Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

• Before creating our main task we did research into the indie genre and the demographic that we were aiming for. We asked our peers and general public what kind of music they were into and what kind of stuff they liked to see in music videos. This led us to developing ideas surrounding young people and the things they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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• Before creating our video we had to decide whether we wanted it to be performance, narrative or  combination if both. After producing a video of ourselves lip-syncing to the song we had chosen and showing it to our target audience we gathered that the video should be narrative, sticking to the things we had gathered about what kind of indie video people like. Something downbeat and that told a complete story, like Kodaline's High hopes video.
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• When editing our video we took frequent breaks to upload our video at the stage it was at to show our peers and gather more feedback in order to create the best product. By doing this we were able to edit any small details that stood out to our audience and determine which parts of the video were strongst in order to uphold the quality.
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• When we completed our music video we garnered feedback from people that allowed us to make any minor tweaks before we had to submit our work, luckily the feedback was mostly positive and we were able to submit our final product.

Evaluation Question 4

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

Evaluation Question 2

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

Evaluation Question 1

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

Final Poster

This is my completed magazine advert. I took inspiration from many other indie magazine adverts, keeping with the simplistic to the point nature of the ad in order to sell the product efficiently whilst keeping a strong link between this and my music video as I still use the same actors.

Magazine Adverts

In the indie genre magazine adverts are usually simply an image of the band or album cover with simple text explaining the album name and where it is out, this is what I wanted to recreate with my advert.The text is very simple and straightforward for the purpose of selling the album or show, this is what I tried to replicate in my advert. 

Final Album

I completed a new digipak that fits more with the themes of my video than the last. The front and back cover feature the two actors that were in the video to make a clear link between this task and my music video. Unlike my last attempt I kept this version black and white to create a more melancholy indie feel to it like bands such as the 1975 do with their albums. I renamed the band and the album to tie in more with the themes of the digipak as well as to make a clearer link between this and my music video; the title of the album, 'Misplaced' links to the feeling of being outside yourself or out of place which is the story told in the video. I used an overlay of the same image on the front cover and the inside covers to fit with the theme of being misplaced. I chose a four plate digipak because it is more conventional in the indie genre.

New Album Cover

Upon reflection of my digipak cover I recently went back to take different pictures for my cover that had a deeper link to the music video, more specifically I used the actors from my video in the new pictures as well as one of the same locations. I do not think anything else on the digipak will change except for the switching of the images to make the three properties more linked.