Audience Feedback

Hi All

The role of audience feedback is vital to your productions and evaluations - you cannot get up to a Level 4 without some feedback on your rough edits/drafts and showing how you improved them to meet your audience.

Some examples or ideas for feedback could be:

Survey Monkey Questionnaire

Reaction Video - use Screencast-o-Matic

Youtube Comments

Good luck on your feedback!

Showing your Progress

Hi All

As we creep nearer to the final deadline, I wanted to share with you some excellent examples of how to record your production steps to show your progress:

Georgina's Blog from last year can be found here: http://georginasolomonasmusic.blogspot.co.uk/

The best examples of her work are below:

Website Stages

Websites!

Hi All

Here is the final post for your production work! This is all about websites for your final Ancillary task, notes are below:

Have a look at some of these impressive artists website below to inspire you:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2013/01/15-music-artist-websites/

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/galleries/best-band-websites/

Pick 2 to analyse on your own blog and EXPLAIN how they reach their target audience.

The challenge has been laid down...

Hi All

Here is a link to another school who have now finished their coursework - have a browse at what they have created and use it to challenge yourselves to do better!

http://a2musicvid.blogspot.co.uk

DO NOT be tempted to plagurise from their blogs to yours - this is inspiration!!!

Keep up the hard work - the end is in site!

Album Fonts and Colourschemes

Hi Everyone

By this point, you should be well into planning your Digipaks! In case you're feeling a bit stuck creatively, here is an article for some inspiration:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/typography-album-covers/

Remember to comment on your development to reach a Level 4!

Interesting Posts for Blog

Hi All

Despite what I said earlier about the death of the album art, it's not all doom and gloom!

Have a read of this Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Recording_Package.

It is interesting to note that the award goes to the Art director and not the performer!

As always, post a reaction on your blogs to work towards that Level 4!

The Death of Album Art

Hi All

Following yesterday's post about the great album art, this post is more morbid and is looking at the decline of the digipak as digital music takes over and our phones become our record collections.

• An overview of the issues: http://jonmiletbaker.com/2012/07/04/the-life-and-decline-of-cover-art/#.Utagn5GJVFk

• The Impact on Designers and Artists: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/02/05/death-album-art-what-does-demise-hmv-mean-designers-and-artists-who-work-music

You can blog about your feelings on this issue and perhaps link to the articles above for some Level 4 goodness!

Inspirational Artwork

Hi All

To help inspire your creativity I have found some links to album artwork you might want to explore. Remember to comment on any you like or dislike on your blog for some quick extra posts and work towards that level 4!

• Some of the greatest ever: http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-50-greatest-album-covers-of-all-time-44409

• A different opinion that focusses on the photography: http://www.popphoto.com/gallery/100-best-photo-album-covers

• An interesting take on the traditional album cover: http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/best-2013-animated-album-covers

Post a few to your blog or make a MY FAVOURITE ARTWORK post and write a PEA paragraph on WHY you chose an album cover

Digipaks

Hi All

Welcome back! I hope Xmas was good and the mocks not too stressful!

This will be a long post but read it all the way through to make sure you cover everything:

1) Here are the notes from todays lesson on DIGIPAKS

2) At this point, your time is your own to plan who is producing what so have a strong plan and some SMART targets to achieve your goals. Not every group member needs to work on every task!

3) The following posts should be on your blog:

Regular Production Diary Updates

Individual Digipak Explaination

Individual Digipak Analysis

Your own Digipak Analysis

Your Practice CD Cover

4) Over the next few days I will post a link to some album artwork and research - add your opinions to these posts to your blog for extra credit!

FINAL DEADLINE FOR ALL COURSEWORK:

 14th February 2014 @ 9pm!

Food for thought

Here is the video from the lesson today. A few references to music videos here but an interesting look at how women are represented across media platforms.