Monday 11 April 2011

Evaluation outline

When looking at the evaluation stage of our coursework, we decided that we would work as a group and develop the answers together. We looked at different ways in which we could use new technologies to create a vary of responses, and we decided to use keynote on the Mac. Keynote is a programme which is much like Microsoft Powerpoint on a computer. We decided by using Keynote for one of our questions (which we decided would work more efficient with question 2 - effectiveness of ancillary products) as it is very interactive, and although there is reading to be done, it is not just in an essay style - making it more active for the audience. We have also decided that for a different question, we will use the Mac to record me and my fellow peers discussing our production in terms of the question, meaning that the audience do not have to sit there and read constantly. However, we will put screen grabs on top of us speaking when it is relevant, so that the audience will not just be watching a group of us speaking - which we understand will be very boring for the audience. We also discussed having a typed up response to a question, with many screen grabs, however we are not sure about this as we understand it will be a boring way for our audience to receive our answers to our evaluation.

Thursday 7 April 2011

Ancillary Texts


We decided to change our digipack, rather than stick to our original ideas. For example, for the front cover we decided to put the male infront of the brick wall which is in the shots of the female and male both lip syncing the chorus near the end of our video. Also, because of difficulties of the room in which we filmed in (not being able to fit everything we wanted in the shot), we decided that for the inside picture we were not going to use the picture of the male in his room, but instead get a picture of the male & female facing eachother. We decided that this worked very effectively, and we are pleased with the result.