Evaluation

Media Evaluation, Question 4

Goodbye ALevel Media.

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School Viewing and Audience Feedback

We had a school showing of our video and asked everyone to write a few comment about it after, our main feedback was that they liked the fighting scenes, and in particular the shot where she ran away from her 'boyfriend'.

These are some example of comments we got as our feedback;

1. "Loved the running shots"
2. "Favourite part was the jumping in the rain shot"
3. "The lighting is used very effectively, favorite part was when she swung back and the sunlight his the camera."
4. "My favourite part was the stop animation of the daffodils before happiness"

We also conducted an interview, with Rachel as seen in the video above, this gives some more detailed feedback about our video.

Final Final DigiPack

For my final design of my DigiPack I have kept the front cover and back cover, as I think that by having the inside all one photo it brings the whole thing in together enough. The actual CD will be the same as the photo behind it. I am happy with my Final DigiPack.

Altering my Digipack

I'm messing around with a print screen of the final production to possibly use as my inside photo for the CD case.

Here I have boosted the colour, then matteified the whole photo, meaning i could choose any colour for the outside edges, as you can see I have used a dark grey, I think this is effective as throughout the whole process we are trying to show a contrast.

I edited photo 2 to make the color stand out more, and then I added an effect to soften the edges, i used Picasa for this. I love the way its turned out, I think it is really dramatic.

However, when adding it to my final digipack it i did not look right at all, the two spotlights didn't work well together at all as one was mainly green and one mainly orange, this is leading me to perhaps change my overall digipack.

Final DigiPack

I have decided to change the background of my digipack to fit in more with the front cover, including a spotlight and the same dress. This creates a synergy not with the music video but with the front cover. I like this because we are showing a different side to the artist, a more conventional and down to earth artist, than one who is just singing in a natural setting all outdoors.

This is Photo.1 that I might use as the background, I like this as you can see all of her body which is different from the front cover but also ties in, as it is taken from the same day and with the spotlight, in the same style as the front.

This is the Photo.2 that I may use as the back of my Digipack. This is not so appealing to me because of the more blurry image, but she has her hands down by her side which makes the pose better than photo 1.

In class we were annotating promotional adverts for albums, we want to create a professional look and therefore will need to get ideas from other adverts.

Today i filmed the sunset from my bedroom window, this seems to of turned out quite nicely and we plan to use it in our video. We are going to reverse the sunset so that it look like as much of a sunrise as possible.

Stop Animation

We wanted some stop animation into our music video, and so we went out to practise with stop animation. As we have already tried to film the sunrise many times we thought we could possibly make the sun out of some petals or flowers.

We have decided to just use the two flowers at 0.09seconds, we would also like to possibly has a fast sunrise comeing up or possibly as a stop animation for the opening of our video.

Final Poster

This is my final Poster and I am very pleased with it.

Stages to Digipack

Creating My Poster

New Shots!

We have used our footage from what we filmed on Wednesday to make our Music Video More professional. Here are a few print screens of the shots.

This is our opening shot, and it is her lying on the ground singing 'Happiness hit her like a train on a track'. We chose this shot because we feel it creates synergy with our digipack Cover (below). It is also good because we can see her midshot and focus on the lip syncing rather than movement, which is a key part to our grade.

These shots we have used to show the sun, the sun is what we hope to start our Music Video so we want to display it as much as possible throughout.

We love this shot because we can see the lines of the train track and Elle who is playing the girl running from her past. I love this sky as it is a cloudy day yet the sun is overtaking the cloudy sky here. This is symbolism of the Dog Days being over for the protagonist.

This is a shot of Eleanor jumping, again displaying the sun, this is to show innocence, not only does the sun do that by creating a time of day where things are in the light. But also Her Jumping is a free and childish thing to do, again symbolising her happiness and newly found freedom.

For this shot I am sitting on a swing and eleanor is sitting on my lap, we have got some lovely shots from it, where the sun is beaming from her shoulder with the trees behind her, still keeping the same mise en scene but display freedom through the use of movement (as if she is flying in a way) sunlight (innocence) and just the freedom of her movement, even with her hair.

Today we have been editing our final production and inserting what we hope will be the final shots.

We have used variations of shots, such as close ups to full lengths, ones displaying lots of movement and ones where she is simply lying on the floor. We have discussed this and decided that as the song builds up as should the editing pace. This is what we did today.

We realise that the editing on the first chorus is going to need to be sharper and more choppy. We will take this into account when we next edit on Monday.

Today We Went Filming

To try and get the sunrise shot we wanted we all woke up at 4:30 am this morning to drive to Hampsted Heath and find a good shot on a hill of the whole of London with the Sun rising over it.

It did not go as planned as it was a cloudy day yet again, so we will need to go out and re-film.

In class today we analysed some posters from Nirvana, Stereophonics and The Killers.

Audience Feedback Questionnaire GRAPHS



We created graphs out of the questionaires we have made. This helps us to see our results more clearly.