Signing off my blog

This is the end of my blogging process for A2. I have thoroughly enjoyed this blogging task at times and it has been a long term project which I have embraced, adding numerous blogs simply from inspiration and ideas, which I found quite fun. All in all it was very enjoyable.

Coursework signing off

I have found A2 media coursework more challenging than AS but hopefully I have done enough to gain a good grade overall!
Bye :)

Final review blog

Evaluation: Question 4

Evaluation : Question 4

What have you learned from your audience feedback ? 

Overall the feedback that I got from the audience were positive. When my music video was played in the cinema, the immediate reaction from the audience was positive. Throughout the editing process of the music video the continuous feedback that was given is that we needed to cut more whilst editing and have more varied shots, this is what noticed when I got feedback from any part of filming the video and also part of the editing too. 

The screenshot above is feedback which was given from the teacher about our rough cut. The teacher said that she liked the 'realness' of the music video compared to the studio shorts but the music video needed to pick up the pace for it to be more faster. I agreed with this as I thought back at the rough cut stage the video did lack pace and was rather slow, I also did agree with the statement of the the outside shots were better than the studio shorts, I believed this was because of the lighting in the studio compared to the lighting whilst I filmed outside, the lighting in the studio made the video lack professionalism compared to the studio shots.

The scrren shot above feedback from a student. The student said that he liked the slow motion effect on the artists hands which were used and the location of where the music video was filmed. I agree that the  slow motion effect on the artist hand in the beginning of the music video was effective, it made the video seem more effective and professional. I think as that effect was used it gave a strong opening to the music video and would attract the audience. I also think that where the filming took place was also very effective. I learnt from the feedback that more cuts were needed to make the video run more smoothly . 

Close of my blog

I am glad that this cousework is finally over as I think it was stressful and tiresome, however I am glad of the final outcome and how far I have gone and what I have produced. I want to thank all the teachers and my group for all their help and commitment. Hopefully I get the grade that I think I deserve

Final Progress Review

Personally I think that my AS blog has more use of ICT than A2, however I feel that I have developed my skills and knowledge within the use of ICT in A2. I feel that my blog shows that I have deeply researched into my music video and ancillary work, however I must be honest and say that I could have been more dedicated and shown extra research and planning as there was a little bit of a gap in my blogging which was my vlogs showing my progression, as well as some blogs not being in order. I am not intientirely sure of the exact amount of blod i produce indiviually. If I could change something about my blogging it would be me being more dedicated to blogging by doing extra blogging and not leaving gaps within my bloggng.

Evaluation: Question 3

Evaluation : Question 3

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, panning and evaluation stages ?

Below are screenshots of my powerpoint presentation on question 3

Mock Up and Ancillary Work

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Digipak

Question 4

Audience Feedback 

 

 

 

From evaluating the audience fedback, I have come to the conclusion that our music video was very effectivie as it fit the genre that we wanted, dubstep. Also I have noticed that many people enjoyed the fast paced editing and the fast cuts as it has been cut to the beat of the song. Also, as the climax of the song increases and the start of each chorus. So does the editing and cuts. Different transitions where used such as flash and cross dissoves to make the video more dramtic. They were able to relate to this type of genre because it is the type of music that is currently up and coming with higher demands from young people to see it more on our tv and computer screens. One of the main criticism we reciveved was that our video needed to include more locations and that our artist should put more enthusiasm when performing and show more movement within the performance.

In my opinion I agree with what the audince had to say, We ony had two differnet locations, however more of the footage was filmed on a green screne. We should of maximised our location and filmed more basetracks so we could have more of a variety of footage to choose from, this made our editing process very limited. If I was to film our music video over again and make changes I would film in three more locations, Make the artist use and show more enthusiasm in her movement and her performance and definately film more base tracks so that we have a variety of footage to use and choose from when editing, in which woulkd make the editing process easier.

Question 3

Question 2

I made the colour scheme of my digipak and it the advertisement match the colour scheme of my video, which was black and white. I also used images that I thought linked to my video as the artist looked very similar in the video as well as the pictures used in the digipak and the advertisement.  I also used one of the images from a shot from my music video, which was the forest that it was shot in, so the audiee can ink to to it. The audience can reconinise the link between both the video and the digipak as it is clear who the artist is in both as she dominates both the video and the digipak as she is looking at directly the camera through both. My ancillary product has a clear and simple text in order that the audience could read it. I also use text that I thought was able to relate to both males and females, as my core target audience applied to both sexs. I believe my target audience can relate to bot my video and ancillary work because it is modern and trendy, I aimed to attract teenagers so in both my music video and ancillary work I dressed the artist in the latest fashionable clothing.

 Similar images from my music video and my ancilary work

 

Music Video

They type of shots are both close ups and long shots of the artist.
Also there was the same type of filter used in both video anddigipak image. the artist is lookin directly at the caemra. She is also wearing black in both imagese as well as having the same hair stylle a make up.

Music Video

I used the same background "location of where my music video was shot on my ancillarywork so that the audience can relate and regonise the digipak and link it to the video.

Ancillary Work

Ancillary Work

Both images are similar as ther show the rtist looking away from the camera, looking ahead into the distance. The shot type is alsosimilar as it show the arist body.A similar filter is used her in which nakes the image black and white.

Music Video

Music Video

Ancillary Work

These two images are alsosimilar as they show the artist looking ahead into the distance, the expression on her face shows passiona and love.

Question 1

Evaluation : Question 2

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

Firstly I think how effective the combination of both the music video and ancillary texts are really important to any artist, these are effective because they show an image to both the respected target audience and sometimes to the album.
An example that I will use to demonstrate this before talking about my own combination of both music video and ancillary texts is Adele. The colour scheme from one of her music video displayed the tone and mood of the song, the music video that i'm talking about will be shown below.

The music video above is 'Adele - Someone like you '. the colour scheme throughout the song is black and white, I think that colour of the video goes well with the song, the lyrics of the song have a more mellow tone which connotes the the black and white colour of the music video. This is effective because the audience will grasp an idea of what the song is about just through the colour of the music video. The colour black and white gives off a more serious impression of the song
The colour scheme of the digipak which is shown to the left  also was the same colour as one of the music video's which was in black and white. This also shows how effective the combination of the artist main product and ancillary texts was because both the colour scheme was black and white . The front cover of her album cover corresponds with the music video above.






The reason why I chose to analyse both Adele's digipak and music video was because the colour scheme was very similar to my own music video and album cover and inside panels, however my advertisement was different to both my music video and digipak. The images of my digipak will be shown below, as I can't embed my music video I will talk through my music video.

The images below show my ancillary work of my digipak.

My front and back cover of my ancillary work is very similar to my music video, through the colour scheme of my music video which was black and white, similar to my ancillary work which is also black and white. The close ups on both my digipak and my music video is also very similar which I find effective because it shows the artist face. I think my ancillary work is successful but the effects used on the images for my digipak could have been used. The yellow text that I used stands out really well on the black background which would attract customers eyes in music stores. What I could have improved on my digipak is the colour of text I chose the use on the CD, to improve this I could of put the text in bold which would make it stand out.

The image above is my advertisement, I chose to use a different colour for the background. I chose to do this because I feel that the colour black and white to be used as an advertisement would connote a more mellow feel to the album, however using the colour white would have a more positive feel and would appeal to the audience more. The image of the artist would stand out more on a white background rather than on a black and white background which I believe that it would be more effective.

Final Progress Review Blog