1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
My music video production i develop the forms and conventions of a typical music video as it has a beginning, a middle and an end and also has the typical title at the beginning and end as well which every mainstream video has in the media today.
it also has the punk rock feel to it without having the band performance like the typical rock video would so this challenges the conventions that make a rock music video stand out from the other forms and genres.
My media product is also a non-linear video which means that the scenes in my video are either repeated or not in order which also challenges the media forms and conventions as usually music videos are linear so everything tells a story in the right order and which makes scene to the person watching it.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and anilillary texts?
The print artifacts which i have done match my main product as it has clips from the music video so they both tie together and also follow conventions of the typical CD cover. And they also have typical traits that are on most video covers such as the band name or logo, the name of the album, and the names of the songs on the back cover. they are effective because CD covers help with telling the story of what the video is about. the CD cover is the first thing that the target market would see before buying the actual CD. So the combination should be effective and it would enhance sales if the CD was actually on sale.
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
After my production was complete i asked several students if they would watch my music video and fill in an audience feedback sheet and from doing that i learned that i needed to use different transitions instead of tha same ones over and over again. Also i learned that i needed to use different shots and to not be repetitive all the time even though the shots i had used they commented on and said that they were very good. they also said in the feedback that the video needed to be shot in more locations and not just two or three locations to give the video more depth.
In relation to these i decided to used different transitions and to use different sots that i wasn't originally going to use but helped my video to not look repetitive.
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?
in my research and planning i used the internet to do my research into existing products in the media so i looked at music videos on youtube and looked at the things that all videos have in common e.g. titles (beginning and end) and also certain shots and storirs that are in the videos.
i then used the internet again to research into the band whose song i was using for my music video so i used google and google images in order to get the images and incorporate them into my work.
in construction i used the apple software 'final cut pro' which allowed me to put my clips onto the computer (log and capture) and then to edit all of my clips so i could put the music video together and put transitions into my video so the video flows with the song.
i also used soundtrack pro to edit my song again so the whole video flowed together with the clips that were showing on the video.
