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Final Music Video

Final Digi-Pack

Final Advertisement

Evaluation - Question 1,3 and 4

Evaluation - question 2

2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
When I first had to create my ancillary tasks, I wanted to ensure that I had a consistent theme running throughout them so that my target audience of teenage girls would have appeal to them and that they related to my music video well. For the inspiration of my Digi-pack and magazine advert I looked at Pixie Lott who was the artist of my chosen song for my music video, "like a broken arrow". We wanted to portray Pixie Lott as a young teenage girl who is trying to connect with her audience. So, I decided to use locations that teenagers would be familiar with such as parks, benches and their front living room.
For my Digi-pack I used the black and white theme that I have running throughout music video which gave it the professional look that I wanted to and I think it fitted with the lyrics/theme to the song (relationship break ups). For the front cover I took a print screen from my actual music video where Elle is resting against a white wall. I used this image as the audience will be familiar with it from the music video and it will clearly show that she is the main female protagonist being re
presented in the video. I adjusted the contrast a little more so that she stood out against the all and adding in a "swirly" font which i downloaded from a fonts website as I think this fitted with my pop genre and showed the young and girly character, inspired by Pixie Lott herself.
For the inside covers I chose a "kiss" shape to represent the love within the music video and on the other I used a black silouette of the cupid with an arrow as I also had this in my music video as an overlapping shot of when Elle and Alex in the video are arguing, the arrow breaks over them.
Here is my second ancillary task which is my magazine advert. Again, I have kept the consistency running throughout by continuing the black and white theme and again using a "swirly/girly" font to keep the initial idea of portraying Pixie Lott as much as possible. Again I have used screen shots from my music video so the audience can relate to the advertisement as they recognise them fro the video itself. The purpose of this was to promote the album itself. I used quotes from famous music magazines to make it look more professional and believable.
Overall, I think the overall effectiveness of the combination of my ancillary tasks is good because I have used the same locations, fonts and images throughout that my target audience of teenage girls will be able to relate to and along with the storyline and narrative of the music video.

Evaluation - Voice over

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Intertexuality

Intertexuality is the shaping texts meanings' by other texts. so, its when a music artist, takes something from another similar music video, film, TV programme or magazine advert and make it their own and put it into their video. J-Lo and Geri haliwell did this in their music videos and got the intertextuality from the common dance film "Flash dance".



For our music video, we have taken inspiration from Kate Nash who is another female artist that fits in with our genre and her video "foundations". The way the socks move together, the toothbrushes twist around each other etc is a great way of putting intertexuality into your film. We thought, to fit with the title of our song "like a broken arrow", that we could draw a frame by frame animation (similar to our moving story board) and speed up the clips when we edit it. This way the arrow will shoot in to some sort of drawing of a heart or something and then break, so it will create the image of a "broken arrow".



As this is an acoustic version of Pixie Lott singing, we would like to incorporate the use of a music studio into our music video to add an element of performance to go alongside the narrative. We will make a studio from using the white backdrop and lighting in our school's photography room.

Posted by sophie mcnamara at 02:29  

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