Final Digipak!

This is our final digipak, and we are overly proud of ourselves for what we have achieved and produced! Beforehand, we hadn't added any text onto our digipak, therefore in order to make the digipak look as professional as possible, we added certain pieces of text to certain images to enhance the professional world of music.

Firstly, we added the title of our album, just underneath where it says 'Polar Collective'. This needed to be done, as we couldn't just call the album the name of the band. We chose the name 'Snakes & Ladders' because it created a random, yet quirky effect to the album, flourishing the randomness of the album itself. It is also originally the name of Polar Collective's album, therefore enhancing and publicising their music.

Secondly, on the top middle picture, we chose to write out the chorus to the song 'Weather girl'. We done this on several reasons, the main reason being that it is the song of our choice, and our target audience are more able to recognise the lyrics from our music video.

And thirdly, in the bottom middle picture, we chose to write out a caption from Polar Collective, in which it will inspire their fans and other people. The message is inspiring them to carry on the indie genre, so in ways it may be hinting for them to support indie genre more, or even to other people, it may inspire them to develop their own.

Evaluation Question Four; Prezi

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

Evaluation Question Three; Discussion

"What have you learnt from your audience feedback?"

This is our film discussion about our Final Cut Video, in which we talk about the audience feedback we received and how that effected our video. We discuss how we had taken into account the feedback we had received, and how we had changed a few certain things, which created a bigger impact on our Final Cut Video.

Evaluation Question Two; Extranormal

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

Evaluation Question Three
by: Beckiyoungs

Evaluation Question One; Commentary

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

The commentary added on top of our final cut video, implies our response to question one. With our commentary, we have mentioned the conventions in which we believe we have used effectively within, and our reasons for these decisions.

Not only have we mentioned what went well, and our strong points towards our final cut video, but we have also mentioned what went wrong, and how we could of improved. We have also discussed what we could of been done differently, which may of had a different impact on the final cut video. 

FINAL CUT VIDEO; POLAR COLLECTIVE - WEATHER GIRL

This is our final cut video for our chosen song 'Weather Girl' by Artist Polar Collective. We are very proud of our finished production, and believe we have worked well as a team to achieve the video we have created. It has taken a lot of time in general, to produce ideas, think of the mise-en-scene (props, lighting), create a narrative, film the footage, and most importantly edit it altogether to produce the final production. Overall, all of the time and effort we have put in together has been worth it!

Audience Feedback

In order to gain feedback from our fellow students amongst our class, I conducted a short questionnaire in which I handed out, for them to fill in whilst they watched our Music video. We wanted to receive as much feedback as possible, to make sure that if there were any small tweaks we could make to the video, in order for it to be overall better, we could apply them before submitting our final cut production.  Below is the feedback we got off our audience.

1. On a scale of 1-10, how effective is the lighting and why?
8- Each scene has a decent amount of lighting. In particular, the scene when Sam is playing the guitar comes across very effective as you are able to see a reflection of the guitar.

2. Do you think our music video targets our target audience appropriately and efficiently? and why?
Yes it does, as it portrays stereotypical aspects of the teenage audience through the use of mise en scene, and it also portrays certain images which would only communicate well to the teenage audience. Not only this, but the lifestyle of Sam portrayed within the video, may emphasise on the lifestyle of a typical teenager.

3. Does our music video match the indie genre? and why?
Yes it does. The use of clothing within the mise en scene has been used appropriately, as the clothes symbolise an aspect of the indie look.

4. On a scale of 1-10, how effective is the lip syncing?
The lip syncing is very good in some scenes, however in others, the lip syncing becomes shaky, which makes it unclear on what Sam is singing. This is something you should concentrate mostly on, as it is an important feature on flourishing the star image.

5. Is there anything that doesn't work well, and therefore needs to be changed?
No. However, it would be wise to include more snapshots of Barbie and Sam together, to create more of a narrative and 'love story' between them.

6. Do we meet any of Andrew Goodwin's theories? if so, why?
You have met the use of using both narrative and uses of performance to portray within your music video. With the use of Barbie, this has created a quirky narrative, whilst continuing to flourish the performance side of things, with Sam sat on his bed playing the guitar. This makes your video more interesting as it flickers between the both, therefore engaging the viewer all throughout.

With the feedback we received from our audience, we are going to apply the responses to our video, in which we will take into consideration any changes that were suggested by them, as a way of improving our video.