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

RESEARCH

For our research into music videos, digi-packs and posters we mainly used the internet, although we did use magazines and actual CD’s to find out how we would begin creating our products. We mainly used YouTube and music channels to view and analyse different genres, styles and themes in music videos to view different portrayals and conventions of genres. 

Once we had decided we would use the Rock genre, as we all enjoy listening to it, we then decided it would be useful if we analysed magazine photo shoots and posters to see different layouts, colours, styles, themes and poses we could draw inspiration from. To do this we mostly Googled images or used band websites to see how they had set up and posed in images and help us to create a view of what we wanted our posters and digi-packs to look like from this.

Audience Feed Back

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

MUSIC VIDEO 

One part of our media product, the music video, uses the forms and conventions of real media products by developing the stylised features of the ‘rock’ genre. We achieved this by using quick, short cut shots and multiple close up shots of the main singer, holding the microphone in a conventional, ‘typical’ way a rock singer would, syncing the lyrics and acting to become more believable to the viewers. Also there’s a lot of movement and jumping on the bands part associated to this genre of music and video as it works in sync with the jumpier, rockier parts of the song and drum beat. For the band parts we used a studio that created the conventional, informal ‘garage’ mis-en-scene, we decided to do this because it helps draw in the audience as the band seem more relatable and realistic to viewers. 

Evaluation: How Effective is the combination of your main product and acillary texts?

Linkin Park CD Analysis

Poster Analysis - The Rocket Summer

Poster Analysis - All Time Low

Poster Analysis - You Me at Six

Ideas for our music video

Song:

You Me At Six - The Dilemma

Narrative:

We've chose to include some shots of a band playing the song. We also want to include a proper storyline based on the lyrics in the song.

Location:

We have decided to use two different locations for the storyline and the band, the storyline will be shot on the pier and the beach and the band will be shot in a studio to show the difference between band and storyline.

Health and Safty issues:
Weather could be hazarous by the sea, possible rain may cause slippyness on the pier and seas may be rough when doing beach shots, may lead to falling in the sea or the camera being dropped into the sea.

Costume:
The band will be wearing casual t-shirts and hoodies, the lead singer in a bright coloured t-shirt with no hoodie so hes more noticable, all members will have jeans on.
The storyline people will have casual clothing on, such as jackets and coat, jeans, t-shirts ect, the girl who is the main girl int he story will be wearing shorts and tights to make her more noticable and recognisable form the other girl in the video for part of the time.

DigiPack Research - You me at six - Sinners Never Sleep