EVALUATION QUESTION 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

EVALUATION QUESTION 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

EVALUATION QUESTION 2: How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media products use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Advertisment

CD Inside Cover

CD Front Cover

Photoshop editing

Using photoshop has been difficult but also exciting as i have learnt new things, as you can see doing the advert has taken time but it is almost at its completion.

here is me also working on the inside of the cd cover

Progress on Ancillary

My progress has been slow, so catching up is one of the main things that i need to focus on, i have an idea for what i will be doing for my digipak and advert, i am currently getting the ideas down onto paper and i will use the draft digipak to expand on my ideas to make a good digipak.

Analysis of previous students digipaks

Strengths of this Digipak:

Font is constant

Synergy is carried out from the video to the CD cover

Good colours

Weaknesses:

Font is unclear

on the front the font goes a bit mad

Strengths of Digipak:

Good use of photoshop

colours and constant in the digipak

Clear font

Weaknesses:

The blurring out effect hasn't been carried out

Strengths of Digipak:

Colours are carried throughout 

Use of photoshop is good

Font is clear

Weaknesses:

Black 'K' should be constant 

Ancillary Work Brief

Now that we have finished our music video, we are now looking forward to starting on the Ancillary work, for this we will be required to make a digipak of top standard in order for us to get a good grade. Following the mark scheme to the fullest will allow us to create a good digipak. However it doesn't just stop at the Video and Digipak, we also have to create an advertisment which will promote the music video.

Things we will have to keep in mind:
- Synergy - what we carry across from the music video to the digipak and advert
- Making all the elements suit our genre 
- Making sure our font and colours are clear and easy for our audience to read

Filming Process and Images

Improvements needed to be made before deadline

From all our feedback we gathered helpful opinions about our music video. As mentioned in other blogs we came to a joint decision to remove the footage of Stephane infront of the starry backdrop using the projector, as many people who watched our music video said it did not fit in with the rest of the video, as the rest of the video is all shot outside and in the dark, unlike this scene where stephane was inside. Our feedback was more positive than negative, so there was not that much to improve on. Mary did suggest that we add more slow motion clips to make the video more visually pleasing, we did that, and it has infact made our video look and flow better.
We conducted a questionnaire using the emelemnts of mise en scene to see what fellow students had to say about our music video, here's what they had to say;

FINAL EDITING DAY! (add screenshots)

All our editing got deleted?

At 11:30 this morning the editing we had been doing randomly deleted! We were in utter shock and dismay...
Here are some images you may find distressing (look away now if you are faint hearted)

Traivon and Stephane feeling sombre as they pray our work appears again.

"Where's our work?!"

But don't worry treffor came to the rescue and managed to find all the work we had edited, wohoo!

Why We Are Not Using The Projector (add screenshots)

We have decided not to use the projector, as we got feedback from our fellow peers and they said it does not fit. Stephane looks as though he is not putting effort into his lyrics, even though he is it was not portrayed that way. Also we felt as though it was not:

• eerie 
• dark in nature
• focused

The projector was also shaky when we looked back at the footage. It was initially a good idea but through editing we realised it did not match the rest of the shots we had previously shot. It was a nice close up, but we have used other close ups that look even better.

 

Reflection on progress

I would say that my progress has been good but of course there are still areas that need to be focused on, for example it may come across that I am allowing the group blogs to boost my numbers up, therefore the individual blogs was something that I wanted to make a main focus, blogging has been a vital part not only in the A2 year but also in the AS year, and I look to carry what I have learnt from the over into the current year. I would say that the amount of time I have spent blogging hasn't been the utmost greatest, so that is also something I will focus on in order to boost my grade. At any time that I edit or whenever the group goes out to film, making a not of what has been done during the course of the day is essential.

Skills Development

Things that went wrong!

Throughout the course of recording as the artist I didn't actually know all of the lyrics, it was a struggle because the song is recorded at such a fast pace learning the lyrics did seem like it was going to be an obstacle, when it came to editing, there were various shots that we did want to use, but due to the fact that I did not know the Lyrics them shots could not have been used, however as we went out more and listened to the song a lot more, I have learnt the whole song in a matter of weeks which was a plus as it helped our filming and editing run smoothly.

Rough cut feedback - peers

Here we can see Lenya asking fellow media classmates about their opinions on our video. We chose to interview Devon and Daniel as tthey are both male and as our music video is male dominated we were mainly trying to appeal to teenage males from the of 15+. Devon and Daniel are both 17-18. They were asked a series of questions, including what they feel we could do better. Both of the guys agreed that they did not like the footage of Stephane infront of the projector, due to this we have decided to remove it as we want our video to be the best it can be and as these boys are our target audience, we took their opinions on board. Recieveing feedback from target audiences is really beneficial when it comes to media, as it gives us an all round perspective of what we can do better to appeal to our audience, it is also nice to hear positive feeback, as we want to please our audience also.

Brief points/opinions:

• Don't use projector
• Like range of base tracks
• Like range of outfit changes