Beth Allen Advanced A2 Portfolio

Hi Everyone! Here's a little bit more information on the song we picked and the artist we picked, behind choosing our song was a lot of deliberation and it was a tough decision to narrow it down. We now believe that we've got the perfect song to portray our storyline perfectly!! We plan on using the lyrics to help explain the narrative we are going for and plan on matching the pacing of the song with the pacing of the videos we film in order to get the best possible turn out.

Here is our first audience feedback on our first draft, we interviewed a range of people just like we planned and I think it was very useful! First we chose to interview two teachers from school one male and one female. We chose our male teacher (Mr Newton) because we thought he would represent the rest of the viewers who may not essentially choose the video to watch because it isn't aimed at that audience so it was interesting to get some feedback from him and see how he received the narrative. Our second teacher (Miss Capper) we chose because she represented our top range of audience which was females around 24,25. We thought it would be really good to have someone represent the top end of our audience so we could see if all our targeted audience could relate and find interest in the video, and also to make sure we didn't put to much emphasis on the younger end of the audience. Our final choice of interview was with Olly, and we chose him because we thought it would be ...

After putting so much hard work and thought into the video we finally published our first draft and we are very happy with the result! Although it isn't finished yet we are going to gain some audience feedback from different people and see what they think to it and if they would suggest improvements. We feel like asking a range of people could help us to think of new ideas and the fact that some of the people we are deciding to ask are part of our target audience could help massively as they are who we want to impress essentially!!! So by getting their opinion we can infer how the audience may choose to use the video in relation to Bulmer and Katz reception theory and we can adapt it to the needs of the audience a bit more if needs be!

We've now handed in our first draft of the music video which means we need to now move on to looking at the evaluation of our video. In lesson we looked at how important it is to make sure our answers to the questions are varied in technological use. We plan to use the forms of vlogs and some written responses as well as looking at other new technologies we could use in order to make our answers as detailed as they could possibly be.  By gathering feedback from people at home and friends and family we can establish the positives and negatives towards the music video and hopefully change things in order to make the video better. We feel that by asking a range of ages we will get a varied response making it easier to aim it at our target audience because we can distinguish if we are attracting people that aren't necessarily in the age ranges we are targeting. I am really looking forward to gathering our first and secondary audience feedback because it means we can get cracki...

While editing our music video we found that on one particular part we wanted a blur effect around the outside to make it clear that it was a flashback. We tried many different ways but they didn't look quite right so we decided to search on YouTube and see if we could find a video that helped. We found this video below: This video taught us how to use a 'Gaussian Blur' which was a lot easier to do, all it took was placing a circle over the part we wanted visible and it blurred the rest! This is the finished image we got and the edges looked a lot smoother than the previous attempt so we were really happy with how it turned out!

In lesson today we looked at exam questions and how we can apply some theories to the questions that we could face in the actual exam. Section A - 1 hour 2 x 25 mark questions = 50 marks Question 1A - You don't have to talk about theories and the progress you make from AS to A2. Question 1B - You have to analyse one of your productions, and answer a question while adding in one of the theories.  Question 1A   Always asked about progress from AS to A2 and it could include topics such as: How you used research and planning to good effect Understanding of conventions of real media texts (textual analysis) Digital technology Post-production Creativity                                            Question 1B Apply theories of one of the areas below to one of y...

We were asked to do a post on CD packs, I decided to look at some of my favourite artists and bands CD packs and analyse them closely to see what they contained and if I could get any ideas to suggest to our groups pack. I decided to present this information in the form of a slideshow. Analysing CD Packs from beth allen