The one word I would use to sum up how I feel right now and about the whole media journey is .... HAPPY ! I'm closing off knowing that I have tried my hardest this year to really push myself, learn and grow as a media student. A BIG Thank you to all my teachers for helping and motivating me to do better and not forgetting my group members !
How effective is the combination of your main product (Video)
and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement) ?
As mentioned in my vlog, there are a few aspects from my video that link with my digipak and advertisement.
The pink and white striped wall
Yin Yang necklace
The navy blue dress
The colour pink as a whole
Facial expressions + body language
Font
Who is my target audience ?
Specific Target audience :
My specific target audience are the type of people who would create videos like this , they are creative and quirky and not camera shy at all. They also love to have fun and experiment with their style like the girls in the Kate Nash - Mouthwash video remake. My WIDER audience though aren't Indie pop fans but appreciate some indie pop artists style or at least know or have heard of one song from the Indie pop genre.
I know they are my audience because of research
The girl answering my formspring question has pink hair and is a fan of Kate Nash music .
My audience I believe can recognise them as linked
products due to the amount of times it is repeated and reinforced within my
music video. For example the necklace was always on my neck while filming , in
some shots the audience would be able to pick up on the fact that the necklace
is on two chains. They would then look at the front panel on my digipak, see
the two chains for the yin yang necklace and would quickly link it up to the
video.
A few examples of Links & comparisons !
I honestly feel that my main product and ancillary
texts are really successful not only because of how STRONG the visual links are
but because of how great they look individually as well as together. My music
video has that quirky and fun vibe, from the outfits I wear to the
locations they all scream out indie pop which will attract my specific target
audience AND my wider target audience. The digipak does this too but in a
different way , the neutral colours combined with the rare pop of colour,
simplistic layout and design is reminiscent of Kate Nash's digipak . THAT
is what will attract my target audience to my digipak and like wise for my
advertisement.
Maintaining a blog for me has been a challenge, but one that i am happy to have completed. This is my final blog post and i am officially signing off, but i would like to say thanks to all those who had helped me and guided me along the way and to my group members.
Final progress review How does your A2 blog compare with your AS/
Compared to my AS blog, my A2 blog has been much more detailed and thorough. I have used more media technologies and have done more throughout the research, planning and construction stages.
How effectively does the blog show all aspects of the research, planning and production of your Advanced portfolio?
I think the blog shows all stages of the project effectively. Throughout each stage I have produced blogs on different aspects and different ideas and i think the blog shows my progress of these stages. Where are the gaps in your blogging work?
I think the area where gaps in my work are more evident is in the anicillary process as the process was becoming more to the end, although i had tried my hardest to keep up with all stages of blogging.
How many individual blogging entries did you produce?
Overall i have produced many individual entries compared to last year, and i have also contributed in group blogs aswell.
What would you change?
If given another opportunity i would try to blog more of my ideas and use more media technologies in them.
After completing 3 out of the 4 evaluation questions and saving them as drafts I asked my media teacher Louisa to have a look and inform me on anything that needs improving or adding to each question. She had a look and these are the points she made..
Question 1 :
Add a real media comparison for your music vide
Question 2 :
We need to know who your target audience is
How do we know they are your target audience ?
Change slide share to something else (For example : photobucket)
Question 4 :
Make text bigger in the ancillary part
Add a summary telling us what you have learnt
I noted Louisa's feedback down
I believe feedback is imperative to ensure a strong outcome , for me to achieve a good grade for the evaluation I must take everything on board and improve my work accordingly. I'm in the process of finishing question 3 as a draft and asking my teacher to take a look before I post the finished version. However this might be tricky as the deadline is tomorrow and my teacher might be busy.
As everything in life, everything comes to an end.
My media blogging days are now coming to an end i am happy and sad about this because i have enjoyed my time blogging it became a daily habit, i literally became obsessed starting with a rocky road i soon got up self back up and returned to my normal self, blogging has taught me the importance of efficiency which i will never forget. This two years of blogging has had there ups and downs however has all paid off, i generally enjoy blogging this inspired me to create a personal blog, and blog to the whole world, I thank blogger, i thank my teachers and i thank my group. This is my final goodbye to blogger ,educational wise
On my 200th blog woohoo ,proud of myself because it shows my dedication and motivation towards media .compared with last year, this year I was more organised and focused on my work . For my thriller last year I finished with 67 blogs however this year I'm finishing with 200 and I have teachers and my group to thank for that. The continuous motivation, when going through my blogs I am happy to say that I have not got anyway wasted blogs and for that I am proud. Each blog contains hardwork and passion.
