FINALLY MEDIA IS DONE. BLOGGING, MUSIC VIDEO AND ANCILLARY!

WOW! COME A LONG WAY AND FEELS GREAT TO GET THIS PART OF MEDIA DONE. BEEN A VERY TIRING LONG COURSEWORK. MOST EFFORT NEEDED FOR THIS. AND HOPE AT THE END WILL BE WORTH IT. TIME TO 'KINDOF' RELAX AND LETS CELEBRATE TO THE FINISHING OF MEDIA COURSEWORK 2012. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY !! :D :D :D :D MY LAST EVER EVER EVER EVER BLOG THAT I WILL EVER DO YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

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Evaluation Question 4...

4. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Okay so i didnt get loads of feedback on my music video because i was not able to find them in the hard drive anymore. the feedback from the screen on the green. I also lost some feedback from before. So i have one qwick feedback for my music video. 

Below are all the comments i got fore my ancillary Product. I put it up on facebook so my friends can see and comment on it aswell!!!

So here is the overall feedback i got from the Digipack and the advetisment. I got 2 Positive feedback :).

Here Is the front panal of the digipack. I got '6 Likes' and One comment. :D 

Here is my advertisement and i an equal feedback, with some opinions. :) This comment was mainly positive and the only critism i got was about the bar code which is not a big deal, but overall i find the comment quite fair. and i am happy with it. 

This is feedback from my Teacher Dan. 

Dan said the real streath of my digipack is the quality of the photography. The shot is framed really nicely its really well lit and really nice. What I haven’t done is which is an easy thing to do is which is graphic and layer is that I have not ruined is with top grapy the typography is quite nice and does not spilt it at all and looks really good nice simple clear fonts same green theme which is continued at the back which is really really nice and consist and works really well with the font a nice piece of design.

From this feedback I don’t really see any negative comments been made. I happy very happy with the feedback from my teacher and don’t see what I could have done better. 

‘ He said its really good, The font the different use of font of where I used bold and non- bold etc its really goes with the background, used really nice affects, what I wanted to show really stands out. I used the same kind of thing on the back panal, but its for a different reason, but still really stands out. He said he really likes the background of the back panal, it imitates some of the examples we used for the digipack. Also he mentioned how I used the font bold and normal, maybe it be hard for someone with less vision might be harder to see but apart from that its really good’.  

Well here again. It’s a fantastic comment great feedback. Mostly posistive, which I am very happy about again. I think from these feedback it tells me how much effort and hard work I have put in to receive comments like this. He didn’t mention nothing to major that was negative. Well now thinking about it well maybe it be hard with people with bad eye sight to see it properly, but is not too much of a big deal to change because the font is not that bad, it is okay to see.  

This is valaza and she is from my media class who also gave me feedback. !

'She said its really good, she really likes the front cover especially, the close up of the artist face is really good for establishing the artist, she likes the colour scheme, looks autum theme with the oranges greens, also she likes how I used the same image for the advert, its good shows a good link between the two, also how I used just an imagie for the front not for the whole thing. She said I could have used more pictures on it to extablish the artist abit more'. 

Again mostly positive comments. I am really happy about. The only concern she said was about establishing the artist more, about adding maybe another picture of the artist. Well I agree with the comment. Now thinking about it I think I could have established her abit more. However The reason why I did not put another picture of artist is because my image at the front already stands out really well. It’s a big close up which is clearly shown on the front cover quite well, so I didn’t want to add more pictures of her. However I have learnt maybe next time if the picture wasn’t quite quite zoomed in and big close-up I should add another picture of the artist to astablish her more. However overall I think its quite fair and there was not much negatives things said, which needs big improvements, so I am happy! 

“He said he really like my front cover likes the color scheme, It’s a big picture of the artist which shows who she is, like the way the font as being used as well, goes from normal to bold, likes the inside the use of format, the guitar, and the picture. Likes the advert, how I used the same picture of the artist, the font is good, looks professional, the use of hmv, Itunes etc, and the website which looks really professional.

Wow! Some amazing feedback. No negatives. Well what can I say! I am overwhelmed again by the comments. How he said it looks professional. I am very very happy.

