Today has been a final throw to finish everything to the best standard that we could! Although it's been hard work - knowing we have put ourselves one step further to higher marks is very satisfactory!
Anyways here I present you our website address (ooohhh very exciting) ...
http://mysite.thurstoncollege.suffolk.sch.uk/lhj-blogathon
Enjoy!
Jess
Friday, 30 April 2010
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Heeeey :D
Ok so we managed to burn our disc with our evaluation and final video on with about 5 minutes to spare before the deadline lol . Not gonna lie, it was a stressy day and week, but we did it :D and still managed to have lots of laughs as usual :) Even though its Easter we still havn't forgotten about Media and have started revising for the old postmodernism... Baudrillard, we heart you and your hyper realistic ways. I will post soon with lots of audience feedback from our music video, i have about two pages worth of positives and negatives lol.
Anyhoooo muchos love as usual!
Hannah xxxx
Classic Lorna LOL
Jess' reaction to the amount of bird poo on the beach...
And me being a first prize donut with the LHJ mascot....
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Feedback!
Okay so it's been a while since we last posted!
We've been really really busy filming and editing out evaluation, the deadline is thursday and we're working flat out!
IT WILL BE DONE :D
*here we are...working on the evaluation ofcourse!*
I was just checking up on our music video on my Youtube account and saw some feedback, here it is!
The feedback we've had has been very positive!
More to come soon guys :)
Lorna x
We've been really really busy filming and editing out evaluation, the deadline is thursday and we're working flat out!
IT WILL BE DONE :D
*here we are...working on the evaluation ofcourse!*
I was just checking up on our music video on my Youtube account and saw some feedback, here it is!
The feedback we've had has been very positive!
More to come soon guys :)
Lorna x
Thursday, 25 February 2010
FINAL PRODUCT (music video)
The long anticipated video is finally here! So enjoy it! and feel free to leave comments/feedback :)
Monday, 22 February 2010
Final Digipak!
Here is the final template of our digipak, We have 7 images including the spine, which represent the different sides of the digipak.
This is the front cover (we have kept this writing style throughout the ancillary, using it on the webpage also)
Extra panel (photoshopped this image to create a pink effect on the wall and keeping with the colours on the webpage)
Inside right (which will have the CD tray on top)
Inside centre
Inside left (here we used some lyrics from l.e.s artistes because we liked the idea of written lyrics inside the digipak)
Backcover (with barcode and copyright information)
And finally the spine, with a matching design as the inside right (CD tray)
This is the front cover (we have kept this writing style throughout the ancillary, using it on the webpage also)
Extra panel (photoshopped this image to create a pink effect on the wall and keeping with the colours on the webpage)
Inside right (which will have the CD tray on top)
Inside centre
Inside left (here we used some lyrics from l.e.s artistes because we liked the idea of written lyrics inside the digipak)
Backcover (with barcode and copyright information)
And finally the spine, with a matching design as the inside right (CD tray)
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Final Webpage :D
Ok, so here is out final webpage for our auxiliary task :) i'v posted the link up and it should work but just in case i'm gonna work some print screen magic so it can be seen.
http://file///Volumes/USB%20DISK/Media/Site_2/Webpage.html
I really hope that works because we've transferred all this from the school Macs to our computers at home :)
Just in case here is our finished website.
Here is a close up of the twitter updates, so you can read them easier! We thought this was relevant to keep the flow of web 2.0 and shows how artists can keep in contact with their fans in a postmodern world!
We havn't quite finished a few aspects of the page but overall we're so happy with it and feel that the images and writing are really striking and fit in with the recurring themes of our entire project, both the video and digipak. The scrolling page showing Santigolds Twitter updates has recently been added, as has the link to our music video. These are both features of musicians webpages that we found and thought really worked.
We are planning on uploading the final music video tomorrow if all goes well, we're having a few problems doing it at the moment but i'm sure it will be up as promised tomorrow :)
Over half term we are going to start working on our evaluation, which we're going to approach in a number of ways. We are going to create an interview style "making of" to answer the questions whereby we will all be discussing the different aspects of creating our music video. Alongside this we will be combining it with "making of" shots we got on the day with the handicam and using examples of clips from our final music video.
Much love! xxxx
http://file///Volumes/USB%20DISK/Media/Site_2/Webpage.html
I really hope that works because we've transferred all this from the school Macs to our computers at home :)
Just in case here is our finished website.
