Final Ancillary Texts

Final Music Video

In this final draft I have made a minor change to one shot in the video (from the marina to the old town) because Jess was seen to be in the Old Town only once. While it isn't a massive change I feel it shows a bit more continuity. Overall I am really pleased with the final outcome of my video and I am glad I managed to get it finished before my free trial of premiere pro on my own computer ran out.

Placing My Product Onto Real Life Situations

 Here I used placeit.net to place the album cover and advert image onto real life objects where they would most likely feature. This was to get a better understanding of how it should look in order for it to look appealing to the audience.

I also created a small survey on surveymonkey to ask for general feedback on how well my products appeal to the audience and if they would be successful in real life. These are the results I received:

Creating The CD/DVD for My Digipak

This is a simple guide on how I went about creating my CD/DVD designs, using Photoshop. At first it was difficult to get to grips with the Elliptical Marquee tool and applying the copyright information but the overall process was effective and, I think, shows my creativity in the project.

CD/DVD Designs

Here I have produced another CD design for my digipak, from Jess' advice, and have feature them both on the two drafts of my digipak. While I like the look of the logo on the disc, I feel the second design is much simpler and smarter. I have asked other media students what they think and the majority preferred the logo design. They also suggested that the first draft of my digipak I produced is better because of the type of shots and colour which show continuity.

Second Draft of Digipak

In this draft, I have just changed the inside right image. While I like the photograph itself, I feel it doesn't give the digipak a consistant flow in terms of colour. All I have left to do now to complete my digipak is create the spine, get feedback and make any changes needed.

Third Draft of Music Video

As mentioned in the last post, this is just a quick draft after I added the opening shots. I am going to ask Tim and others for feedback on how effective these shots are and if there is anything else I should make changes to. Since my second draft, the only thing I have changed is the two shots of Jess' feet ,walking on the river bank, to a shot of her playing in the Old Town. the problem I may have now is trying to incorporate more shots within the old town as this is the only shot there. Another minor problem is the last pan shot of the River Bank-it is faster than the others. I thought I could use this from previous filming that I did but I may have to re-film it.

 

Filming

Today's weather wasn't any better than yesterday's but I went out to film anyway. Some of the footage I got didn't turn out too bad and I might be able to edit it so when put with the rest of my video, it won't look out of place because of the dullness. I am going to edit it together, to get an idea of what my finished product will look like, and post the draft but it is likely I will end up filming again.

Feedback of Digipak First Draft

As this screen shot shows, once I finished the first draft of my digipak, I asked Jess about it to see what she thinks. I will be conducting further questionnaires about it to get more feedback as well and then make any changes. I have almost finished my second draft and will be asking for her opinion of it again.

Where I Am At

There are obviously a fare few posts I need to finish and post to my blog. I am in the process of, firstly, trying to get all my products finished, to make sure they get done on time without me rushing. In terms of my music video, it is almost finished. Due to bad weather today, it looks like I am not going to get the last bit filmed. All I need to get filmed is pan shots of each location my artist appears in. This is going to be edited to the beginning of the video, hopefully adding at least 15 seconds to the overall length of the video. If I cannot get this filmed today, I will tomorrow if the weather picks up. In terms of my ancillary texts, I have completed my album advertisement and am currently producing a questionnaire in order to make any final changes ASAP. My digipak is almost finished too, again, I just need decent weather to get some photos. I hoping to get everything completely finished for Friday 20th. This will leave the last week of term for me to complete my evaluation questions and finish any unfinished posts.

Feedback On Music Video

As mentioned on my Second Draft post, the song was cut short due to the stress of trying to develop the narrative. Today I had booked lunchtime appointment with Tim to ask him for advice. I mentioned I couldn't film anything including Jess since she is not here. However he did give me some ideas such going back to locations to get pan shots to place at the beginning of the video. There is also just a few shots during the video that I need to change to make it look better and fit with the music. By adding in this footage in at the beginning will mean the overall length of the video will be extend by at least 20 seconds and will allow more effective editing such as fades-since at the beginning, it will not disturb the flow of the video. Over the next week I am aiming to get all the filming done and the video edited as a third and possible final product.

More Album Advert Drafts I Have Produced

These are just are few more drafts of my ancillary texts that I have produced in order to get a better idea of what my final product should look like.I will be asking several people which one they prefer and why and base my final design on that decision. The first four I have done, I feel, are quite boring. Although I like the placement of the logo, the background is too plain and doesn't really directly relate to the album or music video. In my opinion, I think the best design is the second to last. I have used the logo as away of displaying both the logo and her name. This has allowed me to use the album cover photo as well as the logo, reinforcing her independent style. The only problem I am going to have deciding now is the reviews- whether I should use the quote in the last design or just use stars. This is something I will also ask when conducting the small questionnaire.

Feedback For Second Draft of Advertisement

I have asked my other media teacher, Becky, for her opinion on my advertisement. Her first comment was that the black text blended too much with the image, making it hard to read. She also gave me advice on how to improve it and suggested I add a blue strip towards the bottom of the page. I am going to use this advice and see what the turn out it.

