In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our music video follows the conventions of a real music video of the rock/metal genre. This is because it shows our band on stage preforming but also has a storyline and flicks between the two. Also you rarely see a video where the artist isn't lip-syncing whether the video is just a performance or contains a storyline. Evanescence's video for "Bring me to life" also has a dream sequence so we knew our idea would fit the track.
There are also a few parts that challenge the conventions of a music video as most don't have a title screen and let the music channel state the song track and they don't usually state the production company. We all thought this was a good idea as it shows that we have made the video ourselves as real bands don't. I also liked the old-fashioned feel of the font and background and think it fits well with the Alice in Wonderland film as it is an old story.
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Hopefully the themes of our music video match nicely with our website and digi pak. As you can see our digi pak is hand made this makes it look more authentic and old fashioned. The cream card is very similar to the textured background at the start of our music video. if we had more time to make a few different version we would have liked to tea stain the card so it looks more textured but it may haven't ruined the look of the drawings and the strength of the card. The blue ribbon matches the colour of Alice's dress so therefore matches with the video. Also the illustrations are cartoon versions of us in our costume so this also goes along with the video.
We wanted the website to look Gothic and match the Alice in Wonderland theme. So we used a dark blue background; the font is light blue like the ribbon and swirly like the beginning of our music video. It also has a page with the video on it and a gallery with picture from filming and a page show our digi pak combining all elements of our product.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Most people that watched our video enjoyed it which I am very pleased with. We have uploaded it to facebook and youtube so we can get friends opinions and anonymous opinions. As everyone has been so kind and given us great feedback we have had to be critical of ourselves.
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For our research we used the internet:
- Youtube for music video research.
- www.evanescence.com for band research.
- Google to find a free website creator and www.wix.com to make our website.
Planning:
- I drew the storyboard on paper but we scanned it so we could print another copy if needed.
- I used blogger to store other aspects of planning like character drawings.
Throughout the filming and editing process we used:
- a HD video recorder and tripod.
- a FUJIFILM still camera to take pictures for our website.
- the apple mac for i movie to put our video together.
- i tunes so the track was on the computer and could be added to our video.
- We used an i-pod to keep our band scenes in time.
For the evaluation stage we used:
- i-movie to make the video below
- garage band to record our voices for the video below.
- Youtube and Facebook to upload our videos for audience feedback.
Our group evaluation; hopefully this video will explain why we did certain things and anything I may have missed out.
