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We are done! 2 years of media A-Level and my group have produced some great work! 

I have enjoyed the media course so much!

Evaluation Question 4

Here is my answer to Question 4 of our evaluations

Digipak sized to fit

Here is my final digipak sized and positioned so that it will fit together.

Evaluation Question 3

Here is my answer to the question 3 of our evaluations:






 In case the videos are not showing on the powerpoint: Final music video:






 Audience Feedback:

Evaluation Question 2

Here is my answer to question 2 of our Evaluation.

Final Digipak and Magazine Advertisement

For my ancillary tasks, I decided to create a digipak and a magazine advertisement.

I decided to base mine around the main singer of the group 'Genetics'. 

I used dark colours to highlight the groups loud and out there look. 

My digipak includes a picture of the main singer on the front cover. I decided to use the symbol of 'Hear no, Speak no and See no, Evil' as it will attract our target audience into the quirky, fun and fresh electronic music.


Magazine Advertisement:

Digipak;
 

Audience Feedback

As a group, we decided that we wanted to email our music video to Rudimental's management to see what they would say! 

They sent us back a message saying 'great work and good luck'. I am pleased with their response as I didn't even think they would take a look at it!

This helps us with our Audience Feedback and I can now mention it in my evaluation! 

Audience Feedback

Here is a video of our audience feedback!

As a whole we had great comments from our audience and we are very pleased with our outcome.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation - Question 1

Evaluation

Now we have finished our music videos, I can focus my time on completing the ancillary task:

1. to create a digipak
2. to create a magazine advertisement

I can also focus my time on my evaluation questions:

1. In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3.  What have you learn't from your audience feedback?

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

These are the marking criteria's I aim to achieve from my Blog as a whole and my evaluation:

Evaluation



Blog

Strobe Lights

Our music video contains a lot of different shots where various strobe lighting is used. We are aware that the strobe lighting could trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Due to health and safety reasons, a warning message must be shown so that the audience is aware of the strobe lighting.
An example of this on both an artists music video and our own is shown below.

Our finished music video!!

So after months of changing our idea and not knowing what song we wanted to chose, we finally decided on 'Right Here' - 'Rudimental' and chose to have a psychiatric thriller based video. As a group we honestly had the most fun filming and editing it all together. At times it was very stressful and we was pushed to our limits but I think our outcome shows just how much we wanted to succeed in our coursework side of our Media A-Level. 

As a group we are very imaginative and our ideas developed and changed throughout the months filming and editing. For the flashing in the room, we used 4 different strobe lights on our iPhones. We decided to do this because we felt that the colour of the shots with the light on was too yellow and with the light off was too black. So adding the strobe lights with the lights off, gave a really great effect to our shots, making editing so much more fun and adding a crazy thrilling feel to the video.  

We knew that with our idea, we needed to use mise-en-scene especially to get our audience to understand the narrative. We chose to dress myself in all black, a black leather jacket, black boots and black jeans. This was too stand out from the other scenes of me being a psychiatric patient with mental issues. This costume, hair and makeup, was to give me a 'pop star' look. We then bought white clothing to represent the innocence of the girl but the hair and makeup in these scenes also shows the corruption of the girl. Our choice of mise-en-scene for these shots of me in the park were to show the confusing and mental illness of the girl. We then borrowed a hospital gown for our scenes in Leanne's room, which was painted white for the filming. We knew that if we wanted to create a scene that would represent a psychiatric ward, we would have to be very stereotypical. By this, we had to paint the room white, only use white furniture and bedsheets and then also dress me in a hospital gown, just so the audience could really understand what was going on. 

Each member of the group had a different input into the creation of our music video and by putting all our ideas together we could all be happy with our final product!

So here is our finished music video! I hope you enjoy :)

This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.