Audience Feedback

As you can see from the audience feedback that the people that viewed and evaluated our music video were very impressed. The feedback that we gathered was that the audience thought that we stuck to the conventions of girlbands. We found that what we always intended to achieve from the music video we did. We found that the standard that we achieved with the music video was to a professional standard and we are very impressed with the feedback we achieved and we are very glad that people think that all the hard work we put into our music video paid off with the posotive comments.

Website Evaluation

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

The media cover that i created for one of my ancillery tasks develops and we have tried to conform to the conventions of real media products. This is because we created a girl band in which we wanted to follow the conventions that other girlbands follow, this was so that our band would be professional and look as if it was an already famous band.

We tried to stick to similar fonts that other girl bands used, this was because then it would look professional. Also we researched first into other bands and artists magazine covers. We used a big central picture in the middle of the website, this was so that it would follow the conventions of other girl bands websites.This image that we used was taken on a professional camera, this was so that it was more like a professional girl bands website.

We have put our name in bold writing across the top, this is so that it is one of the main focuses of the website. I have put it in pink femanine writing this is so that it looks more like a professional girl bands website.

I have stuck to the typical conventions that other girl bands have, this is by putting links to social networking sites such as Myspace, Twitter and Facebook along the top. Also there are other links along the top such as About us, About The Band and Tour Dates. This is so that the public will be able to get to know the band and know more about us and feel as though we are a real band and not just made up.

Also i believe that the website serves the purpose that it was made for, this was to promote the single release and promote the video. The paragraph that we have written at the bottom on the home page does this, and the link to the video for beautiful dirty rich also promotes the music video.

How effective is the combination of the main product with the ancillery tasks?

Although we used a different genre for the magazine cover as we have for the music video i think that this works well to compliment the music video. I feel as thought the magazine cover and the finished website make the band seem more realistic and as if the member are real famous people as apposed to just a fake band. I believe that it adds the effect of realism to the band. I believe that the website makes it so that the audience get to know more about the band

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For this ancillery task we did not gather specific audience feedback in the form of writing, this is because we felt as if a conversation style would be more appropriate. Throughout the feedback that we gathered we found that the audience thought that the website served its purpose and made us seem like a real band. They said that the website looked very girly and we achieved what we wanted to and stuck to the conventions that we said we were going to in the research and planning. The only negative comments that we got was that they said it would have been better if we had included more images, however we did not do this on purpose as we did not want to overload the web page and thought that it looked better and more realistic as plain and simple.

How did you use meida technologies in the constructions, research and evaluation stages?

For the actual creation of the website i used iWeb this was because we tried to use sites such as Piczo, however we found that this did not work well for us. Therefore we found that there were more tools on iWeb and we would be able to create the website to the best of our potential and make it look exactly as we hoped through this software. In the research stages we decided that we would use safari on the apple mac.

Finished Website

Research Into Website

For our last ancillery task we decided that we were going to make a website, this was because i have done a2 ICT and we feel as though i have the skills to make the website to the best of my ability.

Before i began making the website we had to research into other websites of other girl bands to see what the conventions are and to see what skills i needed to use to make the website look professional and as if it was the website of a famous girl band.

I researched into the Pussycat Dolls website this was because throughout our music project we have tried to emulate them a lot.

As you can see from the print screen above the main image on the website is of one of the main members of the Pussycat Dolls. We are going to try and emulate this by using an image of us as the main focus of our website.

From this image you can see that the name of the band is also a main feature of the website. This is one of the main features on the home page. I feel as though this will be a very good thing to emulate so that the viewers of our website will know what the name of our band is from the very first glance at the home page.

I also researched into the website of Girlicious this was because we have also emulated some of the features of the music video from the Girlicious videos, some of these being the use of a bar in the video, and also the basic walk forward in formation.

From this image you can see that the same conventions are used in the Girlicious website also, the features of the image being the main focus of the website and also the name of the band being in bold and big writing i what we are going to try and emulate.

Both of the websites that i researched these being The Pussycat Dolls and Girlicious have both used colours that stand out and do not clash, this then makes the website look professional. Also we are going to use more girly colours so that it looks like a girls website however we are still going to make it look professional.