This whole media journey has been great an exciting, and has taught me some life lessons about being efficient , when blogging you must blog frequently and that is what I try to do. When looking at the frequency on my blogging ,you can see that I am a frequent blogger. I took this blogging as part of my life and daily activities. I have really enjoyed the whole process the research, it took me time to adjust back to blogging however within days I was back to my normal self and became a blogholic. Overall I think my blog is very good and I am proud of my work , last year I finished with 67 blogs however this year I'm finishing with 200 blogs.
How effective is the combination of your main product (Video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement) ?
As mentioned in my vlog, there a few aspects from my video that link with my digipak and advertisement .
The pink and white striped wall
Yin Yang necklace
The navy blue dress
The colour pink as a whole
Facial expressions + body language
Font
My audience I believe can recognise them as linked products due to the amount of times it is repeated and reinforced within my music video. For example the necklace was always on my neck while filming , in some shots the audience would be able to pick up on the fact that the necklace is on two chains. They would then look at the front panel on my digipak, see the two chains for the yin yang necklace and would quickly link it up to the video.
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I honestly feel that my main product and ancillary texts are really successful not only because of how STRONG the visual links are but because of how great they look individually as well as together. My music video has that quirky and fun vibe, from the outfits I wear to the locations they all scream out indie pop which will attract my specific target audience AND my wider target audience. The digipak does this too but in a different way , the neutral colours combined with the rare pop of colour, simplistic layout and design is reminiscent of Kate Nash's digipak . THAT is what will attract my target audience to my digipak and like wise for my advertisement.
When our music video was finished and completed, on Tuesday 16th
of December 2012, our college booked the Screen on the Green cinema which is
located in angel, this was so we can all see each others finished music video's,
and give feedback to one another. This enables us to view each
other's music video and see how their final product came out; this was beneficial
to us because there were a few Kate Nash songs so it was a good way to compare
our similarities and differences between one another. Our music video was
number 18th which is roughly within the middle; it gave us the
chance to see the audience reaction after viewing so many music videos. I have
included in this blog a video of my friend's reaction to our music video, she will be speaking about her reaction to the
music video from the start to the end, this video contains her personal
thoughts and some improvements that she has suggested.
Adina has said some very useful and detailed feedback about
our music video, her being a media student and coming from a family that has
various occupation in the media industry, her opinion was very useful and valid
to me because to an extent she knows the media world or has micro scale view of
the media world, ). Adina spoke about the
performance of our artist and how realistic it seemed , Frieda may was able to
make the video seem believable which has also been said by the results of the questionnaire.
Adina also spoke about the ideas behind the music video such as the jump cuts and
the changing room scene in blitz also the use of the wooden letters spelling
about “ doo doo “
Adina compared our artist to Katy Perry her explanations
was that Katy Perry is a bold and confident character also her facial
expression in her music video usually are comical and makes the audience
believe what she is saying, this is what Adina said that was what Frieda may done.
Our music video was posted on Vimeo, this was for
everyone to be able to see our final piece and gain some feedback. I linked our music video to my Facebook account and received feedback from there, our video
on Vimeo has had 80 plays that may not seem significant however it does mean
people are looking at our music video. Below is a screen shot showing feedback
from Facebook
This is the feedback I received from my friends and media
students on my Facebook, I am generally pleased with the feedback received because
they are all positive and kind, the feedback given has been beneficial and have
gave me a nice feeling all the hard work that I have went through has paid off,
even though to an extent one could say the feedback is slightly bias due to me
being friends with all of them however they are truthful girls and I know that
they would tell me the truth about my music video.
All the people that have
commented have different music preferences some are into rnb,pop and rock and
for them to all come to a consensus to agree that my music video is good, that
is very heart-warming, I have received a lot of “Well done” and “great job”. This
has shown me that all the hard work has paid off , the people that have
commented are within the target audience so to an extent this is feedback from
our target audience and potential buyers if we did create a real media.
I also received feedback for my ancillary product from my friends, all the feedback are positive and seem to take a liking to my digipak. After all the hard work for my ancillary I am happy that it has paid off all them times closing the college with the staff has paid off, I can not even calculate the amount of powers I put in my digipak and advertisement. For my digipak I had so many ideas and so many layout and designs that I forgot about the real purpose of the digipak which was to represent the artist after I then retrieved my steps and finally made my ancillary link to my music video, Posting my video and ancillary on Facebook was a great idea because I have received positive feedback.
