I really enjoyed my media a-2 project of planning, constructing and producing a music video and two ancillary texts. I was able to deconstruct the pop genre to find out what it involves and what I would have to do to create my own music video. I was able to work with technologies that I wouldn't be able to usually work with and experiment with.
There is a few things I would of changed for next time which would be the location of the whole music video and how the whole video was managed. The video process took longer than it need to take as we couldn't go filming when we wanted as not everyone could make it. I would of like to have more time to maybe play around with the effects on the editing machine to see what else we could of done if we wanted.
Through out the whole process of researching and planning my whole a-2 media project I kept my blog up to date with a plan of what we had and what we was going to do next and how we was going to do it. My blog has all the post in the ways we developed our ideas and turned them into actions. I have tried to present my work in various different ways to make my blog more appealing and presented. The main way I did this was using prezi, powerpoint (in which I used slideshare to upload them) and blog post.
I hope you enjoying reading through my Advance Portfolio on blogger and clicking through my presentations as I have making my music video.
Monday, 6 May 2013
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Evaluation Question Three
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
I asked someone who was the target audience to watch my music video when it was at the middle stage of being edit to them ask her a few question. This feedback was helpful seeing the audience was a potential target audience so her input was useful. It was good to get an outside side to what they saw as they didn't know the narrative that we intend for the music video to have. From this I was able to reflect to my group members what was needed and the changes we needed.
We didn't originally plan to film any more scenes of Ryan and Scarlett for past memory's as what we had we thought was enough but after this feedback gave us the idea that to film some to have extra but now watching the video with the extra scene makes me realise how repetitive the video would of been if we didn't film extra scenes.
At the time we did have argument scene filmed but not edited in but after another initial screening from the class the feedback we got was it was to dark of a shot and it didn't look realistic as you could see them laughing and not taking it serious.
I asked someone who was the target audience to watch my music video when it was at the middle stage of being edit to them ask her a few question. This feedback was helpful seeing the audience was a potential target audience so her input was useful. It was good to get an outside side to what they saw as they didn't know the narrative that we intend for the music video to have. From this I was able to reflect to my group members what was needed and the changes we needed.
We didn't originally plan to film any more scenes of Ryan and Scarlett for past memory's as what we had we thought was enough but after this feedback gave us the idea that to film some to have extra but now watching the video with the extra scene makes me realise how repetitive the video would of been if we didn't film extra scenes.
At the time we did have argument scene filmed but not edited in but after another initial screening from the class the feedback we got was it was to dark of a shot and it didn't look realistic as you could see them laughing and not taking it serious.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Evaluation Question Two
You can see that in Rihanna digipak and her music video that they all link together. She does this from using the colour of red but more importantly using the prop of red roses. Rihanna has then done her c-d design of a rose two which link again to her digipak and music video. Rihanna does then also challenge herself by not having her c-d design bright red then to make it tie in with the album name 'loud'. We haven't used the convention of props with tying all over our media product together, we have used the convention of location of having the graffiti wall through out. The photos them self were actually taken on a green screen which we then decided to edit in the graffiti wall which was a separate photo. Unlike Rihanna album we have decide that the more that was on the cover would be better. We have the name of the artist her signature (which makes it looks like she has personalised them to her fans) the name of her new hit song it includes and the title of the album. Rihanna has taken a more of a simple approach of just having her name and then the album title. Unlike our Rihanna photo is much more effective and stands out enough to entice the customer.
Evaluation Question Two
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?
Through out all of over ancillary tasks and the music video when Scarlett is performing she is always giving direct eye contact to the audience. This allows the audience to feel like she is connect to them and more direct to her fans. This is similar to what Rihanna has done with her album loud for two of her promotional posters.
With Rihanna she has a close up of just her face with her photos which is different to that we have done with our photos.Through out of are ancillary texts we haven't done head shots of Scarlett which is what Rihanna has done with her digipak and magazine insert. With our photos we want to include what she was wearing which would also appeal to our target audience. We also wanted the graffiti back ground t show through in all of our photo as that is one thing that links to our music video as well as it is from all the same location. This is one of the things that link our music video and ancillary tasks together.
The way that Rihanna's photos have been edited is so that her hair is the main focus through her whole digipak and music video. The audience attention automatically goes to her hair as it is so loud which is ironic seeing her album name is 'loud'. She is also has red lipstick on in her album cover to which matches her red hair. We have also used the convention of makeup which is red lip stick in our music project to make her lips stand out. Seeing we have used simple makeup the bright lip stick stand out well. Seeing that our music video narrative is about love and the connotation of love would be red it is relevant.