Also i researched into Lady Gagas website this was because this is the artist that we are trying to emulate as it is Lady Gagas song that we are using. Lady Gagas website website was a massive contrast to the other websites that i researched. This was because Lady Gaga used a lot of dark colours and based her website around the colour black. This was a lot different to that of the Saturdays which used a light blue background and a lot of girly colours that made it look a lot more femanine. Although we were trying to emulate Lady Gaga we decided that our website would be a lot better if we tryed to make it look more girly as were were not a single artist, we were a girlband. So we decided that using the colour pink would make our website look more girly and girl band -ish. However because we were emulating Lady Gaga we decided that we were going to use a black background to make it so that we were sticking to the conventions of Lady Gaga.

Evaluation For The Music Video


After finishing the project of the music video. I feel as though my involvement and performance in all aspects of the making, editing and researching into what we were going to do, i have done to the best of my ability. I feel that although me personally was only involved in the acting of the video for the first minute, i feel as though i fulfilled my skills to the best of my ability by doing the majority of the recording after that. Also i feel as though as a group we worked together really well when it came to the mis en scene and the costume design, we all worked together to make the scenery, which included painting the flat boards that we were going to use as the background.

I feel that in our media product we really tried and succeeded in following the conventions of the other music videos that we had researched from other girlbands. I feel that we really adapted our styles of dancing and the way we dressed and looked to the style of a real girlband. We wanted to go for the style of real pop stars, we tried to achieve this in the way that we dressed, this was through the way in which we all wore black at one time, so that we all matched and none of us clashed with each other. Also then we all decided that we were going to wear pink, this was good because then all of us were matching and then the whole picture was bright and it looked ery professional and as though we were a real girlband. Also we tried to achieve the "popstar" "famous" look by the hairstyles that we chose, we researched into other girlbands and found that they tended to have long hair which was then either curly striaght or wavy, no two girl members of the band ever had the same hairstyle although they were all always very different they always matched.

Therefore we emulated this and made it so that all of our hair matched but none of it was the same so that we would achieve the proffesional popstar look.

I feel as though in the actual recording of the video and the contents that was involved in it was also very professional and we worked well with the equiptment we had and produced some really good footage that is of the standard that we wanted.

Also the way that we have started the video with the walk forward in synchronization , this is very typical in a girlband and this makes it look very professional and well stuck to the conventions. Also we ended themusic video with a walk backwards away from the camera, i feel as though this was a very well thought and clever way to end the video, we thought of doing it as a walk away from teh camera because at the very start the opening clip was a walk towards the camera therefore this was the opposite and worked very well in the way that it was the opposite and a way of ending and closing the music video.

We decided that titeling was a very good way that we could make our video look more professional, therefore at the end of the video we decided to close the video with a black screen and a font that came up which is of the style that we feel is very Lady Gaga -ish. We thought that it was a nice way to end the music video as it showed the name of the song title we had used and also came up with all of our groups names, this then showed the viewers who created and took part in our video and who did all of the making and producing of the music video.

We asked people to view and give feedback about our music video. All of the feedback that we recieved was all posotive. We made sure that the people that we asked to evaluate our music video was all in the age range of our target audience this then made all of the feedback that we recieved more relevant and appropriate so that the feedback would be necessary for us to improve or to see if we met all of the requirements that we wanted to. Also we tought that it would be a good idea to show some people of an older audience, this was because then we would be able to see if it appealed to those of an older audience although it was aimed at the younger generation. We found that a lot of the older audience did like the video and thought that it was very well edited and put together really well. All of the feedback showed that everybody thougt that the music video was very professional.

I think that we chose 2 very good ancillery tasks that really matched the music video very well. I think that making the magazine cover and the website it really made the band seem real, i think the ancillery tasks really complimented the music video very well. This was because they were a good combination and it makes you knoew more about us as individuals and more about the band than you do from just watching the music video. The internet was the main media technology that i used in the creating of the music video, this was because sites such as YouTube came in very useful when i was researching into the concpet of girlbands and the main conventions of girlbands and music videos at the very start of the project. Also youtube enabled me to use the embed code so that i could embedd the videos onto my blog as proof and evidence, also then this shows what videos i have used as research in my project.

For the actual creation of the footage we used the handy cam from school however we found that the footage was not very clear and of the quality that we would like it to be therefore we decided that it would be best if we used Kirstys 12 mega pixel camera this we feel made our video look a lot more proffesional and of a way better standard than if we would have continued to use the handycam camera from school.

