Evaluation (1)

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

In question 1, we all split up the planning of each media product (myspace, album cover, music video), this meant that whoever did what factor would start the discussion of that media product. Here we spoke about what conventions we used for each media product and how we may have developed them or challenged ourselves.


Above is a small clip of our question one, however you can find the full version of this on our GROUP BLOG!
I was to do the planning for the Myspace, and it was my task to talk about how we developed, used or challenged the conventions for this. I started off the question and think we answered it well, for our planning we had all written seperate sheets on each topic for planning. And so even though we did our individual planning we had bullet pointed numerous points in order to make it easier to prompt each other on what to say.
We did this with all sections of question one. I think we answered the question well and included all the components of the question successfully. I think because as a group we picked out points to say seperately, we all equally spoke about whether or not we followed the conventions.

Overall, i think we did our evaluation well and covered all the points that needed to be.
In a couple of posts below you will be able to see our planning for this question.
Below is a clip of our evaluation....

Here we made reference to numerous items.

Crying Blood- VV Brown, Empire state of mind- Jay Z, Charlotte Church- Moodswings

Below is Empire state of mind- one of our few examples.

Also, for Goodwins theory of the notion of looking we made reference to our reaction shots and a frame within a frame shot of Sian.

Additionally to Goodwin's theory we made references to the use of musics and visuals, we used this lots thoroughout our video. Below is a short example of the theory lyrics to visuals, where Skye is wiping away a heart on a steamed window, implying a broken heart and lostlove.



Also through editing we changed the speed of numerous shots in order to make them work well with the beat of the music.

A few album covers we looked at where The Saturdays, VV Brown, Lily Allen
As shown below...