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Evaluation question 1

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

Within my group I had the roll of being in charge of mice-en-scene, working alongside Harry who was the director. This meant i had to make sure there was space available for us to film, find locations and I also done the lighting. One particular part that was really good was when we were doing the band shoots, I was playing around with the lighting and seeing which ones i thought would be best for the video and i worked out how to get a spotlight on Harry while everything else is completely dark. This worked very well because it excludes everything happening around him which gives off a feeling that its a live performance and he is the main focus which is what we wanted. This was thought of during the second shoot which means we developed from normal whole band shots into individual shots. In addition to this when doing the outdoor shots of Niamh i suggested to the cinematographer (Tommy) that filming outside in the sun meant that we would get slight sense flares which worked well with the song and its genre. It also meant that it gave the video a little bit of light rather than just being dark throughout. 

Evaluation question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Pitch- When presenting the pitch to the class we got good feedback in the sense that we had a clear idea of what we wanted to do. However we did get constructive feedback which helped us a alot. We were told that our Band was well thought out, in terms of names, background stories etc. However, we were told that our narrative was clear but we should try to include Goodwins theory. In addition to this we were also told that we hadn't included a logo which we then later on went on to do.

First draft- We had really good feedback from our first draft, but we also got constructive feedback as well. One thing the class said that worked was the mise-en-scene within the music video. So for example a specific time this was pointed out was when Harry was in the spotlight but he was just surrounded by darkness which really matches the genre of the song. However we were told that we needed to maybe change the setting three quarters of the way through to keep the audience engaged in the video.

Digipak- For the digipak we generally got good feedback apart from a few things we missed out on. We used photos taken from the band shoot which meant we were staying within our genre when doing the digipaks. However we did get feedback saying that we should include publishing information and the name of the band and album on the spine of the digipak. 

Final draft

This is our final draft of our music video- Of Mice And Men - Back To Me.

evaluation question 2

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

We used media technologies from the very beginning of this project to find inspiration, plan our music video and create our music video. 

YouTube was our main source for finding inspiration for our music video. Once we had picked a genre we would watch music videos from that genre to gain some sort of idea of what we want to create. Doing this gave each of us an image on what we thought we could create so from there we brainstormed all of our ideas. Putting them together to construct a final idea that we would then create.  

One the group members (Harry) would use Apple music (Media Technology) to listen to loads of music from that genre trying to find the song which we could create a music video for. This is how we found our chosen song 'Back to me' by 'Of Mice and Men'. 

To Construct our music video the lead cinematographer (Tommy) used a Sony A6000 to film everything. To edit the video the lead editor (Max) used Adobe's Premier Pro which allowed us to create the desired effects of slow motion and colour correction.  

Adobe Photoshop was used a lot during this project as we had to use it to create our Digi Pak and posters (Ancillary Texts).  Photoshop allowed us to tamper with the colours along with brightness and contrast of our images to make sure they looked exactly how we wanted them to.  

DaFont was the name of the website we used to find the font that we thought matched our genre of music video. We picked out 5-6 that we liked and thought worked and then gave out a questionnaire asking 'which of these fonts do you think best suits a rock genre music video.  

Blogger was used throughout the entire process of this project to record all the progress we were making towards creating our final creative piece.  

The media technologies that we used for our evaluation were Word Documents, a video and a voice note. 

Done by Max, Tommy, George and Harry

poster for digipak

Digipak