Farewell

Bye Blogger, it's fair to say I won't miss you.
I hope my hard work culminates in good grades.

Mark

FINAL SEND OFF

This is the end of my blogging, it has been a long and stressful journey but I managed in the end.
I hope you enjoy my posts and acknowledge all the hard work I have put in, thank you for taking the time to look over my blogs.

ENJOY! and farewell!

Evaluation Question 3

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

USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Creating the logo for front panel work

USING EDITS IN FINAL CUT PRO

Sign Off

This is my final blog. I have put a lot of work into this project and I hope it shows.

Thank you,

Sylvie Wilcock

Evaluation - Question 3

As the videos in the power point aren't playing, I'm going to put them down here to be watched:

Video for slide named 'Construction' -

Video for slide named 'Construction 2' -

Video for slide named 'Evaluation' - 

Evaluation - Question 4

28. Katie Kensit, Mark Mouna, Sylvie Wilcock, Zubier Bheekharry from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Above is our final video, which is now on 'vimeo'. On vimeo it hasn't got any comments as of yet, so I am unable to derive any conclusions from this side of the feedback.

Below, are two videos from outside of the cinema, after the screening.

The first video, the main thing I learned was that planning is vital in making a music video. The person I was interviewing said he like the scenery of the video and where it was set. This made me happy as we took a lot of time and consideration into this, phoning various venues and also visiting them.

The second video (below) had a lot more information in it that allowed me to understand what we did well and what we did not so well. I asked the question "what was your favourite part of the video?" and it was easy to tell theirs was when the camera spun around in relation to the music. 'The ceiling's spinning round' was the lyric, so we attempted to follow this lyric. It taught me that using filming techniques to go with the lyrics is a great idea, and that it can really help the audience delve further into the video. 

I then asked "If we had the exact same footage, but were to start editing again, what could we do differently?" to which I had great answers.

1. Less shots of her near the brick wall. 

This was a good answer in my opinion, as it's exactly what I would do myself. It taught me that within a video you shouldn't have too much of one background, and it's something I'd do differently given the opportunity. 

2. More camera movement.

This is something we realised as a group we didn't have a enough of when we began editing. It taught me that you should have a set amount of 'still' shots with the camera, and the rest should involve movement, as it helps engage the audience, whilst also keeping the video a lot more entertaining.

Now, I ask myself if the audience reaction makes me look at my video in a different light.

The simple answer is, yes. This is because I didn't notice a lot of these things during editing as time certainly wasn't on our side.The good things that were pointed out makes me proud of the video, but the improvements suggested definitely make me want to go back and edit, to get the video to a much higher level. 

Finally, a short vlog from me on the audience reaction in the cinema: 

Evaluation - Question 2

I have interviewed a fellow student and asked them to give their thoughts on the effectiveness of the combination of my video and my ancillary work:

From this video I am able to see that it is easy to link my ancillary work and video. It tells me that the effectiveness is of a good standard, and people can clearly understand both are from the same artist, promoting her music.

At the start of this project, our group identified our target audience primarily as teenage girls. I believe my ancillary texts are extremely attractive to them and this is for many reasons.

1. The use of 'Kiss FM' to rate the album attracts anyone who finds the radio station good, which is a radio station that largely attracts our target audience.
2. The smile used on each picture is extremely welcoming to any potential customers or fans.
3. The font type and colour is what some may call 'girly', which in turn attract the audience that we have identified. The use of the colour red on a grey background also enables it to thoroughly stand out.