Question 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

REVIEW OF THE YEAR

I think that this year has gone really well, with the filming and the blogging. I have twice as more blogs that I had last year which is great. This year I knew that I had to do more blogs because I was not pleased with the amount of blogs that i did last year so one of my goals was to do more blogs which I achieved. 

All in all i enjoyed this year more than last year and I also learned more about softwares this year aswell which is great. 

Question 4 (Part 2) Ancillary products

Seeing as the ancillary products and the music video had to link the targeted audience is still the same. 
I think I achieved my goal of appealing to the targeted audience and from the feedback that I received the people that I showed my ancillary products too thought the same way apart from 1 or 2 things that I could have done better. 

When I started my ancillary products I knew that I would get positive feedback because I done a lot of research concerning album advertisements and I followed the codes and conventions carefully which in my eyes made my ancillary products a success. 

I did not have time to start a draft so I jumped straight into the final product and I received good feedback for that and I was very pleased. 
The feedback that I received was that they liked that my advert and album was consist, they also liked the use of the diamonds, they also liked how effective the black was on the diamonds. 

The improvements they said I could have done was to create more space on my advert. If I could, I have done so, however, I do not think that the spacing is that bad so it does change my advert dramatically. 

Looking back at it i am very pleased and proud of my ancillary, the research that i done for it is evident in my work, from the beginning i knew that my ancillary products would be a success and i do not think i really need to change anything and if i did it wouldn't be a very big thing that i would have to change. 

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main products (video) and ancillary texts (digipaks and advertisement)?

Question 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback? - Music video

The targeted audience for my music video was females from the ages 16-20. Young females around these ages are now more interested in pop videos. Artists like Katy b, Chase&Status, Disclosure and also AlunaGeorge. We decided to choose this age group because we thought that it would be easier to reach out to them seeing as we are roughly in the same age range and there are two females in the group including myself. 

We did not get amazing comments from the pupils at the cinema, I think this is because we did not plan our video very well and because of this the outcome was very poor. 
Comments that we received from our rough cut was to put in more shots and add some effects to it and to also cut it down a bit because it was too long. we was also told that we should cut the video in a way that people could relate to it and understand our ideas. 

Listening to the feedback helped us improve our work, seeing as the people in our class our around the same age of our targeted audience it helped us see our music through their eyes and we were able to change it to their satisfaction. In my opinion trying to improve on our video was very hard because we did not have a lot of shots which meant we had to repeat a few shots in our music video. Even though we did not have a lot of shots we still managed to finish the music  video with the help of the feedback that we received. 

The changes that we managed to do:

 . Cut down the music video so that it was the correct time that it ran for which was 3 mins
. Add effects to it 
. Add more shots 


If we had the time we would have gone back for more shots and would have changed the clothing more as well. 

Question 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Question 1: Part 2 (Ancillary Products)

How i feel

Question 1: In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1: Music Videos that influenced our music video

Photo of the artist

This is the picture that i chose to be on the front page of my digipak. I chose this picture because i think that it represents the artists identity. Being an upcoming artists this would boost up her fan base.
I decided to use the black and white filter because i think that it makes the picture stand out more and also it fits the colour code of the digipak.

Reflection

Comparing Digipaks

The first one was a digipak that I done last year, Looking back at there are a lot of things that i could have done better.

Barcode- The barcode should not be size, the barcode is to large i should have made it smaller.
Company Logo- The company logo should be at the bottom not in between the CD writing and the producers
Picture - Even though the artist is in the middle she isn't large enough to have all of the focus on her, the photo is taken up by the blue sheet, i should have enlarged her face more.
 Back page- the back page is very plain, i could have at least put another picture of her up or i could have added colour to it.

The bottom digipak is the most recent one, i think that this one is far more better than the first one.
 The picture is the right size, The barcode is also the right and the digipak does not look plain unlike the first one.


My second digipak is better than my fist one because i done more research into it. I looked at artists with the same genre and looked into the conventions of a digipak, i also looked at previous students work and improved it with the feedback given.
 Doing this helped me a lot, without all of the research that i done my digipak would have been similar to my first one and i would have received low marks. I also think my knowledge of photoshop has improved as well, for the first one i didn't know how to use photoshop so i made my digipak very simple so that i didn't have to struggle with it, this year my photoshop skills has improved and this has helped me to use different type of tools and techniques in my recent digipak.

Review for Exterior digipak

Review for Interior digipak

Review for Advertisement

Review of mock up an final

Final Ancillary Products

What needs to be done tomorrow

Tomorrow I need to upload a few things from my memory stick onto blogger. I also need to upload my advertisement and my digipak which I have finally completed.
The draft version of my advertisement needs to be uploaded also.
I've been behind with blogging but I should be uploading a few blogs soon.

Draft

This is a draft of my uncompleted advert, i still need to put on the stars and when it will be available and where