Media Evaluation

                                                         

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

When doing my digipak I had three different inspirations that I was going to follow theses were NWAs greatest hit, the Ramones and Linkin Park.

 

What I liked about theses is they are all black and white which is very simple but effective. For NWAs I like the whole black boarder lines around the edge of the cover, what I also took from this is sectioning off the band name and the album name which I did in my draft of the digipak but got told that it would look better in the advert so I changed the two around.

With the Ramones album cover I thought I could go for something like this but then we decided to change the numbers of members in are band because of the lack of people wanting to do it for us, so that idea went out the window and I tried it with three members but it didn’t look right, so I moved onto the next one.

The Linkin Park album cover was probably the most influential because it gave me the idea of the silhouette, which I thought would look good but the only risk I was taking was if it looked good with three members than 6 like in Linkin Park. When I took the pictures that I was going to turn into the silhouette I made a list of poses that they could do but I decided to have them holding their instruments rather than just posing like in the Linkin Park album cover.

Taking the majority of my ideas from famous album cover and only a couple of my own for the digipak made it easier to picture what my front cover was going to look like which was good to have early because your front cover is what will be selling your album and to have an early picture made it less stressful.

Originally I was thinking of having a rocket on my front cover to go with the album name “Rocket Boy” but I was struggling to make my mind up on what kind of rocket to have, and after a word with Mr Ford and Dale I scraped that idea for the good.

This is what my final digipak came out like, simple but effective I thought.

Unlike the digipak my advert was all me, I had to come up with all the idea on it. However I did try to
make sure that the branding is the same in the digipak and advert so people could tell that they are the same band and album. I did this by keeping the fonts the same and the silhouette idea for it. The only research I did for this was seeing if Linkin Park had a magazine advert that would be slightly the same as the album cover but I couldn’t find one. So that’s why I found it difficult to come up with an idea because of the lack of research I put in for the magazine advert which is why I didn’t  rate it at all.

When we were first trying to come up with ideas of the song and kind of video that we were going to do I thought that I would try and analyse the video and songs that I liked. For example Rockstar by Nickelback I thought is a very entertaining song but when we choose the song it wasn’t the type for the slowness of Lippy Kids.

I also looked at an Eminem video Fast Lane knowing that the genre wasn’t what we were going to do but though I would analyse it anyway.  It did have some good ideas that I thought about doing for instance the animation that appear to link with the lyrics which I think is very cleaver.

As the music video went I thought it ended ok but thought we could have done better. However dale chooses the song we were going to do and we were going to have a half would be telling a story and the other half a performance. The story would be about a group of mates and how they are all hanging out together but one of them gets into a university and has to leave his friends. But in the draft after some advise from Mr Ford we decided to just do a performance and no story, so having changing it we had to look more of the original video for are song Lippy Kids.