Ancillary Task Two: Magazine Album Advert

Here is  my final magazine advert for my artist's album, 'Moving On'.

Creating My Magazine Advert

The first website I used to create my advert is Fotor. With this website, I changed the filter of my picture to black and white and added the text. Luckily, I managed to find a font very similar to the font I used on my website.

After I had imported all the text I wanted onto the advert, I then used LunaPic again and used their 'merge image' tool in which you can add a photo on top of another. I imported the edited image I created on Fotor and then uploaded the record label image and re-sized it to fit into the bottom left hand corner. 

I then had to re-save this image and re-import it so I could add the social media logos that I took from my website.

As I was unsure on the lay out of the magazine advert I asked two 17 year old girls to help me decide where all my text should go. This ensure that it will appeal to people of my target audience. 

Ancillary Task One: Final Website

Below is the website I have created for my artist, Imogen,

http://ebrown68.wix.com/imogen

Here is the homepage of the website.

Here is the page showing pictures from the artist's photoshoot:

The homepage shot of Imogen smiling remains the background for each page. The home page displays the artist's name, album name, social media links and a menu bar for other pages. I added social media accounts as this generation follow many celebrities and music artist's lives on social media. The text has an added 'fade in' transition to make the website look more sleek and professional.

I will use the same font for my magazine advert to add synergy so it is easy for my artist's fans to recognise the brand of Imogen.

Website Audience Feedback

Whilst creating my artist's website, I had 6 pictures of my artist to choose from for the homepage and to ensure my website suited my target age group, I asked five 16-18 year olds to choose their favourite. However it was a tie between these two photographs:

I made the executive decision to use the smiling photo (bottom) as the website and I will use the top one for the magazine advert. 

Starting Ancillary Task 1 - Artist's Website

My co-director and I decided to create two separate websites for our artist so we could design it how we wish. However we both brainstormed together to come up with a name for the artist and the album name. We decided to use our performer's first name 'Imogen' for the name of our artist as it is short and easy to remember. We got our inspiration for the name from artist's like Adele and Beyonce. We also decided to call the album 'Moving On'.

Here is what the website looks like so far:

These are the text settings. I need to make note of these to enforce synergy when creating my magazine advert.

I feel like the black and white filter on the picture and simplistic white text makes the website look sleek and professional. 

Filming Set Up - 17/11/15

In our lesson we set up the green screen and our lighting. This is how we set up the room;

We decided to put our studio lights either side of the camera so they would provide sufficient lighting for our filming area. However, when looking through the camera, the lights seemed to produce a white glow coming from both sides, rather than lighting the whole area. We decided to play around with lights to get the preferred amount of brightness.

This was how the lights were originally positioned.

The final light position. We raised the lights and rotated them so they were in more of a 'portrait' style.

My Preliminary Task

Here is my motivational video for my house:

African Activities Day

As it is the end of term, my school organised  two African themed activity days which consisted of dancing, making masks, cooking, drumming, learning about Fairtrade and African music. As media students we were asked to produce both a video and a newsletter reporting the days event in just two days. We met the deadline and this was the video we created: