Evaluation Question 3

The evaluation question number three is "What have you learned from your feedback" and I have presented this in a Prezi which contains a short video of us interviewing some of the audience.

Evaluation Question 2

I have made this prezi and talked about the Synergy between my main task and ancillary task. I have included combination such as; Color, Text, Artist, Costumes etc.

Evaluation Question 1

Our first evaluation question "In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge form or conventions of real media products? done in a Prezi presentation 

Final Magazine Advert - Colt : Black Reign

Feedback and Re-consideration

In relation with our digipak, the feedback we received  did not match our expectations which then made us re-considered making a new advert that will mainly follow the typical conventions of which a magazine advert would contain. Some of the feedback stated that they image of the artist look "unfinished" because a artist of this particular music genre would be much more polished and show of wealth. The image and the presentation was also said to be too cluttered as there was too much big information that was getting in the way with the actual image. The layout was also another issue it was pointed out to us that the main purpose of the advert would mean that the audience would know where to buy it so it would be appropriate to have the small icons of where the album can be purchased. 

Taking this feedback into account we went ahead a produce a new magazine advert that follow more the typical hip hop and rap conventions. By this we used another photograph of the artist another of him in a suit so that he does look wealthy and polished like a successful artist should be. The photograph that we used is now a mid shot showing off his suit and tie which he is adjusting in the shot. The layout is much less cluttered by just making the less important text smaller and just having the artist  and album name and the digipak cover the main and biggest priorities on the advert. Learning from the feedback although we had included icons where the audience can purchase the item we also used Napster which is a MP3 downloading site, but we also had added a few icon of social networking site with a tag of which the audience can promote the artist more amongst the media.

 Although the feedback said the font suited and compliment the digipak once we had changed the photograph to black and white effect we though that the orange on the digipak would make the digipak stand out so there was no need to steal away attention from the album cover.

Final Magazine Advert

The software we used in order to edit and make this magazine advert was the well known iPhoto and a app I had on my laptop called "Picture Collage Maker Lite"

The Picture Collage was tricky because I had never used it properly and so it was a lot of time just trying out different features and effects. We had the major problem of knowing how to get rid of the boarder when we down place an image whether form iPhoto or from the Internet without getting a white boarder around the image it took us a while to know how to get rid of it.

Below is a screenshot of what the software looks like with a few of the features is has 

The photo we used of Ahsan was edited before it was placed in the Picture Collage Maker because that type of editing couldn't be done on that program. Below is a screenshot of the editing in iPhoto.

Why we done held hand shot and Why we stabilized shot

The main feedback we received for our music video is that some scenes in the music video is shaky and that it needs to be fixed so that it can appear more professional so below I have explained why the shots are a bit shaky and how we fixed them but how now some shots have zoomed in a bit.

When making our music video we had a lot of hand held shots. Some of this fit in with the music video perfectly because of the fact that we wanted the home scene to feel like home videos but because of the difficult shots that some of the battle training had, we have to also use hand held shots for these which is while the music video is shaky in some areas. Now like I said before some are meant to be but for the battle scenes they are not meant to be shaky and so to fix this without re-filming we managed to stabilised the shot on iMovie and this did reduced the shakiness of the video however the method when stabilising the shot is that the shot is zoomed in slightly which has made a few scenes more zoomed in than we had planned.

Music Video Response

When we posted our music video on Facebook these were just a few comments the viewers had once watching Hold On We're Going Home. We thought that it would be useful and great to put on our blogs so that later on we could expand and evaluate on them a bit more.

These are some comments left on Facebook and by the result we gathered that the shot we filmed are really well done and that the twist of the two main protagonist is very popular with our audience which is what we had hope for.

Below the comments there are screenshots of text messages that we received from more of the audience after watching the music video that said that the narrative of the music video tie's really well with the lyrics of the song which is important to know because after all the main focus of a music video is to represent the lyrics of the song. The female also said that she very much liked the twist of the characters swapping roles at he end.

Of course for our evaluation question number 2 which is
"How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts"
will want more feedback on the finished and finalised the music video and so when it comes to asking the actual target audience we are going to ask  more question than these and we will be asking them question such as:
1. What do you think the narrative of the music video is about?
2. Do you feel that the music video represents the lyrics well?
3. What do you think the genre of the music video is?
4.What is your favourite scene or part of the music video?
5. What is your least favourite scene or part of the music video?
6. Are there any improvements or anything you would change or do differently?

These are the question we will be asking our target audience around school.