End of A2 coursework

I have finally come to an end of my coursework and I will now be studying/revising in preparation of my media studies exams soon. I am very please with what we have produced and I have learnt many skills that I can use in the future.

Advanced Portfolio Evaluation

Below is our A2 evaluation. It includes information on how my group and I created specific media products within our coursework and many more. It was challenging yet rewarding as when looking at previous students evaluation we would have never thought we could produce something that consists of so much time, we were unaware of the extra effort required. Overall, we are very happy with our finishing product as we have all agreed with everything within the evaluation and we made sure that everyone's contributions were included. I am personally very happy with what we have produced and feel that we completed this evaluation to the best of our ability and worked extremely hard. This was done within school and our homes as we felt that this was so important that we did not want to waste any time what so ever. We kept the text and background simple with a black and white theme and soothing music to start off with as we wanted to keep it professional, it was then followed by different genres of music to prevent any viewers from possibly being bored.

Final Cut Of Music Video

Below is the final cut of our music video:

We improved our music video after reading feedback from our target audience...
We decided to base most of our music video on our actress by taking a lot of close up shots and tracking shots within the video and also using more narrative to keep it conventional. We decided to cut out the beginning bit where our actress is making a phone call for the reason being Rihanna face is usually shown in the beginning and as we decided to keep our music video conventional, it was important for there to be narrative of Rihanna in the beginning.

My group and I arranged for Jemina to do our actress' makeup and we going for a subtle, natural look. We went for a natural look as we did not want our actress to come out of her comfort zone as it would show in the music video.

We decided to do a black and white effect in part of our music video whilst editing as we wanted to portray the memories of our actress and her ex in sense that the memories are faded away.

As you can see our actress is in different outfits throughout the video, this was important as we were able to portray her fashion sense which is conventional as Rihanna usually does this.

Ancillary Task - Print Advert

This is the finished poster for Rihanna’s A Girl Like Me album which includes our PS I’m Still Not Over You song.

Ancillary Task - Digipak

Front Cover:
For our front cover we decided to keep it simple by having a black and white them. This is effective as it shows how we attempted to keep it conventional as Rihanna usually has simple front covers and so do other pop singers such as Beyonce.
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For the inside left cover:
We decided to have our actress looking downwards so that she doesn't reveal much emotion through the eyes. This is effective because her face itself says a lot and can lead the target audience thinking about the emotion our actress is feeling. Is she upset or happy?
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An example of this looking down effect would be on Rihanna's digipak for the album 'Loud' she is looking down and her target audience is confused as to what she is feeling.


Inside right cover:

Rihanna usually does abstract poses in her pictures and we wanted our actress to portray that. This is effective as it shows how we use every way possible to attempt to remain conventional.


Back cover:

Identification of bits that need to be worked on or re-filmed

Although my group and I was not impressed with our rough copy, our audience feedback encouraged us to change our video more. Our audience feedback was very harsh, people mostly spoke about the blank spaces and weird structure of the video.

Moreover, we will work on our music videos, we plan to re-film and re-edit the majority of our music video, this will be stressful but rewarding as we will surely make a music video we are happy with. People were sympathetic to our actress and felt her emotion in some of the sad parts such as catching her boyfriend with another girl therefore we intend to add more emotional parts.

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