Evaluation - Question 4

In this post, I am presenting Question 4 of the Evaluation. I have chose to present this in an edited video, the video itself is featured below:

Evaluation - Question 3

https://vimeo.com/125346494

password; media

 

As part of my evaluation I got some feedback from other students studying the same course as us but from people that didn't know me. This way the feedback would be real as they wouldn't feel the need to be bias because they know me. The feedback was from an a level class in east London. This would give myself great feedback as it would be from people which are much different to ourselves. This is because they are from an urban area and being so close to London will be much more culturally diverse this would give us interesting feedback as it is from people we aren't used to conversing with.

Most of the feedback was very positive liking the camera shot types using the different lenses. They also liked the part at the beginning of my music video where I get my camera out and start cleaning it as it helps to create the overall impression that I was filming the filming of a music video. There were also comments about the use of the time lapses and shots in the car as they liked how it showed the passing of time over which the gig took place.

Some things they thought I could improve on was that they thought it dragged a bit with the shots at the beginning and end as it distracted themselves from the main parts. To improve this I would reduce the time some of the shots were on to reduce the overall running time. Another thing that they thought could be changed was to darken the live shots as to give it a more DIY feel which I was aiming for and they did recognise that but they thought darkening the footage would have furthermore enhanced that. The main improvement that the students suggested was to include more shots of the band in the woods as they thought the live performance shots dominated the whole video. They thought if there were more shots in the woods then the video would have been much clearer and balanced.
 

The best thing that I think that came out of the students evaluating my music video was that they thought it was an excellent real life music video for the band and was one that the band could use to promote themselves. This is exactly what I wanted to do because the band is made up of my friends so as payment for letting me film them for my media piece they would get a useable music video that not only met the marking criteria but also one that they could use.

Evaluation - Question 2

In this video, I will be presenting question 2 of the evaluation. I have chose to present this in an annotated video presentation. The video is featured below:

Evaluation - Question 1

In this post, I will be presenting question 1 of the evaluation. I have chose to present this in a presentation uploaded onto SlideShare. The presentation is below:

 
A2 media question 1 evaluation from adamlievesley

Main Product - Final Version of Music Video (Bleak)

Here is the link to my revised music video. This video contains some slight changes to it after suggestions were made by the members of the band and also my peers.

Photo Album - Digipak

Here are the photos of my Digi pack however schools printer isn't as good quality's the photos so a lot of detail has been lost so I have also uploaded the high resolution files as well to get the full detail. All photos are by myself.

front cover

Back cover

Spine

insert page 1

Insert page 2 and 3

Insert pages 4 and 5

Ancillary Product - Insert for Digipak

Here are the digital copies of my insert of my cd cover. They are taken at multiple locations on multiple days using multiple camera lenses and settings.

 

the first was taken in a wood where the sun was setting. this means in the photo the orange sky is peeking through the gaps in the trees. it was also quite windy and all the trees were pretty thin. This means that due to the low light my camera has to be on a long exposure of around 10 seconds. I placed the camera on a log to ensure there was no camera shake. but due to the wind blowing the trees there is a cool motion effect as the trees move in the frame. the light is a torch that I waved around to make it look like a head torch where I was camping to make the audience feel as though they were there for a long time.

 

 

This photo was taken using a 300mm lens allowing me to single out the one tree on the hill creating a lot of empty space in the frame. this is an intertextual reference to the title bleak.

The next image was taken because when people feel hopeless they like to look at the sky and the stars to escape their problems. so I shot this shot at 35mm which is similar to the focal length of the eye. This gives the perception that the viewer is laying on their back in a wood looking through the trees at the stars. this was taken at a 30 second exposure to get the dim lights of the stars.

This final image is there to represent the band sat around a camp fire bonding and drinking which is very stereo typical for this genre of music.