Evaluation Reflections Question 4

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

Jack introduced this question and lead the conversation and I developed his points as well as adding my own ideas. We basically had a very long conversation of the pro's and con's of all the different technology we used.

Evaluation Reflections Question 3

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?


I also introduced this question and started the first few points on it. Jack then gave the next few points. This method worked well for this question as we could each introduce one question of our audience feedback forms and then the other person can comment when they wanted.

Evaluation Reflections Question 2

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

I introduced this question. I started the conversation and ended my points with an inviting statement for Jack to comment on. I planned out this question but Jack also had input and revised it himself. I think I had a lot of input into this question as i revised it alot and had a lot to say as well as being the one who planned it.

Evaluation Reflections Question 1

Just done our evaluation. So much better then doing an essay. I thought this went really well and we ended up talking for 52 minutes!

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

My role in this question was to reply to Jack's introduction of this question. I was there to react to Jack's introduction and carry on the conversation, developing on his points. We also took it in turns to introduce each convention. He did the main bulk of the plan for this question but we each revised it and played and equal part in the discussion for the evaluation. elaborated more on Vernallis's theory and how in our video, there was a distinct lack of balance between the performance and the narrative.

Here are two of the myspaces we compared to ours and analysed:

                                              Angels and Airwaves Myspace

You Me At Six Myspace

Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

                                                                         Slipknot-10 Years

Videos we used as references:

Used this video to reference close-ups/beauty shots of lip sync




Reference for pace




Reference for change-over. Our inspiration. Shows Mis-en-scene and pace.




Reference for genre signifiers, CU's of instruments




Reference for Mis-en-scene




Reference for camera movement, pace.




Reference for use of smoke




Use of pace. Shaky camera.




Contrast of our pace. Slow to fast. Fast to slow

Editing/Myspace/Album Cover

We are very close to completing our music video and are underway with developing our myspace and album cover. We have a band name and album name. Band Name: The Ones They Left Behind, Album Name: Trust The Conclusion. Our editing has been going well and after our re-shoot we seem to have really picked up the pace. We've had feedback from Ms Dymioti who liked the video had only had one or two issues now we are waiting for Mrs Blackborow's feedback.

Progress

Editing has been going well. We have a solid sequence which is really starting to come together. The only issue is our lack of beauty shots/close-ups so we are probably going to have to re-shoot which we plan to do on tuesday the 10th of November. This will also give us a chance to take some stills as evidence of production and also we can start stills for the band website, album cover and promo shots.

Reflections on The Shoot

On the 26th of October we shot our music video. It went really well and was really fun as we got to use 3 studio lights that we hired as well as a generator. We've capture the footage and it looks really great. For the next few weeks we will be editing hard.