Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

In addition to these we also utilised Photoshop as well as Microsoft Office Powerpoint to help create the images for digipak. Photoshop was very useful in the scaling and texturing of my images such as the images of the sun, earth, drum and bauble on the cover, allowing me to create a more artistic effect. Powerpoint was especially helpful in developing band shots and images of the band memebers as it allowed me to alter the contrast and saturation of the image as well as applying a filter to it to create a more cartoon-like look as it did for the tree. These two technologies combined well to produce very effective results. For our second ancillary text, we were tasked with creating a website. For this we used a site called Wix which allowed us to fully customise the layout and content of the site as well as embedding links, images and videos of the band themselves. Overall, we used a variety of technology to help create all aspects of our media coursework to a great deal of precision and quality.

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Above is my answer to Question 3. Which I have answered through a combination of lego (brick) animating and screen recording to show and go through the results of my audience feedback questionnaire.

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

For this question I decided to try and record myself in two different locations in the same shot, to do this I had to research into masking effects to allow me to overlap footage to give the impression that I am talking to myself. Unfortunately due to dodgy lighting (the room light flickered and dimmed at times) the location where the separate shots join becomes visible at times. I did my best to alter the contrast and brightness of shots in small sections to level it out, but it did not fix the problem entirely. I know that this is simply a hardware issue and proper lighting such as two spotlights would easily fix the problem in future. Filming was difficult and time consuming due to the requirement of timing between the two characters, filming one and then mapping when I could respond was especially tasking but I feel I have conveyed it to a reasonable sense of realism. This was a very tasking activity to perform but very enjoyable, my feedback has suggested I wear different clothes which I did in fact do originally but the constant re-recording meant that continually changing clothes dragged out the process further, hence I settled on removing the watch and tie.

Digipak - From start to finish

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Final Website Design

Finished website design:

http://ollie966.wix.com/mysite

Digipak - Final Design

Above is the finished version of my digipak. I have a separate post with the original drawings of my ideas as well as another post showing the show design process of my first draft to the final product with an explanation as to the changes I made and why I made them as well as what the design means.

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Digipak Draft