Feedback from creative arts evening

Below is a video of the feedback we got on both our music video and individual ancillary tasks from the creative arts evening at our school which showcased the work of Year 10 and 11 students as well as sixth form. 

Audience feed back on our music video

Audience Feedback Sheets

I have summarised some of the some of the comments received from our feedback sheets that were completed by Year 10 and Year 11 media students at our school. The questions they were asked are issues below:

Was the constructed mise-en-scene effective?

Was the target audience catered for?

Did you enjoy it?

We also asked them to write down their age and gender

Gender / Age

Male / 16
+ Splitscreen
+ Similar to a real music video
– Unclear narrative at times
+ Appeals to teenagers of either gender

Male / 16
+ Narrative is open – the stalker could be an alter ego?
+ Understood narrative

Female / 16
+ Good song choice

Male / 15
- Too many burning photos

Male / 15
+ Abstract narrative
+ Good lip-synching

Female / 16
+ Appeals to target audience (teens); I enjoyed it

Male / 15
+ Good lip-synching
- ‘Headbanging’ is ‘cringey’
+ Feels like an original music video

Male / 15
+ Good lighting
+ Good setting

Female / 15
- Too horrifying for kids
+ Good mise-en-scene

Male / 16
+ Crossfade worked well with story

Male / 16
+ Lighting and flashing images were effective

Female / 15
+ Paint on wall is good
+ Characters and costume suit song
+ Words in song relate to shots
- Some scenes could be longer

Creative arts evening

We had a creative arts evening at school which showcased the work of most of the sixth form and year 10 and 11 students work. The evening consisted of Drama and Dance pieces, displays of Photography, Fine Art, Graphics and some print work from Media. There was also showings of each music video or film trailer our sixth form has produced, this was the first time our work had be presented. From this evening we gained feedback from the audience on our work both print and film, this enabled us to get an unbiased opinion and critique our work where necessary.

Ancillary tasks further development Digipak

This is the development process of one of my ancillary tasks, a digipak for a tour DVD. These are three pages from the insert book that I am in the process of producing, I have shown my teachers and peers and they have given me some feedback and how they think i should approach finishing these pages. The red circled areas below are dead space, the feedback I got suggested it could be an idea to add elements to this page to make it more edgy and fit the mise en scene I am trying to grasp for this project. They suggested either to add empty chocolate wrappers of coffee stains to my work to make the pages rougher and less kept. 

I tried this idea out using Photoshop and played around with the positioning of certain objects such as badges, chocolate wrappers, tea and coffee stains and crumbs but i was not happy with the way it looked, the outcome was not as successful as I had hoped so I decided not to add any of these extras to my pages.

  

I then went back and looked at the pages and thought about what other things I could do to them to complete them and make them look more finished, I marked in red where i could fit more images onto the page, making it feel more used and messy rather than only three images spread across the page. I still was not completely satisfied with the way my pages looked so decided to put two sets on lyrics onto a page instead of one, I adjusted the font size and adapted the positioning of the existing text to make room. 

I wanted to leave more or less a whole page for the band thanks as when I had researched tour digipak's the band thanks was a big part of what the digipak was about and most of the ones I looked at particularly Beyonce's, the DVD was all about the fans. Here is the partially constructed band thanks page for my booklet after getting feedback from my peers the majority thought it would be beneficial to make the font bigger on the actual thanks and to add some more band images onto the page to complete it. 

I wanted a main image of all of the band for the front cover for my DVD but i had a lot of dead space at the bottom of the page, so i decided to create three smaller polaroid's in Photoshop of each band member and place them in the dead space at the bottom. I referred back to my research when placing the polaroids putting the vocalist in the middle with drums and guitar either side. I placed text 'RIOT! TOUR'12' as if it has been written along the bottom of the main polaroid so the audience were aware of what the DVD was about. After I placed the bands logo onto the photo of the polaroid so most importantly people were aware who the digipak was about. 

I knew my front cover wasn't complete so I started to add greater detail to it, mirroring the inside pages of the insert book I places tap I had edited in Photoshop over the polaroids so they would appear stuck on. I also added more text where needed such as on top of the tap on the main polaroid I placed text stating exactly where the tour took place and on the smaller polaroids below I stated the name of each band member.

Ancillary tasks further development Magazine advert

Below we have the first attempt of my magazine advert after we changed the people appearing as the band Paramore, I have chosen to use the bands signature colours (mustard yellow and light grey) that we chose when developing our style guide. I have used a clear main image of the band, showing each member, taking my research into consideration and putting the vocalist in the middle. I have edited the image black and white with a white boarder to mirror the style of the images used in my first drafts of the digipak front and back cover. I have clearly displayed the band logo to complete the main photograph. The advert is to promote a new album, I have used an image of the new album 'RIOT!', using bold and clear text to show its a new album, and small print below for information on purchasing the album. The last section displays details of the 'RIOT! TOUR' the tour that will promote the new album, showing dates, locations and contact information for each venue, including below small print of where tickets can be purchased.

After carefully looking at this product although pleased with the results it did not match the digipak's mise en scene, the products were very different and did not relate to each other, other than both promoting the band Paramore. I wanted to bring the edge that I had when deciding to use polaroids in my digipak, still wanting to include all three sections I had in the previous design, I keep the content the same but develop the layout. I started by using the image of old paper to add to my background which I had used in the back cover of my digipak. I then found another image I liked as much as the one previously used but edited back to colour as I thought the black a white images lacked depth and interest, after transforming these images I used Photoshop to make the images polaroids and added tap to the photographs to complete them.

Ancillary development - Polaroids

Here are some photographs I have edited using Photoshop for my ancillary tasks, I will use these images in both my magzine advert and my digipak. I have made these images black and white and then added a noise to my photographs to help them fit the mise en scene of my project, adding a rough edge to the photos. I then got an image of a polaroid and editing it onto my images to give them a vintage feel and make my work look more unkept. 

 

 

First drafts of my ancillary tasks - Digipak for a tour DVD

First attempt at the back cover of my digipak for a tour DVD

I chose to use the Paramore colours we had chosen when designing our style guide for the band which were mustard yellow and light grey. I try to incorporate all the key feathers I found the back cover of a digipak had when carrying out my research, such as the track listing on the back, a basic synopsis of what the DVD was about and where the tour took place. I also included the technical features such as running time, as who the DVD was produced and filmed by etc. I added a barcode to allow it to be purchased and started to add logos and sponsors such as blu-ray. After having most of the basics in place I started to play around with the images adding polaroids to fit the mise en scene we were trying to portray for the band and the Fuelled By Ramen logo, the producers of Paramores music.

After attempting this first draft there were many elements that I was not happy with, so i decided to further develop my work to fit with the mise en scene that we had chosen for Paramore and used in our music video.

First attempt at the front cover for my digipak for a tour DVD

This was the first attempt of my front cover for my DVD, i followed my research and the style guide us as a group had developed and came up with this draft. After producing this i then wanted to develop the polaroid style i had used on my back cover through to this piece which meant changing the layout of this product.