Evaluation

A2 media evaluation

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Magazine Advert Final

Magazine Advert Draft

The draft for my magazine advert looks almost complete but some areas appear quite un-proffessional such as the positioning of the quotes and top right images. The text of the quotes needs to be slightly bigger as this is an important feature in magazine adverts so audiences will be more drawn in. Including the logo of the shop the single can be purchased at is necessary information so I will add this in. Overall I think there is enough information featured and considering the way I wanted to keep the audience focused on the main topic of the advert which is the name of the single and the band. In my final draft I will highlight these features more.

Digipak Final

Digipak Draft

Although I am quite happy with the digipak so far I am aware of a few adjustments which I must add.

1. The cover has a lot of white space making it seem unprofessional and not as eye catching as a punk album should be. The song title is not as clear as it should be so I will darken this in my second draft.

2. Not having the track numbers on the backs list was my own personal choice but this is quite unprofessional so therefore I will add the track numbers in. The back cover has an image that relates to the song but overall does not look as exciting as I aimed so I will try to enhance the school punk look by adding other images such as scribbles.

3. The notebook image needs more lyrics or images to make it more eye catching so my audience will enjoy the look of the whole digipak.

Editing My Images on Photoshop

Here, I am editing the colour on the image making it black and white to portray the dull prison atmosphere aswell as applying two coventional colours of the punk genre.

Digipak Images

These are images taken after shooting the band performance which i may use for my digipak and magazine advert.

These are photos I took of the main artist in uniform for an alternative idea.

Final Draft Feedback

Here are some comments left from my audience after posting the final draft on my video on Facebook.

Schools are Prisons - Final Draft

By Melisha

Audience Feedback

To gain some feedback from my audience I created a survey on the website http://www.surveymonkey.com/. The survey included 7 questions to find out what they thought of the video.

Here are the questions I included in the survey:

1. Overall, how did you find the video

(For this question a comment box allowed my audience to explain in their own words how they found the video.)

2. Do you think the narrative fits the genre of the video?

(A very important 'yes or no' question as I wanted to make sure that my video matches the punk genre.)

3. What do you think is needed to improve the video?

(It is important that my audience enjoy my video so I wanted their suggestions on what would make the video better.)

4. How did you find the perfomance of the actors in the video?

(For this question I gave five choices to choose from ranging from 'Great' to 'Could be better'. )

5. What music channel can you see this video on?

(To make sure that my video is falling under the right genre I gave the audience 4 channels to pick from which were NME TV, Kerrang, Scuzz, MTV Rock. As it is a punk video I hoped for my audience to pick Kerrang or MTV Rock as the channel Scuzz is well known for metal and NME TV mainly consists of indie music.)

6. Would you watch this video again?

(With the choices 'yes' or 'no' I found it important to discover if my video was worth watching again as a successful music video would be.)

7. Please explain why you picked this answer

(If the audience picked no this would allow me to gather more suggestions for improvement.)


The results from my survey were overall positive with some suggestions to improve. Here are some responses to the first question.

100% answered yes to the second question which was positive for my feedback.

Here are some responses to the third question which I found most relevant to developing the final draft of the video.

98% of my audience chose Kerrang for the fifth question which told me that my video was falling under the right genre.

Digipak ideas

In order to portray the theme of entrapment and inform the audience of the genre I have come up with an idea for my digipak which includes a punk looking male teenager holding a mugshot sign if he's been nicked. He will be wearing uniform as a form of prison wear.

Another idea includes a punk looking male teenage school boy behind school gates holding onto the bars to make him appear as a prisoner. A distressed facial expression will add to the depressing atmosphere I intend on portraying.

I may edit these images to black and white and use a red font over it as these colours connote a punk genre.

These ideas not only show the idea of schools as prisons but reach towards the audience of punk rock with the mise en scene I intend to use.

Schools are Prisons - Rough Cut

By Melisha.

Here is the rough cut for my video which I edited in iMovie. I tried to match the clips to the timing of the beats of the song. Once I have feedback from my audience I will then be able to move on to the final draft.