What have you learned from your audience feedback?

To get my feedback I posted my video on Facebook, which is a social networking site. Posting it on here my friends will watch it and they can post a comment underneath telling me what they think of my video. There is a button which you can click on Facebook to show you 'like' a post, 11 people clicked this button to show they like my video. Although many people liked it not all off their comments where useful. One of my friends said she liked how the picture ripped and showed the singer on a bench by himself, in the rain. She also added that my actors guitar skills was unrealistic as he cannot actually play guitar and that the singer wasn't always in sync as I used on of my friends rather than the actual singer, so he didn't know the lyrics. Another commented congratulating me on how well I planned out each of the shots and said that it really showed. One said more emotion could have been added as it looked like my actor had a smirk on a lot of the shots, which contrasted with the conventions of a Blues music video. Finally, one of my friends said about the shot where the actor is in the toilet staring at the mirror, he said he liked how I implied him being sick rather than showing it, leaving it to the imagination. He also said that he liked how it was slightly ironic as the lyrics in the song is, 'I keep my mouth closed,' as he is being sick. All in all I found my feedback very useful, I had a lot of good feedback leaving me confident that I have done well. But, as I only posted it to my friends they are less likely to be straight with me and give me bad feedback, so I should of posted it somewhere where I can get feedback from people that I do not know so they would be a bit more blunt with me and give me some criticism.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real

A copy of my music video with annotations.

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

My ancillary task was to create a CD sleeve and either a poster or a website, I decided to make a poster to advertise the album.

I think the music video and the CD sleeve have same message as they do not contrast in the mood given out from them. As it is a acoustic blues genre, a quite depressing message would have to be given off and I had to keep that going throughout my project. I have used some shots from my music video for the inside sleeves of my CD this creates a direct link with the album cover and the music video.

However, with my poster I decided to be creative and original by mimicking a 'lost pet' poster and making it seem like the album is lost and slightly changing the wording, for example I changed, 'have you seen this dog' to 'have you heard this album' making it have a aspect of comedy about it to help sell the album. Also having a lost poster to a certain extent fits in with the music video, saying he is lost in life. I used the CD cover as the picture so that people drawn in by the consumer know exactly what to look for if they want to if they want to purchase the album.

The overall effectiveness of the music video and ancillary task works quite well as it all gives off the same message and fits in with the characteristics of my genre.

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

Hardware used in my project:- A video camera - Used to record the shots for my video Addition to video camera - Tripod - To keep the camera still while shooting Tape - To record to shots on A digital handheld camera - Used for my ancillary tasks and some of my analysis Apple mac computer - School computer where I kept everything saved and used software on it. Software used in my project:- Photoshop - Used to edit photos for my ancillary task Garageband - Used to record myself talking in part of my evaluation iMovie - Editing software I used to create my animatics Adobe Premiere - Editing software I used to edit my main video Safari - Internet package on Apple macs, I used this to research my genre Websites used in my project:- Blogger - A website to post blogs on, I used this to present my entire project at once Poll junkie - Used to create a questionnaire for my research Facebook - A social networking website I used to get feedback from my friends YouTube - I posted my video onto here so I can post it onto Facebook and Blogger easily Wordle - Used to create a scatter of all my lyrics, the more common the word is used in the song the bigger it is on the image.

CD sleeve