Evaluation question 4

The first image is YouTube, I used this the most throughout the course. It helped me with the research and planning, as I could look at music videos on YouTube. Also to upload my own work, so I could show it around to friends and family to get feedback to make it better.

The second image is Prezi, this enable me to make presentations about my initial ideas about my music video to present to the class.

The third image is blogger, one of the main things I used as this helped me document my research and planning. 

Fourth- survey monkey, an online survey maker which I used to send to people so they could fill it out and I could gather the results to make my project more enjoyable for my target audience.

Fifth- Photoshop this help me make my ancillary tasks. 

Sixth- final cut, the program I used to edit my project together.

Evaluation question 3

From my audience feedback i learnt that my project was a success, yet needed some more things to make it better for example more scenes.

evaluation question 2

evaluation question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (music videos) 

Here are some screen shots of scenes from our music video that i believe portrays the main elements.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (Music videos)

Here are some screen shots of scenes from our music video that I believe portrays the main elements of the genre conventions. We set our music video in 3 different places; a road setting, a house and an area in Southbank.  The reason we did this is because we wanted it to be personal to us and for it too look like a realistic story. It looked realistic I believe because it was set outdoors and not in a set. Many other artists like Ellie Goulding and her video ‘Burn’ show an outdoor scene which adds more effect as the people in her video seem more free and real. The two top pictures are the main settings and I think they work well together, as in the first picture you can see it is a homely area and its quite peaceful. The second picture is in Southbank and you can tell by the background (the sculpture) that this is a place loads of people go, to show there has been a change in the tone as the relationship between characters has grown. The settings chosen does conform with the conventions of media products however as I said I think we developed more as it had a more personal touch. 

In the third picture is a picture of the main costumes. The main character is wearing a blue skirt and blazer, this is too add quirkiness to the video and to show that this is the main character. This is done a lot in music videos, an example is Beyoncé ‘ Single ladies’ as it consists of three dancers, wearing similar outfits and colors however Beyoncé’s clothing is different (same color).  So using this convention to show the audience clearly who to focus on. The other dancers are wearing Black and white blazers and jeans. We choose this because it fitted nicely with the matching outfits. The boy is seen wearing casual clothes to contrast between the ‘eccentric’ clothing and normal clothing, to add comedic value ( picture 1). There is also a scene in the house where a used comedic part is used, with the woman not being able to find the right clothes so tries on nearly all her clothes to find the right one.  When in South Bank it changes a little to casual clothes, with bright pattern trousers. 

The seventh picture is to show the genre, which is pop. I choose this picture because it shows the main clothing which is quite out going and the action of everyone jumping to show that it is quite upbeat and lively. Also the standard pop story line, romance with dance routines, similar to music videos Rihanna "whats my name?" with her out of the blue romance with another artist.

The main character in the eighth picture is presented as quite energetic and over excited. The dancers/friends come across to be good friends who stick by each other even through weird dance routines.  Also the boy is represented in the last picture to be uninterested. This was done on purpose and as the story goes on he becomes more interested.

We didn’t use much special effects only the flashing light effect on Photoshop.

Overall I really like the way our video has turned out and I think with these pictures it is very clear to see the story to our music video.

Final digipak and advert

Final music video

my final music video

I’m happy with how my music video has turned out as many seemed to have enjoyed it. I think adding more scenes of singing and dancing worked well. Also we re-filmed the night scenes, this looks much better as you can see what is happening now. We also added a new bit after they get dressed, where you can see they are moving to a different place, by jumping in to the next scene. I liked this bit as it flows well.  At the end we added a scene of them playing and dancing around, this was one long clip but we cut it to much it shorter and make it seem like it was different clips to speed it up so the viewer wouldn't get bored with the continuous scene.

Overall I think this project has been successful and I’m happy with the end result.

Plan for digipak and advert

when planning the digipak we analysed many other types of digipak. gathering a lot of different ideas which we could incorporate in to our own work.


Digipak

 We choose to present our digipak in a certain way that all the sections would make sense when you open it. The first section we have chosen to add a girl giving a dirty look so it links up with the section with the boy and girls. We have chosen for our CD section to make the actual CD and back ground the same. We did this because it seem very different and when analysing other digipaks, we didn’t see anything like this only on one. The reason the background isn’t coloured in is because it is a white brick wall, but you can’t see the lines unfortunately. The front cover, which is the third section is a group picture of the dancers, we did this so everyone could be included and make it more personal. 

Finally the back section, we drew a silhouette of a couple walking away, to show it all works out and what type of song this is. 

With our advert we chose not to do much detail with the faces etc. As we liked how is looked without all the detail as it gave it a neater/cleaner look. However we had a problem, as we didn't know if we should draw the dancers with bodies as we like how it looked without them. The main colour is blue as it relates to the video as throughout everything is mainly blue. Similar to Annie Mac it is quite a simplistic style, however it could be considered that it doesn’t go with the 'quirkiness' of the video.