Magazine Advert

I have stuck to forms and conventions on my magazine advert. I have incorporated the album cover into the advert, as most do, i've included the album name and artist...as it'd be weird if i didnt.

Evaluation - Audience Response

Similarities between my video and existing ones.

In my video, there is a bit where the 'coach' is shouting at the athlete parts of the chorus - "Best! You've got to be the best! You've got to change the world, and use this chance to be heard". I have found in another music video, by the same artist, a point in the video where the same sort of thing happens.

Muse - Knights of Cydonia

The point I'm talking about is at 4:59 - 5:02














I thought this was effective both in mine and the real video. Because in both situations, it'd look ridiculous if they started singing, it'd look incredibly unrealistic.

Examples of existing products without lip-sync

I know it is quite uncommon for a music video to have no lip sync at all, but if there is a good enough concept and a big enough budget to pull it off, sometimes these types of videos work.

Here are a few examples:

My Chemical Romance - Sing

This video is part of a ongoing story continuing over several music videos. The lack of lip-sync helps increase the tension...in my opinion. The visual aspects of the video more than make up for the fact that there is no lip-sync.











My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na

I like how this has no lip-sync because it sets the scene for the album and the next few videos. The album which it's from (Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys) is a concept album. It's where the band have created a whole world with these fictional characters. So this video was introducing the target audience to the fictional world, and in my opinion, lip-sync would have made it 'cheesy' and would have lost it it's effect.

The Killers - Goodnight, Travel Well

I think this is very well done. The lack of lip sync is incredibly effective in this video. The story itself is enough to create such a good music video. Like mine, it's halfway between a music video and a short film. But it's done in a very clever way.

Magazine Advert Examples

 Here are some examples of magazine adverts for albums. They all seem to incorporate the album cover somewhere in the advert, whether it be hugely obvious or alongside other images and text.

Digital Technology Powerpoint

This is my digital technology presentation. For the images on their own in this powerpoint, I explained to the class how I used them. The explanations of how I used them are in my post production essay.

Digital technology presentation

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My Digipak

Here is my final digipak:

 Front cover draft:

I then changed it so this one is my final one:

I used the "Waterfall" effect on Picnik, I had to change it to horizontal lines rather than vertical, then adjust the amount of lines I wanted and where I wanted them to go.

Image behind the disk:

Back cover:

I've chosen to make all the images be of the running track so the house style is the same throughout the digipak and the video.

I've used a black and white effect on the front cover and the image behind the disk, then i erased some of the b+w to get the original colour back, leaving that subject just black and white. I tried to get the font's outline colour the same as the running track so it the colour scheme consists of 3 main colours: red, green and white.

Here's a screenshot of how I did it:

I did most of it on Picnik, then added the text on Picasa.