Sunday, 11 March 2012

Evaluation 1: Conventions

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













Evaluation 2: Overall Combination

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




Here is a short video made by myself to explain in great detail and depth of how effective the combinations of the main product and ancillary tasks were and how I applied this in my music video, Digipak and advertisement of First Time.

Furthermore, here are some screen grabs of how I promoted my 'First Time' product.

Firstly I put my Digipak as my Blackberry messenger profile picture which is a very active piece of social media for my targetted audience and I have around 150 contacts on it. When I posted the picture it would appear on my recent updates (Notifying) all my contacts to see. I also wrote in my personal message 'Everyone Check Out MY New Music Video ... ' and within 2 weeks I had over 11 000 views on YouTube.








Another good way of promoting my media product and ancillary tasks is through the worlds largest social media networking service Facebook. I don't personally have my own account anymore as I deleted to stop distracting me from my coursework however, several of my family members have   

Evaluation 3: Audience Feedback

The Audience Feedback Footage



As roll of Director and Producer of ‘First Time’ We asked a range people to view first time and give us their honest opinions and critisms on the overall production. The feedback received was mainly positive and not one person claimed to dislike it but we did have a few criticisms from some of the interviewees, however these criticisms are vital to me and my production because it will help me make a difference in future pieces. I will learn from these opinions and benefit from them in the future. Listed below is the successes and critisms from our feedback.

Successes Spoken By Audience:

   Very clear narrative
               It wasn’t typical
               Followed all the conventions
               Montage was liked
               Fast take and cut on the beat (synchronised)
               Made you feel the emotion of the song
               Extremely Imaginative
               A lot of effort had been put into the video
               It was a success, it was enjoyable to watch
               Story line was put very well together
               Montage was really good
               It was a good success
               Really enjoyed the location choices in it
               Really fantastic
               It was loved
                
Criticisms Spoken By Audience:
          
               Made it look more professional
               More varieties of performance like dancing
               Crop a few things down that are not supposed to be seen
               Use of Tripod more often

In conclusion of the audience feedback, 90% of our results were extremely positive and we succeded to encapture the audiences attention because quite clearly they all enjoyed what they saw.

 

Evaluation 4: Media Technologies