LAST EVER POST ):

I'm actually kind of relieved to be writing this? Is that bad? 

Before i officially say bye i just want to write a message for my amazing group! Amal, Mariam and Kavita - its been wonderful working with you guys and i know at some points we had been let down by locations or even a blog but we managed to pull through it to find last minute plans! I couldn't have asked for  more supportive and hard working group that wanted to achieve the best grades and would go to the moon and back for it!

The commitment that me and my group members dedicated to media was better than i could have ever asked for. It was a blast filming with you guys everyday in the half term and pulling each others hair out in the editing suite. After all the things we've been through, it wasn't all that bad and i just want to wish you guys all the best in life!! I hope we all get great media grades and i hope you show your friends the great music video that we all made!

As this is my last ever blog post, i want to thank all of the media teachers for being so supportive and helping us through our journey! Couldn't have asked for better teachers! I hope you're proud of our media products and i hope we make it to the 'Hall of fame' . 

I also want to thank blogger for being consistent and a joy to work with.

Thank you and bye, see you on the other side. 

EVALUATION - QUESTION 1

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FINAL PROGRESS REVIEW BLOG

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How does my AS blog compare to my A2 blog?

If I'm honest, i was quite proud of my AS blog because i did put a lot of effort and hard work in to it. However i think

It’s obvious to say that there was much much much (repetition intended) more research and planning involved this year. And although there were different technologies suggested to us, we had to work independently to find our own so that was different to AS because in A2 there's much more different content to blog. I discovered so many new ICT apps this year and my email is full of 'Thank you for joining .....' emails because of this coursework ): In terms of detail, i think i did go in to detail about some things in A2 because our ideas had to be explained more thoroughly because things were much more complicated, there were much more marks on the line!!

How effectively does my blog show all aspects of planning, research and production?

Well i think at the beginning i was much more consistent with blogging research blogs because thats when we were bursting with ideas. But I'm afraid to say that i do think there were gaps in my work for when we done so many things in the half term that i never found time to blog or even upload pictures of our journey. We could have showed a more in depth plan on blogger because most of the planning gets done face to face and virtually and it’s hard to document everything. 

 Production blogs were also impressive because we went to so many different locations, there was always a 'how we think it went' blog post' or something along those lines. My blog is quite effective in reflecting on my advanced portfolio due to all the reflection of progress blogs because that's when we realize what we have or still have to do. 

How many individuals posts do i have?

If i counted correctly i have 57 individual blogs out of 94 blogs (might be more if i decide to blog some more). There were loads of things we done as a group to avoid similar blog posts but i feel like i work well on my own as well as a group because we all had different opinions on how things went throughout filming and stuff.

What would you change, given another opportunity?

If I'm honest there isn't much i would change but now that i think about it.. 

I would change the song - i would have rather done a song that doesn't already have a video just so our ideas were fresh and nothing copied from the original videos

I would change it from a group to an individual artist like Jessie J because it would have been so much easier to plan costume and easier for production in terms of availability. 

EVALUATION - QUESTION 4

Question 4 

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Over the period of making the music video and our ancillary work, we asked for feedback at almost every point of the way. We asked for feedback even before we started planning things like location and what we thought our target audience would want to see in a video. 

I've learnt that its essential to get feedback from our target audience because its our target audience that our media products are aimed at.

We got thorough feedback from our media teachers and our target audience for the rough cut and without the feedback our music video would have gone against the conventions of  a music video as it didn't have continuity editing. It made us look at our media product in a different light as after the feedback we had to go back and refilm at some of the locations. If we hadn't got feedback for our 'still chorus' then we wouldn't have filmed again at the kings cross fountain and lost marks for having a still chorus that isn't engaging with the audience due to it being too dark and the artists too far from the camera. 

After asking for feedback after the screening, we asked for feedback on twitter where it was easy to reach our target audience. 

Click here to see ancillary feedback - For my ancillary i was told that the synergy aspect is good and obvious and the black and white color was consistent. Although this made me look at my work in a different way because i could have used the colors black and white for synergy because we wear those colors a lot in the video.

Click here to see feedback after screening

Click here for teachers feedback from rough cut - from the teachers feedback we saw how an older target audience would see our music video and what they thought of it. We often got that the concept was good/nice as it was clear and concise through filming and thorugh the lyrics.

EVALUATION - QUESTION 2

EVALUATION - QUESTION 3

This is a video of our animatic that we made on Final Cut Pro using pictures and our soundtrack.

PRODUCTION - Audience feedback for ancillary

PLANNING - Costume for Ancillary products

What should we wear???!?!?!?!?!?!

Media costume choice

PRODUCTION - FARHEEN FINALS M8

PRODUCTION - Ancillary process

PLANNING - Reason behind location

Embed in Blog - collage

PLANNING - Mock up advert

PLANNING - Potential ancillary pictures

Here's the edited picture that i wanted to use for my digipak and advertisement. As you may be able to see, the quality isn't great and thats because i used Instagram (the photo editing app on my iPhone) to add a filter to this photo because i couldn't edit it on Photoshop. 

So after i had edited it and sent it back to the mac to put on Photoshop, it downloaded as a really small image and if i enlarge it then the quality goes really bad and the photo becomes pix-elated. 

So i had to change my image choice although i was really happy with this picture ):

PLANNING - Short list of fonts

PRODUCTION - Feedback from others on music video

PLANNING - Taking pictures!

We decided as a group that it would be best to take new pictures instead of using the ones we have from filming simply because they were taken with a still camera and the quality wouldn't have been any good.

On the day we actually ended up taking almost 200 pictures which i think is very little because there's three of us in a group however we were happy with the pictures we took using our black balloon and chose costumes.

PLANNING - Dos and don'ts of ancillary work

Dos and Don'ts of ancillary work by aa63353 on GoAnimate

PLANNING - Mock up

Here are two of my mock ups! 

I decided to stick to the black and white color palette because we already made the mistake of wearing different color clothes or blue, orange and grey.

So i have a background of white and i wanted to make the photo black and white to give it an old effect however it didn't look as appealing as i'd imagined so i left it with color.  

I also want to keep the inside simple with just the album and group name on the actual CD instead of an image because there's three of us and too many pictures already.

RESEARCH - AS CD cover

CD Cover i made AS

Strengths:

• I stuck to a three color palette (almost) of blue, yellow and a dark maroon color
• The font of the track listing is nice (Well it looks like a font you would see on actual CDs)
• I mentioned the record label on the spine and the back cover
• The artists name is in a bigger font from the album name which is good because the album in to promote the artist instead of the album

Weaknesses

• Almost everything! 
• Why did i blur our the picture? It made it look unprofessional and silly. (Well i know why we blurred it out because we didn't really take a good enough picture which resulted in using a silly picture we took rather than a bad quality screen shot from the video)
• The 5 star rating at the back looks fake because i didn't use a stencil but instead with a paint brush on photoshop

RESEARCH - Practise CD cover