Age Rating on DVD's

I have looked at the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) to see what age rating there are, below is what I found:

For my ancillary text on the DVD cover I am going to put the symbol which is suitable to all to watch as it Peter pan is from Disney.

The link to the BBFC website: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Ancillary Text: DVD Cover Research

I have looked at the Peter Pan film DVD cover and a music DVD cover to get ideas from, so I can decided what to add to the DVD cover I am going to create as part of my ancillary text.

I am also going to add an age rating, which will be suitable for all age rating. In addition to this I will also use publisher to make the cover.

Below is the DVD covers I have analysed to gain ideas from:

Ancillary Text: Website Research

For one of my ancillary texts I am look at creating a website about the artist which is Ruth B.

I have looked a a few artists websites to get an idea of what they are like, below is Ruth B's website and Ed Sheeran's:

Ruth B's website is a lot more detailed about her, it shows her tours, music releases, videos and news about her.

I have taken screenshots of the website a put it together to show what different thing it has to offer and the design of it.

Most of the photographs on Ruth B's website are dark and then there is colour and things moving such as hearts and lips. The dark photographs and the colour contrast making it stand out, therefore causing people too look at it.

In comparison to Ed Sheeran's website, which is only got his latest album on it and a place to put you email address so you can receive updates on what he is doing or releasing.

The blue background stands out with black writing which would help to catch people's attention.

At the bottom of the website it has links to his social media.

Lost Boy Album Cover

On the left is Ruth B's album cover to Lost Boy that Sophie and I are making our music video too.

Lost Boy was the song that Ruth B was recognised for through vine. That could be why it has 'The Intro' written on the cover.

The cover is quite simple and with half her face on the side and the background colour being a cream colour, which could be implying that it is quite a calm song.

In addition to this, by only half of her face being on the right side looking into the camera it could be to draw people in as it would attract their attention and could possibly feel like she is looking at the person interested on buying the album.

For the ancillary text I am considering in making an album cover for the music video Sophie and  I have filmed.

'Monty Python': Case Study

'A Liar's Autobiography-The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman' and animated documentary from 2012 and was released on the 8th of February 2013. It was directed by Jeff Simpson, Benjamin Timlett and Bill Jones. This is a case study that the BFI carried out and I have selected out a few main points from the case study, which show the research they did into who to aim the film at and how it was advertised.

'The film 'A Liar's Autobiography' is an animation biopic which includes the work of 14 UK animation houses in 17 different styles shot in stereoscopic 3D'

The films target audience had been to advertise it to the existing fans and 'the legacy of the Monty Pythons, it called for the strategy that would incorporate the comedy and irony of the pythons. From their research they knew that males over 35 years old had been Monty Python fans and those who had grown up watching Monty Python series, they also knew to aim the film at the male over 20 years old who were animation enthusiasts, which gave them a chance to attract the younger audience as they wouldn't of grown up with the show but would respond to the animation.'

'A Liar's Autobiography' used online marketing by creating an official website, an official Facebook page, putting clips of Monty Python on YouTube, which was linked to the Facebook page for people to be able to find. They also used Twitter, created content for online usage, such as behind-the-scenes for example, they also film footage from events and posted photographs from the events online, there had also been the help of unofficial fan pages online promoting the film. 

They published all the results from the response they had from social media, the cinema viewings and the DVD's and Blu-Ray's brought. Which you can find with the link below of the BFI's case study on the film 'A Liar's Autobiography':

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-case-study-ALA-Report-Final.pdf

The Evaluation Questions

There are 4 questions which need to be answered for the evaluation of the music video we are producing. The 4 questions are listed below, along with some idea of how I am going to present them:

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
For this question I will probably answer as a directors commentary to explain how I have taken ideas from real media products in my research to how and why I have used them in mine and Sophie's music video.

2.How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 2 I will either answer by making a poster or a PowerPoint to explain the effect of how the music video and my ancillary text worked together.

3.What have you learned from your audience feedback?
This question I shall either create a short video or a PowerPoint of me asking my audience about the music video to get their feedback and evaluate it so I can see what I could of done to improve the video and what worked well. Also to see the overall reaction to the product.

4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I am planning on making a website to present this question, explaining what technologies I use and how I used them. Also any new technologies I learnt in the process of creating this music video.

Shadows

The character Peter Pan has a shadow that follows him, we have adapted this idea of the shadow and created some of our scene to be a shadow of Captain Hook and of Peter Pan. 

Here is a video of Peter Pan's shadow from two of films: