Evaluation Q.2

How effective is the combination of your main production and your ancillary texts?

For my main product I produced a Music video for the song " Bust your windows " By Jazmine Sullivan, this song is a very angry and makes you feel sorry for the singer. In terms of my music video I feel I did the opposite and done a contrasted her anger with her emotions and showed the side the emotional side. Whilst producing my Digi Pack and my website i knew I had to combine the Three products and portray the same similar theme throughout. In my Digi pack i felt that my artist image should be portrayed as a strong character as my music video showed her weakness. In my digi pack I had used a close up of a straight face that showed no emotions. I felt that it was important to do this, as I wanted the audience to see both sides of my characters. That even though she had been cheated on and she was very sadden by this in the end she was strong enough to move on.

Whilst Producing my website It was important for me to make sure that my artist character has been shown. I wanted my audience to see different sides of my artist. In my digi pack I had shown bright colour’s to reveal my characters happiness and strong personality. I had also used a lot of green, which connotes nature and peace which I had thought was important as I wanted to show that inspite of all her anger and pain she wants peace and freedom from stopping and loving her ex cheating boyfriend. For my website I had also stuck to using bright and catchy colour’s. I had also included icons for fans, which links straight to my artist facebook and twitter page. I did this so it is easier for fans to get to my artists page as my purpose of my website is to advertise my artist and gain a wider audience.

  

Through out producing my digi pack, music video and website I had linked these 3 together by using color and images to highlight my artists character through out as ‘Bust your windows’ is a very angry but emotional song. I wanted my three products to be eye catching and fun so that the fans find it enjoyable and gain information. I also wanted my audience to feel a sense of welcoming and part of the artist as well as promoting Jazmine Sullivan.

EVALUATION Q.3

Evaluation Q4

EVALUATION Q.1

In what ways does your media product use, challenge or develop on forms and conventions of real media products?

       


        My music video by Jazmine Sullivan ‘Bust your windows’ I had chosen to take a conventional route for my music video. I had developed conventions of  a narrative a girl who had been cheated on by her boyfriend as well as a performance piece. I had shown a narrative as well as live. 


         I wanted the audience to feel her emotion. I did this by instead of showing all her anger and hatred towards her boyfriend, I showed all the reminiscing moments of the couple and having flash backs of her boyfriend cheating. I made sure that I had shown a softer side of my character contrasting with the anger of the song. 
        
         I had also looked at different music artist such as Beyonce ' Ring the Alarm' beyonce had chosen to show all her hatred and anger through her performance as well as her song whereas I had taken a different approach. 


         To get the audience to feel her emotion I had to make sure that I lip synced correctly and cut to the beats. To get the audience to enjoy and feel really part of the music video these elements need to be done correctly.


        

http://www.wix.com/zainabnajmi/a2media#!

Website plan- site philosophy

The purpose of the website is to promote the artist of my music video 'Jasmine Sullivan' 'bust the windows' so the audience know who she is, what is the artist song is about. The audience would also want to know how this song may relate to her life.

Another purpose of creating this website is to get a wider audience to be interested in r 'n' b. The audience that is most likely to be attracted to this artist would be older teenagers-35 years old.

Website research analysis

Creating a 'stokey nation' webpage

Website and planning

How I am editing my music video

I used this cut tool to cut my clips

This is the track of my song. 

 my clips on the side so they are easy to find. 

 In the right box it is to see how my video is looking and in the left box its what the clips are on the side

Audience feedback questionnaires

Receiving back my audience feedback questionnaires I had found out that majority of the people do not really listen to Jazmine Sullivan even though they have heard of her. I had also received some positive feedbacks on my first draft of my music video that my story line was very clear and that the audience had understood the purpose and emotions of the song. My negative feedback was that I had repeated a lot of the shots and that some shots were out of focus.

Difficulties and problems

The difficulties and problems that i were having was getting a time for me and my actor to film as she does not come to the same school as me as is studying in universities so it was really difficult for her to find time as we had to record on 6 different days.

Another difficulty i was also having was that even though i was filming 6 different times in different locations i was running out of time and also out of shots.

Rough cut of half of my music video audience feed back.

Mini audience feed back

What my aim is.

What I have done so far...

Recorded my music video, first shoot. 

Edited 50 seconds of my music video.

my next aim is to get a minute long of my editing for my music video for next week tuesday 17th Jan 2012

Animate preview of Bust your windows

We used I can Animate to produce an animation of our music video so that we can get a brief idea of how our music video will look. 

Shot list

Shot list of Bust your windows

1. Long shot

2. Long shot, Low angle

3. Cut in- wide shot

4. Wide shot

5. Medium shot

6. Medium shot, low angle

7. Wide sot

8. Long shot, zooming in slowly

9. Mid 2 shot

10. Long shot

11.  Close up

12. Mid shot

13. Long shot

14. Mid shot

15. Wide shot

16. Mid shot

17. Long shot

18. Mid shot

19. Long shot

20. Mid shot

21. Mid shot

22. Mid shot

23. Wide shot

24. Mid shot

25. Long shot

26. Mid shot

27. Wide shot

Music Video Planning

Digi pack planning.

                                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc

Representation 

The conventions of the music video unfaithful, by Rihanna  portray emotions, the audience feel this by the slow tempo. The black dress that she is wearing reveal seductiveness and guiltiness. The cut in shots to the beat of her and her boyfriend and then going back to her getting ready implies her getting ready to be unfaithful. This straight away shows the audience that narrative of the music video. Rihanna looking in the mirror lifting up her bra strap can convey her looking back at herself and what she is about to do, which also shows the convention of promiscuous and her exploiting herself which all connotes to sexual activities. This links to my music video as I would like the audience to feel the strong emotion and hate that my character has when she finds out that she has been cheated on. 

Music video

Artist: Jazmine Sullivan

Song: Bust your windows

Original Image 

Front cover

Inner pannel 1

Back of digi pack

inner pannel 2 

inner pannel 3

This is a practice for my digi pack as i will be taking the actual images from Music video. 

We had used Adobe photoshop to edit our digi packs. 

Photoshop skills

For the start if my A2 course, we were told to take several pictures in groups of four so that we can imitate and produce a digi pack using photoshop. This was not the first time i was using photoshop, however it has been a long time since i had used it, so it had taken me a while to refresh my memory. This is the cover we had to create. 

 The piece that i had recreated

How I did this.....

I then desaturated the image and leveled the brightness and contrast

I then stamped my image and smoothed it out

I used the gradient tool for the red gradient background and colour 

I copied and pasted the stars on to my work