Evaluation Questions: Ways of Answering Question 3 and a Draft Answer (DVD Extra)

Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

For question 3 of my A2 evaluation questions, I will answer in the style of a DVD extra, answering as if I am being interviewed having just watched reactions from people who have just watched my music video.

Here is a couple of examples of interviews with crews:

Pan's Labyrinth:



Frozen:

The Grand Budapest Hotel:



                                        

Here is a draft to the kind of of answer I will use:



To answer question 1, I needed to look at the research that I had made and from it I decided that the most obvious forms and conventions that music videos have is that different types of bands have different types of forms and conventions that their music videos have. This being the case I have looked at music videos by bands that are similar to the band the band I am doing a music video for and have noticed that many of them include the band within the music video. I have complied to this and have included quick shots of the musicians within the music video, but quick enough not to take the attention away from whats actually happening in the video.

I will carry on this answer in the real thing, including lots of detail.

                                             

Evaluation Questions: Ways Of Answering Question 1 and a Draft Answer

Having previously talked about the A2 evaluation questions that I will need to answer, I have been looking at different ways I could answer them to keep them interesting.

For question 1, I will answer in the style of a voice over commentry over my video. Here are a few examples:

American Psycho:

Here is a draft answer:

To answer question 1, I needed to look at the research that I had made and from it I decided that the most obvious forms and conventions that music videos have is that different types of bands have different types of forms and conventions that their music videos have. This being the case I have looked at music videos by bands that are similar to the band I am doing a music video for and have noticed that many of them include the band within the music video. I have complied to this and have included quick shots of the musicians within the music video, but quick enough not to take the attention away from whats actually happening in the video.

Potential Target Audience Research: BBFC and IFCO

To know what certificate to rate my music video for the DVD, I have been looking on the BBFC (the British Board of Film Classification) and the IFCO (Irish Film Classification Office).

From looking at the BBFC and the , I have decided that from their guidliness I think that my music video should be rate my music video a PG because it contains some distressing scenes that could cause distress to some children, but as drugs are never actually seen in the video it doesn't need to be any higher.


Here is the website for the BBFC: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Here is the website for the IFCO: http://www.ifco.ie/website/ifco/ifcoweb.nsf/web/home?OpenDocument

                                       


                                  

Evaluation Questions

As my the production and post production stages of my music video is coming to an end, I have been look at the evaluation questions that I need to answer for my A2 media studies. Here are the questions:

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

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

• What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

In answering these questions I will need to choose different types of media, such as a podcast or dvd extras to explain my detailed answers.

Here are my examples from last year for my AS where again I used different medias to anwer the questions.

 

 

 

 

Ancillary Texts

For my media studies A2, as well as my main task, I have to create two ancillary texts to go with our main product, having the choice of three given in the brief:

1) A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:- a website homepage for the band;- a cover for its release on DVD;- a magazine advertisement for the DVD.

I have chosen to do the website and the DVD cover for my A2 media studies. Below are a few examples of each:

SKATERS website:

http://www.skatersnyc.com/

Music video:

Ancillary Text Research: Band Websites

Recently I have been focusing on band websites for artist similar to myself to know what kinds of things are expected to be included on an artist's website. Here are a few examples with links to their websites:

 Jake Bugg: http://jakebugg.com/

Damon Albarn: http://www.damonalbarnmusic.com/

What I have noticed about both of these websites is that they have their latest single's music video as the main feature of the home page, taking up the majority of the page. This is something that I will do for my website, placing the music video in the center of the web page so that it is the most important feature and catches the eye immediately.
Unlike the Jake Bugg website, I will have the music video begin to play the moment that someone visits the website and then repeat when it finishes so that it is constantly playing and is constantly seen and heard.

Doing this will really help make it obvious that this ancillary text and my main product are connected and will also promote my main product through the use of the ancillary text.