Elizabeth Baker A level Media: 2014

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

4) How Did You Use New Media Technologies In The Construction And Research, Planning And Evaluation Stages?

3) What Have I Learnt From My Audience Feedback?

2) How Effective Is The Combination Of My Main Product and Ancilliary Tasks?

1) In What Ways Does My Media Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Updated Final Magazine Advert-Final Piece.

After my Focus Group feedback, I decided to make a few small alterations to my last final piece. I added:

names of band members
name of album
release date
what it is
where you can buy it

I left out:

tour dates (already written on the digipak
price (might be off-putting)

I chose to keep the digipak on Akshay's head because I think it's funny and I want them all to be holding it in different ways.
I wrote in green because white text was not visible on a yellow background (also why 'Dougie' is written on Akshay's shirt, not the background.
I didn't make the photos bigger because then their shoulders would have been cut off even more and I didn't want that.
The advert is still eye-catching and simple so it can be easily seen and read from a long way away.

Audience Feedback for Music Video.

What we asked:

What do you like about it?
What could be improved?
Would you check out the digipak based on the music video?
Does it look like a real music video to you?

Audience Feedback for Digipak and Magazine Advert.

What I Have Learned:

My work is not as bad as I thought it was, I have edited well
People understand the ideas well
People don't necessarily understand why Akshay has the digipak on his head in the advert, but it's good that they are all holding the digipak differently, it is creative and interesting
Too much empty space is a bad thing
The digipak is good because it is full of information and has a lot of different elements and detail
Bright colours I used are good and go well together
Everyone in the focus group preferred the digipak to the magazine advert
A lot of people liked how I had shown the audience the song titles on the back of the digipak
It was good of me to use the whole band and show the front of them on the front of the digipak and their backs on the back of the digipak
Magazine Advert looks unfinished
Most of them said they would buy the digipak because of my advert
My ideas are original go well with the band, they are also creative

What I Would Do Differently:

I need to make the photos and writing bigger on the magazine advert to fill the empty space
Maybe also add a release date to the advert
Although they said they didn't like/understand why Akshay has the digipak on his head in the magazine advert, I don't want to change it because you can see the digipak in the other photos and it was supposed to be funny
Need to write the name of the digipak on the magazine advert/price/tour dates/names of band members