Evaluation

For the first question of our evaluation, "In what ways does your music video and digipak use, challenge and develop the forms and conventions of real media products?", we have decided to create prezi for this particular question, with vlogs on our personal views on certain aspects of the completed products. This way we are combining several different forms of technology into one evaluative question response. Here are a couple snap shot of the current state of our first evaluative presentation, to the left, we have me working on the prezi, and below, is the current appearance of the presentation.

Adding Credits

We have now added credits to our music video to say the name of the song and the name of the band. As this is a compulsory part of the course, we wanted to follow the conventions of a real music video, so we placed the credits at the beginning on a plain black screen, this way we are not detracting the attention of the audience away form our actual music video.

 

Examination Preparation

 
 Recently in lessons we have been planning our essays for our exam in June, this consists of essay feedback, analysis work and also personal progression in each field of study within the essay. The more detail added to the essay's the better, therefore I have been going through my past productions and adding little notes as to how I can comment on certain techniques in each production and how this can be applied to my essay writing.











Here is my completed AS production technique example help, that gives me examples of my own work, the inspiration gained for the technique used from other films, as well as how this may effect the audience.

Planning Ideas

Elisha and I have been putting our ideas together about how we are going to present each of the evaluation questions. We created a mind map of all our ideas for each of the four questions, we also decided that each question is going to be answered in a different format.

For instance one is answered in the form of a filmed presentation, and another is in an interviewed style, in which we interview a group of our target audience, about feedback from our complete music video.

Final Magazine Advert

Since creating the draft of my music magazine advertisement, a few changes have been made to make the advertisement a much more manageable project. The pictures have still been included in one draft, however they were not placed as I first wanted. Putting the images into the two diamonds proved impossible with the software available, therefore I altered my design and came up with the following advertisement:


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I am choosing this draft as my final piece as I feel it is the more professional of the two. I also like the use of images and the way that it jumps out to the reader when flicking through a magazine. Although the font may appear illegible, I think the curly style, adds further mystery to the advertisement, and will hopefully make readers want to find out more about the band. It follows the conventions of real media products as it has an appropriate styling, incorporates our bands name and album title, as well as our logo and the release date of the album.
I am very happy with my overall product, and although if I had better software I would have followed my original designs, I am still extremely happy with the final product.

The Text at the bottom of the magazine advert reads "The Album of the Year"-Fearne Cotton "Immense"- Tom Godfrey "Immaculate"- Reggie Yates "A beautiful album"- Hew Stevens.

I added this text at the bottom of the advertisement as I thought that it would follow the real conventions of a published magazine advert. It also promotes the band, as audiences will be able to see that people high up in the business have acknowledged the album and really appreciate it.

Evaluation and Magazine Update

We have started looking at how we will be presenting our final evaluation. Elisha and I will be working together for all, but one, of the responses to the questions that are part of the evaluation. We are adamant that we will be doing a different form of response to each evaulative question. I have done a quick vlog into what methods we have discussed.

 

 As well as looking at the Evaluation questions, I have completed my two drafts for my magazine advertisement. The two follow the conventions of a real advertisement that you would find in a magazine as they both have the band's name, the album title, reviews and the release date. I have also incorporated the band's symbol of two overlapping diamonds, which causes the advertisements to further stand out.

Magazine Drafts

Sketching for Magazine Advertisement

I have done a little sketch of how I am aiming my Magazine advert to look. I am aiming to incorporate several factors into my magazine advertisement, these being the triangular logo, the blacked out background and still shots taken from my final music video. Here is a sketch of what I am aiming to be creating: