Question 1

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

The clothing in indie music videos is usually casual and is not usually formal. In my final music video i have made sure that i stick to this convention as i feel like this one should be stuck too as it links in with the band itself and how the band is and not just in the music video. Theses are screen shots of my music video clothing. 

Question 1

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

As the genre in which my music video falls into is indie music i had to keep to the codes and conventions that are typically assosiated with this genre. As i researched into it, they usually have live performances of the band playing. My music video is different to this as although they are playing, it is not a live performance as usually they are at gigs. That would give the audience a feel for what that band is like and how natural they are with their music. Also having them at a live performance it gives the audience a feel of actually being at a gig and usually when people who are interested in music think of gigs, they are enjoyable, so it would bring joy to them. Therefore my music video challenges the usual conventions in an indie music video. Here is an example of a real music video with a live performance 

and here is a screenshot from my own music video which i created. I did a performance

of the band but it did not have an audience.

AAS

Question 2

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

Question2 from jenthegiraffe

Question 4

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

Here is the answer to it on my flickr page
all you have to do is click on each image and there is a comment underneath it explaining it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95239970@N03/

Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Contents

A2 Media Advanced Portfolio Blog Checklist

Post 1 – Brief (andreasons for choosing this brief)

Post 2 – SummerRationale Work (plus any early flat plans, etc)

Post 3 – What is a music video

Post 4 – AncillaryTask 1 – Digi Pack Deconstruction Deconstruction x 3

Post 5 – AncillaryTask 2 Music Advert – Deconstruction x 3

Post 6 – Researchinto previous student work – strengths, weaknesses, what you have learned andhow you will apply this to your own text.

Post 7 – Main TextDeconstructions x 4

Post 8 –Inspirational Texts

Post 9 – AdvancedPortfolio Pitch

post 9 - Audience Feedback

Post 10 –Institutional Research 

Post 11 – MovingImage Planning Worksheet

Post 12 – Portfolio Production Schedule **

Post 13 – The Recce

Post 14 – SkillsDevelopment – Adobe Premiere / Adobe Photoshop

Post 15 – AudienceResearch – Summary of findings / any changes or impact to project

Post 16 – InstitutionLogo 

Post 17 - Flat Plan and Rationale
Post 18 - Characteristics of a music video
Post 19 - Artist History 
Post 20 - Digipack Progress
Post 21 - Poster Progress
Post 22 - Behind the Scenes
Post 23 - Practice Editing 
Post 24 - Music Video Progress
Post 25 - Final Music Video

Final Music Video

this is my final film

Music Video Progress

Behind the scenes

these are some of the shots of the band setting up ready for me to film them playing. the equipment which has been used for this were drums, two guitars and a microphone which were used by the band playing

 these are images of me filming the band while playing

 

 these three images are of the band packing the equipment away and setting up

Institution Logo

this is my institution logo

Ancillary Task 2 Poster

this is my finished music poster. i used Photoshop to make this poster. the tools i used are the same as the ones i used in my digipack where i used a magnetic lasso tool, cropping and the magic wand tool to get rid of the background of the image which i have kept the same as my digipack and my poster

Poster Progress

this is my poster before i added the main image and ive kept it the same as my digipack so that people who see the poster will be able to identify with the digipack when they look for it 

this is my poster before it finished and i have used the same main image and colours and font for the poster s i have on the digipack

Ancillary Task 1 Final Digipack

this is my final digipack. i created this on photoshop using 1 image

Digipack Progress

this is the start of my digipack where ive only done the front cover of it

this is my cd digipack before i have added the main image onto it. for my main image i am taking a photo of graffiti on a wall and then adding the graffti onto my digipack. 

this is my main image for the digipack and will also be used on my poster for the main image

while making my digipack i have used different tools within Photoshop itself. to get rid of the background for the main image as i only wanted the graffti i used the magic wand tool to select the parts that i did not want so i could delete them and the image to have a clear background. i also cropped the image as it was too big for the digipack and the poster. i also used the magnetic lasso tool to also get rid of the background which is unwanted in my digipack.