FINAL POST

This is my final post on this Blog, I have really enjoyed studying the entire A level media course (AS and A2) and I feel that I have gained so much from studying media. I have developed my skills at working in a group, planning, researching and being more analytical in my work. I have also been inspired to take the subject further and I hope I will be able to study it at a degree level. This Blog is now closed.

FINAL FILM

FINAL ALBUM RELEASE ADVERT

FINAL DIGIPACK

The Track List:
1. Dog Days are Over
2. It's Just Me
3. Mistakes
4. Never Before
5. Lost
6. My Last Resort
7. Unforgiven
8. Wasted Breath
9. Gone
10. Light on Your Shoulders

The font is quite difficult to read so i hope this helps, it is just a list of the tracks in the order they appear on the back cover of my CD case.

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Media Evaluation, Question 4

EVALUATION QUESTIONS 1, 2 AND 3

Here is a film and interview style of our group answering the evaluation questions 1, 2 and 3.

QUESTIONNAIRES AND AUDIENCE FEEBACK

After reading through our completed questionnaires after the showing of our final music video, we picked out some quotes taken from the question:

"What was your favourite part?"

(It was nice to receive positive feedback, as opposed to more negative comments, since it was our final video that was watched and we could not make any more changes after the showing)

Here are the answers we got back:

1. "Loved the running shots"
2. "Favourite part was the jumping in the rain shot"
3. "Loved the shot of Eleanor facing the train tracks and the lighting - gorgeous"
4. "My favourite part was the stop animation of the daffodils before happiness"

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK ON ABUSE

One of our groups main concerns about the video during construction was the balance of the abuse scenes. We did not want to show too much of the abuse as we felt it would not have the desired effect and shock the audience, however too little would take away the focus and main theme of the video. Therefore we included a question in our personal questionnaire for the preview:

"What did you think about the balance of the abuse scenes, did you feel there was too much, too little or was the balance right?"

Here are the results in the form of a pie chart:

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK FOR OUR FINAL MUSIC VIDEO

A short clip of some Audience Feedback and a bit of fun.

FILMING MEMORIES

Here is just a short video we made showing some of the many beautiful faces of our music video!

PRACTISING STOP ANIMATION

This is just a short video of our stop animation practises, so far we are thinking of using the flowers twisting around (possibly after the sad part of the song, reflecting the abuse, on the beat just before Happiness... another one we might use is the petals, either coming off the flower or going round in a circle at the beginning of the song, on the beat leading up to Happiness hit her...

EDITING - FIRST DRAFT ALMOST COMPLETE

Here is our first draft so far, we have edited up to about 2 minutes in, and then 40 seconds from the end. Once we have completed editing the middle 30 or so seconds we will be ready for our audience feedback.

ANALYSIS OF MY ALBUM ADVERT

Album Advert Analysis

ALBUM RELEASE ADVERT

Here is my magazine advert for the release of our album 'It's Just Me'. It has been advertised to be released for purchase on the 6th of May and is also available to download on iTunes, I included this as more albums and music are downloaded as opposed to being bought in shops in CD form.

FILMING AT 5AM

Me and Elizabeth filming at Hamstead Heath at 5am in the morning.

CONVENTIONS OF A ALBUM RELEASE ADVERT

In class we discussed the conventions of an album advert:
-Genre specific (the advert should adhere to the genre of the artist and the music)
-Image of the album cover
-Image of the artist
-Reviews/ endorsements
-Ratings
-Album name
-Price
-Release date
-Debut album
-Unseen features
-Slogan
-Record label
-Tour Dates
-Outlets available (websites)
-limited edition
-Offers (free downloads etc)
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ALBUM ANNOTATIONS

A few examples of different album release adverts

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ALBUM ADVERTS

Selection of albums on sale in nme magazine

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ALBUM RELEASE ADVERT - KERRANG

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NEW ALBUM RELEASES

The new album release for, screamadelica, has been advertised on the cover of music magazine NME. The subtitle for the advert "It was Sexy, It was druggy and it was underground" talks about their recent performance of their concert.Therefore the advert is advertising two events and products, the release of the album played at the concert and the concert itself. The Advert is particularly audience and genre specific, "on of the druggiest albums ever" adhering to the trance genre and therefore appealing to a select group. Artists from a similar genre are also mentioned, therefore attracting new listeners who might have listened to other artists.

The colour scheme and layout for the magazine cover is similar to that of the album, showing NME's support behind it's release. The album cover itself depicts a childish drawing of a sun, this can present a carefree attitude within their music and also a basic and primary level, similar to the title Primal Scream. The name Screamadelica reflects the psychedelic genre, possibly a new style for the band which their album is pointing out to the target audience and listener.

The lead singer is holding the album, which has no sight of the name itself or the name of the band, this gives the album identity and promotes it to audiences and NME readership.

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