Evaluation Question 1

EVALUATION 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The style of the makeup that we chose were down to the fact that the song's sounds very much as though it is from an era that is older than  the modern day music, this is because of the artists voice. Also the fact that she is singing about Elvis Presley who is from the 50's we wanted a style of clothing that fitted with this sort of girl who is obsessed with Elvis Presley. We used the 60's style makeup similar to Twiggy's on the eyes.

Also we used a 50's style red lip because of the fact that Elvis was from the 50's and it stood out a lot in front of the camera. This created the bold dramatic look that we wanted to fit in with the theme of the video.

The moving images at the start and on each Individual beat with no lyrics were taken inspiration from Fiona Apple's song criminal.

This Is a clip from Fiona Apple's song

This is a clip from our music video.

In order to make ours slightly different we placed two effects over the top during the editing process. These were one to make in look more old and sepia and the other to make it look more like it was being projects to add a bit more jumpy movement through out the video.

The inspiration for the sepia effect came from some photos that were up around my house and where I had seen other various different photos with a sepia filter over the top.

One of the images from home

A screenshot from our video

I then gained inspiration from the Charlie Chaplin silent films. I was looking at these because I thought of all of the music artists such as Elvis Presely from the 50's but thinking further back to old stars I found this inspiring and would work the vintage theme that we were going along.

Another really big influence for our video was where we were going to film the video, we wanted to film it in a room that had plain walls and preferable i wooden floor, this was taken from Birdy's self titled album art work. In this image you had a girl standing in an empty room with really decrepit old wall paper and a wooden floor, this was emulated in our video as we had a wooden floor and a plain wall, however, we decided to change it by having the room filled with objects that our artist could interact with.

In our room we have more objects.

For my digipak I believe that it really isn't challenging any conventions, this is because I took a lot of inspiration from two different album covers. As I did this it meant that I was sticking to something that I knew worked, because of this I hadn't really challenged anything.

I decided to stick to a one work title for the name 'Lines' I did this for a bold impact and also to go with the fact that the artist only had a one word name, this again gave it a more strong name, I took this inspiration from Kimbra's album called 'Vows'. I chose to do a picture of the artist on the front of the album as well as the inside of the cover, this was to help show the identity between the artist in the video can be related to the artist on the front of the digipak. The writing was placed in the top left hand corner of the front cover, this was again taken from Kimbra's album 'Vows'.

The paisley pattern that was placed in the CD holder was also taken inspiration from album cover because of the way that she is covered in different patterns. The chosen pattern was taken from this image which I thought had the right shapes and style that could go on my digipak.

I then decided that for the tracklisting on the back I would have it going continuously across with no number down the side, this was so then it was centred. I didn't realise this at the time but only now that I am doing this task that I have a similarity between the back of my digipak and the back of Bastille's Bad Blood album.

Although mine is slightly different because I have placed the titles going continuously, I have centred it and made it symmetrical placing circles at the end so that I have seperations between each of the titles. Although I have changed mine compared to what the Bastille album's tracklisting looks like I have no way created that out of my own imagination and it would be found on many different albums or wherever there is writing.

My poster has also stuck to the conventions as it has followed the style of the digipak's tracklisting on the back by having everything centred. This includes the image and the writing.

The circles are continued into the date which is when the album is released.
I have continued the same theme with the same image on to the poster helping to create a brand which cant be mistaken this was taken from Kimbra's Poster for Vows and the album as they had the same image and font on the poster as they did the album.