Evaluation, Question 1, Final.

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Evaluation Question 2, Final.



Using Photoshop, I have answered the Evaluation, Question 2.



Evaluation, Question 3, Final.

Evaluation, Question 4, Final.

 I have created a video/voiceover which recognises the variety of technogies that I've used throughout the piece of coursework, and also discussing how they've helped me...

Evaluation, Question 3, Plan.

I have recieved feedback for my coursework from a variety of different people, through a range of different sources. The most important pieces of feedback I have recieved are from my teachers, they have given me feedback by commenting on blog spots, stating what they like, dislike, and how I can improve my work. Secondly, I have spoken to my teachers in class, where they have disscussed my progression with me.

I will also be using social networking sites Twitter and Facebook to recieve feedback for my video, ancillary texts, I will ask people what they like dislike about the media, anybody can feel free to give their opinon, when it comes to making improvements and what I could've done better, I will ask other media students, and people of my target group, because then I will find people who's opinions really do matter, no disrespect to anybody else intended, because I still feel it would interesting to see what people who like different genres think of the video, since there is nothing wrong with expansion, but I beleive opinions from my target audience is more essential.

I will also be in facilites such as the library next week, where I will ask people to specifically watch my video, then I will ask them to answer a few questions on the video overall.

Finally, I believe the expections of the examiners, and their expectations are vital, because at the end of the day, they will be the one's who are judging you. Therefore it would pointless to do something that they are completely against, because you will most probably based receive little to no prasie for it. Hence why I believe it is important to listen to what the teachers inform you, because although they will have their own preference, they will still give you guidance and feedback according to the preference of the examiners.

Evaluation Question 2, Plan.

EVALUATION 2. How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

In this question you need to evaluate the sense of 'branding' you've created across your products. Once again you need to use a range of technologies to present your work.

Some tips

Pick out the elements you've chosen to carry across your work and explain why you feel these best represent your 'artist'.

There are similarities, and differences within my main product, the music video, and the ancillary products, my Dikipak and Posters. One is that the genre mix's in together, for instance my Digipak doesn't fits an indie genre because I have no actual images of the band, which is quite often the result for an indie band, when releasing a forthcoming album. This is carried into the video, because I do believe the band portray an indie image, every single member (excluding the drummer) was seen wearing a pair of shoes (Coincidently, it is once again common for the drummer of indie bands not to be as image orieentated as his peers)

Secondly, for my Digipak, I was running a back and white theme throughout. This was because The Mirrors Image are quite a dark band, in the lyrics, and songs that they produce. Therefore black and white is often renound for creating a strong colour pallet, when mixed together. So I believed it made sense for me to use this black and white theme, because the darkness it brings, which would infer to the lyrics and music of the band, and latterly the white colouring, would look light, representing The Mirrors Image being the light throughout this scene, and they would be the ones who stood out.

 Admittedly, the location of music video creates a horrendous contrast to both ancillary texts. This is my own fault however, because although wasn't dedicated enough to finding a great venue for filming, and I just wanted to find somewhere I could film, no matter what the quality. I had comtemplated filming in a dark outdoor environment, which would have been in conjunction with the ancillary texts, but I was not in coalition with the weather, which I could not trust, since we had downpours throughout the filming period, therefore this idea was blown out of the window.

For the Front Cover and Poster of my Dikipak and Poster respectively, I was trying to imply a relevance to the Physcological device 'Roarschach', I was hoping to create this effect, for one because I believed it would've looked creative and very artistic if done properly. I also wanted to emulate the 'Roarschach' technique is because of the pragmatic meaning behind it, the images are supposed to challenge your mind, the play tricks with you. Therefore I wanted to imply that the album cover would play tricks with your mind, and baffle you. Due to the poor Mise en Scene though, this idea wasn't really portrayed, which was a disappointed.

The Horrors, The Courteeners and Banyshambles are just a few example of bands of have used images as their album. I believe the main influence behind this, is because of the artistic side, if you have artistic piece of imagery on an album cover, it would become automatically intriguing to the people are looking at purchasing the record, also ut helps make your album more distinctive, recognisable, should I say, making your album that little bit different to all others.

