research for my evaluation question 3

My plan for this question is to produce a radio interview media piece. the idea is to have studio guests who are fans (audience) who talk about the video and can even put questions to Brage Alpha himself. This will be a good way of displaying my feedback as I will be able to structure the interview so that all topics such as ancillary products and video. I plan to cast back to feedback from early pieces of work by asking the audience to explain how they like how the product has evolved and whether they feel that any changes should have been made. Here I have looked at transcripts from top radio stations such as Radio 1 to learn how to structure a successfull intgerview. Please follow the link to see this. http://u2_interviews.tripod.com/id47.html

Organising Re-Filming

Today I have been in contact with our performer Tim, through text. I've explained the issue that we have had and asked him to come and film some more with us early next week. He says he's very keen to do so! so far he has been able to commit to coming ot location on Monday morning. We hope this is successful and meets our expectations of how we and our teacher's invisage it to look.

New ideas... charlie

This is a music video from somebody in essex doing A2 media... i really like how he has done this simple effect with money, i would like to do this with my actor tim, when the song says,
'...and i try to fill it up with money,money,money'
i think it would make a really good effect and i feel that it would keep the audience interested!

This week... charlie

This week was deadline week, we submitted our music video and didn't get the grade we would want for it.

The video didn't go as planned, we did not plan down to a key, and the communication was lost somewhere, we both had different idea and then through something together at the end to meet a deadline. we are both not happy with the outcome and we are willing to change this problem.

Because of this we have decided to take up the offer of a extended deadline with the hope that we would gather a few more marks to boost our grade, with a couple taken off for an extension.

1. Realistic props for our video is an issue, we need to create a crazy scene for our video

2. Camera movement, we do not have any movement in our video all our shots are still and all the shots are mid shots, we need to mix it up.

3. Stop motion, the first section of our video sir likes, we need more good stop motion at a faster pace to make it work. More shots per second.

4. Projector shots, I've been to ICT myself and found out that we can use their 'special' camera for the infinity effect, image after image etc. all projection shots need to be original ideas and our own photographs/videos.

5. Disjuncture video so we need to amplify the lyrics more with our own shots and mix it up a little. 'Weird lyrics'

I would really like to generate a story board by Friday to produce our ideas to our teachers and therefor not do another last minute film.

We need to arrange a time for Tim to come into school to sort out filming.

Draft evaluation question 1 - charlie

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

This question requires you to demonstrate how your research and planning has influenced your work. You'll need to review your research and planning posts and identify which elements from the music videos and artists you've researched have been incorporated into your final pieces.

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 During our research and planning stages we looked at a lot of music videos and digipak already in the industry we also looked at work from students from previous years which were posted on our teacher’s blogs, marks where higher for those that followed the conventions of a real music video and digipak. This is what is needed because it will make the audience automatically want to buy your music video and digipak because you have followed the conventions and nothing can really go wrong with it. You would need to find the perfect model for your video and know how they needed to be dressed and also how they needed to be presented on the camera and also on the digipak if wanted.
 

Our product is of an indie genre and our star is a young male solo artist. We therefore attempted to emulate the conventions of similar videos to that of our genre, with other artists such as mike snow, jack penate and Jamie T.

The conventions of a music video we have used for our product are;

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•   Focus on star image, with 90% of shots being of our artist and the frequent use of close-ups highlighting him. This can be scene in all the videos we analysing, especially in ones from artists such as mike snow.

•   Lip syncing throughout, important to link audio with video and express emotion through the artist’s expression.

•   Most music videos cut to the pace of the song, our song is quite slow but fast in places so we decided to cut with fast pace and lots of them.

•   We used a variety of shot distances and positions of our star.

•   Our artists wore a few different outfits to show the change of time and increase variety and interest. In the videos we evaluated this was also a common idea of having lots of outfit changes, this increases the interest.

•   We cut between different scenes and settings to add variety and interest.

For my poster and Digipak I based the layout of already made digipak and posters this is because a conventional digipak and poster would appeal more to everybody because its what the audience likes to see and from this I thought I could get more people buying it.

•   I used did not use an image on my digipak or poster, I use a font type with colour inside by using different effects etc. I think this really worked.

•   I used only a few fonts on the poster and Digipak so it wasn't too busy and there was consistency. On other digipak and posters I looked at the artists name was more of a logo rather than a type face/font I felt this looked really effective and I attempted to achieve this myself with the chosen font of my artists name, as it is distinct and recognisable from other artists. 

•    The cover image I decided upon was my self generated ‘logo’ I chose this font as it allows the target audience to establish what our artist is about and it doesn’t really give too much away about the artist and this would make the target audience want to get to know him by looking inside/looking at music video. When researching I also found that other digipak of the same genre frequently used images that where not always of themselves to portray a different look.

•   For the back cover of my digipak I made sure I included the vital conventions I had identified on other products. This included the presents of a barcode, track list and copyright small print.

•   Details on my poster that I had noticed across similar products were the details of the release date of the album,  and ratings from other music magazines or video sites, I did this and made up my own record company to make a little logo for the small print, I also made a ell known date for the release date which was  10/11/2012 which is on a Saturday which from my research is when most music videos and CD’s are released on.

·        In other genres such as indie, album's can often be rather minimal and simple with panels of a single block colour. So this is what I created. I therefore followed this convention with the use of grey and a simple mixture of colour for most of my font.