Music Video
Skills Audit
Demo Work
Demo Work
Demo Work
Contents
Demo Work
Contents
> Theoretical exploration of the purpose
and application of research
> Secondary research into
music video genres, codes, conventions,
techniques, and theories
> Primary research with the
client to inform ideas development
> Focus group presentation of ideas for
feedback and review via questionnaire
survey
Moving Demo
This page includes all the lecturer meetings and feedback that I was provided with throughout the process of my FMP. These meetings allowed me to gain another person's opinion on my website and my work and so the feedback and opinions I gained from these meetings were extremely helpful.
Ideas Development Review
Wednesday 23rd March
This day started off with me receiving feedback on the initial ideas development work that I had done last week. I was thankful to finally have this as I felt it would be a great opportunity to find out what I needed to do to improve on my work. Nigel went through my website with me and highlighted some things that he felt could be improved. All of this was recorded and I will upload the recording with additional notes when I receive it. Some of the additions he recommended were just cosmetic changes, such as trying to get better zoom on the images, adding some more subheadings and fixing a couple of spelling mistakes. Others were things I could add in or improve on such as adding in the learning outcomes, defining a couple of my headings, changing the way I have referenced throughout these pages and explaining a bit more on certain sections. And finally there were some new things I could add in such as ethics of a mockumentary and how documentaries use cameras. Nigel said overall my website looked very good but these were just some features I could include to push it up even more. I am happy to change these and I was able to do a couple of them today, such as fixing the spelling mistakes. However, I am extremely busy this week with research and so the larger improvements such as adding in the new information will have to wait for this weekend when I have time to add them in.
Sunday 27th March
Today I implemented all the new and updated things that Nigel recommended to me in my feedback meeting last week.
There were a couple of things I had already discussed later on in my research such as the use of documentaries and cameras. But there was also one thing I couldn’t implement which was the more zoomed in images that Nigel recommended. The reason that I couldn’t do this is because it’s not able to be done on WIX. The only zoom feature only zooms in based on the size that the image already is on the page and so is pretty ineffective. Because of this I feel the pop out method that I’m currently using is the best way to display images on my website.
So, I then started on the features I could implement. I started with the subheadings and a bit more explanation of my mind maps. This was not too difficult and just adds a little more to my initial idea development.
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I then added the learning outcomes onto the buttons on the main page. This shows which learning outcomes are on which page and means the marking should be made easier for my lecturers and the examiner, as well as making searching for work a lot easier as well.
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The rest of the changes were then mainly focused on theory application in my idea development. This included, finding examples and referencing them at the end of the corresponding sections. This meant I also had to update my bibliography to include these new additions. Later on I also used references to my insight into Ethics which I also added to my bibliography.
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The other parts I updated included defining and adding some more explanations into what I was talking about as well as adding the theories into the codes and conventions section. I had become a little confused onto what theorist Nigel had meant as I had used most of the ones I knew. But as I was going back through my notes I realised Steve Neale’s theories also applied to codes and conventions. Originally, I had just used him for genre but now I added in his own section within the codes and conventions.
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And finally, I looked into the ethics of Mockumentaries that Nigel had recommended. This included looking into examples of mockumentaries and considering their ethics as well as looking into Ofcom’s rules in regards to using people for pieces like Mockumentaries.
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Overall, today was really useful. Mainly just to get this work completed as it allows me to move onto my Pre-production with no other work needing to be completed. As well it keeps me free for my next feedback meeting where I will likely need to change more things to improve my work.
Research Review
Wednesday 6th April
I started my day with the second of the feedback meetings, this time focused on my Research. Once again I had it with Nigel. Nigel said it was really hard to fault my research, and that every time he thought I could’ve added something extra, he then scrolled a bit further and found what he was looking for. This was very good to hear as I spent quite a lot of time and effort on it. And Nigel saying that it was really up there in terms of grading was really nice to hear. So, there wasn’t to many things that Nigel recommended me to change really. He only said to possibly look into how to make Foley for example footsteps and things, as well as to talk to Ash about using 4k footage on our computers. When I film with my phone I was going to use its 4k feature and Nigel said that the computers at school may have trouble with this and so to talk to Ash. This is fine to do and I will do it in the coming days. The only other things Nigel showed me was a couple of pieces that may be good for inspiration. A documentary called Welcome to Chechnya and a Mockumentary series called Cunk on Britain. The latter seems to be on youtube so I can watch it however I will have to look where I could possibly watch Welcome to Chechnya. Overall, it was a really good meeting and has made me feel a lot more confident with my work so far.
Final Review
Tuesday 24th May
I started the lesson today with having my review with John. He said that my website and all the content on it looked all in order and so it was quite hard to give me pointers on improving it. There were a couple things he did mention though.
One was the timelapses that I made during post production. He said he really liked them and they are fine how they are for this project. But if my website were to be open to the public in order to show them, then it might be worth making the timelapses faster than they are as the general public are unlikely to watch a 3 minute video of it, whereas if it was 30 seconds they most likely would. But he said at the moment in this project, it’s not worth changing them.
The other thing was a minor change on my homepage which was simply to summarise my writing better. So instead of writing “Click here to go to my FMP Menu”, John said to simplify it to simply “FMP Menu:”. As that’s a lot easier to read and looks nicer on the page. This was a very easy fix and something I easily completed in lesson.
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The last pointer was what I discussed in my last couple journal entries, about me improving the look and aesthetic of my website. John said that on all the pages with content such as production and post production, it’s fine to leave it how it is as the main priority is the content and making sure that is all laid out well. And the images and text I include are all enough on the page. However, he did say that if I wanted to improve my Menu pages I could include more things like I have on my Home page, which are drawings of Cody. This helps to show that the work is related to Cody, and I thought that was an excellent idea. When I returned home I implemented these additions, and I think they really work in just brightening up their pages a bit.
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