Evaluation: Question 2 -

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

Music Videos that influenced me:

With the video we made, we challanged the conventions of a normal indie pop band as we showed no obvious requirments for a band or instraments with is normally seen in most indie pop bands. The music videos that inspired us to do this was:

Owl City: Umbrella Beach -



And, The Artic Monkeys: When the sun goes down -



The Artic Monkeys video is the video that mainly inspired us as it challanges the normal conventions of a music video of the indie pop genre due to the story being about a prostitute which is simular it our music videos story as ours is about a girl who had everything but lost it and became a prostitute and turns to god for help to find her way back to a path.

Images and advertisements that have influenced me - 

Black Eyed Peas: The End -

Basshunter: LOL <(^^,)> -














These album covers influenced me as neither of them show the artists face as a whole which is very effective in catching the audiences attention as they will wont to know who the artist is. I also like this idea as it ties in with the music video which challanges the normal conventions as we don't see the artist/band in the music video.

Evaluation: Question 4 -

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What people liked about our music video:



What people think needs improved and what we done wrong:

I think that most people enjoyed the video as we have has many good comments about it. There was only four problems a few people fond with the video, which i agree need to be improved on. Something most people liked, was that the video challenged the normal forms and conventions and also the religious side of the story which ties in with the lyrics. I think that the video was a success and am happy with how it turned out.

Question 3

 

This is my video for question 3 here i explain how i used media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages.

Also we did use youtube and google to help us research i would not call these the most important technologies but we did use them.

in youtube and Google we search, the artists name or the album we looked for the most rated highest rated and related videos.

Question 4 Evaluation

When we had got some feed back from the viewers and read the comments we came together as a group came up with some improvements and good things about the music video.


After the cinema viewing I asked a girl in my class " Did you spot any conventions in our music video" she said " As i like coldplay and have listened to this song a numerous amount of times i could relate to it easily.  I think that your music video has not got a lot of the conventions of a normal alternative rock music video like there was no band in the video and a very slow tempo to the song, But the effects and the places you filmed relate to the actual music video"

From this comment we immediately knew what she was talking about, we took it in to consideration and we know we should of done something different or added more.

In class session we all had to review about each others video, one boy wrote.

"Good landscape shots of the city which relate to the song name and lyrics and also the characters clothes match the story which is good"

We responded - This was good feedback and felt that we had at least accomplished something, we were grateful that he liked the opening.

Also in class session

A girl said " Opening shot and end shot is interesting, also the shots of the singer actually singing is very long and could have been different shots of him, the story is very illustrative and I got the storyline. The link between the end shot and the first shot was clever."

We responded - again we knew what she meant and understood what she was saying.

Conclusion.

Overall we could of made the shots of the singer shorter and different views if we had enough time to go out and film we would have done so we did not know we were going to use that exact shot until the end we also changed our minds on what song to do several times.

We have learned that we should value time more and that we should have done more shots of the singer singing. If we could do it again after viewing the comments we would have had more shots of the singer an easier plot to follow and more shots of the singer in various places.

This is the video on vimeo we havent got any comments and only 3 plays the reason why is probably because it was seen in the cinema and we had already got comments on it after the viewing.

Question 3

Also we did use youtube and google to help us research i would not call these the most important technologies but we did use them.

in youtube and Google we search, the artists name or the album we looked for the most rated highest rated and related videos.

Question 4

Most of our feedback was positive but there was a few odd negative feedback. From this we have learnt how to improve on it. 

After the cinema viewing we interviewed some people and they said that they enjoyed it but there was few thing that wasn't clear. Also when we did the class review the same comment from the cinema viewings came up.

One comment that kept coming up was that the story wasn't clear. 

Also we should of had some more shot on the artist, because we only really had one shot of the artist in the studio.

We could of worked a bit more on our editing because there are some shots were the lighting changes all of a sudden. 

Most of our viewers liked the locations and liked it when it went from day to night.

I think overall the music video was good but could of been better, if we improve on it by using the comments and feedback I think that the video will be a great success.

Question 2

Question 2. How Effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

This is my video where i show you 

When combined how effective our main product and ancillary text are.