Olivia's Media Blog

 Our project represents toxic relationships through the portrayal of a middle-class couple at a dinner party. We used the song ‘Under the Table’ by Fiona Apple, and interpreted the lyrics “kick me under the table all you want, I won’t shut up’ as a woman being put down to keep quiet. This includes elements of misogyny, reflecting the old belief that women should be seen and not heard. This inspired the idea of a dinner party, where our star is neglected by her partner. This is reinforced by footage of the couple arguing in the kitchen under cold blue lighting, symbolizing the tension in their relationship. Additional imagery, such as projected images reflecting the anger of our artist, helped portray the toxic relationship. We used cold lighting and blue tones to represent the coldness between the characters. However, we chose to break the fourth wall, with the artist singing directly to the camera, to represent her growing confidence. This was reflected within the narrative, as sh...

  Introduction Clementine and I decided to make Instagram pages, as it is a modern media form that artists use frequently to connect with fans. We created 9 posts to promote the release of our album, and for the music video we created for one of the songs. Before creating the page, I created a list of things I wanted to include, and intentions for each of the posts. I wanted to include at least 1 post building anticipation for an announcement, to encourage engagement with fans and to create curiosity so they would return to the social media page Create a post announcing the drop of the album Create a post announcing the early release of a song from the album - I wanted to differentiate the song we created a music video for by doing a surprise release a little earlier than the album Create a preview of the music video to generate excitement Show a preview of the digip...

  Final Product To create the final product we combined all the edited pages and placed it onto a digipak template, as if it were for an actual product and we were going to print it out. On the left is the template I used, and on the right is the final product. In order  to show off the final product, I also edited the images to show what the final digipak would look like if it was printed off. This was done using an app called sketchbook, which is intended for digital drawing but I discovered it is also very useful for manipulating images.

  Selecting Photos and Editing  From the photos taken during the photoshoot, we selected our favourite pictures and imported them into a website called Canva. Although photoshop also would have worked for this task, I am much more familiar with Canva and it can also perform a variety of tasks that we used for the creation of our digipak. Front cover Having already decided the name of our artist and album, making the front cover was quite simple. We also already had an idea of where we wanted to place the text due to the creation of a mock-up of our digipak. The only decision we had to make was on the font of our text, we ended up going for a simple but bold font that didn't take away from the rest of the cover. Inside cover Clem...

  Test Shoot Initially, Clementine and I created a padlet to map out ideas of what we wanted our digipak to look like. We started with brainstorming for the front cover, as this is the most important in terms of representing our artist. In order to coordinate our ideas, Clementine and I did a test shoot to experiment with what worked and what didn't, and to get an idea of what background we wanted to use. This also meant we knew what we wanted to accomplish going into the photoshoot, so we didn't waste Lucy's time. We used these test photographs to also do a mock-up of our digipak. Clementine and I sat down and discussed what we wanted to include, and how we should format our text and other features. This really helped us as it also gave us some ideas for adjustments to make when taking the official photographs.  We used the initial planning stage to come up with a name for our artist and album. For the artist's name we ...