evaluation question 1
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Evaluation Question 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Visuals for video Use: • Ed Sheeran’s Video-‐ We took inspiration from Ed Sheeran’s music video “One”
because we used some of the shots used in his video like the moving of the camera to different corners of the frame. Shots of music video
• We took ideas from George Ezra’s music video “Listen to the man” because we liked the use of the backdrop, stage setting, use of props and addition of humour. Shots of music video
• Adele’s Video-‐ When we watched Adele’s music video for “Hometown Glory” we really liked how smooth and clean the shots were through the use of a dolly. This gave us the inspiration to use a dolly when filming our music video to help us achieve this look as well. Shots of music video
• Ava Ruskin Video-‐ We also took inspiration from a student A level music for the song “He wasn’t there” because we really liked the creative use of props to make links to the lyrics. This encouraged us to use props in our music video to achieve the same outcome. This references Andrew Goodwin’s theory as it mentions how there is a relationship between visuals and lyrics and we most definitely portrayed this idea in our music video from the range of props and actions we had. Shots of music video
• Instrument-‐ We made sure we stuck to the convention of how singer/songwriters have their instrument present in their music videos to express the importance of it. We have Dave bring his guitar in so he could play and sing for us as if it was a live performance and this really helped when it came to lip syncing to the song. Shots of Dave playing guitar and Ed Sheeran playing guitar
• Colour coding-‐ we colour coded our music video in Final Cut Pro to give it a warm feel but adding a purple/blue tint to the clips of Dave’s performance as these kinds of colours are linked with the singer/songwriter genre in giving across and warm/friendly feel. Shots of Dave’s performance and gig pictures
• Colour on Digipak and Poster-‐ We also thought carefully about the colours we used on the digipak and poster. We stuck to darker shades because we didn’t want it to look over the top and too bright which is a huge contrast to the style of many digipaks and posters of the pop genre. The colours are linked with the singer/songwriter genre and give across and warm and friendly feel. We also found other examples like Adele’s album that consist of darker colours. Shots of Digipak and Poster and Adele’s album cover
Challenge: • Narrative-‐ Our music video goes against many singer/songwriter music videos as
it doesn’t contain any narrative aspects that you would normally see in music videos of this genre. Our video contains performance with our artist and concept
aspect with our actress so there was no narrative involved. Shots of Dave and Sammy
• Humour-‐ Our music video is humorous throughout as it portrays the themes of laziness and procrastination which we have made funny through acting and creative use of props. Most singer/songwriter music videos we have seen tend to portray an emotional meaning so ours is a big contrast to this. Funny shots of Sammy
• Andrew Goodwin theory (idea of the artist selling themselves)-‐ our video is very different to this as we focussed on the simplicity of the genre and how the artist just acts naturally in front of the camera and the focus is equally spread between Dave and Sammy so no one is more important than the other. Shots of Dave and Sammy
• Poster-‐ We decided not to feature our artist on our advertisement poster which goes against the conventions of most of the singer/songwriter posters we researched. We liked this because it creates a simplicity about the poster and we featured him a lot in our digipak so we didn’t want too much of him. Shots of poster
Develop: • Casual clothing-‐ We developed the convention of how singer/songwriters will
wear casual, comfortable clothing in their music videos. Both Dave and Sammy were wearing casual clothing. We developed it further through having our actress wear a onesie, which really helped to emphasise the theme of laziness. Shots of Sammy in onesie
• Target Audience-‐ The singer/songwriter genre has a quite vague target audience, so we developed this further by making it more specific. Our target audience was mainly teenagers as this age can relate well to the lyrics, so we made this direct link. Shots of Sammy
• Speed-‐ We wanted to develop our video by giving it a faster pace and so to do this we sped up some of the clips of Sammy by either 2x or 4x. This made the video stand out as something different to what we had seen in the genre and it also reflected the humour of the song well. Sped up shots of Sammy
• Digipak-‐ We developed the convention that the artists profile will most often be present on the digipak as in this genre this is the main focus. We took plenty of pictures of our artist, which meant we were able to have him on one or more panels of the digipak, which helped emphasise his importance as a solo artist. Shots of Digipak