Nadia’s Media Blog

1 production – Music video

Genre- The genre of my music by Paramore is Pop Punk or Indie Rock.

Conventions

•  Band playing
• More natural real locations
• Less polished
• Handheld cameras and close up on guitars/ musicians and vocalists to show strengh and reality of music
• Strong serious message within video
• Fastpased editing

I’ve achieved these in my music video

however I tried to twist the serious message convention

usually the music and video are based on emotional and persoanl stories although with mine I focussed on creating a theme of nature and the issues.

Narrative- My music video

tried to make a statement and focuss more on the message of the music.

Representation- With Rock music it is generally represented with men as being hard and argressive however with Paramore and how I’ve represented females in my music video, I have allowed them to represent the music.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3RYW0YoEk Flyleaf – Female vocal and rock band

Audience-

Media Language-

Narrative

Represetation in my music video

How are people represented in my video?

The people are dressed in typical/causual clothing.  I wanted to stear away from the materialistic/celebrity/ fancy/ speical dress that you would see in a pop music.

I showed my music video to my class

“Like the black and white effects”

“Pretty damn good” 

“Really liked it…was intresting”

“I liked the random clips”

Also did a structured survey with two groups

1st group – my target audience male and females 15-21

2nd group- random age ranges

I aksed them

What did you dislike about the music video?

Did you understand the narrative/theme of the music video?

Do you think the video images and music went well together?

Do you think it would work better with more video effects?

and individual comments

Some of the video seemed to cut off the face of singers

yes the start was a good collage

yes as its upbeat

no I think limited effects worked well

Maybe needed long video sequences or storylines

dislike: myself lol - I have to watch some more times to see if theres anything else that jumps out!
I did understand narrative/theme: kind of about: strength/people being strong in the face of adversity, fighting their troubles and eventually they’ll win/come out on top??
yh I did think images and music went well together as they emphasised what the theme was about. I think maybe you could’ve tried some more effects, to make it vary abit more, but still really good. i liked the mirror effect at the end – was really cool!

Complete/Final Music Video

Media Evaluation

 Media Evaluation Presentation

Software:

• Microsoft Office  Publisher
• Macromedia Fireworks
• Microsoft Office Powerpoint
• Windows Movie Maker

Research:

• Google image – Magazine covers
• YouTube
• Blog

Hardware:

• Digital cameras
• PC’s
• Video camcorders

Pros and Cons

In my AS project I was allocated to use Microsoft Publisher to create preliminary.  No effects could be done to actual photograph but I could create and learnt how to create magazine layouts.

I then moved onto Macromedia Fireworks to create main project (music magazine) where I found overlaping and merging photograph with objects easier and more effetive.

AS Magazine Analysis

 A2

Discovered new image editing software Gimp where I found more features that could alter/enhance photographs more.

Digtial camera – Pros- Real life images can be shot, lots of photographys can be taken and automatically transftered to PC.

Video Camera – Easily transftered onto PC

YouTube- Free to view official music video,

Blog- Easily update and follow work

1.a Explain developed skills from 2 years of A-level work

• Digital technology
• Research and planning
• Creativity
• Post production
• Using convention of media texts

Research and planning- I developed a more structured project managment from Foundation to Advanced portfolios.

Post production -

 Digital technology- software, equipment,

My skills using image editing software

photography

1.b Evaulate 1 production from 2 year

• Genre                               School magazine  (ancillary)
• Narrative                           Music magazine (main
• Representation                   Music advertisment (ancillary)
• Audience                            Music album cover (ancillary)
• Media language                  Music video (main)

I’m going to research into ‘Representation’

My music magazine main production AS level.

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

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancilliary texts?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

How did you use media technologies in construction and research, planning and evaluation?

Internet,

With the first few seconds of the song the music has a repetative one tone beat

and during the photoshoots secion I captured to get an action shot.

I though that this would go with the pace/beat of the music.

To make it more interesting I decided to put it in reverse!!! this could also reflect the song topic. reversing mistakes..

Tired with diffrent speeds