FINAL PRODUCTS

This is a final post that simply puts ALL of my final products in one post (easier navigation)
Here are the following:

MY FINAL MUSIC VIDEO (FINAL CUT):

"Someone Like You" by Ice Nine Kills A2 Media Studies Music Video

MY FINAL DRAFT OF DIGI-PAK

MY FINAL MAGAZINE ADVERT

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FIN

Evaluation

Here is my evaluation of my coursework:

Question 1
"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

I came across many different conventions a long the course. Yet, I'd have to say that the biggest convention I came across, especially when looking at Rock, Punk and Metal genre music videos, is how they use a mixture of narrative and performance to send the message of their song to the viewer. Instead I decided to go against this in my own video as I wanted to go entirely into the narrative, emphasising the synergy between the songs lyrics and the meaning/events of the narrative's plot.

Here is a link to my video to prove this:

Music Video

Other conventions of genre that I opposed, were the stereotypical nature of such videos, i.e. rock love song - narrative explores the break up of a couple (etc.), metal song - narrative explores darker concepts (death) etc. etc. as my narrative follows a childish, and yet more mature theme/concept. This is because I really wanted to connect with those of my own age (i.e. post uni), and so related to a concept that my target audience would be thinking about - leaving home and becoming adults.
For my Digi-Pak and Magazine Advertisement, I used these to emphasise the synergy even further, as the story intertwines with these to texts. I followed the convention of using artwork to present the nature of the music on my Digi-Pak, yet I went against the convention of using a picture of the artist for my magazine advert (this would also be confusing and have no relation: as no performance segment is shown in my video). However, I did abide by such social conventions for my Advert by involving links to social networks like Facebook and Twitter as to make it even more accessible.
Although my texts opposed many of the general conventions, originally I wanted the video to be as modern and creative as possible as to relate to the target audience. This also makes my products unique and recognisable to such audiences who easily connect with the meaning of the narrative.

Evidence of this:

 As you can see, at the bottom are the links to social networks:

Question 2
"How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?"

Question 3
"What have you learnt from your audience feedback?"
I gained a large positive response to my video, yet unfortunately, a theme that I noticed when talking the people about my bear character, is that they found him to be "creepy". This I found hilarious at first, as I wanted the bear to appear innocent and heart-warming, however this reaction was also still present among some of my viewers. I'm still stumped however as to why the bear was interpreted as this? Maybe it was the nature of the song (metal) that may of off-put those of different genre liking, but a part from that I achieved the portrayal of the bear that I intended. To counter-act this I'd involve more positive scenes and "heart-felt" moments of the character as to then employ this to the viewer. However with the planning that I achieved, I'd say that to improve this in the future, I'd do a draft of the planning - as to then evaluate the purpose and concept of different scenes even further.
Other nice compliments that were given to me were from my teacher Ms. Keenan, who said that "I may grow up to be a director" due to the quality of my planning and creativity with shots (supposedly).
This has taught me a lot about the editing process, due to me planning it out so thoroughly, I was able to breeze through the editing stages because I knew exactly where everything was meant to be, HOWEVER, due to some lack of video length/or excess, it took a while to cut down such clips, and to speed up others. It's arguable that it's quite clear in some segments of my video, but unfortunately that had to be in order for the synergy with the lyrics to take effects.
Having a large amount of shots and footage is great! But what I've learnt is that having the "wanted" footage is more important.

As to demonstrate the reception further; here is a link to my initial viewing, which also shares my response to some questions that were given at the time:

Viewing

Question 4
"How did you use media technologies in the construction of your research, planning and evaluation stages?"

Summing Up

Directors Commentary + Evaluation Part 1

Directors Commentary + Evaluation Part 2

Viewing and Feedback from Media Class

This is the response that my media studies class had after the initial viewing, also grading my video on it's performance, I have to say that the reception was greatly positive!

Viewing

Digi-Pak

For this ancillary text, I was to make six pieces of information over six panels in a CD like formation:

Here are my first drafts of all these images:

Front Cover

Back

First Inner Panel

Second Inner Panel

Third Inner Panel

Fourth and CD Inner Panel

These were based on my plans, yet due to the development on my magazine advert: it greatly altered the outcome of my actual Digi-Pak:

Second Inner Panel

First Inner Panel

Front Cover

Fourth Inner Panel

Third Inner Panel

Back

From the parchment like affect achieved for my magazine advert; I decided to replicate this for my digi-pak as to fill in some of the blank white space which was kind of "off-putting" in the DRAFT.  I  also decided to washout all colour, even of the plain images as to keep within a clean and presentable style. This final product also adds my logo, as well as red splatter to emphasize the importance of the balloon (and keep in consistency of mag ad.).
THIS ALL links between each other as it follows the story of my Toy Bear before the narratives plot in my video.

I'm extremely impressed with how well they've turned out!

Magazine Advertisement

For one of the two ancillary texts, I needed to make a Magazine Advert.

Earlier in my blog, I showed my plans of what I wanted my magazine advert to be...

Here is my draft:

However, social links and other factors have not been applied, and so I continued on to finish off with this product, which nicely links in with the Digi-Pak; as explained in that blog post...

This has everything that I wanted to involve.
THe only area of improvement that I'd point out, is that I'd of liked to of been able to erase the blue sketch lines - yet unfortunately because the original image was scanned in like this, I found it challenging to fulfill my desire for the images final appearance.

Pitch

Here is my Pitch which was presented in front of my Media Class:

MY PITCH

And here are some questions that were asked after my presentation:

Question + Answer 1

Question + Answer 2

Here are pictures from the Pitch's presentation which was going on behind me:

Raw Footage and Test Shots

Here is some raw footage and test shots that were done during the filming stages of my video:

Here is my bear emerging from the cupboard scene. As shown, I merely get inside the cupboard, and lever him out of the wardrobe. This creates the effect that he's emerging.

Raw Footage/Test Shot 1

And here is the Girlfriend/Jealous scene where it shows me and Bronwen trying on wedding symbolism hula hoop rings. Originally, I planned to use Haribo, but unfortunately my local Tesco did not have the Starmix pack, so I compromised with these.

Raw Footage/Test Shot 2