Evaluation

Album Art

This is my finished album cover for our artist. As the artist name is B Money i thought that the feel of money had to be incorpirated within the cover and i have done this by using a pound coin as the dot on the I.

I gave the cover a black and white theme for many reasons, firstly as it gives the cover a old school feel and the fact that when writting music it is in black and white so the album is going back to the source of them music.

The text i used for the artsit name and song title i believe give the cover edge as they look like music notes being wrote on a page. I kept the cover plan and simple as i want the audience to feel that the music is what we really want them to indolve in , there is no kimicks just purely god music.

I carry on the theme that the cover is purely about the artist and his music by immersing him with a glow around hom , making him the main focus.

Overall i am happy with my finished cover and believe that it gives off a pproffesional feel.

Evaluation Preparation

Once our video is finished we as a group have to evaluate every area of the video and discuss the pros and cons of it. There are many ways of doing this but we as a group believe by making a powerpoint presentation with print screens of our work will give us a good building block to talk about our video.

We will record ourselves answering questions on our video.
Before recording our evaluation we will rehearse our lines so the delivery is correct and everything goes smoothly.
The evaluation side of the coursework allows us to show the audience how we feel the video went and give them more of an insight into the videos background.

Final Filming

For our Music Video to be complete we had to film for one last time to gather shots needed to fill in every missing spaces. We only needed a small amount of shots and went to my house to film the sequences needed. We tried to use a variety of different camera angles and camera movements in our shoot to give the video the professional edge we fill we have already.

As a group we believe filming went smoothly and there was no hiccups, we gathered all the shots needed and the shot we got were of a high quality. These shots will help us finished our Music Video

The Showcase

Within our class we came together and put a showcase together, with fellow students and teacher to watch our music video before they were fully completed. We believed this would help us with the final stages of creating the video as we can see what is going well and what needs to be changed. The showcase would allow peers and teachers to give us feedback on how our video is looking and any comments they had on it. We hoped to gather feedback in a variety different areas, for example editing and lighting etc.

Our teacher gave us each individual student a sheet to fill out with question about our videos. The questions consisted of, what was especially good about the music video. Would you watch it again? If yes why? If no, why not? And did you notice any errors within the video?, the sheet also asked the class to rate certain areas of our video out of 10 , were ten is the highest.
The class were asked to rate the, editing, sound, camerawork and the synchronising of sound.

Once our video was shown to the class we then discussed the pros and cons of it.
The class believed that a positive aspect of our video was indeed the editing , the edits were in time with the beat and there was a variety of different edits to keep the video interesting. Most people rated our editing with a 9 out of ten score, however our we did gather a piece of feedback that the editing was out off sync at one point so we will have to change that.

However a negative side of our video was the narrative and shot repetition, peers told us that they did not understand completely the narrative and also that there was too many off the same shot within the video. This gives us as a group something to discuss and hopefully change in the near future.

My Album Cover

Looking through my blog you will see that I’ve analysed many album covers, this is because the next stage within creating my artist I am going to create my own CD cover for my artist. I hope that looking at other covers will help me with the layout and look of my cover. There are many things I have to take into account when designing my cover, the colour design, picture, size and text as it has to look good on the shelves but more importantly appeal to our target audience.

MySpace Profile for our Artist

As you can see above I have made a MySpace site for our artist, B Money. I have previously showed in older post artist use website to promote them and widen their fan bases. I have put together a MySpace as the site is very user friendly and will allow fans to have easy access to our artist’s page. A webpage for B Money will do many things to push his career forward.
Having a webpage will firstly gain him a bigger fan base as there a millions of people using MySpace and everyone will be able to look up our artist and become a fan. Fans are key to an artist progressing as without fans who is going to buy the records, sites like this will allow fans to post the artist hopefully giving feedback on current tracks and songs they wish him to sing in the future.
However to keep the image and style of our artist correct on the site we have to make sure the layout and content is suitable and will not offend people or lose fans he already has.
MySpace allows for music and videos to be shared so this will give us a chance to give our fans a taster into new tracks and gather feedback on them.
This is a world wide site and people from all over use it, so making a profile for B Money will do nothing but help us promote his music.