Final Video

06. Nabilla Doma, Natalie Da Silva, Zaiba Hakim from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation: Question 4

From my thorough music video audience feed back I've learned many things. Firstly I've learned that editing was a strong feature of our music video. From the video above my audience have said that the cutting was on the beat and that the edits such as fast motion and the animation, were really strong. I am happy my audience liked the edits as when planning on the blogs, my group and I wanted thy to be a strong feature.
From audience feedback, improvements that could be made to make the video better, were more locations, change in costume and a variety of camera shots from different angles. Taking all this on board, I've thought of areas where I could have included these improvements. For example, I could have filmed in another location such as Canarby Street a it still goes with my genre conventions and its somewhere where my target audience would shop and be familiar with. This would have also allowed for a change in costume, maybe wearing clothes from one of the shops on Canarby Street. From watching back my music video, I've noticed how I haven't had many high angle shots. Again for an improvement, I could add have added in high angle shots when filming on Paget Street to make it make it more diverse.
From their overall feedback, my audience liked the artists performance in the music video, they believed what they saw (which was the plan) and would definitely buy Nabilla J's album.

From my in depth audience feedback about my digipak and advert, I've learned quite a few things. One of them being that both my digipak and advert fit my genre and still relate back to my music video ,even though its in a slightly different colour scheme. My audience also liked the strong images on my digipak as it shows 3 different sides to the artist (the first being a calm side, then a fun side ten inside, a wild side).
For improvements, my feedback has let me now that I could have added in an extra sign on my digipak of where it could be bought from and a bright sticker saying "OUT NOW" or something similar. I did think of this when making my advert but I thought I would just stick to the plain and simple version. I now know that adding it in would have made my digipak extra special.
Overall, from my feedback, my audience said they liked the simplicity of my digipak because many other CDs out now are way over the top; and they liked how strong the front panel picture is because it is noticeable.
The audience feedback was very useful because it let me go over my work and pick out what I could have done better. Self criticism of your own work is sometimes a lot more useful than getting other people to criticise your work.

Final blog post: closing down.

Aaaaaaah, it's all over now!! I've come a bloody long way but here I am!
It's been such a journey of emotions. First, there was excitement of doing a music video and picking out songs to do, then there was content with planning and research blogs, then there was annoyance at Final Cut Pro and photoshop and finally there was absolute stress at deadlines. My last emotion is relief! I'm not gonna lie, I am happy this is all over, but at the same time, I have enjoyed having an outlet to be creative. I'm happy with my products and it has been time well spent (even though time has not been my friend lately). I guess it's the end of an era...until next week rolls around and we have to start exam work *cue the stress*
So I bid blogger a farewell! I guess it's time to get catch up on sleep and head back to the normal media classrooms...

Final progress review blog

Evaluation: Final Progress Review

How does your research, planning and evaluation differ from A2 to AS?

There was a big difference in the way I planned, researched and evaluated my media product. Firstly, my research was in depth and consistent. It related effectively to the music video and ancillary product because each blog post showed my creativity, thoughts and thinking process in new ideas for the music video. The planning was where most of my blogging was at its highest. I planned every aspect in creating the music video from travelling to the locations, filming at locations costumes, art work and whether it is suitable to be filmed, stop motion animation etc. The list goes on! I also used numerous      ICT which help demonstrate and show my creativity. Whereas in AS, my blogging was very limited and followed the basic structure of the blogging checklist provided by the media department. My blogging lacked in creativity and in depth reproach, planning and evaluation of the final media product (the thriller). Furthermore, in terms of my evaluation from last year, I didn't manage to complete all 4 sections which means I missed on important reflection. However, in A2, my evaluation is complete and I covered all the important areas to answer the evaluation question. 

What would you have done differently if given the opportunity to do it again? 

Nothing, as I believe I have improved from AS media studies in terms of my approach to blogging mentioned in the question above so therefore I would not have changed anything.


Is there any gaps in my Blog?

No, I have checked over my entire blogposts and also checked over the blogging checklist and there is no gaps in my blog.

EVALUATION: QUESTION 3 (part 1 & 2)

*sidenote

I've just suddenly realised that 10yrs ago, nobody would have been able to do what I have done. These new technologies have allowed to basically become my own producer. I've created my own music video and digipak and advert literally at the comfort of my own home (sometimes). It's revolutionary to be honest, and I'm happy and proud to be apart of the movement.

Evaluation: Q4 What have you learned from your audience feedback

Evaluation: Q3 How did you use media technologies in the constructions and research, planning and evaluation

Evaluation: Q2 How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

EVALUATION: Question 2

"How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?"

Final Blog: Closing Up

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

After all those media deadlines and stressing out- I'm proud to say that I'm finally done. While it has been very time consuming, tough and tiring- I can't deny that I have enjoyed being able to create Nabilla J and "Foundations" (even IF Final Cut Pro & Photoshop had to be dealt with also). On this note, I will like to OFFICIALLY say goodbye to Blogger and all the burdens along with it.  Byeeeeeeee 

Final Progress Review Blog

Final Progress Review Blog by zaiba1995

Evaluation Q4

 What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Above is a clip that I made which demonstrates the events after the cinema screening, and what our target audience felt when they saw "Foundations". Firstly, the reactions to our music video showed a good atmosphere, by capturing the audiences attention with our many editing techniques. The clip shows that stop motion animation and quick cuts is what made our music video better, where stop motion was used as our motif and quick cuts added to the movement of our music video. Within this blog post, you will find I have included a picture of our viewership and you will see that we have had 44 plays since "Foundations" was posted onto Vimeo. The clip above shows that in terms of improvement and changes, I could have used more camera angles and positions which I also agree with as it would have made our music video look more realistic and given it a better appeal. Overall, what I learned from the audience feedback was that movement is very important to include as it doesn't get boring and because our target audience are teenagers and young adults it's important that they're always drawn in. Also another thing I learnt, was that using a variety of camera angles is always essential as it introduces the audience to the background and scenery and allows them to know what is going on in the environment surrounding the artist. 

Planning Evaluation Q4

Question 4 asks "What have you learned from your audience feedback?"

When answering this question I will focus on:

• Audience Reactions at the cinema

- Where they good?

- They didn't like it?

• How the target audience felt my music video could be improved?
• What my target audience liked about my music video
• Changes I would make if I had another chance
• What I learnt from what my target audience had to say

What media technology will you use for this question?

When creating question 4, I will use the clips recorded to show what the target audience had to say. I will also link to Vimeo to show audience ratings and viewership. 

Evaluation Q2: Preparation

                                 
For question 2 on the evaluation, we were given a worksheet that will help us approach this question and I broke the question down, in order to make it clear and concise.

EVALUATION: QUESTION 1

Evaluation Q3

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

Planning Evaluation Q3

The evaluation question asks "How have you used media technologies in all stages?  Below I will bullet point a list of what I have used during my coursework:

• iMac
• Blogger
• Prezi
• YouTube
• Slide Share
• JVC digital camera and memory cards
• Still camera
• Flip
• Photoshop
• Final Cut Pro
• Animatic storyboard
• Mpeg stream clip 

Evaluation Q2

Q2 from zaiba1995

Planning Evaluation Q2

Above is a image of a class brainstorm of how we thought question 2 should be answered. When creating evaluation question 2, I will stick to these guidelines and feature the bullet points in my slide share.