My views as I finish my blog

This is my 100th post and unfortunately my last. 

Finally I have now finished my blog, it has been very enjoyable and rewarding sharing my progress in making my music video. I have tried to keep my blog up to date as 
much as possible so you can see how I have transformed my media coursework from the beginning till the end. 

I have had such fun posting on a regular basis. I have learnt so much throughout this time and it has been such fun because my biggest interest in life is music and dance.

This A2 course has developed my knowledge and has been ideal for me. 

But overall I have loved doing my media so much because there has been so many different aspects of it, I have found this blog educational and not only have I learnt about music videos, directors and producers, but how to use tools and programmes, such as, photoshop, Final Cut Pro, InDesign and Motion.

I also feel I have been able to broaden my skills on the computer because by making my music video, I was able to use more special effects.

I was very pleased with my final project and so proud of what I have achieved on everything, my video and my digipak. I have loved it so much.

This is Ceyda Ayten Tabak, and thank you for viewing my blog!

Note to the Moderator

Hello and welcome to the my A2 Media Studies blog.

Feel free to look around my blog to see how I have 

progressed from initial ideas to the final product!

My evaluation answers can be found by viewing the video 

posted with all the questions.

In addition you can look at all the posts I have made leading

 up to the final product easily by using the navigation bar on 

the right. There are saved under the label Planning as well as 

under individual names!

Thank you for looking around my blog and I hope you enjoy 

it!

My Music Video

My Music Video

My Evaluation

My Evaluation

My Website

http://laylarose.thestudioedge.co.uk/

My Poster

4th Page of Digipak

3rd Pages of Digipak

2nd Pages of Digipak

1st Page of Digipak

My Digipak

I feel that this fits with my music video well because I have used the same elegance and style that my music video has.

I have decided to lay out my digipak in this way because I feel that this would be all the information the audience needs to know.

The front cover has a picture of the main artist looking into the distance. This shows that she has an element of mystery which reflects in the album, representing that she is not conforming to what the world wants her to be.

The second pages of the digipak consists of the lyrics. I have also added a cut off section of a dark-wash image to make the digipak seem more unique.

The third pages of the digipak consists of a biography of the main artist, which consists mainly of her dance life and how it has influenced and helped her career. Her picture is on one page and the information about her is on the other page.

The fourth and final page is the back cover. It is a bright picture of Layla starting right into the camera. 

Update

I have now finished my filming and editing for my music video.  

This has taken a great deal of time, and the editing was the most time consuming part of the process, but the video is now done.  

I am pleased with how it has turned out and also how it is so close to the original storyboards that I did.

I have also finished my digipak and advert for the promotion of the artist. 

These, I feel, are in keeping with those of a real female solo artist, and again, I am very pleased with how they have turned out.

I will be uploading both to my blog shortly.

Software for Digipak & Poster

The final programme I used to make my digipak and poster was InDesign.

This enabled me to add various fonts and symbols to my digipak and poster. I felt like this programme made the pictures in both a higher quality. I am happy with the overall products because I feel like this programme has helped me produce them to good standard.

Editing for my Digipak & Poster

Photoshop allowed me to edit the pictures for my digipak and poster. It enabled me to increase the quality of the photos, crop, change the colours and add necessary effects. I changed the front cover of my photo to a black-and-white effect because I felt like this added depth to the photo. I also added a blurred edging which made the centre of the photo more focused.

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Poster Analysis

Album & Poster Analysis

Artistic Digipaks

Influential Female Artist Digipaks

Female Solo Artist Digipaks

Pop Punk Digipaks

Boy Band Digipaks

Media Showcase

This evening my fellow media classmates and I will be showcasing our music videos to our family, friends, teachers and the headmaster!

We have been asked to do a short presentation before our video is played, this will be based on our process of making and our inspiration and theme of our videos.

Tonight at 7:00 I will be telling the audience that I have choreographed the dance for my music video and that as an overall piece it is very contemporary.

I will also talk about how crucial the editing process is, as 3 hours of my dance footage was narrowed down to a mere 30 seconds in my music video.

Punk Rock Digipaks

Club Digipaks

Rock Digipaks

Rap Digipaks

RnB Digipaks

Contemporary Digipaks

Indie Digipaks

Pop Digipaks

Digipak

What is a digipak?

A digipak is a packaging used for CD singles or albums. They typically consist of a gatefold (a book-style). In this are usually pictures of the artist/band and a biography, so the audience can get a feel about their life and how they developed the music. There are sometimes lyrics produced in the digipak so the audience can follow. The back cover captures all the songs that feature on the CD.

My Artists Name

Now I have completed my music video I now have to make a name for my artist. I have used many ideas and creative names but have not found anything catchy.

I have found a name using Behind the Name.com

The Name for my Artist is called Layla Rose

Editing Inspiration

While doing my research for my music video, I found a very innovative video on youtube of a dance sequence to the song that I am using.

I really liked it and the editing techniques used really inspired me and gave me a stimulus for when I was editing

Editing my Music Video

The tool box is very easy to use on Final Cut Pro because the symbols are clear and bold.

The tool I used most was the 'cutting tool' because I have a lot of flickered scenes. I felt that cutting the clips up gave the music video a massive impact.

The effects were also very easy to use and very easy to find.

I could try as many different effects as I wanted to, to see which one had the biggest impact. I could also use two or more at the same time on the same clip. For example I used the effects 'glow' and slowed some clips down on the dancing scene because I felt that this made everything much more brighter and interesting and ad an impact when hitting the strong beats of the song. All these effects made that scene come to life and produced a satisfying finish.

Editing Software

Final Cut Pro is the software I used to create my music video. This software allowed me to edit my music video to the song and to add a variety of effects. Using this software last year meant that I was more familiar with it this year and found it much easier to use. I found it easy to use and I found it exciting to experiment with the different effects it had on it.

What I Used When Filming

To Film my music video I had to use many different pieces of equipment

Tripod, I used a Velbon tripod to stabilise 

Where I Had to Change my Arrangements

Initially I was going to record some of the scenes with a guy so he could represent the boyfriend, but as I did some more research I realised that this would ave made my video too narrative and although 

I wanted my video to have a sense of emotion, I still wanted to keep it abstract. Therefore I decided to get rid of the male actor and focus my video only around my artist and the dance. The reason being that I thought it would look very effective and draw the audiences attention to only my artist, especially because of the fast cuts.


Overall I am glad I made this change, because it turned out well and it fit together with the rest of my music video nicely.

Costumes That Will Be Used

Millie wears many different costumes to represent different things and as this is a female artist my research has shown me that costume changes are key to make the artist stand out.

In the bathtub scene, it looks like she is not wearing anything but of course she is wearing a swimsuit, I just arranged the camera angle to make it look like she is not. She has no make-up on and the only costume visible are her silver artificial long nails. This represents her vulnerability, as she is stripped back bare. I got my inspiration from Rihanna's image in her video Stay. 

The two different dresses she wears whilst she is singing shows her style and the way she, as an individual, likes to dress. These costumes contrast from one another as in the day scene the dress is black and in the night scene the dress is white. This use of monochrome colours was used deliberately as the song if very serious and too many flamboyant colour may deter from the meaning of the song and make it more light-hearted, which it is not. 

She has a full face of make-up to show her elegance and beauty and a set of false eyelashes to give that celebrity look.

Millie is wearing a simple black leotard and leggings in the dance scene, this is so the audience can focus on the choreography.

What and Where Am I Going to Film