted tour poster 2. Therefore, as this tour poster is most popular this suggests that this media product would be most suitable to use in terms of our promotional package.              

CD Designs and Packaging Examples (Kieran Winrow)

While I am trying to construct our album cover and CD packaging I have decided to look at some real CD package published by major record companies and artists. Here are some images in which I have looked at in regards to the indie/pop genre which has provided me with a better outline as to how I produce and put together our CD packaging
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CD Packaging Design/Layout (Kieran Winrow)

My set task is to create the groups Album cover as well as the CD packaging. Today I researched the average dimensions of a CD Cover. This is so that I could get an Indesign Document set up and begin to get a feel and idea of what both the front of the CD and the rest of the packaging design should look like. I have found a site that has a variety of different styles that you could have for the inset of a CD. I have inserted the embed link to the website below as well as an image of what our CD packaging will look like. 

Superdups - CD & DVD Duplication and Replication and more

Student Film Permission (Charles Mossman)

Shortly after receiving the email confirming our permission to use the song in our group from the record company, they then sent a document attachment providing me the information with guidelines on using the song for its specific purpose based upon educational reasons.

I have opened and read the document sent by the Universal Film and TV Licensing company. We were told that we can use the song for our specific educational purpose as long as we can follow the conditions stated in the document that was sent to us. 

It was stated that "In view of the educational nature of the project we are happy for you to use the above tracks free of charge under the following conditions:"I have embed the document below.

Charlie Mossmam - Student Film Permission

First Response from the Record Company (Charles Mossman)

Recently I have emailed the record company in regards to asking permission to use the group’s song choice stay with me for our music video. I have now just received any email in regards to a response stating that the record company is happy to give us permission to use the song for our music video. One of the company managers Merchandani Jason stated that "We are happy for you to use this recording in an educational setting". I have screenshot the email response below and now the group will be able to make our music video go viral across the web by adjusting the video settings to public.

Group Poster Designs (Anthony Black & Kieran Winrow)

 Each person in the group has created an album poster that we can use on our individual blogs as well as our group blog. Below is the two posters we are planning to use however we cant decide which one to use so we have decided to create a questionnaire to let our audience for our music video decide which poster they prefer out of the two below. We will post the results and the final poster design once we have the questionnaire results in.

These posters were made by Charlie and Kieran and their posters seemed to display a professional and appealing design for our target demographic. Feel free to complete the questionnaire as we would be interested in the results of which poster design our audience prefers more.

Capitol Records/Copyright Post (Charles Mossman)

Capitol Records are the record label in which owe the groups song choice "Stay with Me" by Sam Smith. The record company is a major American record label that is part of the capitol music group is owned by one of the big four companies, the Universal Music Group. As of this we have decided to sign our song with the major record label of the Universal Music Group. However so that the group is able to use the song in our music video and let the media product go viral across the web, we must have permission from the record company to use the song in terms of copyrights. In order to get permission I have decided to email the closest record company to Capital Record who are PMR Records asking permission. I have taken a screenshot of the email I sent below which is to par@pmrrecords.com.

Record Labels (Charles Mossman)

I have now began to look at the promotional activities that will help market our final version of the music video.  I have now decided to conduct some research in regards to record labels. Having a record label is a major part of marketing our media product as well as using other media products such as album covers and tour posters as it will help to create a wider audience in regard the audience viewing our video. I have created a prezi as to what a record label is, researching major record labels and what the their key artists are. This research will help the group to decide which record label will be most suitable to sign for.