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

• We Didn’t have a story that followed the video we made a visual skin to suit the music.

• The only link between the lyrics and the visuals is the fact we used lip sync.

• The music and the visuals are heavily linked through the editing moody lighting and dancing performed by Sean.

• We made sure the video we made suited Sean's image e.g. the b/w colour scheme.

• Close ups of Sean's face were used a lot to make him recognisable to the audience.

• Their were no costume changes as we wanted to make sure Sean's image was constant

Sean takes a lot of his sartorial inspiration from Brian Molko the lead singer of Placebo. I watched some of their videos and took inspirations from photographs of the band.

Sean is similar to Brian Molko as he has black hair eye makeup and dresses in b/w.

We also took inspiration from Madonna's video “frozen”.

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

• I had a black and white theme throughout my project, this was because I had looked at Sean's image and wanted to make it an integral part in my project.

• The font I used on my digipak and magazine advert was mostly typed out by me on a typewriter I took inspiration from his myspace and all of the fonts I found were too orderly.

• If the imagery from the digipak and the video were both showed to someone they would instantly link them together.

• I used strong simplistic images of Sean as I thought that would be most effective even though this contrasts his performance.

• There is a consistent house style throughout.

Inlay.

Digipak front and back cover.

What have you learned from your audience feedback? What do you think of my music video

great

good

average

poor

The response from my audience feedback was really good. People were very enthusiastic about it. Everyone either thought our music video was great or good.

The audience’s favourite aspect of my music video was the camera work.

what is your favourate aspect of my music video?

camera work

editing

performace

Yes

No

Sometimes

Do you think the visuals correspond to the lyrics?

Yes

No

Does my music video represent the genre of music?

TV

Youtube

Myspace

Band Website

Where would you expect to find my music video?

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

• Youtube – used for viewing other artists videos in the planning stages and for uploading our finished video.

•Surveymonkey- used to collect audience feedback on video.

• Ning – used to compile research and order it.

• HD camcorder – used to film test footage and final video

• Adobe premier/ Photoshop/ after affects – used to edit music video and digipak.

•Slideshare- Used for converting powerpoint presentations.

•Tripod – used to keep the camera steady for test and final footage.

•Lighting - we used the lighting in the TV studio

• TV Studio – we recorded our footage manually and digitally and

•Bluescreen – we experimented with bluescreen in the test footage but didt use it for the final footage

•Pc’s/ macs – we used the mac to record the footage digitally and the pcs for editing

•Facebook (SNS) – we used face book for communicating with the artist but I found it was a bit impersonal and did not require an instantaneous answer.

•Mobile phones -

What I would do differently?

• I would do a shoot in a different location maybe the beach.

• I would have cut in some long exposures from different scenic locations.

• I would have managed my time better by maybe making a schedule for filming and meetings.

• Used blue screen in my final video.