The Evaluation

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

The full size image is available here: http://i.imgur.com/UFPJf8n.jpg

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

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What have you learned from your audience feedback?

 

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

 

Feeding Back

In order to get a variety of opinions for my audience feedback, I chose three people who I thought would have entirely different viewpoints; a fellow media student, a non media student and a media teacher. This provides a basis of both those within the target audience and those outside of it in order to provide an opinion based on the video as opposed to purely the music. I am now in the process of encoding the video after editing, ready to be added to the other aspects of my evaluation. 

Evaluating

With the video completed and edited, uploaded onto YouTube and the ancillaries printed, the only job left to do is to evaluate the products. I have 4 questions with which to evaluate my work; 

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

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

What have you learned from your audience feedback? 

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

For each of these evaluation questions, I have incorporated a different media technology, from the Prezi and Bubble web apps to selfie videos and the use of a green screen. 

Arranging the Ancillaries

Since I am currently awaiting the opportunity to film, I have begun to prepare my ancillary projects.

Step one was to begin the magazine advertisement.
Unfortunately, the product is still rather bare as it is missing the images that will be added after filming. After trawling through music magazine websites, I decided to use a quote from http://www.altpress.com/, an alternative music magazine. By using this quote, I hope to bring a sense of realism instead of plucking a quote out of thin area. The choice in magazine is based on it being a magazine focused on the same audience as that of Panic at the Disco.

Casting Calamity

With filming scheduled to begin last weekend, the unthinkable happened... one of my actors got sick!
After re-scheduling for this weekend in order to meet the ever-looming deadline, I then received a message on Monday morning stating that my remaining actors would no longer be performing for me and that it would be best if I found someone else.
Needless to say, after getting suitably worried, I then proceeded to call around in search of actors. With a distinct lack of males available on a Saturday and willing to act, my video looks to be reliant on an all female cast, with one female playing the role of a man and my harlot's love will now be cast as a female. This will also serve to subvert social norms within music videos by featuring both heterosexuality and homosexuality and as it is female based, it will contrast the original video wherein the male lead character took a dominant role.

Christmas Creativity

Give nine A2 media students an hour and a half before the Christmas holidays, a video camera, and editing software and the product is this spoof video of The Pogues - Fairytale of New York, a spur-of-the-moment project to finish 2013 on a good note before we get back to work on our own separate videos.