Overall with all my feedback I don’t see what I can improve on because most comments I got was really positive. I am very happy. Just shows how much effort you put in is what you get out. As I did work hard for it, to deserve feedback like this. I think their all-fair comments. I do not have much thing to say on improvements because I didn’t receive bad comments to improve on. However except one, which I think is fair, but isn’t something I would do differently because of how it is already. I have learnt a lot this year about how much time you put into something is it comes out. I worked hard which is the reason why most people really liked it and I got positive feedback. I am really happy with it. Also i think the music video is a great success but theres always more room for improvements and i think if we had more time to anything it would be even more better. 

Thank you to all. 

Evaluation Question 3....

3. How did you use media technologies in the construction and reasearch, planning and evaluation Stages?

I used loads of different technologies in the research planning and construction and evaluation stage. I used many hard wears including the Brand new state of art- 

 The JVC video cameras with memory cards. I used this equipment which enabled me to video my footages. 

 I used the memory which the footages where saved in and upload them on the mac computers to view all my footages I have done.  Which also allowed me to import it on to my video drive.

I used another piece of equipment which allowed me to illustrate my planning and research was the flip camers. This allowed me to get audience feedback from my music video from the ‘screen on the green’ and also allowed me to also get feedback on my ancillary work. I also used this for group ideas, and teachers feedback. 

I used mac computers for the editing of my video. Through this hardwear I was able to use soft wears such as Final cut pro, which can only be used on mac.

Final cut pro is a programme which allows us to edit videos profeccinally. I used this programme to edit all my video. I used this to add clip, cut in clip, add affects, videos matched to the beats, cross dissolve between clips, which I used in my video to introduce the night time.

I also used this for my annamatic story board.

Another piece of softwear I used was photoshop. This is an softwear which is highly designed to edit photos. This allowed me to cut, crop, brighten add affects n etc. I used this in my ancillary products to add affects to my images. 

Handbreak is another softwear which allowed me to video format and to convert my footages to go on to my blog. 

I used the internet to reaserach and look for ideas images and etc for both my ancillary and music video. I used google to get many of my sources for the reacherch part in this task.

 Youtube was one important website for the music video part. It allowed me to look and get inspirations from artists, and find out more about how the forms and conventions are coorperated in videos. 

I used Prezi which again allowed me to use online to upload pictures, videos, tasks, and information for my work. 

 This is the hard drive where i saved all my clips. The edited ones and etc. 

Blogger is a highly visited programme which allowed me to document my work regurally.

 

Evalution Question 2.....

2. How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipack and advertisement)?

Copy of Copy of How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipack and advertisement)? on Prezi

PRODUCTION-final

This is Our Final Embedded Music Video:

Evaluation Question 1.....

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


Andrew Goodwin Explains that the conventions of a music video are: 

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics

(e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band

2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals

(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting)

3. There is a relationship between the music and visuals

4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artists and the artist may develop motifs which reoccur across their work (a visual style)

5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes etc and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body)  

6. There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc)

There are many forms and conventions in the real media product. With my music video i have been influenced by many camera movements that matches with the music. Below is the video from Example 'Kickstarts'. I have been influenced by the feet movement that appear many times and the feets move within the music. Because the music is quite upbeat the feet movenment here is quite fast and goes with the actions. So in our chorus 'suddenly i see', I have placed many differemt faces changes within the music. Like the feet movements changes in the video of Example. We follow many of the forms and conventions through these videos that has influenced me.

Camera Moves in time with the music.....

This is the official Video From example- Kickstarts. 

In Our video we used this idea from example of the different feets moving but instead in our video we used the idea of faces, because it goes with our song, of 'suddenly I see'. She sees loads of different faces. 

So here is one part of the video from example where the feets where edited to match the beat, we also wanted to duplicate this in our video aswell. We did this mainly in our chorus.  SO.................................

WE wanted to do it in our video. (Some pictures above from my video, which i created on photoshop to show the similarities). We edited the chorus with loads of different Faces to match with the beat like how 'Example' Did. These are also the obvious edits instead of continuous editing, as all the people were in different locations. 

Above is some more snap shots i got from 'Examples video'. 

And here Above is some parts from our video that is similar to 'examples' part. 

And here is another part of their video.

And here is something i created all on photoshop to show how and where and how we used the idea from example.

Videos Use Singar as both narrator and character...

Below Is The Video that has influenced me in this way is the video from Katy Perry "its friday Night'...

