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

3)What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

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

Final Music Video

16/03/15

Aaron and Hayley, today morning, finished off editing the music video by adding various transitions. They experimented with adding filters to the performance part as it was a bit dull however when doing this they felt that the overall performance being in colour does not work well at all. This is due to the lighting being odd making the hues on the clips look tacky and unprofessional. Therefore, the idea of having the performance in colour and narrative in monochrome was changed to having the whole music video be in monochrome.

This is our final Music Video:

After screening and presenting our final music video, the feedbacks we got were fairly positive. Everyone in our class felt that by doing a reshoot on the performance really made our music video, as a whole, look stronger and more professional. Although Jess is not conventional in illustrating the stereotypical pop star look her performance really stood out making our video not be entirely conventional but still illustrating the pop genre.

Performance Shoot with Jess

12/03/15

Today Megan, Aaron and I stayed behind to do the performance shoot with Jess. I think the shoot today worked really well as we got lots of various shots from different camera angles of Jess singing which looked amazing. Her performance was superb as she was actually singing along to the song amplifying her emotions to connote the lyrics. In some sections of the song she was forgetting the lyrics, however when editing we will not include these errors. She also brought along various dresses of the colours: white to connote peace and elegance, red to connote danger and love and dark navy to connote the idea of darkness. I liked how from the beginning to the middle Jess's style and outfit is subtle until the end ,where the music picks up more beat and gets aggressive, having a dark style. We kept the source of light, white studio lights, being the same and used the fan however didn't use the prop of a micro-phone as it meant that Jess would be limited to showing her emotions through body language. 

As our music video has to be handed in on Monday, Aaron will take a macbook home and will start constructing our final music video using the footage we got today.

Re-casting of Isabel Beau

11/03/15

Due to the performance being carried out by our actress, Alex, was not to the high standard which everyone was expecting to see in the music video, we decided to re-cast.Alex's 

From the constructive criticism feedback we got from our music video we have decided to have Jess, who is a singer and performer, act as our artist. By having Jess play Isabel's role I feel the performance will look much more stronger and natural due to it being realistic as she will sing and perform as if it is her songs.

Although this is the third time we are changing our actress for the role of Isabel Beau, our digi-packs and poster will still remain the same of them being of poppy.