WEBSITE FINAL BILAL

http://bilalhussain1234.wix.com/melzxjoez

first attempt making website

Here's is me setting up the social links for my website that I was planning to make, this was also my first attempt making the website; I however didn't use this because I went to a tutorial during workshop to help me develop a better and more professional looking website that fits the codes and conventions of a typical grime artists music video.

HAND SKETCHES OF DRAFT DIGIPAK

Following some audience feeback, I found that they didn't like the name over the hole because it was distracting and didn't look clean lined. 

So I dicided to change it, and they liked this one better 

Functions of a music video (info)

What is a music video? 

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery. 

Different types of music videos

Performance based: this is a music video that doesn't relate to the lyrics but is actually a way that the artist has chosen to portray the music to the audience. 

Narrative based: a music video that related to the actual lyrics of the song, a largely recognised example of this is Adeles Skyfall video, which contained some parts of the James Bond movie Skyfall. 

Conceptual based: this is a music video based on one theme, for example, Ariana Grandes music video for "Break Free"is based around a theme of space and out of earth imagery. 

A music video has the following functions:

- to engage the audience and ensure that they are part of the journey that the artist is going through, and almost become apart of the artists life. 

- the practical function of actually selling the music, in the hope that if the audience enjoys the music they are more likely to enjoy the music and therefore buy it from iTunes or similar agencies. 

- they portray the singing artist as actually a performer, that means the audience is able to relate with the artist on another level that motivates them to continue along the artists journey. 

- the video gives the music that is produced another platform to be played on rather then live performance or a music file. 

LAST POST - SIGNING OFF

THAT'S IT OUR BLOGGING IS COMING TO AN END :( :(  WE REALLY ENJOYED BLOGGING THIS YEAR, ALSO CREATING OUR MUSIC VIDEO WAS THE BEST !!

BUT HERE ARE GROUP SELFIE'S SO YOU DON'T FORGET GROUP 7 

 

Peace out 

Melz x Joez & Group 7 #wantfromme 

Evaluation Q4

 Here is a my kizoa presentation on Evaluation Q4
Evaluation Q4 - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

Evaluation Q3 - Camtasia Photoshop Edit

Here is a Camatasia showing how I used technology. A camtasia - Photoshop tutorial

Evaluation Q3

 Please click on the link below to view my canva presentation which is part of my answer to evaluation Q3

https://www.canva.com/design/DABolwiNgf8/hB1DHs7W3Dy8Xq4Vqc8eSQ/view?&utm_content=DABolwiNgf8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&cc_from_uid=UABolyavXPw

Evaluation Q2

Here is a slideshare presentation for my evaluation Q2

Evaluation Q1

Created with Padlet

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Audience feedback is important for a number of reasons:

- to ensure that the artist is up to date and understands what the audience wants from them
- to respond to the feedback they receive
- to compete for followers with other artists

HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FEEDBACK CLIPS FROM THE SCREENING:

EVALUATION QUESTION 3 BILAL

Question 3 - Camtasia's for technology used

Social Media Networks 

Using Photoshop to manipulate photos 

Kizoa  

Using Premiere Pro

Photoshop Tutorial

Here's a Camtasia of me making a little mock tutorial of how to make a front cover of a digipak.

Disclaimer:
This is not my actual Digipak that I've made; the pictures used is not the same I've used for my own one.

Pitch

CAMTASIA EDIT ABOUT PHOTOSHOP (BILAL PART OF CANVA)

BILAL CAMTASIA (PART OF CANVA ON Q3)

forward to 1:30

Digital mock up of digipak

This a digital mock up of how i want my digipak to look like. I will manipulate photo's to put the two artists together, so the audience can recognise them. Also i will be following the synergy of the costumes and colour scheme which is Monochrome. All the writing and fonts will be in monochrome.

Digital mockup of website

This is a digital mock up of my website, I will make some adjustments when making this website online, by adding the official mp3 and official video. But this is how I would like my website to look, as it follows the conventions of grime artists website that I have researched.

Question 4 - Evaluation

As I wasn't able to embed this into the slide PowerPoint I decided to embed it separately.