Through out all of over ancillary tasks and the music video when Scarlett is performing she is always giving direct eye contact to the audience. This allows the audience to feel like she is connect to them and more direct to her fans. This is similar to what Rihanna has done with her album loud for two of her promotional posters.
With Rihanna she has a close up of just her face with her photos which is different to that we have done with our photos.Through out of are ancillary texts we haven't done head shots of Scarlett which is what Rihanna has done with her digipak and magazine insert. With our photos we want to include what she was wearing which would also appeal to our target audience. We also wanted the graffiti back ground t show through in all of our photo as that is one thing that links to our music video as well as it is from all the same location. This is one of the things that link our music video and ancillary tasks together.
The way that Rihanna's photos have been edited is so that her hair is the main focus through her whole digipak and music video. The audience attention automatically goes to her hair as it is so loud which is ironic seeing her album name is 'loud'. She is also has red lipstick on in her album cover to which matches her red hair. We have also used the convention of makeup which is red lip stick in our music project to make her lips stand out. Seeing we have used simple makeup the bright lip stick stand out well. Seeing that our music video narrative is about love and the connotation of love would be red it is relevant.
Evalution Question Two
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?
This is all of our final media a-2 projects. Straight away you are able to see the three linked together as the graffiti background is shown in all three aspects. The digipak and the magazine insert are also very similar to one another by the use of front is the same through out both ancillary texts. If we would of used writing in our music video we would of used the same text then.
We have then used the name of our music video to be the album name which will help promote our music video. This helps bring the focus to our music video seeing after all that is our main task. We have used several different photos of Scarlett through out the digipak to add a bit of character to it and also to show the sort of person we are promoting Scarlett as.
This is all of our final media a-2 projects. Straight away you are able to see the three linked together as the graffiti background is shown in all three aspects. The digipak and the magazine insert are also very similar to one another by the use of front is the same through out both ancillary texts. If we would of used writing in our music video we would of used the same text then.
We have then used the name of our music video to be the album name which will help promote our music video. This helps bring the focus to our music video seeing after all that is our main task. We have used several different photos of Scarlett through out the digipak to add a bit of character to it and also to show the sort of person we are promoting Scarlett as.
Evalution Question Two
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?
When we was first given the task of doing a music video and along side it the ancillary task of a digipak and magazine insert we always thought that there would have to be one clear link between all three which was the graffiti wall, which is something we didn't originally plan to do.
Once we had done majority of filming we then turned our attention to our ancillary tasks which was like starting from the beginning when we first started the project. We had to think back to our chosen genre and what our target audience was. From this we want to make it colourful and appeal to our target audience. We tried making our own background with using the mixture of colours like what Katy Perry had done for her magazine insert. How the colours all lead into Katy Perry to make her the main focus is the idea we wanted, but after playing around on photo shop we wasn't successful.
That then took us back to square one with what to do then, we then found the photo of the graffiti wall which work well as it had all the colours we want to use to appeal to our target audience but still have the feminine feel to it still. The graffiti wall then worked in our favour to make the link to our main product to our ancillary texts.
When we was first given the task of doing a music video and along side it the ancillary task of a digipak and magazine insert we always thought that there would have to be one clear link between all three which was the graffiti wall, which is something we didn't originally plan to do.
Once we had done majority of filming we then turned our attention to our ancillary tasks which was like starting from the beginning when we first started the project. We had to think back to our chosen genre and what our target audience was. From this we want to make it colourful and appeal to our target audience. We tried making our own background with using the mixture of colours like what Katy Perry had done for her magazine insert. How the colours all lead into Katy Perry to make her the main focus is the idea we wanted, but after playing around on photo shop we wasn't successful.
That then took us back to square one with what to do then, we then found the photo of the graffiti wall which work well as it had all the colours we want to use to appeal to our target audience but still have the feminine feel to it still. The graffiti wall then worked in our favour to make the link to our main product to our ancillary texts.
Our Final Ancillary Tasks
These are the final ancillary texts we made along side our music video. We have decide to use the same front through out both ancillary projects. We decided to use the same background through our whole project to show that they promote one another and that it is all linked. We have added Facebook and Twitter icons to show that we using social network site to help promote our product.
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