Evaluation - Album Images

This here below is the back of the album cover. its consists of a photoshoped image and the necessary logos and pricing such as copyright and a barcode. we have also added a smart code that can be scanned by your phone which enables you to download a free ringtone, wallpapers and exclusive information about the artists.   

This here is the album front cover. It consists of our Usher (Daniel) and RKelly (Fred) on there. it consists of the saints background and usher and Rkelly in a special font we downloaded, lydia puente. we also used this font for the 'same girl' text.

This is left inside image of the album. This image consists of  a side view of Rkelly facing to the right the the saints logo in the background and 'same girl' in Santa FE font.

This is right inside image of the album. This image consists of  a side view of Usher facing to the left the the saints logo in the background and 'same girl' in Santa FE font. the two images face each other making one image.

Evaluation - Radio Pod Cast Completed

TheSaintsA2 - Radio PodCast Completed:)

Individual Evaluation - Daniel Buja

My Write up – Individual Evaluation – Daniel Buja

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

 Our music video challenges other music video, because countless music videos have mainly always got a white female/male as the main character however in our music video, the original song use two black male artists furthermore what we have created is a mixed race music video which reaches out to a more diverse audience. Also in regular music videos there’s is sometimes a split between high and low culture, regularly the black people are portrayed as the low culture, however, within our music video we have represented both artists as equals, because in this part of history everybody is equal, and to portray that within a music video, not just widens the target audience but it depicts a powerful meaning, “That no matter what colour, size and belief you have, You will always be classedas an equal human being” We depicted that message through the both artist having the same lavish and luxurious lifestyles.  

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?Throughout the creation of the four products we have tried to keep a few items similar, for example gold/black/white are continuingly throughout each product, reasons for them specific colours are, Gold – the colour gold gives a strong sense of richness throughout the products, Black/White – Specifically used to emphasis the colour of the artists, and so portrays that the main message of equality is being portrayed through each product. However, the specific font that is used throughout the four products highlights the luxurious and lavish lifestyle of both artists, through the high classed swishes, linking of letters and flicks at the end used with the font represent a high class of wealth and education.What have you learned from your audience feedback?

First impression, whilst recording the audience whilst watching the music video from a neutral perspective, it showed that the audience were impressed by the high standard of the music video and also at the great standard of editing, however there a slight constructive feedback, which was, that one of the artists accidentally looked in the camera for less than a second, but it was slightly noticed, however they were strongly impressed by the acting and emotions being shown through the music video, as it added that professional touch of drama to it. The feedback given to us will help us in the near future, with our studies and we’ll strive for the best to correct and mend the problem.

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?  

Throughout this project we have used a large amount of media technologies that have assisted greatly through the project, the main media technologies that have been used through the project is;

·         iMac – In order to create, edit and finalise the products, the iMac was used a considerable amount as, we used not only for products, but also to document the work on blogger and YouTube.

·         Mobile – The Mobile phone was mainly used to communicate with one another, however what people won’t know is that, our mobile phone was key to all the lip sinking as we had the song on loud so that we correctly sang the words at the right which, resulted to the music video having that slight ease to sync the mp3 song and us sing together.

·         Camera – Obviously we used the camera to record the music video, however we also used it to take photos of the artists in action so that It can be published on the created website.

·         Tripod – The tripod was used to mainly assist us to have a stable image throughout the music Video but also was used to capture the meaningful shots and angles from impossible places.

During the construction phase, the main media technology, which was used, was the iMac, as we needed to document our Planning, Also to document our research on the artist’s lifestyles. Although, once we had completed the song selection, we then firstly began to think about how we will construct the music video, which then lead into planning how and when and what we were going to-do and use, once the research had been gathered, we decided to switch over to the practical side of the media studies and begin our products, which then began to involve the media technologies named above.

Evaluation - Celebrity Image

This our Celebrity image podcast, explaining the image and theme we were going for to promote the celebrities.

Evaluation - Importance Of Technology In Media

Using technology in Media is very important as we would have not been able to create a music video to a high standard like ours. Technology is really important in media as without it, people would never be able to create anything for example we would have not been able to complete our planning or our construction as for both we needed our Mac computers. Overall technology is the biggest factor in media and without it people would never be able to create anything.

Here we talk about the technologies we have incorporated into our project and what we have used and their importance to completing our product.

Construction - Master Catalogue

This is the Saints A2 Master Catalogue. 

We created a master catalogue to help us organise our planning to create the music video, this was very vital because it helped us realise how important everything was and made us sure that we didn't miss out any intricate little bits.

Actors - Usher (Daniel Buja)

 Actors - R-Kelly (Fred Mokoso)

 Props - Expensive Clothes

 Props - Mercedes S Class 

 Props - WristWatch 

 Props - BMW X5 

 Props - Samsung Galaxy Smart Phone

Props - Blackberry Mobile Phone

 Scene - Green Screen Studio

Scene - Remi's Dads Car

 Scene - Roast Restaurant 

Construction - Reflection - Week 13 Reflection Part 2

Friday 15th February, today is our deadline day for specific pieces of work, we are being assessed on the progress of the video and the editing, which at the moment i am in the process of editing all our green screens, also the works is correctly up to date and still with minor corrections. However dis-avantages that have happened prior towards the music video as we have got another 3 scenes to film, some of the scenery has become unaccessible so which has dropped us back, as we have to organise some more days for recording as other items have dropped out.

Construction - Reflection - Week 11 Reflection Part 1

This weeks reflection Vlog.


 

Construction - Reflection - Week 7 Reflection Part 1

Construction - Reflection - Week 6 Reflection Part 2

This is our week 6 reflections podcast.

