A Sum Up

Before we could even begin to think about how to construct our coursework, we had to do lots of research into different media industries such as how different genres of music videos are constructed and also analyzing videos of our genre, to make sure we knew exactly what type of video we was going to create.We made sure that we focused very carefully on the mise-en-scene and also the types of camera angles and scenes which were used. 
Here is a link to the powerpoint i made which analyzes music videos of our genre 'pop music' :
http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/mediamister/analyzing-music-video-11671221/1


We also had to make sure that we had a well detailed and set out storyboard, shot by shot so that when it came to the filming stages, we wasn't stuck with what to film next. 

This is the ideas board that we came up with, before we started putting our storyboard together. It consisted everything that we wanted to add and also the ideas of every member from our group. We thought that a mind map was essential before starting so that we didn't miss out any ideas that anyone had. 






Before we started filming, we done a few different testing shots so that we knew how to use different camera angles and also so that we were sure how to use the Bloggie cameras. We filmed simple things such as someone walking across a room and two people talking. We also re created a one minute clip of an existing music video as a way to get us started. We made sure that the video was of our genre. We created a song by Jessie J: 
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/one-minute-clip.html


We also had a number of ancillary tasks to make, so once we had started the filming for our coursework, we started analyzing different existing pop digipaks and also pop websites, as these were the two tasks that we chose to create. We found that most of the pop digipaks were very simlar and had very similar features.
Here is the part of my blog that includes an analysis of Pixie Lott and Rhiannas digipaks: http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/digipak-analysis.html

As we were also creating a website, we needed to make sure that we had looked at a number of different websites of our genre and noted down the similarities that they all included. We also noted down the types of images used and if they had a colour scheme and how many different pages they included. 
Here is the website analysis of existing pop genre websites: 
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/website-analysis.html

Once the analysis of existing media products was complete, we were then able to start constructing our own. We all took sections each and made sure we completed them as professional as possible. 
Overall, we thought that our digipak turned out very effective. We made sure that it was very eye catching and that it included all common features of a pop digipak. 
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/digipak-front-cover.html
We then made sure that we analyzed the front and back cover of the digipak to show how we made it and the problems and issues that we overcome. We also stated how it appeals to our target audience and how it meets the forms and conventions of real media products.
Front Cover analysis:
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ancilliary-digipak-analysis-front-cover.html
Back Cover analysis:
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/ancillary-digipak-analysis-back-cover.html
Our website was also very effective as it looked very professional and we made sure that it was laid out simply for the audience to use. We did however, have problems with viewing the website as for some reason, we could only view it on one particular computer. However, we managed to use some screen shots to be able to show the audience our website, and the pages it includes and also to be able to analyze it. 
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/website-analysis_07.html
As you can see, we used the same colour scheme throughout, just like existing media products. 

The making of our music video overall took a very long time. We had to take a lot of our free time and put it into filming and editing our music video. We wanted it to look professional and as if it was a real media product. It took us a few attempts to make it perfect, but we was finally happy with it in the end. We made a YouTube channel for people to comment on our video and we also posted it to Facebook so that we could get feedback from our target audience. Overall, we got some very positive feedback and were very happy with the effort we put into our work. 
Here is the link to our music video on our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj1Ov6flOYE&feature=g-hist

Here is a link to all my Research and Planning posts: 
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Research%20and%20Planning

Here is a link to all my Evaluation posts:
http://charlottesblogformedia.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluation