Closing The Blog

IT'S ALL OVER (:(

 Blogging this year was a lot harder than I taught it was going to be. However I am pleased that I have completed this section. I learnt so much more in terms of using different technologies and way of researching , planning and evaluating. AS was a piece of cake compare to  A2 and I feel as though I could have worked a bit  harder by having my blog done before the deadline. However I have tried my best to achieve the best grade I can and I am proud of myself  but again sad that it's over (slightly happy too). I really enjoyed filming and editing  with my group. I would like to give a big thanks to all the teachers that helped me, LOL  you probably found me annoying after a while and a big thank you  to Rebecca for being a great , fun teacher.
I really enjoyed making a music video :)





LOL hate this picture but it's the only group picture i have.
it's been fun y'alllll

Reflection on progress - January 2015

Reflection on progress

According to my progress review my grade has dropped down within the year and I am  very disappointed. Due to missing blogs, I feel as though I should have completed each blog when it was due to keep me grade at a high level. I have gone back and completed all the missing blogs so I do hope my grade goes back to what it was when I first started (B). it has been tough keeping up with all of the blogging checklist I was able to do it.

Evaluation of finished production work - closing off blog

AFTER 2 YEARS OF BLOGGING WE FINALLY COME TO AN END. I want to thank everyone in the media department for helping me when I needed it and I hope I never see a blog again in my life...No I'm joking, I've enjoyed most of it. I hope you enjoyed reading my blogs. 

Blog Self-audit

Looking back at my blogs today, I'm not really happy with the amount I have and how I was blogging at the beginning of the year. Blogging was something I struggled with at the start of the A2 year and throughout AS. It is where I've lacked the most in my media studies. Occasionally, my teacher pulled me aside to talk about the blogging; I needed to get it on track and be more thorough with them. After hearing this many times I finally realised that I did need to go through, add more and stay on top of them. I also needed to blog more in lessons and go through the list of blogs looking for any i had missed out and going back and doing them. By the end of the year, I improved in my blogs and pushed myself more at home seeing the importance of it now. I tried to use a variety of different technologies in my blogs and hopefully this comes through as you go through them.

Evaluation Q4.

Evaluation Q3.

Evaluation Q2.

Evaluation Q1.

Evaluation Question 4

 

My Rough Cut Feedback.
















At this point we had a lot we needed to change, we didn't have much base tracks and some shots we wanted we didn't film yet. Also we were told we need to carry on with the narrative we had because it looked good. Moreover, we were told to think about changing the filter of the video and getting a more close ups and jump cuts to fit the convention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluation Question 3

 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research , planning and evaluation stage ?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The stabiliser (Smooth Cam)

Evaluation Question 2

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



What Is Synergy?
the interaction or cooperation of two or more organisations  substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects"





Synergy is a form of advertisement , so it's important because it has a connection to the media product which allow the audience to recognise the  music video with the album cover, due to the s

ynergy links, such as fonts, colour , text and main image.













 

Evaluation Question 1

Production of Ancillary Work - Completed Inisde Panel

Production of Ancillary Work - Completed Front Cover

Production of Ancillary Work - Completed Advertisement

Evaluation of finished production work - Final Progress Review

This is my final progress review! After 2 years of blogging. I have learned so much from starting my first blog in AS I thought blogging was really boring. But I adapted to it, I got used to it each time I blogged. In terms of ICT my A2 blogs have overpowered my AS blogs by miles off. I have used such a wide range of Ict in A2 and i have made my blogs look really efficient and distinctive. There are some minor gaps however all in all I have produced very informative and enjoyable blogs which I hope you enjoy. If I had another opportunity I would possibly made sure I finished the blogs when they were due in instead of leaving them last minute like I have now. Overall I am overwhelmed at my performance in this blogging task, I couldn't of had more fun.

Evaluation of finished production work - specific audience feedback

Evaluation of finished production work - Audience Feedback - Using survey monkey

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Production of Anacillary Work - Final Feedback

 

 

 

 

Last Improvements

Thankful, I didn't have much to change. :) However I changed things such as enlarging the main image of the artists to make him stand out a bit more. Adding a shadow around the CD and the artist in  the front cover, and again this is done to make the image stand out more. I slightly changed the potions of my information such as the websites etc. on my advertisement as I wanted it look like i was selling an album cover .) I am missing a couple of my ancillary work which I need to catch on, like Reasons to my locations ' Blog like this shouldn't put me down and like Rebecca said 'I Can Do it ! :)

I Think I'm Done Now   :D

Planning Ancillary Products - Finished Product

FRONT PANEL

INSIDE PANEL

ADVERTISEMENT

                      

Ancillary Production Pitch

Evaluation Question 1 FINISHED

Evaluation Question 1
"In what ways does your media products use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

Evaluation Question 2 FINISHED

Evaluation Question 2

"How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?"

