A2 Media Studies
Daniel Mills 8225
Friday 4 May 2012
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.
Friday 13 April 2012
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
Friday 23 March 2012
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.
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