We then uploaded the footage onto iMovie on the Apple Macs at school. We found that this was the best software to use to enable us to fulfill the editing to the best of our potential, this was because it enabled us to crop the clips that we wanted to and also we could change the colours of each clip and also the duration, reverse the slips, speed and lighting on the clips that we felt necessary to do so.

As part of the research and planning for the project we created story boards, this came in useful as then we knew exactly what we wanted to do and what we were going to achieve in eaach recording session and in each location.

I believe that my indiviidual input into the media project was a necessity this was because i was the main recorder for the group as well as participating in some of the acting and also a lot of the editing. However i believe that all members of the group were very helpful and we all worked very well together and made each other succeed in what we wanted to achieve, which was a successfull proffesional music vdeo and very well made and thought out ancillery tasks.

The only weakness i feel that there was in the creating of the media project was the fact that all of the actors and performers for the video were not all available at the same times this made it very hard when it came to the recording of the footage. This is why we started with 4 actresses and ended up with 2 however i feel that we made this work to the best of our ability and we really made it look professional despite loosing 2 of the actresses.

I believe that we put a great deal of effort into the whole production and every aspect of the music project, this is because as a group our project took a lot of thinking out and planning, this was because we had outfits to organise and get together, this was because they had to all match but all be different at the same time but of the same colour at all times. Also there was the organising of times and booking of the rooms and locations that we needed to use. We also decided that we were going to hire a fog machine this was so that the video looked more professional and of a higher standard so that we could get the best marks that we possibly could from this project.

I believe that there are not many criticisms that i feel could of been improved with our music project this is because in the end the finished product is exactly what we could of hoped for it to be. The only thing that i believe could have made the time keeping and the time scaled in which we completed the recording of the footage would have been to ensure that the camera always had batteries and that they were always fully charged so that we did not have to delay on the recording because of this set back.

Overall i believe that the product that we achieved in the end was very well made and was of a very high standard i believe that we put 100% into every aspect of the research and planning, recording and the editing of the project. I think that what we have produced overall is a very high standard and very good quality.

Completed Music Video

Above is our completed music video.

Finished Magazine Cover And Evaluation

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

Our finished magazine cover both challenges and conforms to the conventions. This is because as our music video conformed to the conventions of girl bands so well we decided that it would be a good idea to challenge the conventions in our magazine cover. We researched into magazine covers that girl bands featured on and we found that it was mainly lads magazines such as FHM, we decided that this was not the look that we wanted to go for therefore we decided that we were going to conform to the conventions of rap magazines. Throughout the research that i did i found that most girl bands feature in teen, glamour or lads magazines. Therefore we then researched the conventions of rap magazines we decided that we were going to conform to these as this would then be something different to what we did in the actual music video. We stuck to the conventions throughout the layout and the fonts and colours used. I believe that we did this really well and achieved what we wanted from this.

How effective is the combination of your music video and your ancillery tasks?

The combination of the magazine cover adds effect to the music video this is because it adds the effect of realism to the girl band. It makes the band seem more real and as if it is an already famous girl band. The magazine cover brings the band and the members of the band to life. This is because with more tasks done about the band it makes us seem a lot realer and more famous. Although we decided to conform to a rap magazine instead of the normal teen pop and lads magazine covers. I believe that the magazine cover that we have created compliments the music video and achieves what we wanted which was to advertise the band and to promote the album that the band are releasing.

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

As a group we did not create any specific audience feedback sheets for people to fill out about our magazine cover however from the sheets that we created for the music video we found that they all thought that we stuck to the conventions of girl bands. We did do some oral feedback on the magazine cover and from this we found out that some of the people that evaluated our magazine cover thought that we could of tried to conform to the conventions of magazine covers that other girl bands were in and not try to experiment with the rap genre. However they did say that what we have done with trying to challenge the normal girl bands magazine cover and conform to rap conventions did work well.

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

Different media technologies was necessary throughout the creating the magazine cover. This was because we needed the internet to research into the different magazine covers that we were going to try and emulate the conventions of. Also we needed to use the internet to upload the images onto the magazine cover from the photo shoot that we did with our friend from school. Also we needed to use word to create the magazine covers.

Would you change anything if you could go back?

If i could go back and change anything i would make sure that i created more magazine covers maybve i would try and create on e that followed the conventions of a girl bands magazine cover instead of going for the rap genre. Although i believe that the rap genre worked, i should have experimented more and found out which was the best one to use.