Question 4 Audience feedback.

I have shown my work to peers and the response has been mostly positive, the only improvements mentioned is that in some of the shots you can see the table and the animators hand, I personally liked those shots as it gave a DIY indie feel but I am now in the process of changing these. I have also uploaded my video to Youtube so that I can get some critical feedback from a wider audience, I am also working on promoting my video a lot more and i will post the link to the Youtube clip on other websites like Facebook and Myspace.

Evaluation question 3

During the Evaluation stages I have used the blog site blogger as I am using now to upload everything I have done. I have also used the website youtube so that I can get feedback on my music video, I have not yet received any comments about my music video but I shall update my blog as soon as I have.

Evaluation Question 3

For my ancillary task I used the programme Photoshop this was also a new programme to me that I did not know how to use but after completing a front cover inside cover and an advert for my ancillary task I believe I can now use the programme quite easily. Photoshop allowed me to use a vast range of effects on my ancillary task like I used the cut tool to get rid of all the faces. I also used the smudge tool to smooth the edges of the cut to make it seem seamless.I also used the website Dafont to get the fonts for my ancillary task.

Evaluation question 3

Another programme I used during the postproduction stages is the audio editing software Cubase 5; this allowed me to shorten my song more accurately than any mac software I had access to could have. Cubase allowed me to cut the track on specific beats and also allowed me to view the waveforms of the song in greater detail. Using this programme meant that I could get the music video finished by the deadline. I also used the internet and more specifically the website Youtube so I could get audience feedback.

Evaluation Question 3

During the research and planning stages I mainly used the Internet to find out more about my artist and artist like them. In the Postproduction stages I used a lot of new technologies I had not used before like final cut. Final cut allowed me to get more creative uses out of effects that I had not heard of like one effect I used made the live footage look jittery like the animated stuff, I then added the sharpen effect to make the live footage look a little bit like animation. The last shot of my music video is a long shot with both band members standing there I then layered a shot of Ano and the bear standing next to each other over the top of that shot using opacity.

Evaluation question 3, How did you use media technologies in the research and planning, contruction and evaluation stages?

For the main animation I took still images of the hand draw pictures, for this I used a 10 mega pixel camera, I chose to use a camera because it meant that the distance the shot was taken from was different every time giving the film an indie style feel. I chose to use digital camera instead of film camera because it gives a higher quality of picture but at the same time gives a DIY feel I wanted to portray in my video. For the Band footage I used a film camera, because I need it to be live action, I also used a fig rig for some of the footage but i decided not to use the footage as it didn't fit my style, the fig rig allowed me to move around the performers with ease without the camera moving in an unwanted manner.

Evaluation question 2.

After teachers reviewed my Ancillary task they thought that it needed something more than just green and yellow lines. So after much thought I decided to organize a small crowed of people to stand around and look up to the camera, the people I got were teenagers so this linked with my audience; the problem was that they were not in costume so I decided to black out the bodies and cut the faces of them out. This meant that it also had this no identity feel that I also wanted to portray in my video, as the character of Ano in the video doesn’t really have an identity, his name is just a shortened version of Anorexic guy, so he doesn't have a proper name.

Evaluation question 2.

I went with the same design for the inside cover but I decided to put the two band members in it but without the faces, I decided to do this faceless idea because the song deals with growing up and because my band is for a mid to late teen art crowed, I chose the faceless idea to represent identity and the finding of it. Behind one of the faces I put some trees this means that it links to my music video because of the natural feel of it. Behind the other face I put the word “real?” this is also to link it with this psychedelic folk style and also I put it in as homage to Andrew VanWyngarden.

Evaluation question 2.

My idea for the ancillary task was to make it look as simple as possible without too many objects making it look over crowded. I took inspiration from albums like ‘Down in Albion, by The Babyshambles and ‘Be Brave, by the strange boys. So tat first my album cover was just green and yellow lines with what looked like hand written titles and track listings, I liked this DIY style because it makes the album look more mellow and give it a hippy feel.

how effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks

My ancillary task does in some ways link with my music video but I did not really see the need for a link, as with most real album/DVDs there is no real connection; this is obvious with the Greenday album International superhits and CKYs album Infiltarte.Destroy.Rebuild. Both of these albums have a DVD with them and do not link to the video.