Media A2: 2010

In what what way does your media product use, develop or challenging forms and conventions of real media product?

when i look at similar genre music videos the most predominant themes that was recurring in all the videos i looked at was they all had quick transition and the videos had many different locations that was filmed in the music video example in cold play video fix you, it started with the vocal on the street under a tunnel then he was on the high way running then i got into concert and started playing on the stage with his band and the other music video call plain whitees hey there dehlila. The main singer is sat in a little room playing his guitar but as he is singing there is a video of a girl in different location example, the girl is walking on the road then another transaction of her on in the train then another transition of her at home, i think all these methods of different location is very good but in my video i challenged that by keeping the vocal singer in one place, i done this because i didn't want my video to just be another one of the same pop song videos i wanted to do something different and see hot the audience react to it.

My video follows forms and convention because when i done my primary research on my video i looked at different music videos that has the same music genre as mine, some of the conventions i took from the music videos is how the main singer acts and sing example the way they move and their facial expression to be able to relate to the song and because my music video is about love i made sure the main singer facial expression was relevant so that i can draw listener to the video, i also used similar camera shot in order to established some scenes, at the beginning you see seagulls on a pull and i made sure they were couples so that it can signify love and because the starting instrumentals was slow so wanted to film something that can be related to the instrumental, i also took some mis en scene from my music videos example on the "Plain whitees video called hey there dehlilah" the bit it shows the streets the girl was walking on, i also have that in my video but it will be hard to spot that because snow covers road and also there is know girl walking is just the road.

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

My music video links explicitly well with my digipack and my magazine advert, this is because the photo or the images in all three product i the same but the image on my magazine and on my c.d cover has different effects because on the my cd cover i thought if i use an original photo of my artist it will make the cd cover a little bit boring, i got this idea from looking at different cd covers and how they have portrait the artist on the cover and also because i listen to music and buy music albums i knew how most artist have used different effects on their picture to established certain thing example attractiveness. On my magazine advert used the original picture because i wanted the audience to see his real face without effects this was mainly because my artist is very unknown and i want the people who buys the album to recognize him.

My artist features in all three tests to show continuity and this enforces recognition for the audience. i find this very significant because as ultimately all three test are promotional tool and also my artist is relatively unknown therefore repetition of image if him reminds the audience of him.

What have you learned from your feedback?

I have learnt alot from my my audience and also the audience i showed my film to. one audience said, the acting in my video was really good but i should have had a a split scene of a girl acting out somethings as well as this will allow the audience to be more engage with the video, the reason why i didnt have girl in my video is because i wanted to challenge the covention of love music video showing the girl, i wanted to do something different, i wanted the audience to create the girl with their own imagination, another audiece said the snow made my vidoe more attractive, which i thought was very true because it made everything clean in the video, i was applaud by the lipsinking of video because i is very hard to get it right as it takes alot of timing and also hard whiles editing so i was really proud when one of the audience was able to recognise it a highlight it during the feedback.

overall i would change some things in my video after getting feebcak from my audience but no too much i will changed things like i will add more cuts to my video and also the speed of the video, but because the song is a slow song i wanted the pace to be slow so it can be relevant to lyrics and also the emotion the artist is going through. but would have made it a little bit faster to satify the audience because at the end of the day the product is for them.

How did you use new media technologies in the contracting and research, planing and evaluating stages?

in used many different technologies in order to accomplish all three tests of my product, i had issues with uploading my video to blogger.com, this was because i don't know what type of file format the file had to be in this really slowed down my working pace because i spent days trying to work it out, I feel i could have made my main video better by using finale cut pro "software" but because i haven't had any training on it i found it hard to understand how to cut out scenes, add effects and plenty more of other things, but instead i used i movie "software" which had limited amount of effect you can add to videos, but overall i think i movie was good because even thore i couldn't establish the effects i wanted to used, i movie had some effects that was relatively close to the effects i wanted to add to my videos, the use of the camera went really well for my when i was filming my video because i had the correct tripod to keep the video steady and because i had already used the camera in AS media i was really easy to operate it, i used micro-media fireworks which is a desktop publishing software to modify my images of my artist for the cd cover.

I was able to create a very cartoonic image of my artist with that software because i have been using the software to create other thing for 2 years now so i knew how to use it like a professional, i also used the same software to create my cd cover because i knew how to manipulate text and images used that software so i was able to create a really good album cover, i also used the same software to create my magazine advert because i was most good with using micormedia fireworks. I used the internet to get my secondary research for all the 3 text because using the internet made it quicker to gain information and also ideas of how i will create my products, planning was first drafted on a piece of paper then i done a finale copy of my planning on on blogger.com.

overall

overall i think i have done really well because i have come far from As media which i had little experice with all the technologies used, but in A2 was able to excute most of the effects i wanted because i was more familiar with almost all the technologies used in A2 product and i also enjoyed every stage of the product expecially the filming and editing bit

This magazine hasn't got bright colours but is very attractive, it looks kind of nerdy image with a white background the the image of the artist make the advert very attractive. the font colour of the writing is very consistent but in different font size example the top writing at the top of the advert that say stop complaining is blue with a darker blue outline, the font size is very big this is because it the title c.d. album, so highlighting the statement in a large size make it stand out so readers can recognise it when they purchase it in the shop, the camera angle of the image is a high angle shot which very good because it make you feel the artist is looking at you at also has 4 stars showing on the advert which makes you think the album must be very good so is encourages more to by the album

This magazine advert is very attractive because it has many different pristine colour that help the image to have many different bright colour, it has many different types of font styles and colours, i think this is done to make each writing stand out from other writing on the advert, the releasing date of the cd co is in a white writing with a black background below the magazine advert, the main reason the font colour is white in a black background is because it easier to read and because the release date is the most important information on the magazine advert is only right the contrast the colour with the bright colours at the top so is easy catch readers attention, the positioning of the picture of the artist is very well placed because it allows more information to be placed on the left hand side if the advert, the idea of the green grass is very smart because you can tell the sun is making the grass shine which make the whole advert cover image sort of glow.