Construction - Reflection - Week 4 Reflection Part 2

These are the reflections on this week (4), tis is the progress from the last post.

Construction - Reflection - Week 4 Reflection Part 1

This week we have began to assemble all the images and try and begin with the project, we decide to have two people working on the website and then two people working on the four sided album cover. we will soon be picking our double and then start with the work, hopefully next lesson.

Construction - Reflection - Week 3 Reflection Part 2

Construction - Radio Spot Prezi

Create a radio spot using GarageBand on Prezi

Construction - Creation Of Radio Podcast

This is a step by step prezi of the creation of the garage band.

Construction - How To Create The Album Covers

This is a Prezi that was created to explain how the albums where created, The Photoshop Tutorial.

Planning - Lyrics used as a narrative

These are the lyrics to our song, this is used to guide the narrative of the music video, this was our guidelines of the music video which helped us create the narrative and complete the story. It also played a vital part within the editing as, the three paragraphs in the lyrics is split through different scenes.
Here below are the lyrics of the music video.

"Same Girl"

[R. Kelly]
Yo Ush..
[Usher]
What up Kells
[R. Kelly]
Wanna introduce you to this girl. Think I really love this girl.
[Usher]
Yeah...
[R. Kelly]
Man she's so fine.
[Usher]
Straight up dog...
[R. Kelly]
She stands about 5'4", Coca Cola, red bone
[Usher]
Damn...
[R. Kelly]
She drives a black Durango
License plate say Angel
Tattoo on her ankle
Plus she's making pesos.
Gotta crib on Peachtree,
Right on 17th street
And I call her Te Te.
[Usher]
Wait a minute hold on dog. Do she got a kid? [Yep]
She loves some waffle house? [Yep]
Do she got a beauty mark on the left side of her mouth? [Man]
Went to Georgia Tech? [Yep]
Works for TBS? [Yep]
Man I can't believe this shit. Damn!
[R. Kelly]
Tell me what's wrong dog what the hell you damnin' 'bout?
I'm your homie so just say what's on your mind.
[Usher]
Man I didn't know that you were talkin' 'bout her.
[R. Kelly]
So man you telling me you know her?
[Usher]
Do I know her? Like a pastor know his word.

[Chorus]
We messing with the same girl, the same girl.
[R. Kelly]
How could the love of my life and my potential wife be the same girl?
[Usher]
Man I can't believe that we've been messing with the same girl, the same girl.
[R. Kelly]
Thought she's someone I could trust
But she's been doubling up with us.
U, K, man we been messing with same girl.

[Usher]
See I met her at this party in ATLANTA!
[R. Kelly]
Well I met her at this party in CHICAGO!
[Usher]
She came right up to me giving me conversation.
I said, "Do you gotta a man?"
She said, "No," with no hesitation.
[R. Kelly]
Well, it must be a music thing 'cause she said the same to me.
At party all in my face while I'm laughing and buying her drinks
[Usher]
She whispered in my ear and said, "Can you take me home?"
[R. Kelly]
ME TOO! Man she was in the shower singing that same song
[Usher]
Is that true?
[R. Kelly]
And I thought it was true confessions when she said, "I love you."
[Usher]
Man I thought her body was calling when she said, "I want you."
Look I even got some pictures on my phone.
[R. Kelly]
Look at there. There she is with some boy shirts on.

[Chorus]
She's the apple of my eye and my potential wife.
Man I just can't believe that we've been messing around with the same damn girl.
Thought she was someone I could trust
But she's been doubling up with both of us.
U, K man we been messing with the same girl.

[Usher]
Said she got me on a ring tone
[R. Kelly]
Are you talking about the pink phone?
[Usher]
Uh uh the blue one
[R. Kelly]
Man she told me that was turned off.
[Usher]
It's obvious that she's been playing us, playing us.
[R. Kelly]
'Cause constantly she's been lying to us, lying to us.
[Usher]
Don't like the way that she's been going 'bout it, going 'bout it.
Kells what you think that we should do about it, do about it?
[R. Kelly]
Call her up at her home.
She won't know that I'm on the phone.
[Usher]
Yeah man that's the way.
[R. Kelly]
Homie we about to bust this trick.
Man just tell her to meet up with you
And I'm going to show up too
[Usher]
And she won't know what to do.
[R. Kelly]
We'll be standing there singing.

[Same Girl fade]

Planning - Target Audience - Interviews

Planning - StoryBoard

This is the sketches that have been drawn to briefly portray what the music videos contains and some of the special affects that will be used, also there are scenes that will be shown in the music video.

This is going to be one of the scenes of which r-kelly receives a call from usher, it will be a close up shot first then. 

Then a close up of ushers name whilst he's calling, Extreme Close-up

This is scene is going to be produced in a split screen of which R-Kelly is being called from ushers phone this going to be portrayed in a extreme close-up shot.

this scene is going to be part of the music video, of where the girl gets introduced buh at first we only get a glimpse of her foot, other wise known as effect (Fragmentation) 

When Usher comes out of the car we are first going to get a glimpse of his foot other wise known as an effect (fragmentation) 

this is going to be a long shot, of the car that is pulling and parking. 

before the car is seen coming is going portrayed in a close up shot of the cars rims. 

the second car will be driving and then will pulling up behind the first one car, this will also be portrayed in a long shot 

this scene will finally set the scene and start another section of the music video. 

Planning - BrainStorm

As a group we got together and created 4 brain storms, of what we will be including in the music video, our main aims where to discover and understand what will be included in;

• Props
• Setting 
• Characters 
• Motifs 

Below are all the answer that we came up with.