1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
1. This image (taken under the monument) shows our main character sitting with his eyes covered over by his hands. This section is accompanied by lyrics saying 'I close my eyes, but might as well be open'. Showing that we have related our narrative to the song. This does not happen that much throughout the video, the reason for doing this was we felt it was a powerful lyric.
2. This image shows the way in which the record company would want their artist to be presented, the artist is lonely and is suffering from self-harming. He cannot be shown to be happy all the time as his character portrays him as sad and often lonely.
3.This is a shot of the dog lying on a bench, the genre of music is indie. This shot is related to the image "down in the gutter", showing how he has nothing anymore. This is a clear representation of genre, as drinking is often related back to indie music. The genre of music can also be related to emo and self harm as this is what the lyrics are about.
4.This shot is quite common in music videos of a pianist. We decided on this shot seeing as we had no performance shots and felt this would be the best way to utilise the piano.
5. This shot in an alley-way we made use of the lighting equipment that we had loaned from the school. We placed the light at the end of the alley-way to give more emphasis onto the dog and his actions.
6. From this shot we used our camera skills to create a tracking shot to show the loneliness of the character by filming him walking through the park.
7.This shot not only shows our location which was the park, but also character and clothing Mise-en-scene. It shows the dog costume, the park bench and the bottle of whisky.
8. This is a shot we decided to use based on some of our research into other music videos. I liked the idea of the character running through the park and we decided to use this, we held the camera in POV fashion. Once onto the computer we changed the ratio of shot (speed).
9. This last shot of the dog turning round was inspired from the "30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens". The reason for this was we decided it would work well with our production of the dog looking at a sign then realising the connotation of it.