HERE ARE THE INTERVIEWS:

Question 2 - Evaluation

Question 3 - Evaluation

Created with Padlet

Question 1 - Evaluation

EVALUATION QUESTION 1 (BILAL)

Question 2 progress

Evaluation Q1 - draft

Evaluation Q4 plan

Evaluation Q3 plan

Evaluation Q2 plan

Evaluation Q1 plan

EVALUATION QUESTION 2 (BILAL)

Evaluation Question 1 progress

 

Question 4 - PLAN

EVALUATION QUESTION 3 (plan)

EVALUATION QUESTION 2 (Plan)

EVALUATION QUESTION 1 (plan)

Analysis of Digipak in the genre of grime

Ancillary Website

http://mrmelz.wix.com/melzxjoez

Final Ancillary - Digipak/Ancillary

This is my final digipak outlook. I used photoshop to design, blend, cut and shape. It was a hassle at first and I got frustrated however it developed my creativity skills and technology usage. I followed the synergy as we wanted to capture the monochrome in all our media products.


Also the website links aswell with the repeated colour scheme and as our genre websites normally don't have I decided to follow that convention but also challenge it at the same time as I've added a gallery and a tour date section.

Digipak Ancillary

This is my finished digipak:

REFLECTION:
I think the process of making the digipak is going good. I'm actually delighted with the inside cover because I had difficulties deciding what to put in there and still make it look just like typical grime artists digipak.
When I first started making the digipak I had problems with the sizings of the images for example I overstretched the images insteading of using the actual size it was importing in.
I was told that I had too much head space on the front of the cover so I enlarged the artists' names to cover up the gap and also increase the size of the album name 'Dilemma'

ANALYSIS OF MY DIGIPAK:

Task 53 - Photos for digipak

Ancillary Website

Here's the link to my finished ancillary website:


http://ab10639.wix.com/melzxjoez

WEBSITE

Finally finished my website here's the link:

http://ab08012.wix.com/melzxjoez

Question 3 - PROCESS

Task 49: Ancillary text 2

Task 53 - Photos for digipak

These are the photo's i wish to use on my digipak for our artists. I chose these pictures because i can manipulate them in so many ways which will make it look like a professional digipak. Furthermore these are really good shots from our artists.

Task 54 - Overview of costume

Here is the costumes our artists will be wearing in the photoshoot. This follows our colour scheme which you see in bits in our music video. Also the colour black is mostly used in digipaks and photos for many grime artists. (Costume on the last slide)

final ancillary task 1 digipak

HAND SKETCHES OF INITIAL IDEAS FOR DIGIPAK (1)

Used a pencil and felt tip pen to make it thicker.

The main idea behind this is simplicity and minimalist, not exactly the codes and conventions of grime genre, however it is the style I want to follow because it just makes it easier to follow our monochrome synergy 

PROGRESS SO FAR ON WEBSITE :

Ancillary progress - website

 

I started my website using Wix for our artists 'MELZ X JOEZ'. I chose a layout which was simple which will follow the convention of our genre and also complement our colour scheme. 

I decided to stick to a simple bold thick font for the title of the homepage and use black social icons to go with the colour scheme, monochrome. I decided that i would like everything to be on the homepage to keep it simple and to have easy access. The video 'Want from Me' can be watched on the homepage also the mp3 format of the song as well. Then i decided i will add an album of our artists bloopers during the photoshoot to give the audience a calm informal feeling. However, i will make some changes because at the moment i don't really like the layout of things and how it looks in general, but i got some feedback from my teacher and some students saying its perfectly fine.

Ancillary Progress - Digipak

When creating my digipak, i started off with a 3 panel digipak layout. After nearly creating it, i changed my mind and decided to start again, this time with a 2 panel digipak layout. I then thought to myself that the second layout of my digipak best portrays the convention of my music genre, which grime, most grime digipaks are mostly 2 panels they're hardly any 3 panel digipaks. Also another change i done to the digipak is that i changed the font of our artists names 'MELZ X JOEZ'.

The font before:

The font used now:

I got this font im using from Dafont "CFGreenMonster by CloutierFonts". The reason why i changed the font is that i felt that it really didn't convey the genre well, also the new font has thicker strokes and is more bolder than the one i used before.