The result!

After the course...

OK so I can imagine that nothing else will be happening on this blog for some time... if ever... but I wanted to tell you about one new and exciting development that may help take my music video to the next level. A new version of Adobe After Effects came out not too long ago and attached to that software is something called a warp stabiliser which, as I have seen on Youtube, has done incredible things to make shaky footage look perfectly smooth! Here is one example:



So I have just downloaded a trial version of the software so that I can have a play around with the warp stabilizer to find out whether this will make my film even better because most of the negative feedback that I received from the people that watched the film had something to do with it being too shaky that made it hard to watch so hopefully with this new development in technology and in my understanding of the software I can correct this problem that I had. If this works well then I will seriously consider getting a full version when I get to uni for me to use in my studies there.

I will not be leaving media behind because I am going to hopefully be studying media technology at either Kent or Bradford University next year and results are only 3 days away! ARGGH! It's really scary. I hope that this blog has helped to get me there and prove I have what it takes to do this for the rest of my life. I'm very excited for what the future holds.

If this stabilisation works I will post the video at a later date

Evaluation

So after much editing and processing and forgetting to upload it to Youtube and then it spending 2 hours doing so... The evaluation is finally done signalling the end of coursework. Thanks to everyone who has helped out over the past year and made this a very successful project.

All the tasks together

Main Task:

Ancillary Task 1:

Ancillary Task 2:

Evaluation

So now there is now only one thing left to do. The evaluation. I will do this by making a 'DVD extra' as such. I did a load of behind the scenes recording while we were on location and then I can do some interviews with myself and also some of the people involved like the main character. I will then put these all together to make the video. These are the questions I need to address:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I will need to answer these questions if I want to do the evaluation properly. I will be the one that will be talking more about the evaluation questions although I will try and get some others to talk about a bit about it.

Magazine Advert Ideas

These are the two ideas for my advert:

I now need to get some feedback from the people in my class and find out which of them they prefer.

Feedback:

The feedback from my posters was quite mixed. I think that generally the bottom one was the most popular of the two as people seemed to think that although the picture on the top was maybe the best it did look a bit childish. They like the way that the bottom one left you guessing a bit more and the empty field kind of gave a bit more of an impression. It was more organic. I like this too in the way that the official album is called the Organic Family Hymnal. So therefore this bottom one will become my advert.

Magazine Poster Research

So to create my own magazine advert I looked into some other real ones. Here are some examples:

From what I can see from these adverts none of these actually seem to tell you much about what they are offering in terms of the music and the things that are included with that. So for this reason my poster is going to try and do the same thing. It will probably include a picture from the digipak. I am thinking that I will just use the picture of the field empty and then add some text that kind of teases them into looking into it. On the digipak I've added lyrics of the song so I may do this on poster too. I want to try and get people to look into the music video but not give so much away that they immediately dismiss it. This is what I will work on.