Final Product

 This is the Final Product blog for the Comp 3 project. (Consists of Music Video, Digipak, and Social Media)

Music Video

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Digipak

Front

Back:

Insides:

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Social Media

Editing

 This is the Editing blog for the Comp 3 project.

This was entirely done by Maxine.

MV editing by ss

Self Reflection:
- Although I wasn't involved in the editing directly, I only gave occasional input and feedback but still share some concerns and thoughts surrounding it.

- The editing for our MV I believe had to be done in a very quick timeframe as we only managed to finish shooting every scene a mere few days before the submission date, this meant work had to be very quickly done for shooting but primarily the burden lied on our editor, we didn't manage to get all that much feedback in class since we finished at right around the end of the weekdays.

- Thankfully, our editor was able to finish the video very quickly and took sacrifices of taking a lot of their personal time in a day to finish it which allowed us to make the blogs quick. Furthermore, I believe the editor was able to be very efficient with their editing and asked for feedback from the teacher in off class times which were really helpful especially since the deadline was closing.

Research & Development: Digipak

 This is the Research & Development: Digipak blog for the Comp 3 project.

This was done by Gusde with occasional input from the group, I (Sagara) did some parts of the research.

Research

Digipak Research by Gusde Yaka

Development

White Minimalist Building Construction Presentation by Gusde Yaka

Self Reflection:
- I was only directly involved in this R&D by doing some parts of the research, aside from it everything was done by Gusde.

- I think some of the difficulties were of finding actual albums we want to use as inspiration, although Gusde is a big music geek it was surprisingly difficult to come up and name albums that would fit our intended MeS and brand identity, furthermore many of the album covers had very implied and cryptic meanings which were hard to uncover and explain in detail. In terms of the development, I believe Gusde had difficulties doing it as he had to draw it outdoors and the occasional rain would erase his work and put him in a considerable time limit.

- Finding the albums eventually became relatively easy as we had time to gather in Gusde's house to look through vinyls and have conversations that would eventually lead us to pointing out a album we can analyze. Gusde also managed to get the devlopment done pretty quick as soon as the weather following the rainy days cleared up.

Research & Development: Social Media

 This is the Research & Development blog for the Comp 3 project.

This was entirely done by Maisie with occasional input by the group.

Research

Here, Maisie primarily dicsusses how our artist's social media inspirations uses their platforms.

Social Media Research Comp 3 by Maisie Halomoan

Development

Here, Maisie now discusses we can create and use our own social media platforms.

Social Media Development Comp 3 by Maisie Halomoan3

Self Reflection:
- Aside from the occasional half baked input, I had zero contribution in this R&D, all credit goes to Maisie who was really active and handled this task very well.

- The main issues that I faced with this task was coming up with posts (including captions), and replies in our social media page that would fit our artists persona amd brand identity, this was made especially difficult for me since I am never an active social media user in terms of posting.

- Thankfully, this issue wasn't all that common and even if it was it was often handled by Maisie or with help of the group alone, some additional input was enough for Maisie to do things well, furthermore I think she gradually got more familiar and comfortable with the social media and our persona/identity, meaning these issues could pass relatively smoothly.

Branding Research

 This is the Branding Research blog for the Comp 3 project.

This was made by Me (Sagara)

Branding 

Self Reflection:
- I was in charge of making the branding reasearch although I was given occasional help by my group members.

- Some of the biggest issues I had were struggling with describing and wording out things and making things make sense, I'd assume this is because I haven't done something like this in quite a while and because of the difficulties I faced I ended up procrastinating and delaying the task and doing it bit by bit.

- There wasn't really anything specific I did to fix my issues, I did look through the examples Mr. Nick gave us to give me some sort of idea regarding how this should be written, but aside from that I just forced myself to do and finish it.

Screen Test

 This is the Screen Test blog for the Comp 3 Project.

The form was made by Max, but was passed around by Maisie.

    Gathering feedback from people of our target audience can be beneficial as it'll help us improve and make tweaks to the MV by giving feedback and criticisms from people who actually care and like the genre and won't be entirely alien to it, meaning the feedback will be related and helpful, getting feedback will also be beneficial as it offers outsider opinions compared to media students which may offer unexpected ideas.

 

QUESTIONS

FEEDBACK

Most of the feedbacks have very minimal complaints regarding our MV, this likely stems from the fact that it was still undone and lacked our entire narrative, meaning we won't have much feedback to work with for now. A criticism is one where we lacked preperation, this likely comes from the vocalist as it was a very sudden and unprepared substitute we had to get.

Self Reflection:

- I didn't do much aside from helping coming up with questions to use in the feedback.

- The primary problem we faced with this task was coming up with questions that weren't too specific and too broad, we had to really consider our wording and put into mind how the audience who reads this might feel/think. We also ended up doing this and giving them away the day they were due, before media class.

- We solved the question issue by trial and error with the group, as in we would try one question and discuss whether it was good enough/made sense, and if it didn't we would try to come up with new ones by altering them. Our group member also had free time during one of the periods before media, meaning they were able to pass them around quickly in the chillout room which consisted of multiple students at once.

Classwork: Persona + Brand

 This is the Classwork: Persona + Brand blog for the Comp 3 project.

We were tasked by Mr. Nick to create a mind map revolving our artist, it involved things about our persona, personality, identity, behaviours, etc. 

(This was done by Maisie with help from the group)

Self Reflection:

- This task was primarily done by Maisie, however me (like the rest of the group) helped by giving input and ideas on what to write.

- The primary difficulty came from Maisie herself, Maisie needed help from the group to really solidify on her ideas and what to write, meaning when we were unable to be present and help, the task would come into a abrupt halt. Furthermore, coming up with ideas on what to write and solidifying our artist's image itself was also pretty difficult since we didn't really word things up until this point, it was made harder sicne Mr. Nick reccomended us to fill up as much of the paper as possible which gave us extra pressure to write more.

- We ended up utilizing as much free time we have at school to finish this task, we also looked into our artist inspirations to get more ideas which really helped us generate ideas.