Final Web Page

Here is my finished blog with my digipak, new nanner and video all in there.

Evaluation 1

How did you use digital technologies during the research, planning and evaluation stages?
Main Task - http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/108728
Web Page - http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/108709
Digipak - http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/109544

Main Task Timeline


Web Page Timeline


Digipak Timeline

Focus Group Plan

I plan on asking a focus group in my media class what they think of my main task, digipak and web page. It will be round about 4 to 5 people in the group who I will ask and it will take place in my media class where I will use the macs to record the whole discussion. I will hopefully do this focus group in maybe either one of my media class times as this is when all the other people in my class are present, or if this isn't necessary then hopefully in some free time when the class is free and so is the people who i chose to be in the group. I will ask certain questions such as:

For main task -

• What is your overall thoughts about the narrative storyline for the music video?
• Do you feel it fits with the song?
• Do you think its a powerful video even though it doesn't have performance?
• Do you think it should have some performance elements in there too?
• Would this video make you want to search for more music from the band?
• What genre of music do you think this music video comes under?

For digipak -

• What is your favourite part of the digipak?
• Would you pick it up in a music store?
• Do you think the digipak fits with the music videos iconography?
• Do you feel there is anything missing that you would have wanted to see on the digipak?
• Do you think this digipak fits with the same genre of music as you believed the video to come under?

For web page -

• Do you think this web page holds all the information needed such as the conventions?
• Do you think anything can be improved?
• Would you want to search round the website more by just looking at the web page? if yes, why?
• Can you notice the brand iconography?
• What genre of music do you think this web page is about?

I will record this discussion on the mac and then post it on the blog. This with my survey monkey questionnaires will give me all the feedback I need to complete this evaluation question.

My questionnaire

Here is my questionnaire for people to look at all of my coursework (main task, digipak and web page) and give me feedback.

Click here to take survey

My target audience is people aged 16-30 and from our feedback on the genre a while back when we did surveys for rock, we discovered that it doesn't matter if they are males or females. They need to be able to access the internet often as my web page needs internet access to look at it and most importantly they have to like rock music and feel passionate about that genre.

I feel that after they take the questionnaire I will be expecting to find that they do like our main task, web page and CD cover as I have stuck to all the conventions for each piece and made sure it fits will within that genre. I hope to get lots of responses to give me a wide range of information on what people think of my coursework. It will help with my evaluation question of 'What have you learned from your audience feedback?'

Final edits of video

Today we made some tweeks to our music video as some feedback we got from viewers said they didn't understand the ending and some of the colouring. We therefore edited the ending completely. We have made it look like the rebel kid is having some sort of brain wash when he sees the sun which causes the clips of reversing to show that his memory is somehow being erased. This then ends with a light bright after looking at the sun and then we ended with the CCTV clips turning off. We felt this was better for our audience as they will now understand it a bit more and it will make more sense. Also, the strangeness of the kids brain being brain washed will fit in with what our audience enjoy viewing anyway. We also had to change some colours of clips which we had previously forgot to do - changing the two clips with the children in masks to blue to show the difference between wearing the mask and not wearing the mask.

New banner for Webpage

I have decided to change my banner on my webpage as I felt that I needed to use my own image of my band. I have edited it a lot and have created a new banner with one of the images I took of people wearing the masks we made. I haven't this time put the American flag over the top as I felt that the image was ok on its own. I used different effects such as cartoon and some paint tools to create colour and effectiveness and come up with this. I am now happy with my web page.

Final video edit

We have finally completed our video! We changed the colours to the beginning of the video where all the students are marching and when they are wearing masks to a blue colour. We decided this because it is meant to create some cold looking shots and a feel of depression and lowness. When he takes the mask off however it is normal colour showing the difference in atmosphere when he has the mask on and when he doesn't.

He have also added a title at the beginning and end of the video which notifies what the song is, who its by, what album its on and our production name. We added in some effects for when the text comes in and we also added some colours of blue and black to match some of the video. I am pleased at how the video has turned out and what me and my group has produced.

My Web Page

Here is some stills from my web page, the only thing that I still need to do is put my new video into the website to complete the iconography for my band.

My Digipak

Here is my Digipak for Hollywood Undead's Paradise Lost. It involves four still images for the front, back, inside left and inside right of the pack and also a spine. Here are the stills:

And here is my completed Digipak:

You may have noticed that the digipak I created has differences to my plans I had drawn. This is because when creating the digipak I felt that the images I took on filming day would be more effective than just a mask which I had originally wanted. The inverted picture and the black and white picture opposite one another when opening the cd is a way to show the two sides of the clones / robots. I like this one I have created much better because it goes with my brand iconography and looks like a digipak the band would have.

Video Feedback - Half Way

We have shown our video so far to members of our class and they have given us some feedback to improve our video. They noticed a continuity error whilst the young boy is at the sink, this however we cannot change but it can be missed as the shot is very quick. We also discussed with our audience about using the chroma key which would make it all black and white instead of the mask but us as a group cannot decide without it looks best to do it with or without. We will experiment with the effects for certain shots and definitely use ones such as the earthquake tool to give good effects when for example he drops the mask and screams in the microphone.

Apart from that however it was all good feedback and they thought that no changes should be made to the narrative storyline as it completely made sense.