My video 'Suddenly i see' Uses the singer 'Alex' as both narrator and character. In my video the singer is a character because she see the world she is acting like she is visiting many places in london, sight seeing and etc. She is also the narrator because she is lipsinging the song as well as acting. The video that influenced me Katy Perry- Friday night. In this video katy perry is acting a character of being drunk, parting, teenager and etc. With that she is also lipsinging. This video has influenced me in the way of the character aswell as the narrator. This video by katy perry is a really good example to show it. And so we have done this in our video of the artist being like a tourist visiting the world. Also the song lyrics in my video matches with the charcater. And so does the video in kart Perry's one, when its 'Friday Night' and she is parting away, wearing fancy dress, acting like a typical teenager on Friday Night, acting silly and drunk etc. 

Katy Perry in her video is a strong Female character who is heavily stylised leading viewers on a tour in the environment. However Katy Perry is stylised in  the 80's american way which provides an style icon and interesting story line. Our video is contempary video made in 2011, modern, and filmed in london. 

In most music video the artist once looks directly at the camera when they are singing, to involve the audience in their performance. This is because so that the audience knows who is promoting the video.  

The video that influenced us and does this sort of stuff is Katy Perry. Below are some images. 

 So Here you can see the artist looks directly at the camera, while she is singing. She uses both narratortive and character. Also In her video Katy is playing a nerdy character (teenager), aswell as a part chic. This is because the character fits in with the word lyrics to show as well as tell. She is narrating (looking at the camera as well as acting a nerdy party Girl, Looking all silly and etc. 

 So in These pictures shows her looking in to the camera (Narrating), As well as she is singing to promote her self. so us as an audience how she looks like and etc.

 So here are some screen shots i got from her video of showing her character. As you can see she is nerdy with her glasses and braces. Also she is like a party girl, with the colourful tight fitted clothes   and the colourful makeup.

And below are some screen shots which shot this which shows the promotion of the artist. We used our character as a narrator and a character. This is because our song did not have story line so we needed loads of different shots to match the point of the song and to divide the characters. 

 So here are the screen shots of the arist narrating looking at the camera and singing. As you can see we was influenced the way katy perry did it in her video.

Below shows the character in the video. Ou video was about the charater in the video visits many places in london. So with that we got interesting camera shots of the london eye and etc, to show that she is visiting them places. Our video did not have a story so to that we didn't end it with a point. We got loads of interesting shots of places to show the character and the story behind it. Also we got the character to be siniging behind interesting buildings to show she is visting them places and etc. Aslo because the chorus is called 'Suddenly I see', in the chorus we got loads of different faces to show the 'suddenly i see' And we was influenced this by the video from black eye peas 'Where is the Love' the repeated Motif. (Continiued Below). 

Repeated Motif.

Below are some images Screen shots from their video of their repeated visual Motif. So as you can see its the Question mark sign that is repeated throughout the video, to match with the lyrics. It is placed in different locations throughout the video. 

Repeated Shots Of Artist.

In Our Video We did have some repeated shots of the artist, But Not loads of times. We used repeated shot becasue we wanted to keep it consist and to keep a flow. Also to remind and show the audience of who the artist is and to promote her properly. We used the repeated shot of our artist in the chorus of when she is play the guiter and the close up of her face. Below are the screen shots and examples of this. Below as you can see the screen shot i took was repated shot of the artist but used in different times of the video in different ways. 

 This is the first shot of the artist in the video. 

And here is the same shot we used at the beginning but used it in the middles chorus with a fade with it. 

Below is a video does influnced us and uses the repated shot aswell. Its a Video From 'Rihanna'- California King Bed. In this video shes uses It too the repeated shot of her self in the chorous. Analysing video's i think most video's are repeated shots of them self mainly in the chorus. 

This is Rihanna's Video- California King bed. 

Similar/Same shot shots!. 

Slow Motion. 

So In the creations of pop video, slow motion is one of them. One video that we looked at was Last Friday Night by Katy Perry, who uses slow motion in her video. 

This Is the screen shot from our video of the slow motion we used. 

The shot below is another example of a slow motion. This is a different type of slow motion. This slow motion of when the Artist is walking slow or still, and the people around her are really fast, but shes quite slow. We took inspiration from 'A-Team' by Ed Sheeran from this particular shot of where the character is sitting down on the floor and the background is moving in fast motion. 

We liked this as it was a contrast to the usual slow motion.