Documentry

For our evaluation of our music video project, we filmed a band interview on location at the college. during this interview we were to answer questions related to the video, including important information such as inter-textual reference, locations and camera use combined with lighting, as well as how we sold ourselves using directions by the record company.

the questions we were asked were:

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

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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


Jodi was the interviewer, whilst Damien and Bobby were being interviewed, sticking to the role of us being the band members. we wanted the interview to highlight the band as fun, happy yet professional and dedicated musicians.

we covered the ways we developed and challenged media products by sticking to basic conventions of music videos, by highlighting ourselves as the band, and showing a narrative to our video related to the lyrics in the song. we also challenged forms of media products by what we wore in the video and how we acted to sell ourselves as an institution. when speaking of new technologies uses, final cut express and photoshop were mentioned as these were the main programmes used in our editing and creation of our video, magazine and digipack, as well as using youtube to research simular videos, google to search images of digipacks and blogger and myspace for research feedback and planning.

in terms of feedback we related to online feedback, such as looking on myspace etc and using the blog to full effect by going through our work step by step, and highlighting any changes or new ideas or challenges we came across during the process. we used class feedback during lessons to look at the strengths annd the weaknesses of our project, as well as feedback from the teacher.

finally we came onto our ancillary texts, such as our magazine advert and our digipack.
we said that our digipack was named after the song ' Save Your Wishes' and this gave us a foundation to build on. we said that it went to number 1 and because of this the album title would be recognised by the audience. we spoke about the fonts we used and the masking tape effect included on our digipack, as well as the live performance CD being the extra bonus which buyers recieved when purchasing our digipack. in terms of the magazine we spoke about the way in which we could advertise ourselves, give viewers a clear indication of where it was available to buy/download, and when it was available to do so.

we are currently working on the footage and editing it so we can produce a well edited and flowing interview, which is professional and covers the topics mentioned. will be uploaded when finished, and then evaluated for feedback.