Week 9 Homework - Due Week 10 - Social Media Page Rough Draft

 Minor Task planning

This week for homework you are going to work on your minor task - namely the Instagram page.

You are going to use a mix of ChatGPT images of exactly what you want to use and real still / photos from your shoot.

You need to arrange these in a mock-up or rough draft of you template of  an Instagram page for your short film.

What you need to include

- all elements you plan to have on your social media page

- pictures that resemble what you'll have on the social media page

- Rationale of why you're including what you are 

- well-thought out captions / writing and bio information 

Week 8 - homework due week 9 - Digipack Mock-Up (Rejoice)

      Due - Friday Week 9

 
Digital Mock up + Feedback from target audience

1.  check out this link to get a clear picture of digipack conventions;

https://www.discfactory.co.uk/packaging/cd-digipaks/

2. You need to create a digital ‘PHOTO MOCK UP‘.

For this exercise you can borrow images from Google Images. 

It is this version that will need feedback.

Exemplars here and here.

• Place the BORROWED photos in a clear CD cover and take photos of how it looks. 

• You will need to collect feedback on it from your class.  Remember, you are asking them for their preferred reading, do they recognise the genre,  How would they describe the mood / tone of the album imagery in 1 word, what is the star image of the performer, what is encoded in the design?  You could ask a focus group to decide which adjectives best describe the performer, band in terms of the star image communicated by the front cover?

CCR Questions for making notes

 QUESTIONS:

1. How do your products represent social groups or issues?

2. How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of branding?

3. How do your products engage with the audience? 

4. How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

T1 | Wk 7 - Wed - Logo Design

 Your task is to do some work on your Logo. 

1.  Come up with a name for your film company

2. Create a logo concept (what sort of symbolic image will you have, what font, what movement on screen - why? Creative rationale needed for each choice).

3. Do some research on Indi filmmakers film company logos - list some, embed them into the blog post, comment on what you like or don't like about them

4. Create a few versions and discuss which one works best for the style work you are creating

T1| Wk 6| Monday - Filming practise task - communicating meaning

 

“Conflict in 2 Minutes”

 Task Overview

You must create a 2-minute drama scene built around a moment of conflict, using controlled camera work to communicate emotion.

Rules:

• Maximum 2 characters

• One location

• Minimal dialogue (max 10 lines total)

• Emotion must be shown visually, not explained 

  
  

  
  

Wk 7 - Classwork - Monday/ Tuesday - lip Syncing practise (REJOICE)

    Lip Syncing practise 

In this assignment, you will choose the first 30 seconds of an appropriate song (preferably in your genre of music video).

Shoot someone singing to this song in as close to the music video style as possible. Create your own edit of the footage, practising your lip-syncing techniques. 

Include in this post, your Youtube tutorials and any other research you did in learning how to do this effectively. 

Comment on how successful you felt your first attempt was.

Include the original music video embedded into your post. 

(some examples of Youtube tutorials you can look at;

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/premiere-pro/how-to/edit-music-video.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUYLukTCXY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN5ROg2ljtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudR3R4MCmk

T1 | Wk 7 - Classwork Wed - Friday - Digipack analysis (REJOICE)

  

Include both Task 1 + Task 2 in a slideshare/ Canva slideshow, entitled 'Digipak Research'

Due - Friday 

TASK 1 

Digipak analysis – conventions 

We now need to have a look at how digipaks and adverts are designed to work alongside videos to support the promotion of a new album.

Consider digipak covers. What do they have in common? What are the conventions?

Here are some exampls of past students work on conventions of a digipack

https://katiedysonmusicvideoa2.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/the-conventions-of-digipaks

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/conventions-of-a-digipak-27146170/27146170

Find a digipak cover from the same genre as your music video and annotate it for the design conventions. This must be uploaded to your blog. Make it detailed and use the terms from the sheets below. If you can find the back of it too, that would be great for some of the technical conventions i.e. barcode, publisher logo etc.

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Here is an example analysis

You should focus on: images, graphics, illustrations, font, colour, technical conventions (barcode, parental advisory, album title on spine, tracks on the back), register of copy, mise-en-scene, composition, intertextual references, how does the cover communicate meaning, denotations and connotations, image manipulation, filters, generic conventions, how can it be ‘read/interpreted’ by an audience, star image, metanarrative, representation?

This is a textual analysis – decode it!  Use connectives like connote, infer, imply, represent. This is another way MEDIA LANGUAGE is used to communicate an idea, message, image etc.

In the introduction to the blog post you need to do a bullet point list of the conventional and technical features that are common to digipaks too – include the spine, inside covers and back cover – what is commonly featured? Bar code?  Parental advisory?  Name of the album and performer on the spine?  Song list on the back? etc

Task 2: Digipak Exercise - taking it a step further

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You are going;

- to take a look at some examples of slideshares of past students who researched digipaks

- research 3 examples of Digipak designs and make notes about what they include in terms of BRANDING for the artist/ band

- comment on and make notes on the style and branding of the bands/ artists (also in relation to genre). 

- Compare your 3 digipaks to previous digipaks from those same artists to get a feel for how they brandthemselves. 

- comment on your thoughts for your own Digipak ideas. How will you incorporate expected genre conventions of style and form, into your own work. Your artist / band already has a brand. How will you convey the same branding?? Think about colour, font size/ colour, layout, imagery etc. How might a Digipak 'look' of a metal band be different to that of a Katie Perry 'pop' Digipak? Is there animated imagery or do they use photos? What type of photos or artwork is included? 

- Compile your research into a blog tool (including lots of photos and imagery), explaining and presenting your findings. 

Example of Digipak 

Slideshare #1

Types of digipaks 

Slideshare #2

Digipak information

Slideshare #3

Digipack analysis example 1

https://jackmorton100.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/4-panel-digipak-analysis/

Digipack analysis example 2

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/digipak-analysis-1-53453661/53453661