Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Media Evaluation Question 3 on Prezi

Evaluation Question 2

How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

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Evaluation Question 1

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



Final Video

Problem

Almost about to finish editing and several clips of footage are missing. I have tried finding these but they are not on the camera at all, so I will be trying to redo the footage, get it edited and uploaded by the end of the day.

Video so far, with missing footage.

Final Digipak & Magazine Advert

I had many different ideas for what I wanted to do with my digipak after receiving the feedback from my draft. I decided it would be best to start a completely different version, keeping only a few elements the same. At first I wasn't keen on the black and white colour palette, so experimented with different styles - taking inspiration from James Blake and Madvillain's artwork styles. However, I didn't feel this was effective enough. I then looked at older styles, such as Beastie Boys and found that many of their photographs had elements similar to mine. I decided to take inspiration from them, and use a black and white palette again. I used a small and simple font, after receiving criticism for the font originally used on my draft, and tried to keep continuity throughout by using this all the way through the digipak. I feel the photographs in this version are also a lot more cohesive, and link together better.

For my magazine advert I used a very simple layout, with a single picture blending into the background and a small amount of text. I found after looking at various magazine adverts that the simple ones tend to be more effective. I also restrained from using mutiple ratings to appeal to the audience - instead, sticking to one rating by NME. The song that I am using comes from the Mac Miller album 'K.I.D.S' - which contains various references throughout to the 1995 film Kids by Larry Clark. I therefore took inspiration from that to try and incorporate into my design, even though it is a film and not music. I used the magazine advert for the film as inspiration, combined with ideas from the DVD cover.