Questionnaire
I decided to do a questionnaire for the audience feedback instead of
taking the usual route of just video’s I wanted to include my sociological
background and create a representative questionnaire, in sociological terms questionnaires
are described as reliable again, also quantitative because they can be repeated
over and over again. Some disadvantages of questionnaire are that they are sometimes
not valid and in this sense I mean people could lie on a questionnaire, however
in this case I do not think that would not happen, everyone that completed the
questionnaire was told to be completely honest, in total 14 people were asked
10 females and 4 males.
Above is the questionnaire i created for audience feedback, i decided to not just use videos which i have seen a great amount of previous students do, i did include videos however i did not make them the main source of feedback. For my questionnaire i used fairly straight forward question, each question was easy to understand , i had to ensure that the questions are easy to understand because the age range of the people completing the questionnaire started as from young as 14, all of the people who took the questionnaire said that they understood the questions fine, which i was relieved by. For the filling out of the questionnaire i done half at college and half with my friends outside college. I decided to do half, half because with media students in college there aware of our current evaluation and have more depth knowledge on music videos however i decided to do the other half outside college because i wanted to see the general public reaction.
This graph shows that there were 10 females and 4 males, i decided to ask females more because firstly they are our target audience also the performer in the song is a female so they may be able to relate to the song more and grasp the message that we are trying to put across, i decided not to do just all girls because i wanted a boys point of view of the music video, All the boys were truthful while i think the girls generally wrote what they thought i wanted to hear.
When looking at the age range i wanted a variety of ages opinion, on the 13-15 three of them were 14 and 1 was 15. One thing that i noticed was that the younger ages knew Kate Nash while the older ages didn't out of 14 people 6 knew Kate Nash this was the 13-15 and 2 16 year old i concluded that this could be because when were younger we listen to a variety of genre's and songs because we are trying to see which genre we like the most , the more we grow up the more we move towards one or two specific music genres. none of the 18 or above 18 year old knew who Kate Nash was.
Everyone said that they liked our music video!, which i was ecstatic about i didn't know if everyone would take a liking to the video but they all did, including the boys. They all commended me for the hard work and time that we put into the music video, and all the unique scenes which to them was the cheese on toast part, the cue cards also the jump cut umbrella scene.
Thankfully no one said that they wouldn't want to see another video from Freida may, i asked this question because i was thinking if this music video was a real music video what will people think about the video and the performer, that is what made me ask the question of wanted to see another music video from Frieda may.
This question got a well rounded answer everyone had different answers for what genre they thought our music video will fit in, i found some of them quit funny such as the Rnb however only one person said that and she was quit young, i am not surprised ore people said pop instead of indie pop mainly because not alot of people even know indie pop, i have discovered indie rock is way more popular that indie pop, even though i didn't put indie rock down, everyone seemed to know more about indie rock than indie pop because i received numerous questions asking if i meant indie rock instead of indie pop.
This was very question was very important to me, lip-sync is apart of the conventions of a music video and one that we decided that we would follow, majority found our lip-sync very good which i was very happy about 7 out of 14 found it very good which is 50%, 4 out of 14 found it good which is 28% and lastly 3 out of 14 found it alright which was 21%. I am glad no one said that it needed improvement or that it was bad.
Lastly the majority found our artist performance very good which i was very happy about because on numerous occasions we as a group commended out artist on her believable and realistic acting, 10 of 14 found it very good which is 71.4% which is very high percentage, and 4 people found it good and alright which i was also happy about.
Demographic Profiling
Gender – female, the
dominant gender was females which suited out target audience which was teenage
girls, when looking at the questionnaire the boys went into less details than
the girls, The girls took their time when answering each question and made sure
they told the truth, however with the boys they were more faster when
completing the questionnaire. This
could be because our performer in the music video is a girl and the topic is
about getting past heartbreak so I think the girls could relate to this more
than the boys could or the girls were more open about their feelings than the
boys were.
Race- Our music video was
for all races, and this was reflected in the outcomes of the questionnaire and
feedback, all races took a liking to our music video and spoke about it in
depth, despite indie pop not being their usual genre they still spoke about it
positively.
Age- This music video and
song appealed to young females the most and were more able to relate to this
song, however ages above 18+ still took a liking to this song because it could
of reminded them of their younger days.
Conclusion
Overall
the comments received for my music video and ancillary was very positive and
nice, which makes me very happy because when first uploading the video I was
slightly nervous because I did not know what the reaction for my friends will
be, my usual genre is Rnb and hip hop and I think that is what everyone was
expecting me to create however I decided to challenge myself and support a song
that I would not usually listen to, I think all the feedback has made me more
proud of my final product and made more confident in my work.
