Music Video

Website Final

The link below will locate you to our finalized website. Within this, you will find our music, images and videos of our band as well as our merchandise and tour information. This link is so that our peers can give us feedback and their opinions, from this we can analyse what our audience and can enhance features as well as make improvements.

LINK:  https://vanillaprs.wixsite.com/vanilla

Digipak Final

This is our final digipak for our album: Vanilla. 

Evaluation 1: In what way does your media product use, develop and challenge orms and conventions of real life media products?

Evaluation 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stage?

Evaluation 4: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

https://prezi.com/view/pqYt1qfuSphLPzJy2Jvf/

Evaluation Evidence

 


 Images above are photographic proof of our peers and our target
 audience watching our music video, ready to give us feedback for
 one of our evaluation questions. Whilst they watched our video
 they also answered questions to help us with our feedback.

Evaluation Q2 plan

To ensure I reached the maximum best of the evaluation question set, we sat down with our teacher and ensured we understood the meaning of the requirements for each question. This included analysing all questions asked and coming up with the best format to answer the question in. I decided to choose to go with an Emaze as this would allow me to produce an interactive presentation that included images, symbols and gifs which represented specific parts of a video that I would refer to throughout.
This format worked efficiently as I managed to include all the information I required and presented it in an organised format. This technology I was also familiar too therefore it did not make the process a struggle.

Focus Group- Video Feedback

Throughout the evaluation process we gathered some individuals that fit into our target audience group and we asked them various questions to do with our music video. This feedback that we receive from this audience is extremely important as this is our primary audience and we hope to attract and please these the most.
FEEDBACK:

What did you like about the music video?

balloons were cool, liked how it was countrified, lots of fun showed the personalities of the band members. This is good feedback because as a group we wanted to come across as fun and loving girls and we also felt that country was a good theme to go with.

Did you see a theme within the music video? 

saw a country theme, and also a theme with the balloons. This is also good feedback as we wanted to ensure that there was a clear them throughout the video, this is why we made sure that all of our locations linked in with the countryside, and we also wanted to make sure that we had the theme of pastel colours so we used the balloons as this shows synergy through all of our products.

What genre do you think the video was?

Country/ Pop. This shows that as a group we portrayed the genre of the video well as country/pop is what the genre of our video was therefore it shows that the video matched this.

Do you feel that the artists suit the video?

Yes as the lip syncing was really good looked like the girls were actually singing the song. This again is good feedback as it shows that as a group we were good at acting our roles in the band, it also shows that we were good at the lip syncing and made the video come to life.

What could be improved about the music video?

better editing, more animals. This feedback helps us to know what to do in the future, more animals would have maybe helped to portray the countryside theme even more and also better editing could have improved the style of the video. 

Group Reflection

Who was in your group? How well did you work together as a group?
Within my group there was four of us; Renae, Pip, Ale and I. As we have been friends previous to this task benefitting us as we understood each others strengths. We all worked efficiently together as well as independently and gave each other targets to ensure all of our work was achieved to our best standards. 

How did your video get planned, did you do research?
Our video ideas stemmed from when we all sat down and pitched suggestions to each other. We wanted to be different from other groups, therefore we wanted to choose a different genre; country. We undertook a lot of research to help us along the way for the creation of all of our products. For example, we analysed music video and their visuals/formats, we also compared digipaks between country and pop as we wanted an aspect of both in our final product. We also researched all kinds of artists and was inspired by a variety of their work they have produced within the industry. We had to undertake tasks to help us understand what needed to be within our products, such as a cross-media branding task which initially helped us to recognise that all products have the same themes and icons throughout, ensuring synergy is used throughout to represent a unique band image. 

What technology platforms did you use throughout your process?
A variety of platforms were used throughout this project. The basic technology was blogger, which helped us to document all of our work daily and to present all products in a structured organisation. The next platform was what we used to edit footage- premiere pro and edit our images- photoshop. Presentation technology was also used as a way of showing our products as well as analyse them. Emaze, Prezi and Photobucket was all used to show a collection of our work which was then embedded on our blog; blogger. Youtube was used throughout for a series of work tasks such as our storyboard, stealomatic and to upload our final music video onto. Screencastify was another platform we used in a task to analyse a website we felt had good synergy with all their products. As well as this, our teacher used this to help us with our feedback on our website and this involved the user of a voiceover and spoke through advantages and disadvantages of our products. 

What did you have to consider whilst filming the music video?
Filming our music video was a challenging task as there were many aspects that we had to consider such as health and safety risks of the location and our costumes as well as ensuring we got all angles and shots that we needed to make our music video to the best product we could get it.  We had to run risk assessments on all locations, such as when we filmed at the farm there was a bridge we filmed on which we needed to be wary of with how we shot the camera and got all the angles we needed. In addition, we needed to ensure the weather cooperated, so we had to check all forecasts whenever we decided to film as we didn't want the video to look dull or bland. 

What are your strengths as a group member?
As a group member I believe to have excelled in leadership skills as well as developing within independent work and taking tasks into my own hands; taking responsibility when needed. As an individual I strive to achieve all of my aims and am up for helping other members, and vice versa, when we need to finish all of our tasks before deadlines.