Media A2- Boyz 4 Now

Evaluation

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

For our chosen genre, we decided to look at similar music videos for help on the typical codes and conventions of a boy band video. For our video, we incorporated a dance routine that Is visible in nearly every boy band video we researched.

We also noticed that the majority of the boy band videos we watched were “cheesy”. With this we came up with the idea to use powers as a use for the story line. This worked well as trying to impress a girl with powers is as “cheesy” as it can get.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

The combination of the product and the ancillary texts are use of the main music video, digipack and poster. We used elements of our music video to help add ideas we can out on our digipack and poster.

The use of the color of the elements: Water, Fire and Earth.

The use of clothing to show the link between the video and digipack.

The position of the band members is the same

DIGIPACK

POSTER

Again we used the position of the band members that were in the music video.

The idea of the poster itself is taken from the digipack. This linking all 3 items together.

This helps promote our band as the name and band members are clear.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

For our audience feedback, we took most help from the class feedback we gathered. Due to a member of the group, we were unable to take many of these changes into action. We needed more close ups for the dance scene, but being unable to meet up meant we could not get this done.

For other forms of feedback, we used Facebook as a source for this. We gained many views for from this, but not many people gave feedback. The only comments made, were to say that they enjoyed it.

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

For new media technology, we used the known main equipment when filming. This included the camera for filming, using Youtube and Itunes for music research. We also used sites such as blogger to help keep our found information filed.

When we out filming, we used our phones and Ipods to help us know when to sing and not to sing when filming certain scenes. This helped us a lot, as it kept us in sync when editing our music video.