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

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Receiving audience feedback is very important as it will provide us information on whether we achieved what we intended to create, as well as aspects of our products in which could have been improved. We used different methods to gather opinions on our music video. We gave the audience different ways to share there opinions, and therefore this gave us more feedback to analyse, meaning our overall results were more accurate.

Focus group
We held a focus group in class, where was asked 25 people to write on a yellow post stick note one positive of our music video and one negative which we could have improved.

These are some of the people we used. 

A lot of the negative responses we got were similar to each other which helped us as we knew specifically which bits of the video could have been improved. Below I have created a Wordle which shows which responses were more frequent than others.

These the negative responses

 Although some people were struggling to think of a negative of the music video, we did get a fair amount of responses. The most popular answer we received was that we didn't use enough variety in the shots we used for the band. Also the standard of acting is something in which people commented on, which made us think we may should have used drama students like we did in the thriller... although I thought I was good :-)

These are the positive responses

The main response we got back from the focus group was that the split screen switch over was the best part of the video. This pleased us as we have used that in our digipak and magazine advert as well. Another aspect of the video people seemed to like was the humour used. 

The Survey

In addition we created a online survey for people to create on surveymonkey.com. We tried to get as many people that were not involved in the focus group to fill out the survey to receive a variety of results. We created 8 questions for people to answer. 

1. What gender are you?

We felt this question was important to get an idea of which gender was most likely to watch our video. We expected it the be mainly male and as you can see in the graph below this was true with 13 males to 7 females. These results may not be 100% accurate as only 20 people were asked, however it is something to go. 

2. How old are you?

We asked this question to find out if our predicted target audience of 16 to 21 year old's was correct. As you can see from the graph, it was indeed correct with most of the responses being from 16 - 21 year old's. 

3. What rating would you give our video out of 10? (10 being best)

We were very pleased to discover that the main response given was actually 10/10 with 30% of the people giving us that score. Also very pleasing was that not one person of the 20 rated the video below 7, showing the people who responded and were not within the target audience also enjoyed it. 

4. What genre would you consider our music video to be?

We created this question to find out if the audience agreed with the genres we considered our video to be. We believed our video to be mainly comedy with a storyline. These were the two responses we got back as you can see in the pie chart below. Romance and emotion also were ticked which we did not intend the music video to be like, however we can understand why some may get emotional and think its a romance as its about an ending relationship.

5. How would you rate the lip syncing in the video? (10 being best)

The response we got for this question was very good as no one rated it below average.

6. How would you rate the acting?

We expected to get negative responses for this question as in the focus group a lot of people said the standard of acting could have been improved. However we received very similar responses to those of the lip syncing which we were pleased about.

7. Can you name any improvements we could make?

We asked participants of the survey to consider what improvements we could make to the video to improve it. It was great to find that the most popular response was that they could not think of any changes, however things which were mentioned included the storyline, mise en scene, and lip syncing, along with others shown below;

8. Would you consider the locations used to be appropriate?

The responses were main successful, however one person replied that the settings were not appropriate. We made a mistake here as we should of asked why they thought this. 

Overall analysis

Overall we feel very pleased with the results we received and the criticism we did get back was only constructive. We managed to give the impression through the video which we aimed to. 

 

Evaluation Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts (Digipak and Magazine Advert)?

To go with our music video, we also had to create a six panel digipak and a magazine advert. We had to imagine that the music video was really going out and therefore the digipak and magazine advert had to look as professional as possible and had to appeal to the target audience. To give to our audience an idea of what our band and song are like, we kept elements in all three products similar, as shown below. 


Font
As you can see, we have used very similar fonts on all three products. We did this to maintain our running theme of urban music and we feel the font reflects this image as it is 'graffiti' like. We got the fonts from a website called dafonts.com and experimented with a number of various combinations, but used slightly varying fonts on each to provide each product with individuality at the same time as being part of the overall project.

Brick Wall
The brick wall is perhaps the most obvious aspect which runs throughout the products, and we used the exact same picture for both ancillary products, both of which mirror the one we used in the chorus of the song in the video. This is directly associated with the urban indie feel we tried to portray, and is what inspired us to use graffiti-styled fonts. Even the picture of the band that we took for the digipak we used a brick wall as the background. This provides the audience with a vivid association between the three products, the band and the song.

The Boys
There is one individual screen shot/picture that we aimed to have as the aspect of the product overall which the audience will remember and use as a point of recognition for the song and video. It is the main shot of the chorus, and was our first idea when producing the video. It is included on all three products, but in different ways, to keep the audience interested in the different methods of display, but at the same time for it to make a repeated impression.

Digipak

Magazine Advert

Digipak Front Cover

Music Video

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

We have also taken into account the opinions of what we consider to be out target audience, to find out if we achieved what we wanted to, in terms of the ancillary products. We did this through an interview which can be seen below. The results we gathered suggests that we have produced effective products. 

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

Overall Final Work

Below is the final three products that we created.

Music Video

Digipak

Magazine Advert

Creating our Magazine Advert

We created our magazine advert using photoshop and as we have used this programme a lot in other lessons, we were able to use the tools well and create a good magazine advert.

We discussed and all agreed before hand that we would go with a similar theme in both the magazine advert and the digipak. This were to include a brick wall as in the 'Oh me Oh my' scene in the video, they are in front of a wall. So we started off by walking round to same place we filmed the 'Oh me Oh my' scene and simply took a picture of the wall on my phone. We then uploaded this into photoshop where we began working with it. We decided to make this our background on the magazine advert

We then used the pictures that we took when we did the chorus scene in the music video and used the magnetic lasso tool the cut out each individual person holding a sign. We then used the filter and colour tools to give an effect the picture as scene below. The effect we made was as if the pictures were drew or graffitied onto the brick wall. 

We were also searching for a 'graffiti' type font and we began searching the web. On dafont.com we found some very good and interesting fonts, and ended up using one which we downloaded for free called 'Cityburn' 

Below is the first digipak in which we fought was our final one, however after looking over once again and getting some feedback,we realised that at the bottom it looked a little bit too cluttered. Therefore we got rid off one rating and spaced out the text more and we believe it looks a lot more professional, as you can see in the very bottom picture on this post. 

Creating our Digipak

Below is a explanation on each side of the digipak on how we created it.