Evaluation (Fig 3)

These are the notes I made to help me with this evaluation:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• My three media products have used the forms and conventions of their products as starting points and developed from there. My film used the convention of having a grizzled singer performing the song, which is the conventions of what the genre of music obeys, my film also falls in to the convention of having filters on the film to make them look older e.g. black and white and sepia with a noise effect added on. My film brakes the conventions in two ways firstly instead of having the main character as the singer or having the singer in the back ground whilst the action takes place, our action and singer are completely separate with the only link being that at the end of the film the actor slowly fades in to being the singer. The second way that my film brakes conventions is by some of the effects, typical effects in folk/indie videos are simple fades between shots in my video we have used this effect but in a couple of places I have also used time effects on my video that cause time to go faster and slower, I have also added noise filters over all the shots to make disrupt the image again this is something that is braking the conventions of the music video as I have a stronger noise filter over the singer which makes him harder to see, this bakes the convention of being able to see the singer clearly.
• My CD cover meets the connotations of the genre by not putting the singer on the front or back cover, I how ever put the singer on the inside cover which slightly brakes the convention. There is a convention that the front cover should have very little to do with the video, I kept this convention by the only thing on linking the film and the cover is the fact that I have similar effects on each media. I keep the convention of how my Advert and CD cover keeping the same style as each other.
  
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• The Film feeds the other projects, gives them some starting points,
• The other projects have moved away from film
• Similar effects on each project
• All used same starting point the song
• Shot was entail going to be a shot from the film
  
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• Firstly I showed all three products to a music lover he liked all three products and said “all three parts fit together and they all fit the theme of the song and its style”
  I then showed it to the singer, he said “All three products fit together, the only problem I have with any of them is that the film is slightly out of sync with the song.” After this I re synced the song and the film.
• Finally I showed it to a focus group, the total feedback from the group was positive with only a few easily correctable faults which I sorted out.
• From the audience feedback I learnt that I had successfully achieved my goal of making the film meet the genre and the advert and CD cover meet the film in the courses of style.
  
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
• For the research for all the tasks I used the media product of the internet, I used sites like YouTube, daily motion and yahoo music video to find the videos I researched and analysed, I used Google to find the CD covers and the magazines.
• I used an iMac and the program Final cut pro to edit my film, to see how I did this check out Fig 2.d on my blog,
• To make the CD cover and the Magazine advert I used Photoshop on a PC, to see how check out my blog posts, 2.a and 2.b