Evaluation Question 1, Plan.

EVALUATION 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?What is the question asking?

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.

You need to be honest, does your product 'work'?

When responding DON'T:

• write an essay 
• simply list points 
• produce a PowerPoint 
• waffle! 
• claim to have been 'original' (you haven't been, it's not possible!) 
• ONLY discuss your video 

When responding DO:

• Write about all THREE products 
• Be creative (how can you respond in an entertaining yet informative way?) 
• Use technology (e.g. photoshop, tubechop, prezi, scribd, iMovie, soundcloud, flickr etc) 
• Be analytical (pick out specific examples and remember your A2 theorists as well as ones from AS. Barthes, Todorov, Mulvey, Gilmore, Goodwin, Stewart etc) 
• Explain every decisions (discuss the choices you made) 
• Use the correct vocabulary (longshot, verisimilitude, diegetic etc) 

For my music video, I atttempted to emulate simplistic music videos from the alternative/indie market, which takes up the vast majority of my music collection. Video's from bands such as The Horrors, The Vaccines, and The Cribs, often follow a simplistic performance, that focuses on the music, rather than the content of video. Therefore this was something that I believed could play into my hands, since I'm not the most technical person who has sat down at a computer. Admittedly, my music video wasn't supposed to become as basic as it did, but due to the lack of time (my own fault) and also my lack of skills, it turned out to be a basic video.

One image representation that I tried to stay away from was the new 'indie wave' look that started to sweep across the nation recently, with bands such as Friendly Fires, and The Maccabee's following this look. Although I did need to stick to my genre, therefore I felt the best way to go about this, was a follow a more tradional indie look, therefore I took inspiration from bands who were influenced by music from previous generations, such as The Courteeners, who are influenced by the Mod culture, and also sight The Smths as a large influence on them. This was something that I noted on original pitch, that I would take inspiration previous generations, and although I didn't completely go all out making this a music video that resembles a previous generation, I did still stick to the routes of my pitch, especially in the form of frontman Levi Strummer. I believe you could look at his image throughout the video, and he portrays a man who was influenced by previous generations. I also attempted mix this with the image of a band who know they are cool, I don't want to use the cringy phrase, but they know how to 'Give it Big' and I tried to portray by putting the bass player in parka coat, similar to one you would have seen a man such as Noel Gallagher, followed by putting the lead guitarist in a 'Pretty Green' jumper, pioneered by Liam Gallagher, so I was putting these clothes symbolised this genre of music on my band members.

If anything positive was to come out of the video, I believe it was the camera angles used. I wanted to get a lot of close ups, something you see in many in many videos today, once again by bands such as The Cribs, I did this because it cuts out anything irrevelant, there would be no need to have a long shot of Strummer when he is singing the vocals, because there would be no need to see his jeans, it's just important that you can see his mouth clearly. I also tried to get shots of the drummer hitting the actual drums, and than showing his face, this was because it makes for a better edit, because you can see the drummer hitting the beat on time, rather than seeing an image of the drummer as the music is playing, because once again this would be pointless. I carried this procedure out once again with the guitarists, showing them strum to the music, because this helped my video look like an actual video.

For my Digipak, the ideas that I had envisaged in my mind, were not those that were portrayed on the actual Digipak, I once again tried to emulate my genre, the majority of bands that I looked to for inspiration had had chosen an image, rather than a having themselves on the front cover, as that is more a 'pop'/'mainstream' thing to do. I tried to recreate a roarscharke physcological, not only did it give a deeper meaning of playing with your mind pragmatically, it also links back to bands such as The Horrors and The Courteeners, who have artistic images on their front covers. I continued to follow the inspirations from these bands for my back cover, by making it very simplistic, sticking to the black and white theme, and then just naming the tracks, along with all the legal requirements.

With my poster, I took the main image from my front cover and placed it onto the poster, I did this for one main reason, to make my band look more distinctive, so that people knew who they were looking at when they saw the image. Another technique of other bands from my genre, an example is below with The Courteeners.

Overall, I do believe I could have done the elements of this piece of coursework better, if I had given myself more time, or had organised myself better, although I'd like to think I adapted my work to make it look like I had created work relevant to my genre.