Here I have gathered audience feedback on my album cover. This is useful in aiding me to know what features I should change, and what features should stay the same.

From this feedback, i have established that the album cover is visually pleasing and of a high standard that appeals to my target audience.

Here is a screenshot of a post I added to my social media site Facebook. In this post I asked my friend list to give me any useful feedback from my product. This is a good way to gain audience feedback, as not only does it enable me to gain feedback from a wide variety of people, whom are on my friends list, but it also allows me to get feedback from our target audience age range as a lot of teenagers between the ages 15-18 years are frequent users of these sites and therefore will be witness to this post giving us the most profitably feedback possible.

Contact sheet analysis deisgn from naomipalfreman36

Here is the contact sheet produced in preparation for choosing the images for our album cover. This is important as I need to ensure that the image I take forward for this product is firstly conformative of the Indie pop genre, but also conventions to typical inclusions on other successful media products,

For each image I have given a analysis of both the positive and negative aspects of it, to ensure that the best image is chosen to represent my product.

Changes made to album cover from naomipalfreman36

Here I have outlined some of the changes of which I made to my album cover, after gaining constructive criticism and improvements from my target audience. With these changes I hope that my album cover, looks further conformative of the Indie pop genre and looks more interesting and appealing leading to an overall increase in ultimate success.

Here I have demonstrated my album cover of which I produced to represent, the band 'Ninth outcast' alongside the single 'Cool kids' I produced this using abode Photoshop (see construction)

From here I will ask people of my target audience to give me feedback on their opinions and views to ensure that my product is appealing for them. Any changes made after reviewing the target audience feedback will be demonstrated separately.

Construction of My Album Cover

Here, I have created a detailed construction of the steps involved in producing my final album cover. I have outlined the software and tools used, as well as references made to audience feedback when it came to making changes or choosing specific conventions to include in my product.

It is important to be aware of using the right software in which to base and produce our products around. For this reason, I here have analysed the use of Photoshop as the software of which I will use when creating the imaged based products (being the album cover and magazine advertisement).

In this presentation I have identified the tools and effects included within this software that will enable me to make my products look of the ultimate standard and conform to the Indie pop genre of which my products are based around. For this reason, i can further ensure that i have chosen the right software which will ensure that my products will turn out of the highest possible standard and will therefore attract my target audience as well as compete with existing products.

Here I have attached a Video I found on YouTube of which I aim to refer to as an aid when it comes to editing my pictures/images using abode Photoshop for both my magazine advertisement and album cover. It is important that I use the best use of the Web 2.0, as this is a tool of which enables me to learn quickly and easily especially useful when working to a deadline. In addition to this, the software Photoshop is one largely used by professional publishing and design companies and therefore training myself in this field of expertise will enhance the quality of my products and make them appear more cofnormative of the exsising indie pop genre products on the market today.

Final image analysis shot from naomipalfreman36

After gathering audience feedback from people who were conformative of my target audience, I was able to select the image of which I will use for my album cover.

To ensure that, despite audience feedback, my image was conformative of the Indie-Pop genre, and also of a high standard of which would appeal to my target audience, I have analysed my chosen image, taken into account the typical conventions of current album cover images, and highlighting ways in which my image has challenged or conformed to these conventions.

This image is taken before the editing process has begun, and therefore must be viewed upon with the expectation that certain changes will be made before it is actually applied to my album cover. The software of which I will use to create my album cover, is Abode Photoshop, a platform of which will enable me to make appropriate alterations to further improve the quality and professionalism of the image.

The image was taken with a SLR camera, of which is a piece of equipment often used in professional photo-shoots. For this reason, I feel it partly responsible for the high quality results of which I have achieved with this image, and the quality of which contributes to this image being of a professional appearance.

After gathering target audience feedback from peers of which analysed my images, I concluded that this was the best image to choose for my final album cover product.

It is importnat that I take on board customer audience feedback from people of whom are confomative of my target audience age and gender, as this ensures that the Image that I select to use for my products, in the case of the album cover, this image, will attract my target adueince therefore leading to further sucess of my overall product.

This image is also conformative of the genre of Indie pop which is important as all three of my products must reflect this genre, to ensure that there is synch between them and to also ensure that this band shown on my album cover can also be linked to the band dispalyed in both my music video and magazine advertisement.

Here I have visually represented the pictures of which we took on the first day shooting images for our magazine and album cover. This is important that I can visually represent these as it enables me to choose which image is most apprporaite to be used for my products and further enables me to have various platforms of which i can gain target audience research from. Here I will request audience feedback to ensure that the images I choose are appealing to my target audience. The chosen images can be selected and taken on further to the editing process of which the things such as equipment present in the shot will be taken away, so that my images look of a prrofessional standard.

Typography and logo for ninth outcast from naomipalfreman36

Here I have analysed and discussed the process of which I went to in producing my typography for my media products. I have included images and pictures of which show the process I went to when it comes to producing my album cover and magazine advertisement.

I have also gathered audience feedback, as  a means of ensuring that the text/typography appeals to my target audience, because this ensures that if they saw my product in a supermarket they would be attracted to buying it, increasing the overall success of my product. In addition to this, in this way my typography- therefore also my product, must be conformative/representative of the indie pop genre, because this is the genre of which my chosen target audience will be attracted to and will also ensure that my products such as the album cover and magazine advertisement are conformative to my song choice.

Flatplans for album cover from naomipalfreman36

Here I have created Flat plans of the possible layouts I could use when it comes to creating my final album cover. I have created a range of flat plans, with reference to current flat plans available and shown on today's market. I have also gathered a range of customer feedback from people from my target audience as to ensure that the type of layout, or particular flat plan is appealing to my target audience, who I ultimately will need to have in mind when it comes to creating my products.