Final Ancillary Task 1 : Digipak for Music promo video

Blog Stuff To Do Next Week:

Monday:

-Shots of Locations

-Shots of Performer

-Start to edit that Evaluation

Wednesday:

-Go through Blog and add visuals where possible

-Screenshots of editing possess

Final Ancillary Task 2

This is my final, second, ancilary task and is to be printed at A4 size so as it takes up one whole page in an average magazine.

Final Production Evaluation: Enlarge to Read

The first three images are all answers to the first question, "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" and the fourth image answers the next three questions; "How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?", "What have you learned from your audience feedback?" and "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?".

Fish Guts Photograph Contact Sheet

These pictures form the contact sheet from which I took the images which I used on both of my ancillary tasks. I used a few of these pictures, edited them in Photoshop and used them in a way in which made them eye catching, visually pleasing and a little less repulsive.

Ancillary Task 2: Feedback on First Draft

Below is a scanned image of my second ancillary task (the advertisement) with post-it notes on it, full of feedback from my class members. I then changed as many of these point as possible before handing in my final piece; in order to ensure that it followed all of the stylistic conventions of an advert of this type. Some of the changes I made to this feedback include; increasing font size, making the background clearer, using a different font for the web address, removing the exclamation mark and making the two logos in the bottom right the same size.

There were however, some changes which I did not change because I thought that it would be swaying away from the style models I have looked at prior to production of this piece. The main one of these was the idea of using a clearer picture in the background, instead of the red fish guts one which I have taken myself and used in both of my ancillary tasks. (The original pictures will be uploaded onto the blog in the next post.)

Ancillary Task 2- What I Did: The Breakdown

This is the breakdown of the vital parts of my second ancillary task and why I have done them the way I have. Below is the band logo which I put at the top of the advertisement. This is the same font as the CD cover, but the shadow which was black is now bright green, to fit in with the CD Case itself. This red and green theme is ongoing throughout my tasks, with my main production being the only exception. As you can also tell from the image below, the background is from the same set of photographs as those making up the CD case; however it has been edited to be red, faded and dark. In the center of the advertisement, I placed an image of the cover of my CD case which I duplicated and placed a darkened, discoloured version behind the original, just for extra detail.
This picture below is of the entire bottom section of the advert, it contains a couple of lines about the album, a release date and information about where it is available from, the necessary logos and web addresses. There are common features of an advert of this genre. The picture below is also not the most up to date one, but it is similar enough to not matter.