OUR FINISHED MUSIC VIDEO!!! :)

Previous Student's Work - Evaluation

I found this particular student's evaluation answer extremely ineffective because although she is in fact answering every question, she is lacking detail and a variation of shots. The clip itself is very short and throughout each question she repeats the same layout. Other than the initial background music which is one soundtrack played through the whole clip, she hasn't recorded her own voice or shown any great amount of effort in producing her evaluation. Having said this, she does use a very professional styled background, and should she have included other images as well as this, I think the evaluation would have been much more effective. She answers that she has used YouTube to analyse and research, yet she fails to discuss why she has chosen this method in comparison to other research resources available. Overall I think this is a marginally poor evaluation.

Our Magazine Album Advert

Our CD Cover

Update

Having edited a first draft of our music video, our teacher reviewed it and gave us feedback. This was mainly about aspects of the video we needed to alter and suggestions as to what we could add to make the finished product more effective. For example, she didn't particularly like the shot of the woman dancing whilst shopping due to the fact that she had her back turned to the camera and because it was not obvious where the source of music would be in her setting. As well as this, Miss Hill suggested we replace the shot of two sixth formers ballroom dancing. This was because she thought it looked too staged, unlike the other shots in which the dancers looked natural. Apart from this, there were no other shots that we were advised to completely remove from our film.
Miss also suggested that in the shot of Katie driving home at the end, we could use split screen to make people appear on the screen around Katie. She advised us to do this because it would show our Final Cut skills and demonstrate that we could use a range of technical skills.
Overall, although we were happy with the film ourselves, we are going to make the changes our teacher suggested in order to get a higher grade.

By Megan and Holly

My Finished Digipack

Update

To kickstart our evaluation, we each decided to answer one evaluatory question. We took into consideration every element of research and planning that went into our music video and what decisions we made that reflected the music industry as it stands. We have given in our first draft of the music video, ancillary texts and evaluation and have received feedback from our media teacher. Overall, we feel the evaluation has been a success with all of our questions not needing altering other than question 1 by Katie. Having said this, if we all work together to fix the errors in the question we are sure that we will make it as effective as the other questions. The feedback for the ancillary text was even more successful because there were merely a few minor alterations to be made such as:
-making the text bolder
-add more conventional aspects to the magazine advert

we are extremely pleased with all of the help we have received and we will now be working extremely hard to make the changes needed!

By Holly and Megan.