Preview of our final Myspace!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Reflections of our evaluation
The video evaluation we did the other day was a new experience for me, as I had never done one before. I am so use to having to write an essay and be marked on that, that the concept of a video evaluation was all very new to me.
At first I thought it was going to be horrific as I dislike public speaking a lot and the thought of having to sit there and talk to a camera really scared me.
I didn't stop complaining, wishing miss had just given us an essay to write instead!
However... having completed it I don't even know why i was worrying so much. It was much easier to begin the discussions than I first thought. And with the experience of having done it once, im pretty sure I would feel much more confident doing it again.
I think it's a great way to evaluate our work as some things are hard to say in words, this way we were able to discuss our point, analyse it with suitable references and then evaluate it as a group.
Take back asking for an essay now!
It was funnnnn :)
Friday, December 11, 2009
Evaluation (4)
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Above is a clip of our question 4 evaluation in full. I think we answered this question well, the use of technologies was and still is a major aspect for completing our three media products.
Above are two picture of my group and I with all the technology we used when constructing our project. As you can see we didn't use much equipment when out filming, this is because we went for natural light and also as we were travelling around quite a lot we decided to try and be as lightweight as possible.
Question 4, here we spoke about the techonologies that we used throughout our project. Without these techonologies we would've found it extremely hard, if not, impossible to construct our project. The interenet was a main component when researching our videos, myspace and song. Without it we wouldn't have been able to look up conventions and analyse numerous other album covers, it was a great help that we could because it meant we were able to include all the specific conventions that are needed to make good ancillary texts.
Some technologies we used:
Internet- google, youtube
Sony Digital SLR
Tripod
Song HDD camcorder
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Permier pro CS3
Myspace
Blogger
Evaluation (3)
Audience Feedback
For our audience feedback we decided the best way to get data from them and find out what they really think is to put a questionnaire together and ask relevant questions.
As shown in a post below, there is my reflections on what i think of our audiences feedback.
When discussing this question I think we did it very well, because we were all happy with the outcome of the audience feedback we were able to talk for a while on our screening. The feedback session was really good and we managed to get some really good answers.
Above is a clip of our evaluation for this question in full!
Evaluation (2)
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
This question was one of mine that I had to plan for. At first I found it quite hard to think of what to write, however after a while i realised that the common features between the three products are actually what makes our combination work effectively.
Again, we all spoke about the sections equally, I probably spoke most about the myspace and how the colours between all three work really well with eachother and it is this that promotes Skye's image and branding.
I am happy with this question, but do think we could've answered it better. Firstly, we didn't actually have the album cover up ready to make reference too which made it much more difficult when trying to discuss it. Therefore meant we ended up wasting time trying to find it and losing our focus on the question slightly.
Secondly, I think here we seemed to repeat ourselves numerously, instead we could have perhaps made our point quicker and saved ourselves time for other questions.
Evaluation (1)
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In question 1, we all split up the planning of each media product (myspace, album cover, music video), this meant that whoever did what factor would start the discussion of that media product. Here we spoke about what conventions we used for each media product and how we may have developed them or challenged ourselves.
Above is a small clip of our question one, however you can find the full version of this on our GROUP BLOG!
I was to do the planning for the Myspace, and it was my task to talk about how we developed, used or challenged the conventions for this. I started off the question and think we answered it well, for our planning we had all written seperate sheets on each topic for planning. And so even though we did our individual planning we had bullet pointed numerous points in order to make it easier to prompt each other on what to say.
We did this with all sections of question one. I think we answered the question well and included all the components of the question successfully. I think because as a group we picked out points to say seperately, we all equally spoke about whether or not we followed the conventions.
Overall, i think we did our evaluation well and covered all the points that needed to be.
In a couple of posts below you will be able to see our planning for this question.
Below is a clip of our evaluation....
Here we made reference to numerous items.
Crying Blood- VV Brown, Empire state of mind- Jay Z, Charlotte Church- Moodswings
Below is Empire state of mind- one of our few examples.
Also, for Goodwins theory of the notion of looking we made reference to our reaction shots and a frame within a frame shot of Sian.
Additionally to Goodwin's theory we made references to the use of musics and visuals, we used this lots thoroughout our video. Below is a short example of the theory lyrics to visuals, where Skye is wiping away a heart on a steamed window, implying a broken heart and lostlove.
Also through editing we changed the speed of numerous shots in order to make them work well with the beat of the music.
A few album covers we looked at where The Saturdays, VV Brown, Lily Allen
As shown below...
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