Lauren Vale
Monday 17 March 2014
Sunday 23 February 2014
Evaluation - Question 3
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I think it is important to evaluate your work because it
enables you to reflect on what went well and what things can be improved on. Through
evaluating my work, it allowed other people to feedback on what is positive and
negative about my music videos and ancillary products and enables me to make
any necessary changes. Once we finished
our rough cut of our music video, we uploaded it onto YouTube. We decided to
use YouTube to showcase our music video as it encourages the person viewing to
leave comments. This is beneficial when it comes to evaluating our work as it
gives us a different person’s perspective on our work. YouTube is also suitable to showcase our work
as it is a worldwide video-sharing website site therefore has a large viewing audience.
One comment we received from YouTube was “The artist is only present in the
performance and it is not his situation he is relating to”. However in
order for us to conform to Dyers star theory, the artist must appear absent for
the consumer. In order for this to happen we decided to use a male and female
to act within the narrative rather than use the artist himself. Therefore this
enables the audience to relate to the artist as he is singing about a situation
which most likely and individual watching has also experienced. Therefore this
encourages the audience to relate to the artist through his facial expressions
within the performance, on the basis that they have a good understanding of
what the song is about.
Another comment we received was “The performance should be more integrated with the narrative” However
this relates back to the previous point as in for us to make the artist appear
absent from the consumer the narrative and performance need to be separate.
However we did show a relationship between the lyrics and visuals. An example
is when the artist sings ‘I remember years ago’ he is seen to be in an isolated
location. This is then followed by a flashback implying that the artist is
reminiscing over his own memories. It also connotes that he is sad due to his
own personal experience of a relationship breakup.
The third comment we
received from YouTube was “The music
video displays elements that are typically seen in these kinds of videos” This
is a positive comment as it highlights that by conforming to the codes and
conventions a pop music video, it has attracted our target audience making our
music video a success.
The comments made me feel positive as a producer as I feel
that the audience responded well to the music video I created. Even though
there were some negative comments in relation to the narrative and performance
based element of the music video, I feel that this was constructive criticism
that just gave us room to improve the music video even more. This was effective
as through creating a rough cut we were able to get constructive feedback that
gave us the opportunity to improve our final cut. The feedback I got would help
me if i was working in the media industry as I have learnt that the audience
prefer for the artist to feature in the narrative as they want to be able to
relate to the artists lifestyle.
Did you make any changes based on the feedback?
Friday 21 February 2014
Evaluation - Question 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Monday 17 February 2014
Target Audience Feedback
Target Audience Feedback
- Why is audience feedback important to a production?
- How did you receive audience feedback from your target audience? (screening of production, focus group, questionnaires)
One comment we received from YouTube was “The artist is only present in the
performance and it is not his situation he is relating to”. However in
order for us to conform to Dyers star theory, the artist must appear absent for
the consumer. In order for this to happen we decided to use a male and female
to act within the narrative rather than use the artist himself. Therefore this
enables the audience to relate to the artist as he is singing about a situation
which most likely and individual watching has also experienced. Therefore this
encourages the audience to relate to the artist through his facial expressions
within the performance, on the basis that they have a good understanding of
what the song is about.
Another comment we received was “The performance should be more integrated with the narrative” However
this relates back to the previous point as in for us to make the artist appear
absent from the consumer the narrative and performance need to be separate.
However we did show a relationship between the lyrics and visuals. An example
is when the artist sings ‘I remember years ago’ he is seen to be in an isolated
location. This is then followed by a flashback implying that the artist is
reminiscing over his own memories. It also connotes that he is sad due to his
own personal experience of a relationship breakup.
The third comment we
received from YouTube was “The music
video displays elements that are typically seen in these kinds of videos” This
is a positive comment as it highlights that by conforming to the codes and
conventions a pop music video, it has attracted our target audience making our
music video a success.
- How would this feedback benefit your production and the industry?
The feedback I received will benefit the music industry as social networking sites are often used as a key source for promoting new and popular artists. Therefore through using one of the most mainstream social networks (YouTube) it successfully promoted my production. The feedback will benefit my production as I am able to evaluate my work through considering the positive and negative feedback. I am also able to see whether my video was a success in appealing to the target audience of 14-24 year olds by creating a conventional music video.
- Explain how you have followed the aims of the brief by creating a music video
The brief for the media coursework was to construct a music video of a maximum of 5 minutes, and to create ancillary products such as a magazine advert and a digipak. This required us to work as a group in which I joined up with three other group members; Jagoda Jasionowska, Dipika Sharma and Jamie Gregory. I have followed the aims of the brief as I created a music video that was in the given time limit. We also carried out research as a group to find out what the target audience expect to see within the music video before creating it in order for it to be successful. Before creating our group ancillary products, each group member conducted research on pop magazine adverts and digipak and designed their own. This was so that our products would all be conventional to the pop genre appealing to our target audiences expectations. Overall I think that my group and I created a successful music video as we conformed to the expected codes and conventions of a pop music video which received positive comments from our target audience.
Sunday 16 February 2014
Evaluation - Question 2
Evaluation - Question 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
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