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Evaluation question 2

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

There are similarities that cross between the main task (music video) and the two ancillary tasks (Website and Digi-pac). The similarities between the three tasks is the 'Nerd' theme, to start off with the main character in the video is dressed up as a geeky character, this is the common theme which runs through the video, digipak and webpage. In the website and Digi-pac the 'Nerd' theme is represented through the red geeky glasses The geek is necessary for the song and video, as it represents the outcast and keeping away from society and not getting involved with anyone until he sees his first love, the 'Nerd' is such a strong image, but we decided not to use the whole geek image for the ancillary tasks, but just a certain area of a 'Geek' so the glasses were essential to use for the ancillary tasks.

When it came to the writing of the the website and Digi-pac we wanted to use the same type of writing which was significant, this was done by having it in red, this matched the red 'Geek' glasses and the writing within them as well as the text we used for the webpage and Digi-pac this makes it unique, as shown in the two ancillary tasks, this is just another similarity.

The only major difference across the three media in which we created was colour of the geek style glasses in the Digi-pac and website compared the glasses used in the music video.

Evaluation question 1

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

The genre of our music video was a popular music style which follows most music styles by having a narrative and story. Since the song is about a Geeky youth who falls in love with one of their classmates and then ends up dating her after changing his appearance etc. We matched the lyrics into the song when the main singer is in the video for a chorus or two, if the singer wasn’t in it, the video matched the storyline of the lyrics.

Like most pop videos, we used a main character to base the video around, Since the song is about a geek, we decided to base the video around Geeky character, Also like main pop videos we had the artist who sang the song, to be a part of the video and sing along to certain sections of the song.

An example of this is the music video of Taylor Swifts ‘Love Story’. Even though she represents the main character and the singer of the song, it still is the same concept of what we represented in our music video.

The main representation in our video is the geeky looking teenagers/youths. Our video presents young people as smart, scared youths and unpopular, although we know this is all to do with feeling out of place. This idea of feeling out of place and scared of what you want to say promotes the video as being aimed at teenagers. These representations are typical of the media, to display youths as shy and unpopular, however we do this as part of our storyline to show how shy young people are with their boring everyday lives can change to express how they really feel in certain situations.

final video

This is our final product of the video part of our coursework, its a re-edit of our ruff cut with some brand new shots that we went out and filmed. In the new shots we added the presence of the artist maisie mae although we did not add anymore shots of me as the geek. The video took a while to edit as we had limit of software to use as of the strange scenareo that happend with only allowed us to edit our video within windows movie maker.
       We managed to lip sync the video to the music this time round and attempted to make the video run more smoothly. There are some ruff edges around our video but both me and george are happy with our final peace of work and hope that our hard

ruff cut video

this video is our ruff cut edit of our music video. it was a bit rushed due to my operation on my knee but now that we have started filming again it will not be long until the new video is up.
The problems with this video is that too many ideas were reused and material from esle where which we did not have copyright over was used within our video. we are currently edditing new footage and will be making sure that all the maerial is of our own.

Feed back from class

 George presented our music video to the rest of our media group. They gave us some contructive critisicisium such as using straight cuts instead of fancy transistions all the time. Also make cuts smaller because they seem to go on a bit to long. The final bit of criticisium was that some shots were repetive. To over come this, we'll edit our video so that it has straight cuts and shooter clips. I will be able to walk again as of from next week so we will film some more footage so that we have more varaity of shots and footage so that our music video be as repetivive as our first draft.

Website

This is what our website looks like at the moment. We have tried to carry the theme of black white and red from the digipack that we had created. This theame gives a more proffessional look as when we had looked at exsiting websites the whole layout is based on the current album of single on sale. This is to encourage sales and alow there fans to reconise the new album or single at a glance and without any effort.
            I believe that this theme works although we have decided the website can still do with a few tweeks to make it even better. We plan on adding the music video to the website but to do this we need to finish it first then we can use YouTube to post the video upon the home page.

The current link to our website is www.maisiemae.weebly.com

Creating the Website

We have now started to creat the website using a free website creater which is called weebly we will be using this to upload photos of our digipack and make sure the theme we have previously created is fluent across the whole of media production.

Creating the Digipack



 To create our digipack for Masie Mae we decided to use Adobe Fireworks. The specification says that we can not use any pre existing images so to start off we decided to fins a copyright free image of a pair of glasses. Once we had done this we were then able to use basic shapes that to make our logo for the front cover of the album. We decided to create a logo which had the word nerd in one lense and the word love within a heart within the other lense. therefore making the name of the song from our video and the title of her album.

 This is the image that we are using for the front cover of our album. We decided to add the name of the artist aswell just to make the album cover seem more proffessional and so that we could use it on our website when creating a theme across the whole range of products that we are creating.

This is the final layout of the digipack the top row is the oustide of the digipack and the bottom is the inside of the digipack with the section on the right displaying where the cd would be placed if we created a hard copy of it.