Audience Feedback

Audience feedback:

I decided to ask several people on Facebook, twitter and friends to access my blog. After they looked at my blog I asked them several question to get feedback on how well it is going. I asked several people bellow is a table of the questions I asked and their responses.

1.       Male –  Aged 19

2.       Male – Aged 18

3.       Female – Aged 19

4.       Female - Aged 17

5.       Female – Aged 21

6.       Male - Aged 18

Do you think the ancillary texts shows off the typical conventions that you would associate with the genre of alternative rock? 

1.     Yes it does, however I think it could have been made better by having the pictures in black and white. That would make them suit the genre more.

2.     Yes, it was very clear. The use of a graveyard and the CD made it clear for me what the genre was.  I also liked the use of projection to create a background on the artists body.

3.     Partly, however the colour in the pictures were quite bright you could confuse it with another genre like pop.

4.     Yes, thought it could’ve stood out more though

5.     Yes it was very clear for me to see, I liked the styling and it reminds me of some albums for this genre I have at home.

6.     Yes, I liked the idea of leaves I thought it goes well with the genre and the type of song.

What age group do you feel the ancillary text will appeal to?

1.       19-27 year olds male and female

2.       16 – 30 year old males

3.       17 – 25 year old male and females

4.       Teenagers

5.       17-26 year old male and females

6.       18 – 29 year old male and females

When looking at the album cover would it encourage you to buy it?

1.       Yes it’s my type of styling, I would definitely buy it.

2.       No but I’ll probably recommend it or buy it for someone else

3.       No, an album cover isn’t good enough to final a purchase for me.

4.       Yes, I’d probably buy it but I think I’d buy it mainly for the picture.

5.       Yes, I like the detail put into it and I think it’s amazing how the leaves are covering the artists body. Well thought out.

6.       Maybe, I might pick it up and think about buying it but I don’t know if I would.

Do you think my video matches the type of song and genre?

1.       Yes however, I think the transitions between the shots could have been smoother.

2.       My laptop wouldn’t let me see the video.

3.       Yes the use of the lyrics and the link between what’s going on screen is very clear, I feel like the styling suits both the genre and the song.

4.       No, I thought it didn’t. It was too bright and the actor’s facial expressions weren’t always the best. Didn’t really feel the emotions that are in the lyrics.

5.       I think that your music video, suits the type of genre and song. It’s clear and id expect the story to be used in other music videos but in a different way.

6.       Yes it does.

What people on my course think?

I think that the photo you have used for your album cover is well designed its eye catching and stand out from all the rest. I like the use of bright colours and projecting them onto your white top, it really makes you look transparent and therefore looks like you’re part of the picture. The picture itself goes well with the type of genre, however i think it would’ve been better if the picture was black and white and there was no shadow down the left hand side of your body.

The back of the album cover is a little out of focus but the idea of using a gravestone when the main song you’re using is called funeral is well depicted and creates a good effect. However to suit your genre more i would have made it again black and white, I would’ve used Red writing instead of white. It looks like the stereotypical Alternative rock back of an album cover so you’ve made it suit the type of genre you’re doing.

The text itself isn’t quite clear, but it does the job. The font stands out and goes with the pictures you have chosen.  I like the use of black and green when it comes to your magazine article against the projection picture. It makes it look like the writing is part of the scenery.

Do you feel that the digipak and magazine advert complement each other?

I feel that the projection style highlights that both of them are linked together for this artist. Using the same styling for both the magazine advert and front cover means that a correlation between the two will be made and therefore will connect the audience with the other image.

Is the text within the advert eye catching to make the audience buy or read the article?

The text itself isn't that eye catching it's more down to the image in the advert, however it stands out and links with the digipak quite well. I see you’ve used the same font but not the same colour, this is confusing and I think you should’ve kept the same colour throughout. The writing itself is well designed and easy to read, it does draw me in however because part of the writing being white on a picture which also has white in it defeats the object of it and makes it that little bit harder to read.

In what way does my media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products:

When it comes to analysing my digipak I feel that it has followed the usual convents when it comes to its genre. The genre I was going for was Alternative Rock as I love that type of genre and relate to it quite well.

My poster is a bit over crowded with information, whereas current Alternative rock posters mainly consist of a well designed picture and name of the band or artist. Whereas I’ve focused on providing information on the new album and a hit new song, which i would expect for a new upcoming artist.

After watching The Escape Artist By Richard Walters, which is a music video where he has a variety of different effect being projected onto his face. I decided to create that same effect for my cover photo and magazine article, so i used one of the schools projection boards and wore a white top to make sure that the background picture was projected onto my body. I turned out amazing, I looked transparent and part of the picture however you could still see the outline of my body and the colour of my eyes. I kept the idea of using the forest scene as my album cover photo, I did this because most of my music is filmed within a forest therefore creating a link between the main song and the album cover. The album covers design ties in well with the music video because the time of year depicted within the video is the same in the album as it is in the video.

The back of the album cover is a picture of a Graveyard; this was taken by me outside a church in Compton. Unfortunately the picture I took has come out grainy due to the sun sunning down on the camera, i put the picture into Photoshop and tried to highlight the essence of the location and help create the emotion of regret and being alone, throw a picture and the choice of songs. The picture works well with the cover photo because; there are trees surrounding the cover photo and trees in the background of the graveyard.

When looking at both my album cover and its back page i see that i have followed the normal conventions of text and the amount of information you see on the Album. The text itself is white, the font isn’t something to out there it’s mainly there to help highlight the picture. I made sure that throughout my digipak i used the same styled font; this is so that the audience associate this font with the artist making it memorable.

I believe that having a transparent photo sets me out from other Alternative rock albums because it unusual to see. Most Album covers consist of