Evaluation questions..

Below are our evaluation questions that we have to answer now that we have completed our final product, that being our music video.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of real media products?
2. How effective is this combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? 

Audience feedback from showcase evening

Here is a vlog about the audience feedback we got back on the night of the showcase.


Beneath is a video filmed on my iPhone of some of our audiences feedback, from the night of the showcase.

Below are our audience feedback questionnaires filled in by our audience, whilst they were watching our music video ...

Final product finished!

We have finally finished editing our footage and editing our music video together. Below is our finished final product.

Media showcase!

Today we had our media showcase, which showed both the AS two minute film openings and the A2 music videos. at the beginning of each music video, one or two people from each group had to explain briefly their song and what to expect (depending if they wanted their audience to know what is happening in the video). Below is our showcase opening...

In my opinion, I felt this was a huge success because we got to see personally our audiences views and expressions whilst watching the video. At the end of the showcase, we had the opportunity to interview some of our audience asking them questions like "what did you understand about our narrative in our video?", "what did you think about the different colour changes in the scenes? like black and white to colour" and "what was your interpretation of the ending?". We had loads of different views which was a really good approach. 

Digipak

With our digipak almost complete, all we have to do now is insert one image from our music video inside the digipak itself. Below is the layout we, as a group, have decided to use. 

Below is our digipak front and back. We are still in the process of deciding whether or not we are going to keep our cd blank or layer an image over it so when the purchaser lifts the cd up, the same image embedded onto the cd will appear beneath. 

{Front of our digipak}

{Back of our digipak with all the track listings and additional information at the bottom}

I think that for our insert photo that is going to be beside the CD is going to be a still shot from our music video. This being the long/wide shot of our artist sitting on the bench by herself looking straight towards the camera. 

So what's left to edit?

With us nearly completing our music video, the only thing left to do now is edit the last pieces and include our band name and title of the song. Here is a tester of where our title is going to be placed.

We are not sure whether or not we are going to keep this, but this is just an experiment of what it would look like. I feel that the title of the song being in white is effective, because it relates to the colour of the small lies (signified/signifier - F. Saussure).

Our first draft....

Here is our music video in the making. We have edited most of the video itself, now we are just finalising a few things and editing a few more sections. For example at 2:21-2:27 we need to make it much more choppy. Overall we are happy with the final outcome.