Conclusion

Q.4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Q3. What have you learned from your audience feedback

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Here's the link to my evaluation for q3 ( the website).

My Music Video

Digipack - Final Product photos

Q2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

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Here's the link, in order to be able to view my evaluation (website). 

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation- Introduction

Feedback For My Final Media Products

Video audience feedback's 
Person 1

Person 2

In order to found out what other people might think about my final media products, I have constructed audience's feedback questionnaire, with few simple basic questions to answer, after they have watched my music video, and seen other media products; magazine advertisement, and digipack of the CD. As a evidence of it, I have photographed it and recorded their responses and comments. 

Real Media Products And Similary To My Own Products

I have researched few real media products which are available for people, in order to show you similarity between my own products I have created at school and the products that has been produced by professional. For example: in terms of colours, design, fonts, style/design and image. 

 My inspiration for  the matching front CD cover with the CD template 

My inspiration for having female on my CD cover, with extreme close up of the only half face. 

Equipment

In order to create a good, professional looking music video, I have to use right, better, and accurate technology. My school has a wide range of equipment I can borrow, for how long I want and whenever I want, if I sign into equipment book and tell my teacher or Daniel (who is working in the office) about it few days before filming. This year, the school has bought a lot more technology, than last year, which is a good indicator for me using a new type of technology which I have never use before, and improve my filming skills from the last year. 

Here are the equipment I am planning to use within my music video, as well as new equipment's the school has bought. 

Tripod
This  type of equipment allows me to do filming smoothly, and therefore gives me a steady shots, for example: I am planning to have a scene of two people, playing on guitar, and it would be very difficult to hold camera all the time during this scene or others, and still have the steady/clear shots. This piece of equipment is also very easy to use, and will help me to produce a good quality music video. 

 Boom Mic
This is one of the new equipment's, the school has invested money into. However, I am not going to need it, as I am not going to do trailer but music video, with the background song by Jason Derulo ''It girl''. If I would be doing film trailer, then this is the right, accurate and very effective equipment to use , to gain the best sound quality as possible, or even pick up the outside sounds , such as: rain, wind, cars etc. 

 Go Pro
This is a new equipment the school has bought, and this equipment is also introduced to us as ''versatile camera'' because it allows you to use do filming underwater without breaking, therefore this type of equipment is mainly used in extreme sports. This means that if I would like to do some filming underwater, such as: filming someone's hand underwater to get a close up of the hands, then this is the right equipment which allows me to do it. Even though, it is a small equipment, it has a good quality footage, which is great, if I would like to use it a lot of, and then transfer it into Go Pro camera hardware. 

Nikon JVC camera 
This is the most important equipment from all others above, as it allows me to do filming in high quality footage, as well as is very small and light, easy to use, and handle. I must say that I have some experience with this equipment previously,  therefore I know how to use it as well as how to transfer the footage I have filmed into the computer  and then edit it on final cut software.  

There are also few software's and program's, I am going to use, in order to produce a real media product's ( music video, magazine advertisement, and digipack of CD) for my A2 coursework. 
This include

1. Final Cut
2. Youtube
3. Photoshop
4. Window Live Maker 

Camera movements within my music video

Functions of camera movements are: to direct the viewer's attention to particular scene which I want them to see, and provide narrative information, in order to create expressive effects, as it will give original  professional  and unlike look of my music video. Therefore, before I start filming with my two candidates, I have refreshed my mind by going and looking back to my old notes. This also help to decide which of the camera movements I have to use, which of the camera movements I can use, but also which I don't have to use.

Music convention's for Pop videos

• bright and colorful
• close-ups to show cheerful and upbeat emotions
• extreme close ups which tends to show the purity innocent in the personality of the artists
• aims at the teenager audience
• very upbeat

http://www.slideshare.net/jamsjamsjams/conventions-of-music-videos-2935597

Here are the main one's I have picked, and decided to apply within my music video as well as some of the camera shots, I have mentioned above, in order to give an impression of professionally done real media product. 

• Close up
• wide shot 
• medium shot
• medoum close-up
• establishing shot
• pan shot 
• Zoom

Within the music video, I am planning to have a mise-en-scene that will involves my protagonist character (male) to being in an isolated room, as I want to reflects the theme of isolation from his lover. In order to express this idea, I will also have to pay attention to the props, such as: dark, informal clothes which will represent the down mood of the protagonist. Similarly, the lighting will be dark, as this connotes the sadness as well as depressed mood. Also I will be using some of the transitions that are very common in music video's, such as: fade and dissolve, as they create a different effects to cuts.       

Inlay Part Of The CD

This is an example of inlay part of the CD, for my CD digipack. As you can see, I have used the image of butterfly again, which symbolised the love between two young people; the freedom their share together; the idea of love being unstable as well as beauty and positive energy their love send and represent. These eyes are the girl's eyes from the music video, with the interesting, magical, outstanding, significant make-up, which should create the idea of butterfly wings. These are has been photoshoped on the picnic program; allowing me to change the eyes colours, the tone of the background etc. In the middle of the part, there is large image of the girl's eyes, with the butterfly on the top of it.  Around this image, there are other images of the eyes, mixed all together, and placed in different parts of this inlay cover ( such as: upsaid down, the image of just one eye). I really like this cover, I think is very magical, with the codes and symbolis.  

Back CD cover- Final media product

Back CD cover: JDR, ''It girl''. 

The quality of CD back cover is almost as important as the music itself, as it draw in the audience that would have bought it, therefore, my target was to produce attention grabbing design.  In order to achieve this I have constructed few key questions in order to meet my target. 

• Is the name of the artists clear and visible?
• Can you distinguish the artists name from the title of the CD?
• Does my cover design portray the style of the music? 

I believe that I have pay attention to all of these followed question, when I have produced the final back CD cover. Must say that, I am more than satisfied with the overall look of the media product, as it look like a real media product. The reason why is because I tried to focus on the little details such as: the record label, websites name, the similar background to the front cover of the CD, etc- which helps me to create a professional looking design. However, there is one specific sentence which I like the most, and this is ''DIGITAL COPY KILLS THE MUSIC!" where I have used handwriting style, with the white colour scheme. The reason why is because I agree with this statement,as well as makes the cover the real air look, as this can be seen in real media products. 

Magazine Advertisement- ideas

Magazine Advertisement's for my CD cover of the song ''It girl'' by JDR. 

 

I've decided to produce two different examples for my magazine advertisement's of CD cover. The reason why is because I wanted to produce a platinum edition as well, where I have used different colour scheme of the colours dark grey and grey with the shadow effect, to make it stands out better. I also used different colour scheme on the title of the website, to match it with the Atlantic records label, which gives the unlike overall look of the magazine advertisement. I wondered how it will look, and must say that with the final media text product, I am very pleased as it look very professional, compare to the real media text products. However, I also like the second idea of magazine advertisement, where I have used the same colour scheme of the background of the CD cover, which is browny orange colour, with another colour of white on the titles.

According to the people I've asked, they prefer the first example: with the white background, as it look professional, and more real to media product text. Therefore, I decided to that this media text, will be the one I am going to keep and present as my final magazine advertisement. 

The Final Magazine Advertisement