Hey! My name is Jamie Brookes and I am a Media Studies student at West Hatch High School. I am very keen of Media and hope to continue discovering the every changing world surrounding it in university and later life. For my A2 course myself and two others, Faye Martin and Elliot Lee must create a music video and digi-pack for a band of our choice. On my blog I will be showing all the research and ideas I have come up with as well as the finished projects themselves and an evaluation summarising everything I have completed during the course. We also have a group blog, were group decisions, discussions and final ideas are kept.

Thursday 7 April 2011

The End!

Today is the day I have finished my Media Studies coursework. I have finished all the posts on my blog, all my products (album artwork and website home page) and the music video to the song Bring Me To Life for the band Forgetting Last Friday.

Overall I have really enjoyed this coursework. I have enjoyed creating the music video as well as the ancillary texts that go with it and of course working with my group, as a team, as ELJAF Productions. I hope that you too enjoy looking through my blog and my groups blog and enjoy watching our music video, Forgetting Last Friday - Bring Me To Life.

Evaluation

Below is the playlist which contains all three parts of my evaluation. In the evaluation I answer these four questions:

1. In what ways does your media porduct use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
 
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
 
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
 
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?





The Music Video

Below is the finished, 100% completed, music video for the band Forgetting Last Friday to the song Bring Me To Life. Overall we are extremely happy with what we have created and hope everyone enjoys viewing the music video. I will be going through the video more in my evaluation. We hope that everyone enjoys the video as much as we have making it! :)

Wednesday 6 April 2011

The Music Video - Rough Cut 2

Below is the second rough cut of our music video. This cut was shown to our teacher. She watched through this cut and she thought that overall it was very good, very well edited, performed and put together. There were some small issues which she felt were in the video, these are listed below:

  • 00:51 - Sitting on the floor - possibly longer
  • 01:00 - Centre the shot
  • 01:12 - When she is going down the stairs she should progress further
  • 01:35 - More of the artist
  • 02:00 - Maybe change the shot
  • 02:20 - Zoom in closer
  • 02:50 - Maybe change the shot
  • 02:55 - Zoom in or make the shot longer
  • 03:00 - I think this part is slightly out of sync 

Meeting

Today I decided to look through my entire blog and make some changes to some of the posts that either did not make sense or were incorrectly labelled or titled.

One major change I did was to upload how I made the parts of the album cover.

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Metting

Today we decided to finish our music video. We managed to get all the clips into place and will put transitions and effects on the clip in tomorrows lesson and after school. We have also planned the evaluation answers for the four questions and will be completing this too tomorrow, in order to met the deadline. Once everything is completed we will upload the video to YouTube in full video and audio quality and embed them onto our own blogs and the group blog.

Monday 4 April 2011

The Music Video - Rough Cut

Below is our rough cut which we showed to our media class and some other sixth form students. As you can see when watching the video there are some small parts missing and some clips in the wrong place, however these can be easily ironed out and corrected. For example at 3:21 you can see that our main artist laughs during the performance scene, this scene has already been re-filmed and will replace this part of the music video.