Final Music Video For Transylvania by McFly

Today we finished our final music video by adding the improvements given to us by a friend of ours who gave feedback and by adding more white overlays to the instrumental to make it more dramatic.

Here it is:

Final CD Package

On Photoshop: 

Front cover of CD and booklet 

Page 1 

Page 2

Page 3 

Page 4 

Page 5 

Page 6

Back cover of booklet

Back cover of CD

CD print

In CD case:

Front cover

Back cover

Booklet physical copy:

Booklet front cover

Page 1 + 2 of booklet

Page 3 + 4 of booklet

Page 5 + 6 of booklet

Booklet back covee

CD print:

CD sides:

Edge that can be seen when placed on shelf

Opposite edge facing inwards when on shelf

Final Website

Here is the link to our final website created for our band on wix.com:

https://firelightfalcons.wixsite.com/officialwebsite

Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research and planning, and evaluation stages?

Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Here are the time frames for each section:

0.07 - 0.35 - Written feedback about music video.
0.06 - 8.50 - Videos of people giving feedback about music video.
8.51 - 13.02 Discussing our feedback about our music video.
13.03 - 17.01 Videos of people giving feedback about our CD package.
17.02 - 20.41 Vdeos of people givng feedback about our website.
20. 42 - 24.18 Discussing our feedback about our CD package and website.

 

In this video you see the paper feedback and interviews given to people about what they think about each product we made (music video, cd digipak and website). After each interview with all the people we asked about the particular item we then discuss and respond to the feedback about it.

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Created using Visme. An easy-to-use Infographic Maker.

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

Open publication - Free publishing

Logo Update For Our Band - Session 40

Today we thought that we should update our logo so it looks more professional. As a group we thought it was best that we made the typography of the bands name 'Firelight Falcons' the same as it is on our band website and CD pack so it the same throughout are whole product.

Another thing that we changed is the background to a golden colour because we felt that with the bright yellow and red background it looked a bit unprofessional with us doing it on Paint. Therefore, using a more professional software we used Photoshop to make the background gold and then we added in the bands name.

After this we updated the logo on all our social media and YouTube.

Here is how it looks:

Updates And Changes To Website - Session 39

Over time we have been making developments to our band's website. These include:

• We changed the background on the majority of the pages as we felt that there were too many trees which meant it got quite repetitive. Therefore, to make it interesting we included some photos we had taken away from setting of the music video which still had a nature aspect to them.                                                                                                                                                  
•  As a group we thought we should change the font for their band name 'Firelight Falcons' as previously it was quite a bulky font and did not stand out much with it having lower caps other than the start of the words. Therefore, we changed it to 'Marzo' which stands out more as it has a thinner style to the text but puts all the letters as capitals.                                                                                                                                                       
• On the ABOUT page we removed the singular shot of one of the band members and added a group one with a slideshow underneath with a picture of all the members individually. Also, we added another quote from a made up magazine.                                                                               
•   We added 'Account' and 'Help' buttons as we noticed band websites have them in order to buy merchandise but also for obvious help reasons for new comers to the site.                                                                                                                                                                                 
•  We added Spotify and iTunes buttons to the homepage of our website above the album to show the multiple ways people can access music currently, from streaming, buying on an app, as well as ordering a physical copy online through the bands shop.                                                                   
• On our HOME and MUSIC pages we added our final front cover to our album playlist.                           
• We rearranged the SHOP page so it looked more professional, this included changing the set out of some of the merchandise and prices, along with the font of the titles. We also added the album to the shop.                                                                                                                                           
• We added another page called the GALLERY which includes behind the scene shots of the band members.                                                                                                                                        
• For the CONTACTS page we created emails for all the addresses we made up so they actually worked.                                                                                                                                                
• Finally, we added a slideshow on our HOMEPAGE  of snapshots from our music video and on the VIDEOS tab we added our final music video.

Link to website: https://firelightfalcons.wixsite.com/officialwebsite
Here are some screenshots of our website:
                                                     

Updating Pictures For CD Booklet - Session 38

Today we decided that it would be quicker and easier if we asked each band member to take individual mid shot photos of them against a brick wall. The reason we decided to do this is because when it came to editing a brick wall onto each image green screen photo on Photoshop it was taking too long.

Although these photos won't go to waste as we have used them as behind the scene photos on our website, as well as, adding some to our About page to introduce the band. Furthermore, Laura edited accurately a long shot band photo onto a brick wall using Photoshop, which we will be using to the back page of the booklet.

The photos that we took today will need to be colour corrected so that they are darker so it matches the rest of the darker themed package.

Here are some of the photos we took:

Photo-shoot Of Band For CD And Website - Session 37

At the end of last week we decided that we needed to organise a photo shoot of our band as usually an artist/ band show appear on their website and CD's to promote and market themselves. First, we created a group chat on Facebook messenger with ourselves and the band members in to ask when the people in the band were free and to organise when we did it. As a group we decided to do it  Monday and Friday break time.

On the Monday we focused on getting shots of the band for the front and back cover, while on Friday we focused more on the CD booklet and website photos. Also, on Friday to make sure that we got enough photos  I changed the shutter speed so many photos could be taken at a time and Alex wore the shirt that the main girl in our music video finds which shows an intertextual reference to the music video.

Here are some of the photos we took on Monday:

Here are some of the photos we took on Friday: