Back In Black - ACDC Digipak

We like the ink effect that is shown throughout the digipack, the place for the CD was then made to be an ink pot to tie it all together so we have a clear on-going theme. The ink is also black which resembles the 'black' from the album title track 'Back in Black' that we made the music video for.
We used the font 'Brushed' for all of the text in the digipack as we felt it went with the genre of music and general feel of the song.
Though we initially lost the photographs that we took for the digipack, we used screenshots from the video itself - this ended up working out well for us as they are good quality, all have a clear link, and give a taster of the video itself. So it's more recognizable.
The main photoshop tool that we used was the paint brush, which we then changed to the '1000' size paint splattering effect - which we made a black colour, and added to most of the sides of the digipack.

For Next Year:
Though we tried to have a colour scheme for the digipack, the lighting was different in the two main screenshots and next year we would want to take proper images for the main cover and make sure the lighting was the same - if we couldn't then we would at least need more time to correct the lighting properly in photoshop.

Back In Black Music Video - Karaoke Task

Evaluation:
Editing on the beat - We think that we edited on the beat quite well. However the clips, despite being edited in time with the music, were quite long and to be more in-keeping of the rock genre we probably would have needed to have more choppy editing. This would have been achieved by shooting more clips in the allocated time we had with the camera. We needed more locations also, so next time wouldn't shoot in college.

Lip-syncing- The lip-syncing in this music video was mostly good, we made sure we dragged the clips to be in time with the music. One of the parts of chorus wasn't matched with the correct video clip so the lip-syncing looks slightly out of time, however this was just a practice task and next year we would make sure we set aside enough time to edit in a clip that was more in time with the lyrics.

Genre Conventions - We tried to edit the clips on the beat well so that it would be in-keeping with the well-timed, snappy music videos from Rock artists. The costumes were also a convention of rock music, school uniforms worn wrong to seem 'rebellious' and the classic leather jackets. We incorporated a clip of a power slide as another convention of a rock music performance. Next year if we did the Rock genre we would choose the location carefully as this is important in enhancing the rock genre conventions, and would do more research in to where videos are usually located.

ACDC - Back In Black Music Video Prep

Lyrics:
Back in black 
I hit the sack 

I've been too long I'm glad to be back Yes I'm, let loose From the noose That's kept me hanging about I keep looking at the sky 'Cause it's gettin' me high Forget the herse 'cause I'll never die I got nine lives Cat's eyes Usin' every one of them and running wild 
'Cause I'm back Yes, I'm back Well, I'm back Yes, I'm back Well, I'm back, back (Well) I'm back in black Yes, I'm back in black 
Props:
Locations:

Costume:
Black leather jackets
Bandanas 
Boots

Electric guitar
Microphone
(Bring lyrics sheets)

Refectory
Woods
Hallways
Library 
Stairs next to G Block
Outside

Test Magazine Advert

For this task we had 10 minutes to shoot an image for our genre of music, we chose indie.
We edited this image in photoshop and burnt in the edges for a darker atmosphere. We added text such as the artist, album title, release date, review and shops that will sell the album on to the advert. We used the font 'Brushes' as it looked the best against the brick backdrop.

Before:

After:

If we had more time on this advert we would have thought more carefully about the image itself, and how we wanted it to look, this way we could plan what editing techniques we would apply to the image which would save us time as we wouldn't be experimenting on the day.

Photoshop Make up + Glowing Lines

We watched YouTube tutorials for adding make up to this image. We like the effect that it has and would contemplate using in our project.






We also watched a tutorial on the glowing lines. We found the tutorial useful however we do not like this effect as much, and won't be using it in our project.

Lip-syncing task

For this task we had to edit the video in time with the music to make sure all the clips were lip-syncing with the audio. We felt this task went well, and we produced good work.

What it means to be a star - Peter Andre

A star is someone who has become famous both for their job and appearing in may sorts of media. This makes their image instantly recognisable. Their image becomes a sign of many meanings, this image can be used as a marketing tool also to make money for the star. Representation is important, this comes from interviews, books, photographs.

Peter Andre

                                                                    Singer:

Father:

Katie Price's Ex Husband:

Reality TV star:

Peter Andre is a star because he started off singing, then appeared in the I'm a Celebrity, then married and famously divorced Jordan, and had children, their family life was aired on reality TV. He then did various charity work, and dated publicly and continued with his show 'My Life', re-appeared on I'm a Celebrity, and wins awards for appearing on television whilst still releasing music.

Hip-hop genre conventions

The task was to research the Hip-Hop genre of music.
We went on to YouTube and watched a selection of Hip-Hop artist's videos. We then mind-mapped the conventions that these videos had in common. This is our end result:

These are the videos that we watched:
NWA - Express Yourself

Dr Dre ft Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode