Task 12- Evaluation

Task 11- Music production

Task 12- Audience feedback

Once I had completed my main production and two print artifacts I created an audience feedback form so I was able to see what other people though of the productions and see if there was any ways I could improve. 

Above shows one of the audience feedback forms filled out, the feedback form above was very positive but it also did suggest constructive criticism to help me improve. 

Task 11- Video Games album Born to Die CD print

This is the CD fold I have created as part of my promotion for my production. 

Task 11- Video Games album Born to Die CD print: Creation of CD

This is my CD layout for the album which I used the song 'Video Games' from for my production video. The front cover of the album shows the protagonist with flowers in the background. I felt this image was the best suited to be the front cover as its recognisable to the production video as one of the scenes show her within amongst the flowers. In addition, the floral garden scene is one of the main focuses of the production. The image is very light which another reason why I choose it, I also enhanced the light by using ‘Pic monkey’ making the image more dreamy.



Text larger and placed at the bottom of the CD






When deciding on what font to use I choose 'Cardo' the same I used for my poster and the same colour of white, I did this as I wanted a continuing theme throughout. The CD needed to have the name of the album 'Born to Die' and the name of the artist 'Lana Del Rey' on the cover. I experimented with where to place the information. I placed the test at the bottom of the page however as its in white it blends in with the white roses on the picture. Therefore I found it more effective when I placed some of the font at the top and some at the bottom of the cover. The spreading of the information made it easier to read.

Text slightly smaller and less bold, spread out  

Two of the images used on the CD are emerges of two images together. I did this by using the editing software 'Adobe premiere'. The image to the right shows one of the images used, I overlaid a London shot of a sign and a zoom in of a rose in the floral garden. I felt it was important to include merged images as its shows the mergences of the different locations in the music video into one. In, addition I used 'Pic monkey' to soften the image making it more light and dreamy. I felt it was important to quote lyrics from the album onto the images for the CD layout making it recognisable to the artist. Therefore, I quoted lyrics from Lana's song 'Summertime Sadness'.

The back cover of the CD layout includes; all the songs on the album, copyright information, record company logos, as well as a barcode. I included all these conventions to make it look like a realistic CD back cover.

Task 11- Poster promotion

 

 

 

 

 

The image shows my final draft of my music promotional poster.  

Task 11- Poster promotion: Creation of the poster

Original image

Image after I used softening tool

This is my final album promotion I created for ‘Video Games’. I created this by using the software ‘pic monkey’ as well as using ‘adobe Photoshop’. I decided on this image of the protagonist walking through the location of the floral garden. I choose this image as I felt it was a recognisable to the production as many of the scenes in the music video are of the protagonist walking through the floral garden. I felt continuity between the two artefacts and the main production is key so people know they are all for the same production. The image I originally used was effective as the colours of the flowers contrasts with the girl’s bright purple dress. However, I wanted to exaggerate this and therefore tried different lightening shades on ‘Pic monkey’.  I used the softening tool for the background as the original image had a dull sky. I also slightly blurred the background and created a focal point on the girl to make her stand out on the slightly blurred background. The colours of the flowers were originally quite light as when the picture was taken the sun was reflecting on them. However, I did over exaggerate this brightness to add to the blurred affect.

I included the front cover of the CD album on the poster as well as the price and the company selling the album. I made sure I included all of the conventions of a promotional cover making it look believable.

Poster with the chosen font I used

When creating my poster I struggled in deciding what font and colour of text to use. I finally decided on the colour white and font ‘Cardo’. I used this font and wrote in capital letters and made it bold, this was so the information stood out on the poster. In addition, the colour

Poster with one of the fonts I experimented with

white I found didn’t always show up clearly as the image background was very colourful however when I played around with different fonts I found ‘Cardo’ make it clear, bold and therefore easy to read. The image to the left shows another font I tested when making my poster, the font doesn’t make the information very easy to read. Therefore I had to make sure the font was very bold and clear as the information is key to the poster as people need to know what is being advertised.