Note To Moderator

At the start of A Level I was briefed that I would have to create a music video along with two ancillary tasks. From here I chose a song and decided to create a digipak and poster for the band A Day To Remember. I have worked hard on these tasks but some issues have come up, for example labels might not work very well as since a blogger update the labels disappeared. Keep in mind for my evaluation question 3 I could not add in any images without upgrading and paying for the full version of Bubbl.us but I have mentioned what it is I was talking about and therefore had to write down what feedback I got rather than show you it.
I hope you enjoy what I have created, Yours Sincerely

Jake Raymond Taff
Centre Number: 51111
Candidate Number: 0234

Final Music video

Here is my final music video, Unfortunately the video quality decreased after being uploaded onto YouTube.

Final Poster

As You can see the font and colour of my poster match the Digipak.

Final Digipak

Digipak 2

I had learned that my digpak drawing were not working well as a drawing therefore I have changed to photographs. I need to add in song list as well as the band name on front cover and the spine.

Rough cut 2

Here is my second rough cut of my music video, As you can see more filming needs to be done . I have band shots now with editing still to continue with to improve my work so far.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

Question 1



Question 2

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

I think that the combination of my main product to ancillary texts is strong as I show a clear link between them. You can see on my digipak and my poster both photographs are set in the woods

, In my music video I have a few scenes also set in the woods. I have done this as many rock music videos have footage in the woods. I also thought the woods was an effective way to link to the album name "What Separates Me From You" as the woods puts people in isolation as it can be so big and easy to get lost in. I thought this was an interesting concept so I decided to include it in my work. I decided to use the same photographs on my digipak and poster as they both promote the band as you see all band member in the woods as I stated links to the album name nicely. The photographs of the bands show them wearing different clothes to the music video which I did because I thought it is best to show that they are different times as I wouldn't want to try and force a connection onto my work. As it is ancillary tasks it means that I wanted to show it is separate to the music video which is why the costume is different.  I feel that a music video, digipak and poster advertising the new album works well it is what you would expect to see. A band when releasing an album promotes it in a magazine which is why I chose to do a poster as well as featuring the front cover of the digipak on it so the audience can identify what product they are looking for when going to buy the new album. In all 3 tasks I included the band members. This worked well as all tasks are used to promote the band making them well known and identifiable. By making the band the focus of the digipak and poster it means that before seeing the video the audience would know who the band are. By having them standing in a specific order you can identify they stand in the same order in the music video showing how I have thought hard about the positioning of the band in the creation of my ancillary tasks.Between my digipak and poster I kept the same colour and font as it is important to continue themes across tasks. I chose the pink colour as it is stands out a lot as well as being unusual to see for a rock / metal core band as you expect to see dark colours but pink is thought to be girly usually. I think it looks nice against the green of the woods especially on the digipak where the leaves made it look like the band name had darker blobs of colour. I think due to these features my main product and ancillary tasks worked well together.

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Question 4

Plumtree

Jake, the ancillaries are coming together now, just make sure you maintain continuity across them with regards to fonts, colours and images. How are you going to link these tasks to your video?

Evaluation Plan

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
 Prezi - Talk about conventions of real life media artifacts and compare to my own justifying why or why not used and how successful it all is.

2.How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Long typed answer on blog with lots of screen grabs to show the audience what I am on about.

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Bubbl.us - Going through what I discovered and how that influenced my ideas.  How the feedback helped me create my final product

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Google slides - What software I used and how useful it was, Any issues I had and how I overcome them. From last year at AS what I used and why I did / didn't use the same software.