What is a Music Video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium, and later with the launch of VH1. The term "music video" first came into popular usage in the early 1980s. Prior to that time, these works were described by various terms including "filmed insert", "promotional film", "promotional clip" or "film clip". In Chinese entertainment, music videos are simply known as MTVs because the network was responsible for bringing music videos to popularity in that country.
Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation and live action.

MAGAZINE COVER FINISHED

Final, The actual Magazine Add



Second Draft



First Draft



I have changed my magazine cover 3 times and this is because i have found new ideas as i have gone along that have made me want to change my magazine cover each time. I decided i needed less writing and let the audience focus on the picture on the magazine cover and let that do most of the talking.

Making My Magazine Cover

I started to make my Magazine Cover, i was using all of the techiniques i had found on the internet and taking ideas from magazines i had looked at on and off of the internet.
I was creating my magazine cover on the same software as i made my CD Album, Microsoft Powerpoint.
I was using this system as it had all the fonts, shapes, sizes, colours and other special techniques that i needed to create my Magazine cover. So i used all of the tools i had a my desposal.
I set my page on my powerpoint to the Magazine cover measurements and then i created it.
I finished my Magazine cover tonight, i checked over it all incase of any mistakes such as spelling and so on.
Then it was all FINISHED.
Now both my CD/Album Booklet and Magazine Cover where DONE.

Examples of Magazine Covers

Researching Magazines

Now i have finished my Album booklet i am now doing my research on Magazines so that i can get ideas on what to put on my magazine and how to create it.
I looked at all of the magazines i could find at home, to see what made them stand out, unique selling points, size of font, colours and anything else i could find on them that would help me in creating the best magazine cover i possible could.
I looked at all the magazines i had, Car, Sport and so on, i also looked for all of the advertisment in the magazines for films coming soon, DVD adverts because i was trying to sell a similar product as i had created a Music Video.
I also looked all over the internet at the top Magazine agencies to see all of there advertiment techniques and what makes there magazines sell.

CD / ALBUM COVER FINISHED

Making My Album booklet

I started to make my aldum booklet and i had all of my ideas in my head on what i was going to put on it.
I decided to create my booklet on microsoft powerpoint as it had all of the formats / fonts and all the design techniques i needed in order to create my booklet that i wanted and imaged.
I got the measurements off my teacher for the Booklet size and then created my templates on the sizes i was given and then i made 5 slides of these templates with 2 boxes on each side, so that gave me 10 pages overall to work with.
I created and finished my album during the night, i finished so quickly because i had planned what i was going to do because of my research on other CD's.