Print Task Flat Plans

For our print task, we produced four individual flatplans for our work. I worked on producing two, and David also worked on producing two, so that we had a variety of different ideas intergrated across the four different design styles.The two which David designed are rather simplistic, not really featuring the band predominantly, but have been scattered with quotes of the band, highlighting how good they are in an attempt to sell the album. The second two, designed by me, feature the band much more predominantly, highlighting how they are the main focus of the whole project. One features the band in a similar position to that of the album cover, with them positioned underneath the band name/album name. This is possibly the most likely one we will be using, so that our CD Cover and magazine article have similar designs, which helps keep up with the continuity of the whole project.

Changes To Storyline/First Audience Feedback

One of the difficulties we faced last year was the fact we had to keep changing our initial idea due to complications i.e cast changes, location changes and extraneous variables such as the weather. This year was no different, and as a result, we had to change our storyline to suit the resources we had capable to us. This change revolved largely around the first section of the video, where we originally intended to have the character of 'The Girl' hanging around with her friends and having a generally good time. However, as we could only cast one female character, and also the lyrics of the song at this point are rather unhappy and sombre, we adapted the storyline to make it appear like 'The Girl' is having an arguement with an off-screen character (we assume, one of the band to give the plot some validity). This means the storyline in the second verse has been adapted to her having gotten over this arguement with the band member, and is now on route to see this band member and apologise for their arguement last night.

   As a result of these changes, we needed to ensure that the plot still made sense to an audience who had not worked on the production of the video, therefore, we took a random sample of five people from our media class to watch the first two minutes of our video, (as the second verse begins at 01:47, therefore we felt this would be enough time for the audience to try and assess the narrative) to watch it uninterrupted and then relay to us what they thought had happened. We were very pleased to find that all five of the sample participants who watched the video were able to easily tell us the basic narrative of the storyline, a result which pleased us, as it meant we had done a satisfactory job of trying to edit the video into an understandable storyline after we had to make somecritical changes.

Music Advertisement Idea No. #3

 Another idea for our music advertisement is not taken from another advertisement, but from a movie poster. The movie is the 2011 release of "Killing Bono", and it pictures the four main actors displaying rather aggressive facial expressions. Although I would not have the band with these aggressive expressions, I would possibly consider the idea of having the band with completely plain expressions, or perhaps each of them casting a different facial expression, e.g. Happy, Sad, Funny and Confused.

Half Term Feedback

Over half term, we gained feedback from our lecturer, on ways in which we were on target at this point in the project, but also, ways in which we can improve our performance. Currently, we are predicted to be around the A/B borderline, however, if we apply the changes we have been told to add, we hope that we will result in a solid A grade.

Inspiration For Music Advertisement #2

The second of my music advertisements is taken from 'Mojo' magazine, and premotes the 'Foo Fighters' album 'Wasted Light', it features the album artwork extended over the whole page, but at the bottom, contains information about the album's release date.
   Also, the album art could be used on our CD cover, as it features the faces of the band members, but in a rather unusual, distorted pattern, which we might yet use on our album cover.

Inspiration For Music Advertisement #1

To produce a music advertisement, I have been researching various album promos in various different music magazines, and this one is from 'Q' magazine, and features the advertisement for the album of 'Mona', which features the band's album cover at the top two thirds of the page, with some basic information at the bottom, including the day it's released, and a quote to promote the album.

CD Cover Print Task (Inspirational Texts #2)

For the CD cover, we are aswell going to have to produce a back for the cover, and again, we have looked to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for our inspiration, as the back of their 'By The Way' album cover, as the back of it features the four band members in a line, which is a possibility for what we want to include on our CD.