first question of the evaluation

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

We made sure that the record label, that we designed as a group was on all three of our products, so that the audience know that it’s all part of the same record company. The video is set outside and at school/ home environments, this corresponds to the narrative of the   video because it’s about somebody being bullied. We also use a doll of the front of the CD cover which links to the video as a doll is used to gain revenge. We chose a front that fitted and the conventions of the indie genre as the band because the band is indie.  The lighting we’ve chosen is mainly natural light, but in a few senses we used lights just to put more definition of the main subject in the shots.  We’ve kept the colour scheme of the video/website/ CD cover the same so it’s all relative to the genre and the bands image.

In the researching and planning stages of our project we have to take test shots of our video to see if they would work out. The tests included quick scenes of the bully and the things we we’re planning to have in our video but just at a basic level.  We also took pictures of shots that we were unsure of, and had feedback from the pitch on. The feedback said that those shots would b complex and hard to do, so we took a few photo’s of those shots and blogged them to make them more easy understand and how as a group we’re planning to do them. 

by George