Evaluation question 3

This is a podcast created by our group to answer question 3 of our evaluation on audience feedback. We asked 4 audience members to give feedback in regards to 4 questions that we asked:-

What would you rate our video out of 10?

Results 8, 8, 9, 7

How likely is it that you would watch more videos produced by us?

Options:- Definitely not, Unlikely, Likely, Definitely

Results:- Definitely, Likely, Definitely not, Likely

How likely are you to recommend this video to your friends?

Options:- Definitely not, Unlikely, Likely, Definitely

Results:-Don't know, Likely, Unlikely, Likely

How would you improve our video?

Results:- Don't know, bigger budget, better editing, use the same camera throughout.

There was some confusion as to the format in which we asked the questions with one audience member not understanding how to answer the question. This was rectified by a group member explaining however this can be avoided by making the way to give feedback simpler. Furthermore, our results have been hindered by one of the audience members being incapable of comprehending what it is that we asked of him in terms of choosing one of the 4 answers provided that best suits his attitude towards our product.

Evaluation question 2

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

This is a Powerpoint presentation I have produced to answer question 2 of my evaluation.

Evaluation question 1

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

Real media products are often meticulously planned down to the last detail to ensure that what is filmed accurately reflects the wishes of the director. Our product however began as something that was meticulously planned and transformed in to a master-class in improvisation with each member of the group simply doing what they felt was natural and had a camera recording as opposed to having a very artificial situation with people acting unnaturally.

We felt that we had to make a statement through our product in that we used juxtaposing music genres to construct our video. The soft and mellow country music contrasts deeply with the hard and rebellious punk rock allowing for us to have polarising themes and actions within our product.

Our product plays on the expectations of costume in our videos as we took inspiration from music videos such as Play Hard by David Guetta and movies like Blazing Saddles and amplified it by using bright colours and exaggerating the extent of the costumes.
Furthermore, our video subverts the expectation of cowboys and Mexicans fighting because although at the beginning of the video we intended it to look that way in the end we decided that it would be better for us to show all the members of the 'band' having fun as would be expected from a punk rock music video.

A large portion of our thinking behind the shots which we did plan are referencing real media products such as the egg in my mouth being a reference to Conan The Barbarian. Moreover we didn't explicitly label our references and instead chose to take parts from general areas of media, for example our parody of the genre convention of pop to have dance routines came in the form of Kelli's sloppy, exaggerated dancing and his eventual fall then recovery.

Permission Update

As a group we decided that it would be for the best of the project if we chose a different song than Cancion Del Mariachi because we have found that another song is more fitting to our requirements. Therefore we have decided to use Ecstasy of Gold by Ennio Morricone, more commonly known as The Good The Bad and The Ugly.

Final Digipak

First of all I had to find a template to begin my digipak making process because i had previously brainstormed some ideas that i could use on the digipak.

This is the template that I was going to use because it is simple and allows me to properly express myself through my creative choices in the presentation of my digipak. However, I felt that I had more material that I could use for the digipak than 4 sides allow which lead to me using a larger template.

Final Magazine Advert

Final Advanced Portfolio Production