Evaluation Question 3 FINISHED

Evaluation Question 3
"How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?"

Evaluation Question 4 FINISHED

Evaluation Question 4

"What have you learned from your audience feedback?"

A music video is merely a marketing strategy for singles, which is why it is crucial to take on board what your target audience have to say about your music video. I have learned that if you do not apply changes to your video according to the target audience's criticisms, you are not guaranteed to produce a successful music video which will, in turn affect the success of the single as it fails to appeal to the target audience.

Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 1 from montelpower

Examples our minimal costume in our music video 

Here are two of only three costumes used in our video, they were picked specifically not be flashy or draw attention and fit with the conventions of the Indie genre music videos. 

Examples of minimal costume from Sam Smiths video

 Again two of three costumes from Sam Smiths Stay with me video where through most of the video we only see his whole outfit properly once

In the genre the clothing and what the artists own aren't meant to be used to show off the artist, there may only be attention drawn to an outfit if it's something the artist has had creative                                                                                 control over it and chose or made something for                                                                                 a certain reason. 

My Ancillary matched with real work


Our video matched with real work
I matched areas from our video with Sam Smith's Stay With Me video

Evaluation question 2

Emaze of question 2 

Evaluation question 3

1 Use of Final Cut Pro



1 Use of Photoshop


Timetoast on question 3


The effects of the stabiliser (Smooth Cam)


Image and video evidence of mentioned Timetoasts

Evaluation question 4

Video of rough cut feedback and changes



Prezi of Cinema showing and ancillary feedback

Audience feedback is important when making a media product as the creator needs to know what exactly the consumer looks for in the a product. For selling a product the creator needs to know what appeals to the target consumers as anything which doesn't follow the conventions could push them away, for example when I was making my CD covers the colour scheme of green and creme didn't appeal to people and so they weren't interested in my work, it wouldn't sell, I had to change my work in order to reach my audience. This has to be done in everything to ensure that everything sells.

Possible Photos For Ancillary Work

Possible Photos For Ancillary Work

Planning Ancillary Products - Mock Up Magazine Advertisement

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For my advertisement I indented to use a black, white and cream 'greyish colour scheme , the writing of my title will be black. will have the same font I used for my album cover so the synergy is clear. I am planning to keep very simple as it generic for Indie genres to do so.

Blog Feedback

Planning Ancillary Proudcts - Inside Panel (Mock-Up)

Inside Panel

 

Inside Panel: For this I have decided to use either those two pictures above which are very similar. I wanted to the album and inside panel to connect. the blurred image suggests how confused and  neglected he is. Moreover I wanted to give a abnormal and mysterious feel.

 

CD cover: For my CD I wanted to keep it very basic, I wanted to put my album name and record label because it looked looks visually interesting and most albums tend to do that in their CD.

 

 

 

 

Ancillary planning

My planning ideas for my Ancillary work and work that inspired me

Production of Ancillary Work - Illustrating How You Are Using Photoshop

Using Photoshop

Using Photoshop was trying difficult at first because it's really complicated when you don't know what each tool means. However throughout my process with Photoshop , I began to get a lot more familiar with  the meaning of the tools and what they do. I learnt many new things about Photoshop and now I am able to use it successfully and even make a media product :)

Now I am able to cut and paste images, enlarge images with stretching them and cropping images that I don't want as shown above.

Production of Ancillary Work - Feedback

FEEDBACK

 

 

Improvements

I feel as though I need to change the background colour because it's a little boring and text colour doesn't compliment each other as  it's hard to read the text. Also I need to keep the font throughout my album cover or have fonts that look similar to each other. Lastly I need to make sure

I cut around my artists neatly with no extra white bits using the magic wound.

 

 

 

Planning Ancillary Proudcts - Possbile Photos & A Brief Overview

Magazine Advertisement Mock Up

Magazine Advertisement Mock Up

The overall background colour will be a dark ashy grey, like the background to the back cover panel of my album. This will show a clear connection between the different types of digipak and will establish that it is for the same artist through the colour scheme.

The font will also remain the same throughout the whole digipak to show the clear connection between them all.

The colour of the font will also mirror the font on the album cover which will be featured on my magazine advertisement.

Things I have included:

• Image of album cover
• Website
• Tour dates
• Release date
• Artist's name 
• Album title
• Record label logo