final video - Wednesday Night

Final Ancillary Tasks

Adverts

For making the album cover, we chose to split into two groups and create different ones. The two groups were Emily and Vicky and Kate and Jess.

Emily and Vicky's                                                                

The advert was created on the program Photo Shop. Firstly, we changed the photograph to become de-saturated (black and white) and played around with the brightness and contrast to create a bold effect onto the image. Then we added a blue shape background from the internet on the photograph and changed the capacity so that the shapes are slightly faded. This created more colour onto the advert. To create a more realistic effect onto the advert, we decided to add short quotes from reviews, this gives the audience more of a reason to buy and download the album. 

Kate and Jess's

This is the finished magazine advert that we came up with, we decided to stick with the simple colours of black, white and red to fit with the album cover.  We first of all got the shot of our featured artist and played around with the colours on Photoshop, we decided to put it into black and white to link with the black and white scenes in our music video and also because I think it looks more effective.

We decided that i wanted to do something else on the page to make it look more effective so I chose to put text round the image. This was quite a tricky thing to do and took a while to work out but I think that it looks really effective, with the red text also linking to the rest of the page. The text that is around him is the lyrics from the song that we have used for the music video 'Wednesday Night' which is also the name of the album. I think this ties everything in together nicely and works really well.

Album covers


We all split up for the album covers and decided to make a different cover each. We all decided to edit the photographs to black and white to link in with the music video flash backs which made them all fit very well together.

Questionnaire Results - By Kate Lydon

Q1. What gender are you?

Q2. How old are you?

Q3. What is your occupation?

All the people that we asked to fill out this questionnaire were students.

Q4. On a scale of one to ten how much did you enjoy this m

usic video?

I found that only three numbers on the scale were selected; 7,8 and 9.

Q5. How appropriate are the following for an acoustic music video?

Location;

Editing;

Music;

Characters;

Q6. Is it easy to understand that the black and white shots are m

emories?

Q7. Do you think enough effects have been used?

Q8. Does the magazine article and the album cover suit this particular music video?

Q9. Do you think it was effective to put the memories in slow motion?

Q10. Out of ten how believable does the character's relationship look?

I found that only four numbers on the scale were selected for this question; 7,8,9 and 10

Q11. If the album cover was to be sold in a shop would the cover attract you to buy it?

Here are some scans of the detailed answers that were given on the questionnaires;

Audience Feedback

This is the audience feedback for our products. we got them to answer questions on the video and anxiallary tasks and give their opinions.

vicky wright

problems faced

Most things throughout the project worked quite well, however we had to change the male featured in the music video quite a way into the project, this did not mess up the video in any way we just had to re-think a little.

Our first male we wanted to use wasnt free when we needed him so we had re-think and use another person, it all worked out well in the end though!

Jessica Sergeant

photos 2

This is one of the best photographs after going through the editing process mentioned in my last post.
It looks a lot more effective in this way and fits well with all out themes and the outcome that we hoped for.

After experimenting with these photographs we then split into pairs to produce the ancilary tasks which were to create an album design including all four parts of the album cover and also a magazine article! Between the groups we decided to split the tasks between the two pairs, so that me and Kate produced the front cover of the album and the first part of the inside and also a magazine article.
And then Emily and Vicky concentrated on the rest.

Jessica Sergeant

Photographs

After thinking carefully about the photographs we wanted to use, we decided to simply use the male featured in the video against a plain white brick wall as we thought this would be very effective and also to go well with the genre of the music and the genre of the music video. Above are just two of the best of around 20 photographs that I took.

However looking at these two photographs, they do look to plain for the overall image we were going for, so I decided to edit them in Photoshop putting them into black and white and then putting a filter on the photograph named 'dark strokes', this turned out to be very effective and here is how it turned out!

Jessica Sergeant

CD ideas

This is the finished magazine advert that we came up with, we decided to stick with the simple colours of black, white and red to fit with the album cover. 
After looking at a lot of different types of CD covers, not only from acoustic singers but from many different genres of music, our group split into two and each came up with ideas for the front, two midde sections, and back of the CD.

We took into consideration-

• genre of the music
• the overall image we were looking for
• colours/backgrounds and effects
• the target audience.

After thinking about all these things we first came up with a few different ideas playing around on Photoshop designing different logos and editing the images in different ways. Then looking at the fonts we decided to stick with an old style font and make it so that it looks handwritten, we thought that this would fit with the genre of the music very well instead of a very plain font which would not exaggerate the genre and themes of the music video as much at all.

When thinking of the front cover we wanted to keep it very plain and simple so that all the focus is on the artist and not on the editing or images surrounding the artist on the cover, in a typical acoustic style we kept the image of the front cover black and white to again keep it simple and also to go with the black and white memory clips included in the music video.

Here is the first album cover our pair came up with-

After looking at this album cover we decided that this did not fit well with the music video as you could not tell that the two were related. This is when we decided to do a location shot with the actor in the music video just simply stood against a wall to stick with the simple theme throughout the project. We then found that this worked well with everything else and looked like it links well with the music video. This was when we decided to carry on using these location shots througout the whole of the CD covers.

This is the final CD cover that we came in with- 

Jessica Sergeant