Evaulation Question 4

Blogger
Blogger played the biggest part in our work as we used it to showcase and present all of our work from the outset of the year and throughout, its an easy and simple way of displaying our work digitally for free. In a post we could add videos to give examples and mp3 players along with other types of media to help us get our points across.
Here you can see the blogger homepage with all the posts from this years coursework

The layout of the website is easy to navigate and allows post to be made quickly and efficiently, its easy to find older posts and to go back and correct or change then simply.

Here you can see one of my previous posts with a youtube video embedded into the post, this is done by clicking on the clapper board logo in the toolbar bellow, and then searching for the video you wish to embed into the post, In this toolbar you can change the font along with the sizing, style you can also add in photos and edit the text.

Blogger allows easy navigation of posts by adding in labels to each and every post, this is done by adding in a label in the toolbar to the side of the text, this will then be shown on the right hand side of your blogs homepage.

Glogter
Glogster is another online tool that i used to help me showcase my work, its a simple effective blogging tool that allows you to make a interactive pin up board to embed into your own blog, like blogger its simple and easy to navigate and fully customisable in terms of layout, colour and add ons.
I used Glogster for one of my evaluation question to help make it digitally interactive to the user, i added in pictures and examples from my work and then the final video also from my work. This helps portray the work i have done and makes it look better rather than a standard block of text.
The first thing is to choose a base design for the layout of the glog, but this can be fully customised at a later date, then simply add in text to the glog and videos/pictures to make it more interactive for the user.

 Here are the different types of graphics that can be aded into the glog, there simple effective tools that help enhance the look and feel of it to make it more interactive to the user.








These are the different photos that i aded into the glog, its a simple quick and easy process, just choose a photo form your desktop and click upload.

Evaluation Question 1

For our ancillary task, we went ahead and did research into previous bands and how they created their digipack and magazine cover to give us ideas on how we would cross promote the digipack and magazine advert and how we could tie them in with each other.

Initially we decided that the cover for the album would be a shot taken from the video; using one of the scenes for example we chose to use the car initially on the album cover but we later decided through our research that the album digipack are never directly linked to back to the video of one of the singles on the album, that would more to do with a single release rather than an album. So to create our digipack we chose to create the cover around the album name and try and relate it as much as possible to what we thought the album name 'Passive Me Agressive You' could mean. To start with we decided on two contrasting things to resemble the name, our ideas were widely ranged and outrageous but we finally settled on an idea that was slightly cliche but fitted nicely with our ideas.
Dropping food colouring into a glass of water was what we experimented with using different colours ect. to try and get different effects and the outcome was quite professional. All of the panels of the digipack were from the same shoot which were rather professional shots, from there on we decided to make the magazine advert.

From our reasearch we found that the majority of magazine adverts present the album cover on the whole page, with the same font and same construction keeping to a strict house style which is what we wanted to accomplish, so we chose to do exactly that. We took the photo from the album cover and blew it up over the page and added the text with realistic download links etc to add to the legitimacy.
The main thing we found was that successful promotion comes down to the house style and brand identity.

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3 by domlake1994 on GoAnimate

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The main thing that we 

found out from the audience feedback was that the large majority of the performance clips didn’t look like the were synced properly, for example the shots of the keyboard player were highly out of time, due to the fact he didn’t know how to play the keyboard which is poor planning from us, other shots like that of the bass drum looked out of time to the music which is an easy fix providing the actually shot is in time with the music.

Another shot that was completely out of time was the guitarist, the actual shot was synced up to the piano playing which was all well and good but it just didn’t sound right at all.

From the feedback we also learnt that everyone like the steel wool photography shoot clips. ‘Like the fireworks’ was the general consensus when it came to the clip, it wasn’t a planned shot but it seemed that it was a good idea to put it in and it was. Other shots that group seemed to like were the bmxing and skating footage, in my opinion this could be due to the extreme nature of the sports and the sports aren’t really shown and broadcasted that much.

With the ancillary task we produced a first draft of digi pack and got some feedback on it, generally the feedback we received showed us that each panel of the digipack was more suited for it to be a single rathe than and album pack, the first draft had specific features on the panels that related solely to the video that we had created. We went away and created a totally new pack using completely new images that relate to the album name only, looking at other album trying to get inspiration.

Matt made a questionnaire for various different logos for the front of the album to try and help us decide which is best for the album cover.

Evaluation Question 2