A2 Evaluation Questions (Preliminary)

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We recreated a music video therefore in itself we took on the challenge of challenging convections of real media, we took it upon ourselves to recreate the video in the best and most achievable way we possibly could, to do this we considered things like the plain miss en scene and the outfit choice, although it wasn't perfect it was a good attempt to achieve the closest thing possible within the time and with the props and equipment that we had on hand, For editing we used final cut pro this is a proper media product that is often used within the industry as it is very high skilled and complex to use, and it helped us achieve what we could of with our knowledge of the programme 


How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
i think that our media product could be very effective but we have a downside as it is only one minuet of the video and it doesn't run for the whole thing, leaving us at a disadvantage of the audience not being able to view the whole thing 



What have you learned from your audience feedback?
from showing my peers my my group work, i have a mixed feed back, mainly positive with a handful of negatives thrown in, most people have said that it is good for what we have done and the amount of time we had to do it, and they have said that they really enjoyed watching it because it was different and funny and interesting; on the other hand others have said that it isn't close enough to the real thing and there is clear improvements that could be made to make it look better, with these positive and negative feedbacks we can progress on to making our video a lot better for the actual product and but all the positives and negatives together to achieve the best 

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
to find the sound Be My Wife we used youtube and from youtube we carefully copied the music video, and David bowies dance movements within the video to capture Charles ( our David Bowie) within the video, we also used youtube to help us create our story board so then we could copy this closely, we used soft boxes for the lights as they allowed us to achieve the right lighting like they did in the actual David Bowie video and it helped create the crisp white background that we were looking for, we also used a video camera to record our music video on, it wasn't as high of quality as it would've been within the actual David Bowie video but we did the best with what we had at hand