Here is a close up of the twitter updates, so you can read them easier! We thought this was relevant to keep the flow of web 2.0 and shows how artists can keep in contact with their fans in a postmodern world!
We havn't quite finished a few aspects of the page but overall we're so happy with it and feel that the images and writing are really striking and fit in with the recurring themes of our entire project, both the video and digipak. The scrolling page showing Santigolds Twitter updates has recently been added, as has the link to our music video. These are both features of musicians webpages that we found and thought really worked.
We are planning on uploading the final music video tomorrow if all goes well, we're having a few problems doing it at the moment but i'm sure it will be up as promised tomorrow :)
Over half term we are going to start working on our evaluation, which we're going to approach in a number of ways. We are going to create an interview style "making of" to answer the questions whereby we will all be discussing the different aspects of creating our music video. Alongside this we will be combining it with "making of" shots we got on the day with the handicam and using examples of clips from our final music video.
Much love! xxxx
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Our very own (draft) digipak!
We made this a few weeks back now, just as a draft of what style template and images we want to use, in the end we decided to go for the extra panel - allowing us to use more images we got during our filming (because there were loads of good ones!) Also, this template looked pretty neat when it all folded in etc :) here are some photos of the draft we made.
This is the front cover, we used the tab to write the artist name and album title 'Santigold' and 'L.E.S artistes' because we've decided to go for the handwritten theme because it creates a more unique appearance!
Here is the backcover, we had to use an image where i was positioned to the side so that we could then insert all the track titles from the album along the side (note we have no barcode at the moment!)
This is the open digipak, the image in the left is on the extra inside panel. the cinema photo with the red seats is the central image as you open the digipak, we chose this one because it is very eye catching and it was also one of our favourites! the beach image on the right is where the disc tray will be placed, therefore we didnt want to use an photograph of myself because it wouldnt be seen, we initially chose this one because it reflects our beach location however, we have no changed this and have an image of glitter - reflecting our webpage instead! we feel this works a lot better. But we have moved the beach photo along in place of the far left blue moon picture - and drawn some handwritten lyrics from L.E.S artistes onto it...its looking awesome!!
This is the back of the digipak. Here you can see the front cover and back cover. The white strip down inbetween the two covers is the spine - where we have designed a glitter strip with the name of the artist and album name. We designed the spine the other day, so it is now ready for the final thing!
'xiting!!
Okay, here is the last image. This is an (almost) birds eye view of our draft digipak just to illustrate how it all folds in together!
And finally, a quick update on the video itself, we are 99% finished!!!! We just have to add the song name,artist and music label text at the begining - and ofcourse one final check through...then we are done!
Well..it will then be time to focus on our evaluation which shouldnt be a problem because we have been working on it at the same time and also have a lot of 'behind the scenes' footage from the handicam to add to our evaluation :)
Thanks again for reading!, Lorna.xo
This is the front cover, we used the tab to write the artist name and album title 'Santigold' and 'L.E.S artistes' because we've decided to go for the handwritten theme because it creates a more unique appearance!
Here is the backcover, we had to use an image where i was positioned to the side so that we could then insert all the track titles from the album along the side (note we have no barcode at the moment!)
This is the open digipak, the image in the left is on the extra inside panel. the cinema photo with the red seats is the central image as you open the digipak, we chose this one because it is very eye catching and it was also one of our favourites! the beach image on the right is where the disc tray will be placed, therefore we didnt want to use an photograph of myself because it wouldnt be seen, we initially chose this one because it reflects our beach location however, we have no changed this and have an image of glitter - reflecting our webpage instead! we feel this works a lot better. But we have moved the beach photo along in place of the far left blue moon picture - and drawn some handwritten lyrics from L.E.S artistes onto it...its looking awesome!!
This is the back of the digipak. Here you can see the front cover and back cover. The white strip down inbetween the two covers is the spine - where we have designed a glitter strip with the name of the artist and album name. We designed the spine the other day, so it is now ready for the final thing!
'xiting!!
Okay, here is the last image. This is an (almost) birds eye view of our draft digipak just to illustrate how it all folds in together!
And finally, a quick update on the video itself, we are 99% finished!!!! We just have to add the song name,artist and music label text at the begining - and ofcourse one final check through...then we are done!
Well..it will then be time to focus on our evaluation which shouldnt be a problem because we have been working on it at the same time and also have a lot of 'behind the scenes' footage from the handicam to add to our evaluation :)
Thanks again for reading!, Lorna.xo