Plan for question 4; How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Again, i will use prezi and talk about how i used each peice of technology along with logos.

The peices of technology i used were;
● Google
● Blogger
● Slideshare
● Prezi
● Scribd
● Animoto
● Mac
● PC
● Video Camera & still camera
● Hard-drive
● Tape
● Microsoft word
● YouTube
● Photoshop
● ipod
● ipod docking station
● iphone
● Internet
● e-mail

There could be more peices of technology that will come come to me when I do the full evaluation.

Plan for question 3; What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We have had several forms of feedback. the majority of this has come from the blog where Mr Smith and Mr Ford have commented on our music video, research and planning and ancillary products.

I will put several pictures, like the one to the left, onto a photoshop document and talk about how, as a group, we used the feedback that was given to us to improve our products.

Plan for question 2; How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

I will use microsoft word, like I have analysing previous digipaks, then upload them to scribd for the digipak and poster, use prezi and put tube chopped clips on that for the music video.

All three of our products fitted together because we followed the theme of iconography where Liv as the main focus on all the products. We ranged through shots throughout our products i.e. head shot, mid shot, close up, long shot. But each shot was always shot from the front never at an angle i.e. low/high

In all products I tried to keep the colours simple and stuck to black, white and grey. And the on the front cover I had the really red lips and copied the lips onto the back page aswell. The music video also has simple colours; white back ground, Liv's plain skin etc.


I will analyse each part of all my ancillary products; digipak, poster and the music video.

Plan for question one; In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Prezi, tube chop

Videos that inspired us:
• Natasha Bedingfield – I bruise easily, looking in the mirror taking making up off whilst crying
• Sinead O’Connor – Nothing compares to you, one take of her singing into the camera emotionally
• Janelle Monae, one take of her singing into the camera emotionally
• The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony, singing into the camera

Digipak’s that inspired us:
• Britney Spears- In The Zone, close of Britney’s face
• Natasha Bedingfield, close up of her face filling the frame, brightened so you can only see the mouth, eyes etc.

Symbolism:
• First draft- the two scenes (make up on and make up off) represent how she has stripped herself bare and has revealed her true self for the one she loves
• Final draft- like the first draft, she takes her make-up off but all on one take, symbolising that she is stripping herself bare and revealing her true self

Theory:
• Barthes- enigma- the enigma and action codes in our video could be when Liv cries and smudges her make-up it’s clear she is going to take it off all together etc.
• Todorov- equilibrium- Liv has make-up on was the equilibrium, Liv crying and taking her make-up off was the disequilibrium and Liv without any make-up on was the new equilibrium.
• Levi-Strauss- binary oppositions- there isn’t really a binary opposite in our video because it’s only one simple take. But purity and corruption could be opposites, because Liv is seen as corrupted when she has make-up on then she is pure without any make-up on
• Prop- narrative roles- Liv fits into different roles like… the hero and the princess
• Goodwin:
- illustrate- Liv was crying so this illustrated the meaning of the lyrics
-amplify- the meaning of the song I amplified through Liv’s facial expressions and actions
-relationship between lyrics and visual- Liv mimes the whole song and when she says certain words she does certain actions i.e. when the song says ‘dry your tears’ Liv wipes a tear from her face
-close ups on main artists- There is a close up of Liv on the video, digipak and poster
-intertextual references- similar to Sinead O’Connor, Janelle Monae etc

My Digipak and Poster

This is my digipak. I'ts very rushed because I'm not familiar with photoshop and stuggled a bit but I did the best i could.



This is my poster, again it is very rushed because I struggled with photoshop.

Digipak Draft

Here is my draft for my Digipak. I have not included every element that will be on the Digipak(such as the text) but have included the type of images I will be using to show the style I am going for the type of fonts I like. The quality of two of the images, one being the image of me from behind and the image of my face, are not of a good quality. When it comes to the final, I will take time to edit properly so the images look professional.

I like the colour scheme of black, grey and white as I think it looks simple yet sophisticated. I decided to edit an image so it was just my eyes, mouth and nose that were visible as I thought this stood out and looked creative. I also am happy with the idea of writing across my back on the other image as I thought it looked fairly unusual and eye catching.

From doing a draft its easy to identify what I will change when it comes to the final Digipak and gives me some inspiration and ideas to think about for my final piece of work and how to improve it.

Change Of Name - Again!

We decided that we didn't like the name Ashleigh anymore because it was too long and took up too much of the digipak, poster etc.

Liv said we could use something like 'Coral' as a joke but we then decided we actually liked it and we've kept the idea and used the name 'Coral' on our digipak etc.

But as i was writing this post i realised our video says the name 'Ashleigh' on our video and thats been handed in and can't be changed so we're going to have to keep the name 'Ashleigh'.