Final Music Video

Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does your Media Product use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi

Evaluation Question 2 - How Effective is the Combination of your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3 - What Have you Learned from your Audience Feedback?

q3 on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use Media Technologies in the Construction and Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

Draft Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4

I have used many technologies throughout the researching and planning parts  of my coursework. I have had to find ways to help present my ideas and inspirations for my own music video.  To do this I used blogger as this was a way for me to keep myself organised with my ideas and for my teachers to see what sort of ideas I had in mind. It was also a good way for me and Katie so share our ideas together. For the inspiration for our video, I used mainly ‘YouTube’ as this has most music videos on it. I then used ‘Tube Chop’ to highlight key parts of the videos that inspired me and commented on them through the blog. It also made it easier for me to show what parts of the videos I wanted to use or copy into my own. We also set up a twitter account for our band during the research and planning process to try and create an audience for our band. When pitching our original ideas to the rest of the class to get some audience feedback we used animoto. This was an effective way of presenting our initial ideas.

When searching for inspiration and ideas for the digipack and magazine advert I found it more difficult. I could only really find posters for albums and album covers rather than digipack’s. So I overcame this by using ‘Bing’ or ‘Google’ to search for covers and adverts that I could find. I also looked at actual digipack’s that I borrowed from people or found at home. I created these ancillary texts using Photoshop. I used my CS5 version that I had on my home computer as I found it easier than the schools and it had more editing options so I could create a better product.

We used windows movie maker and a still camera to make our animatic. This was an easy way for us to show our storyboard with the music and appropriate timings against it to help us gain a better idea of if it would work when we shot the real thing.

For filming we used a still camera for the draft. We thought this was a good idea because it was a high quality camera. However, after doing the draft we realised we needed to change this as some shots were out of focus, for example, zooming. Therefore, on the final version and when we reshot we used a digital camera for moving images that we found much easier to use and the final outcome once edited had a much more professional look to it.

During the editing process for our draft video we used Premiere Pro CS3 and we found it fairly easy to use but parts of it were difficult. However on the final version we decided to use a programme called Sony Vegas for the editing we found it hard to use at first as we were used to the other programme; however once we had got used to it we found it much easier to use and to edit our video.

When presenting my research and ideas, final pieces and evaluation along with many other things on the blog, I mainly used scribd, slideshare, YouTube, Prezi or just the blogger settings to present the work I and done.

Overall, I used media technologies in as many ways as I felt I could have to present and create my work during this coursework process.

Draft Evaluation Question 3

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Draft Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

I think that my magazine advert, digipack and final music video all link and work well together. The digipack and magazine advert use the same fonts and colour schemes to show they are promoting the same album. The music video perhaps doesn’t link to the ancillary texts as well as I’d have hoped however I think they make it clear they are part of the same genre and the main band member is seen in the video. We used black and white in the video to portray memories and I used black and white photos in my ancillary texts and this also shows a link and helps to create a sense of branding.

The digipack isn’t as professional looking as I had originally hoped for. However, I am pleased with the overall outcome of it as I think it fits well with the genre of our band and the music style we envisaged them to have. The colours I used work well together in my opinion and they also link back to the magazine advert. I decided to use bold and plain fonts and colours as I thought it would make the digipack stand out on a shelf whilst still not looking too busy. I decided to use pictures of the whole band on my digipack, (as opposed to just the lead singer, as we did in the video), because the band would be in rest of the music video and we did use all of them in our draft; it was a last minute decision to only use the main singer. I like the pictures on the digipack however I think they could have done with being reshot as some of them weren’t quite right or how I wanted them to look.

I have similar opinions of my magazine advert as I do to my digipack. This is because I think they look good together and it is immediately obvious that they are linked with the same band and promoting the same album. As mentioned in question 1, I based my magazine advert on one by Plan B. I think I replicated parts of it well, for example the colour schemes and font. However the image used on that one was more powerful and blended in more easily. After creating my magazine advert, I them did my digipack based on the ideas I used for it, this helped me to ensure that they would be linked and created a sense of ‘branding’.

In terms of the final music video, I am very pleased with our efforts and think we improved a lot since our draft version. Unfortunately, parts of it still weren’t perfect and we would have liked to have reshot a few scenes however we didn’t have another opportunity to get all of the cast members together again before the deadline. The memory scenes link to the ancillary texts through the use of black and white. The video shows links to the magazine advert and digipack as we used the same lead singer and the tone and genre of the video showed similarities.

Overall, I think the digipack and magazine advert are effective as a combination for the band JetPack Mockery. I think there a few links between the video and the ancillary texts however they aren’t as prominent as they could have been. I think a sense of branding has been creating but it could have perhaps been done even more so.

Draft Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi

Devil AND Angel

In our music video as well as the Dad and Mum story we are also using the parents as the Devil and Angel-(the good, unselfness and the selfish violent and evil).
Most people are aware of this inner image of the spirit/angel and the devil/ego that sits on our shoulders. Alot of the time you are stuck in the middle therefore you have to choose who to go with .You get to decide which one to listen to.
While the ego is very aggressive and screams loudly that you should go with it, and fills you with fears of lack and scarcity, the Spirit is quiet and patient and waits for you to come to it but saves you from the ego when it can, and only wants what’s good for you, because it knows of nothing else but abundance and well-being.
Often times people tend to go with the loud one and think it is the most powerful. While if we turned away, without beginning to explain anything to the ego, and just give our full attention on the angel that sits on the others side, we would experience all that which we consider to be good but also be niave.
The devil tends to run away when it has the chance to escape, The “angel” on the other hand goes nowhere, and you can never lose your connection with it.
In our Video we explore this idea with the mother being the angel and we have made it so she is always on his right shoulder-as we see his come to terms and learn from his past.

Draft Video

Our Draft Video, we have already been through the video- we know what parts we need to reshoot.