Second Draft of Album Advertisement

 These are two drafts I have produced as a second draft. They are pretty much the same except I have altered the font of 'The new album' to see what difference it would make. Compared to my first draft, it looks more varied because of the different for I have used for her name. It is still, however, difficult to read the black text and I feel it therefore doesn't flow very well when trying to look at the advert as a whole. I am therefore going to ask one of my media teachers for some advice on how to improve it to make look more conventional and easier to read.

Questionnaire For First Draft of Advertisement

First Draft of Album Advertisement

In this draft, I have took together conventions of album advertisement, in relation to my chosen genre. This includes the thin text I have used for the artist's name, although for my next draft I will apply the font, used for her name on the logo I created, as this will mean it will link better with the digipak. I have used more conventions such as the star rating from other magazines, the record label my artist is signed to and 'Includes...'. I do feel, however, that it is too simple and I need to use more fonts to make different text stand out but complimenting each other at the same time.

Oak Sessions

On my album advertisement, Oak Sessions is mentioned with the bonus tracks. 

"Oak Sessions is a community of creatives, recoding live sessions and videos to provide a platform to promote local and unsigned musicians. After four successful series, Oak is filming SERIES FIVE involving a wealth of talent from bands and artists all over the UK." (-taken from their website)

Although I considered using other live session companies such as Ont'Sofa, I feel that Oak Sessions is better suited to my artist as they deal with more local musicians. This, I feel, shows the close relationship my artist may have with her audience which is quite common of musician within the genre.

Questionnaire For First Draft of Digipak

First Draft of Digipak

 Front Cover:

Back Cover:

Inside Right Image:

Inside Image:

(with this image, in Photoshop, I cropped it and adjust the level of brightness before applying it to my digipak). I chose to use this image because, since my digiapk is part of a promotional package to promote my music video (main product) I felt it was appropriate to include and image that directly linked to it.

CD/DVD Design:

(see this post for how I made the discs)



Overall, I am pleased with my digipak, since it is only a first draft, as I feel I have effectively used conventions that I have researched into (e.g photography-types of shots). I will be conducting a survey for feedback on how good it is and if anything should be changed.

Copyright Information

An obvious convention of album CDs and back covers is the copyright information. These are some albums I have looked at, by artists that are signed to Island Records, in order to get an idea of what the copyright info should consist of.

I also looked at other albums and record labels to get a better understanding of the variations of how to write the copyright information.





After looking at these I researched what the (P) copyright symbol meant.
From finding this out, I now know what context I should use it in and how to display the two symbols together.

I have decided to combine all of these copyrights and as a guideline for my own, and picked out the text that is in all of them. I have also noticed that, in contrast to what the first webpage told me, all of these have © and (P) written together. However, I think I am going to type them separately as I think this looks better and will make it clearer what is is that is been copyrighted. I will also have to type the P symbol as (P) as there isn't a code I can use, like alt+0169 for ©.

Copyright on my product:

© 2015 Jess Jones under exclusive license to Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company. (P) 2015 Jess Jones. All recording is owned by Jess Jones. Warning: all rights reserved. unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited. Made in the E.U. cat No. 160713

This will also feature on the CD/DVD as the text is usually the same on both products.

Record Label

Having been founded in Jamaica in 1959, Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong, there are artists of mixed genres signed to the label (former artists such as The Cranberries and Bob Marley, current artists such as Nicki Minaj, McBusted and Ariana Grande). However, there are also some that fall under a similar genre to my artist.
Current UK artists signed to the label:

• Ben Howard
• Hozier
• Nina Nesbitt
• James Morrison
• Florence and The Machine
• Mumford and Sons
• Passenger
• Jack Johnson

Parent Company: Universal Music Group

The label has been based in the UK since 1962. As of February 2014, three Island label brands exist in the the world: Island UK, Island US and Island Australia.

While I have looked briefly at other small labels such as Parlophone and Red House Records, I ahve decided to use Island Records as my chosen label due tot he fact that some artists are of the genre closest to mine and those who I am the most familiar with, therefore making it easier to research more into the label. This logo will then be featured on my ancillary texts and I am going to look into the copyright information that ISland Records puts on their artists CD/casing,

Second Draft of Music Video

I am really pleased with my second draft as I feel I get the narrative across far better than in my first draft. Although it is only short, I feel it is enough time to tell the narrative without developing it too much. I have also used more techniques such as tilting and hand held camera work rather than all the shots been still. I feel this has made it easier to watch and take in what's happening because in the first draft it felt each shot was just jumping from one location to the next without blending well with the style of music. I have also changed the colour correction as I felt the original sepia effect I had tried to make made the video looked washed out. I found a Seventies effect which I think gives just the right colour correction to the video, without it been too washed out or dark. The video is shorter than I would have liked it to be, however, because I struggled to really develop the narrative without giving too much away. Therefore there is one section of the song that I cut away (the second chorus) in order for me to get a complete draft done without losing time having to go back out and film more. Overall I am pleased with it and will be conducting another questionnaire for feedback.