Presentation of my magazine advertisment in a social context:

Ancillary texts: Magazine advertisment:

Presentation of my album cover:

Ancilliary text: Digipack (CD/DVD package)

Basic ideas for my magazine advertisement.

Lovestrong - Christina Perri

The song I have chosen 'Jar of hearts' is from the collection Lovestrong by Christina Perri. As I emulated much of her style when constructing my product I think that taking some of the conventions of this album cover would be a good idea. I like the fact that it's in black and white with a simple font in the left hand corner, allowing for the artist to be the main focus point of the cover. As my music video is in black and white I'd like to continue this characteristic throughout into my digipack and magazine advertisement. I also like the idea of having a medium shot of the artist in casual clothes, although I may use a close up shot for my own product.

Examples of different fonts for digipack and album cover.

Identifiable conventions of music videos.

During the construction of my media product I chose to include close up shots of my artist singing which is a major convention of pop videos. This not only promotes the song itself but the artist and by dressing the artist in a certain way reflects the mood of the song. The editing usually matches the pace of the song, using various transitions which I also included and the lyrics reflect what is shown in the video. Similar to the pop music videos my product takes the form of performance, with the artist lip syncing the words to the song, with close ups to display emotions.
Although my chosen song is in the pop/piano rock genre it is unconventional as pop videos are usually bright, upbeat and fast paced, which is different to the slow, quite moody song 'jar of hearts'.

Health and safety considerations.

When considering health and safety for both me and my artist whilst filming I decided that the area in which I filmed had to be cleared of any debris that is commonly found in a park, such as twigs, leaves and perhaps rubbish in case one if us tripped over whilst walking.
During one of my shots the artist has to walk down a small incline, so I made sure that they were wearing sensible shoes so that they didn't slip and fall whilst not paying attention.