Closing Post

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Evaluation Question Four (Summary)

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

Over the past decade technology both in itself and within the internet had progressed dramatically. Now artists can freely upload their music onto YouTube, connect with their audience through UStream and even crowd source for funding products. When it came to creating a Portfolio for my A2 Media Studies coursework I chose to present it on an online Blogger. By using the internet I have had many more opportunities for presenting my research, planning, construction and evaluation stages. I have been able to create PowerPoint’s and embed them online using SlideShare. This has enabled me to efficiently reveal information to my audience as well as have it clearly laid out in a post on my blog. Years ago to research a band would have been much more difficult. However when it came to finding out what the Pop genre consisted of it was very easy for me to simply look on the internet using sites such as Google. Advertising our group in order to attract fans was also very easy thanks to the increase and development of technology. By using social network sites such as Facebook we were able to quickly get the name of our band out into the public eye for free. This would have been near on impossible years ago as publishers would have to have printed posters ect to advertise a band. Cameras and the equipment included have also dramatically increased. We were able to use a small camera which had a high quality of pixels and the filming we got looked very professional. This equipment is what allows small artists to produce music videos without having to spent lots of money on expensive items. Overall I think that our A2 Media Task would have been extremely difficult if the internet and the technology we used had not been available. I believe I tried to use a variety of technology within my music video, ancillary tasks and blogger in order to make them appear more advanced, professional, and a good quality. By Amelia O’Callaghan

Evaluation Question Four (Evaluations)

In this blog post you will be able to see how I answered the question 'How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?' In this particular answer I have veered towards my technologies used when answering my Evaluation questions.

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Evaluation Question Four (Music Video)

In this blog post you will be able to see how I answered the question 'How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?' In this particular answer I have veered towards my music video. 

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Evaluation Question Four (Ancillary Tasks)

In this blog post you will be able to see how I answered the question 'How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?' In this particular answer I have veered towards my ancillary tasks. 

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Evaluation Question Three (Music Video Feedback)

In this blog post I created a video recording feedback I received from my target audience. I have included my plans for what to do with the feedback in order to improve our music video as a whole and in my own section.

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Evaluation Question Three (Ancillary Questionnaire Results)

Here are the results to the questionnaire I created based upon the evaluation task 'What did you learn from your audience feedback?' Below in the PowerPoint you will be able to see how I used each point in order to advance the progress of the poster and my sections of the Digipak. 

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Evaluation Question Three (Ancillary Questionnaire)

'What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

In order to get feedback for my Digipak section and our Poster I decided to create a questionnaire for others to fill out and for me to then use to edit our ancillary tasks. Below is the questionnaire we used and on the next blog post you can see the results and how I used the comments in order to get our ancillary to appeal to our target audience.

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Evaluation Question Three (Facebook Feedback)

In this blog post I have answered evaluation question 'What have you learnt from you audience feedback?'. I have created varies blog posts for this question but this particular one is about the feedback we received from fans on our Facebook page and how we then improved our music video from them.

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Evaluation Question Three (Class and Teacher Feedback)

In this blog post I have answered evaluation question 'What have you learnt from you audience feedback?'. I have created varies blog posts for this question but this particular one is about the feedback we received from both our teacher and students in class and how we then improved our music video from them.

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Evaluation Question Two

In this post I have answered the question 'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?' I feel that I have managed to successfully answer this question, by analysing my three products and explaining in detail how the combination of them all is effective.

By Amelia O'Callaghan

Evaluation Question One

In this post I have answered the question 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?'. I have carefully thought about what the question is asking and from this analysed all my media products in relation to the question.

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Our Final Music Video

Here is our final music video that we have now uploaded to Facebook.

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Our Final Poster

Here is our final poster which was created by myself (Amelia O'Callaghan) and Siobhan Fox:

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Our Final Digipak

Here is the image of our final Digipak. I have put them altogether facing one way so you can see what each picture looks like. In reality however, if we were to print the digipak off, we would have to turn the top row upside down in order for the digipak to be effective.

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My Filming and Editing Log

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Creating My Digipak

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Creating the Poster

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Updating Our Facebook Page

We regularly update our Facebook Fan Page as it is important to receive feedback and have our target audience interested in what we are doing. Here are some examples of us connecting to our audience.

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Second Intial Screening Feedback

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Splitting up the Editing

We have decided that due to the length of the song we should break up the editing into equal amounts, in order for us to all get a fair grade. Here are the timings:

0 - 1:00 minute = All three of us contributed to editing this section
1:00 - 1:50 minutes = Siobhan's Section
1:50 - 2:20 minutes = Amelia's Section
2:20- 2:30 minutes = ("Hey Hey Hey" section) All three of us contributed to editing this section
2:30 - 2:50 minutes = Amelia's Section
2:50 - 3:40 minutes = Bonnie's Section


When editing I also added the 'Ready, Steady, Go' sequence.

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Self Assessment

12/40 for Music Video - I feel happy with the editing we have completed however there is still lots to complete and to correct.

0/10 for Digipak - So far we have only draw out sketches of what the Digipak could look like. We have yet to collaborate our ideas into a final Digipak.

0/10 for Poster Advert - So far we have only draw out sketches of what our poster advert. We have yet to collaborate our ideas into a final design.


Need to do: 

Music Video: 

• Sort out middle bit
• Correct Arms
• Sort out lighting
• Divide up between all three of us

Digipak:

• Scan in Digipak
• Collaborate all our ideas
• Make final Digipak

Poster: 

• Design ideas for poster
• Add all ideas
• Finalise Poster design
• Create Poster

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Initial Screening Feedback

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Initial Poster Design

Here is my original poster design. I hope to improve it before the final product, but I feel that this is a good starting point:

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Initial Digipak Design

Here is my original digipak design. I hope to improve it before the final product, but I feel that this is a good starting point:

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THEORIST: Tvetan Todorov

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Possible Merchandise

I feel that if our group O.M.G was to become very popular we could bring out products with our faces on it, such as a puzzle that fans could complete. Have a go yourself with this one!


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Research Into Existing Magazine Adverts/Posters

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Uploading Video to Facebook Page

After uploading our video to our blogs we decided to upload the video to our Facebook page. By doing this we can get feedback from the public which will help us with our final music video.


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Initial Filming Cut

By Amelia O'Callaghan and Bonnie Massey