Evaluation

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

The conventions in which my project has followed are very similar to those which you would find in the media industry. The images and techniques i have used in certain areas would be the same as those you would find in magazine adverts and CD cases. The codes in which i have followed all incorperate the key features you would find on a CD. There ore aspects and thechniques which are all importan when it comes to creating successful media proucts. For example the application of bold headings as well as smaller things such as the bar code must all be strategeicaly placed to create an effective finished look. The application of the record label through all the acillery texts is also a good way for a company to promote themselves.

My media product has slightly challenged standard rules which you would associate with CD covers in that i have tryed to make full use of photoshops capabilities to help emphasize the CD title, 'Super Human'. The superimposed skull under the face and the outer glow and neon i have used create a consistancy between the projects. This is unlike the products i researched where the standard layout is usualy a photo which may have been made black and white or brightness and contrast edits; occasionaly the magazine adverts will have a compeuterized piece of art as the background image. My magazine advert and CD case is one of a few media texts which has edited certain ares of a particular photo. However the end result looks effective and i am happy with the result.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The main project compared to the ancillery texts is slightly different in terms of the main ideas i have tried to incorporate, as video and photo shop based media is mostly different, however i have found that i was able to incorperate scenes and put effects onto the editting areas of my video which helped create links to the whole theme i was going for. The beach stereotype which comes with Jack Johnsons music was easily adapted to both the music video and the imagery. I am happy with the subtle interlinking between the music video's and the poster and cd case. And the (Jack Johnson 'super human') logo i was able to create helped further that intertextuality i was aiming for.

The audience feedback was another key part of the creation of my project and this definitely helped me alter and better the look of certain bits of my project. The opinions of certain people helps bring an abstract view of your work and so they can therefore give you little ideas and point out weaker areas of the different aspects of my project. This was hugely helpful and i would go back and alter or even completely change areas of my project in order to improve it.