Wednesday 31 March 2010

Evaluation-Question 1

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

With the genre I have chosen which I bhangra the forms and conventions differ a lot. It’s not always about fancy, flashy cars, with ‘hot chicks’ and alcoholic drinks, but it varies from storytelling, whether it being love stories or historical stories to live performances which are turned into videos or traditional colourful acts with a bit of western touch. Over the past few years, artists and music video directors have started to use use fancy setups and glamourous backdrops with elegant lighting in there videos. This ususaly doesnt often tell any story but has a typical theme where the girl and the boy are either dancing, or singing to each other. They are often more enetertainment peices rather than stories. Like this video below.
JUGGY D!


Unlike this video where it is part of a live performance which has then been edited to produce a music video.
POOJA-N/NACHLE


this video is a religious video and there alot of pictures that have been added in from hisotry.
SON OF A SARDAR


I have chosen to go for an entertainment video where there is just dancing and performance in the video. I felt this would be suit something like as in the video they are talking about 'a beautifull girl, and her lovely eyes and how there can be noone else like her'. To show this through a girl whos dancing and being an enetertainer I thought would be about right and then add in parts of instruments to show whats being used in the music and the parts that actualy liven up the song Aashique.

I think it also represents the girls from British-Asian communities becasue it shows young girls dancing and enjoying their cultural music which shows their cultural side which is not often shown across to British audience. It also shows what this kind of music is about, how it is used as part of people everydays lives.

Evaulation-Question 3

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Overall my feedback has been fairly positive! Allot of people liked the genre, I think it was different and unexpected. From the very beginning of this idea when we screened them the first time, the feedback was positive. People enjoyed the dance, colours, editing and camera shots along with the actual song. I was told to keep up everything which I had already had then and along as it carried on it would end up in a good result. Luckily it did! From the feedback I have been given, a lot of people liked the idea of filming it on different backgrounds and the contrast of these and the costumes. I was also told that I could have added in footage was filmed outside or even ‘behind the scenes’. I was thinking of this but I decided to leave it. This might have given it a different feel and more western as people would have been able to see what goes on in our personal lives and the western side of Brit-Asian artists.

The performance was one of the biggest hits in the video! The bhangra dancing; moving the shoulders and hips and twisting the light bulbs was enjoyed by everyone and got them in dancing too which involved them in to the final piece. The facial expressions while singing to the song were picked up by a few people and they liked this because ‘it showed affection and passion towards the video’. Also I think as not many people understood the lyrics, some of the dance moves gave across some vague suggestions of what we might be singing which shows the audience are interested.

‘The uses of camera shots have been done really good’. This was a comment I was told by one viewer. By showing close ups I think it promotes the artist a fair amount. I think it shows who they are and it gives the audience a chance to see them properly (as weird as it may sound) and almost get them feeling close to them. Some of the viewers liked the shots where the drum was in front and the dance was going on in the back which showed different types of dancing and also showed off the costumes worn. The editing was quite fast paced in some areas, especially when the drums got faster or the verse changes back to the chorus. One of the most popular bits was the picture animation of the drums when they all flash and flicker to the beat of the drums. I added this in once near the beginning but it was liked a lot and I was told to add it in frequently.
From audience and other viewers my ancillary products were liked very much. They liked the colours, images and layout of these. I tried very hard to make them look professional as I could and I think with a little bit more work I could have reach this for my poster and digipack.

Evaulation-Question 2

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

I think my digipack and poster link in very well together along with my video. The genre of the song chosen is very cheerful and funky and I think the ways I have designed these two products have been successful. In the video I have used bright coloured backdrops and colourful costumes so therefore I decided to set myself a high contrasted colour scheme for my digipack which I designed first. I went for an orange and a bright blue on a black background which was then worked on top off by adding images of myself, (the lead singer/artist), my partner who is also in the video as the second singer and vectors which were I created myself.

I went for the 6 panel digipack cover and I had a fair amount of space to work on and add information too. I designed the front cover by using a silhouette of myself which is worked up to from the patterns of my dress. The front cover almost hides who the artist is but at the same time it gives off a sense of dance and excitement as the silhouette is posing. I think the front cover gives quite a lot away. The panels inside consists of a close up picture which is taken by me of the Indian drum called the ‘tabla’ which is played fairly load in the song and also a lot in the video. This is the reason I decided to use the whole of the panel for this picture because it plays a big part in the video/song and I thought it would only be right if I slowly reveal the genre and identity of the artist by flipping the panels one by one.

Following this is a panel which shows a close up picture of me from the day of the shoot. I added text to it as I thought it looked slightly bland without other things on the layout of the page. I went for close up as it shows clearly who the artist is and also shows a bit of the outfit, making it more recognisable for the audience. I did the same with my sister who played the other singer in my video. The next panel is hers and I carried the same method for this one too but just used a mid-shot picture of her this time. Again she is seen wearing an outfit which is worn in the actual video. I added text in this panel again saying ‘accompanied by G’ so the CD cover wasn’t just promoting me because I was the main singer, but also my other singer. Furthermore I added an imagine in the background of these two panels from a dancing move which I thought would again add some idea of the kind of performance the audience would expect.

Finally the tracks panel and the middle panel were very simple and continued from the theme and colour scheme which I chose. The poster was also the same. Everything was kept the same, even the images that I used of me and my sister. These were a clip from the video which I thought would be interesting to add in as it would make it easier for the audience to recognise the link between the video and poster.

Overall I feel quite confident about my ancillary products appealing to my audience which is teenagers from 15 to adults up to 30! I know the age gap is fairly big but with this genre it’s not about ages but more about passion and type of music you like. Also if the audience are interested more in the actual music, then that is clearly shown on he digipack, and if it’s the artists themselves, then that is also very bold on these products. So therefore I think these products would appeal to my audience.

Thursday 18 March 2010

Final touches to the music video!

My poster!

I startd to take pictures of the some of my punjabi dresses and the one that i wore in the video. I tried to make my own vectors out of these and used them in my poster.
I began designing the poster and went on to looking at images i would use.






this is my final poster. I have kept the theme the same as you can probably tell from my digippack design too. I kept the colour scheme the same which is orange and blue. I also added in pictures from the video that i used on my cover as i found it would have linked in and shown the connection between this. I also added the production name which i made up and kept as 'desi-licious'. I worked with the fonts on photoshop and made my own vectors which i think fit in very well with.