Evaluation Part Three - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?

Production Log Week 16

After our post production work we started our 5 part evaluation so we can say what we did good and what we can improve on in the future. The purpose of these evaluations is so i can show what skills i have gained, what i have learnt and using all the skills learnt in the past to make my final production in media studies with my partner myles. This had to be the best music video we had ever made because after 2 years of studying this subject and learning everything we needed to know to do with filming. Our music video should be top quality and our evaluation will enable to me to say what we did well and what we could of done differently or better.

Production Log Week 15

This week we began finalising our digipaks and magazine cover for our song Ketchup Killer. We began this after we was happy with our final production of our music video Ketchup Killer by James Oakwood. Our digipaks consisted of 6 sections which are designs, track list, picture of the artist and other things that you would expect to see on a  digipak we had to ensure all images and design is on point and appealing to our target audience. Similar situation with our magazine cover although we didn't need to make 6 of them. On our magazine cover included date of release, song title, picture of the artist, where the song can be found, basically important info that would make a song persuasive to listen to.

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

Production Log Week 14

In this week myself and Myles began finalising our editing and finishing off our music video which we had filmed. Whilst finalising our editing part in the post production work we also began using a software called photo shop  began making our digipak and magazine advert for our artist James Oakwood. Before we began making our digipak we were taught the basics and some advanced stuff within photo shop which would enable us to make the best and most appealing also engaging advert and promotion of our music video. From using and being taught photo shop i learned some new things this week within photo shop because before today i have never used this software before so it was good to learn something new.

Evaluation Part One - Brief

We were given the task to choose a song from MP3 unsigned website which we would then create a music video for. My partner in this task was Myles and despite only having two members whilst other groups had three we had a slight disadvantage but i feel like we did very well in the end.]with only having two members. The artist was a man named James Oakwood and since he had created a lot of engaging and i thought appealing songs I had spent a long time deciding which song would be best for me. So jumping to conclusion, that song I chose for me and Myles was called Ketchup Killer.

Immediately, from the title of the song I knew i didn't want our music video to be taken seriously because the title Ketchup Killer is not something i can tell our intended target audience which is 14-19 year olds would laugh if saw this song title.  So i thought actually using a ketchup bottle and ketchup as the murder weapon was good to make this music video engaging and appealing to our target audience. The music genre that Ketchup Killer is within is Indie Pop, some examples of signed and current Indie Pop artists involves; AJR, Lily Allen, Ellie Goulding, Vampire Weekend and many other artists that produce similar style of music to our artist James Oakwood. The main thing that attracted me to this song and the artist James Oakwood himself was the fact that this song was something very unique and different to what i'm used to due to elements that this song has such as the constant beat to the song which makes it more interesting and better overall. Also, the fact that the song was called Ketchup Killer immediately attracted me for this song because i knew we could create somewhat of a comedy from this song which i think we did very well with due to the killings that were shown and the general story line we created.