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clear/effective work overall. 
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Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!
For following this A2 Media coursework journey! I hope you have enjoyed it! 

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Teachers Rebecca and Ann helped me with my ancillary construction by giving me feedback.

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Teachers Rebecca and Ann helped me with my ancillary construction by giving me feedback.

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For example, Ann suggested adding a more exciting background (as you can see I spoke about this on my blogpost 'construction of ancillary products', click on link attached) and this helped my album advertisement to look much better. As you can also see in 'construction of ancillary products, Rebecca's feedback helped me to change the format of my advert to make it more effective.

Rebecca also gave me feedback on my website, saying that she really liked the letters that showed at the start of each page (see photo below). She also told me to change the title of my video link so it was clearer what the link would take you to (see image below)

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I constructed my ancillary products over a two/ three week period. This involved using Wix to make my website and Photoshop to make my album advertisement. You will be able to see in Evaluation question 3 how I constructed these products with the use of technologies such as Wix and Photoshop.

At one point during the construction process, a fault on photoshop caused my work to crash, and I hadn't recently saved it... aghhh!!! Some of it thankfully recovered, but not all of it, so that set me back a bit.

I didn't totally follow the plans I had made for my ancillary products, as my ideas changed once I had visually seen options of what I could do on each programme and across the options of font, colours, images I had and etc.

Here are some images that represent my ancillary construction journey....

I used Instagram to edit my album cover image before uploading it to photoshop.

I referred back to my music video to match up the colour scheme

I spent a lot of time on the Mac computer

Using Adobe Photoshop

Wix

And other products/ technologies

I was very grateful for the fact that I recorded our media technician's tutorial on how to use Photoshop, as it was very handy to refer back to when making my album advertisement.

I won't post the videos of the tutorials as they are long however you can see here that they are on my iPhone camera roll so I could refer back to them when required.

Evidence of our deadlines given to us by teacher for ancillary production.

Here was one of my first drafts of the album advertisement. I knew that I would change the font on the digipack, however a lot of the other parts of it I was more willing to keep. As you can see, the background was plain at this point and the overall advertisement looks very different to my final product. This advert also lacks tour dates and appears to have gaps that could do with being filled.

The album advert below is a more updated version. I followed Ann's feedback and added in a more exciting background. I also added:

Tour date info

An improved font on digipack

Less gaps to feel.

However, this version was not the final one, I still had some improvements to make!

As you will be able to see in my final advert, I made some further improvements to the above project. These included:

Adjusting the position of the digipack

Adjusting the position of the website URL so it isn't slanted and therefore is easier to read

I got rid of the 'say hello to', as it was unnecessary

I added the album title and artist name to the advert (with the artist name bigger than the album title of course)

Changed the black stars with white background to gold stars and I edited out the white background so it looked more professional.

My website was produced using Wix.

This was the first website I made. However I felt restricted with what I could do with it and I didn't think it looked professional enough so for this reason I started the website all over again!

Making my new website, I picked the template below and then worked from there, adjusting the pages, links, design and content.

I used this image as the video cover on my Website. I found this a good choice because it shows clearly and closely her earrings and nose ring. As you can see here, I filtered the image which made the hoop earrings and nose ring pop out more than it did in the original image.

I used Wix stores to add and edit products for my online store.

I used this to link in my video

and to make the video appear visually pleasing.

I used this to edit the font and text colour

I used this to edit the background.

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I constructed my ancillary products over a two/ three week period. This involved using Wix to make my website and Photoshop to make my album advertisement. You will be able to see in Evaluation question 3 how I constructed these products with the use of technologies such as Wix and Photoshop.

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The 'R' is an example of the letters Rebecca liked.

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Video link once I had added a clearer title

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RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF MUSIC VIDEO FEEDBACK 

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RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF MUSIC VIDEO FEEDBACK 

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Our teacher checked our blogs 3 times during the blogging process to tell us how to improve our blogs. Based on this feedback, I made improvements to my blogs.

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Blogging health check 1 - response to feedback 

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Blogging health check 1 - response to feedback 

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Based on this feedback, I went through my blog posts to make sure they were all accessible by setting the prezis to public and making sure all of my blogs are tagged. Our teacher Rebecca also told us as a class that if we change our username from our student ID (mine was previously set as AC10571) to our full name, then it is easier for the marker to find what blogs are ours even if we forget to tag them.

I went back to task 8 on Laura Mulvey and added more detail. There had been less before because I took our instruction to 'briefly' summarise Mulvey's theory literally!

As for task 4, it turned out my teacher couldn't see all of the detail that I put into it because of the way it was set out, so I changed the structure to make it easier to view the entire post. (Beforehand the posts had gone past the screen on padlet, so you'd have to scroll to read the rest and it wasn't clear enough that you had to scroll).

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Blogging health check 3 - response to feedback 

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Blogging health check 3 - response to feedback 

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This blogging health check is proof that I responded to the advice given to me in blogging health check two. And as you will see I followed the instruction to keep working hard for my ancillary product work and other work beyond the production of the main music video.

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Overall review of grades I got during each health check and my progress grades.
As you can see I have thankfully improved and then maintained my grade.

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One of our main bits of feedback from our Pitch task was that the London underground was a bit of a risky choice of synergy because it has so many other associations so may not draw a clear visual link to our artist. This is why we changed our synergy to focus on the style of the artist - the hoop earrings and nose earring. (During the making of the ancillary products, I also chose to set a clear colour scheme that matched the music video).

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Editing process feedback from class peers on our main music video during production.

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Uploaded by Katrina Markham on 2018-02-03.

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Editing process feedback from a professional photographer and videographer

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Editing process feedback from a professional photographer and videographer

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I forwarded this feedback to the group. We agreed that the clips with the phone didn't make much sense to the structure/ narrative of the video and Maariyah had already taken them out as a result.

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Our music video was displayed at this Everyman cinema near our college - Screen on the Green. It was great to our music video on the big screen and to hear the audience cheering! I was quite surprised with how loud the applaud was which was nice as it suggested they liked what they saw.

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Some comments from people who have watched my music video....

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Based on this feedback, I considered whether the cuts were too random but on reflection I feel that if they were too random, we would've been made aware of this beforehand by our media teachers and peers. Also, we followed the media convention of cutting on the beat. I'm not sure how experienced Preben is in this field so it may simply be his personal preference which, of course, is fine. This feedback came after the cinema screening so of course it was too late to change the video, however this critique is still interesting to be aware of.

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RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF ANCILLARY PRODUCTS FEEDBACK (sometimes with feedback on the video combined) 

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RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF ANCILLARY PRODUCTS FEEDBACK (sometimes with feedback on the video combined) 

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I was happy that my friend noticed the colour scheme which, as you can see in Evaluation 2, I thought very carefully about!

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Here are some reviews on my synergy links. I noticed myself that people I asked about my synergy sometimes required some help to figure out the hoop earring and nose ring synergy, so I wondered if this should be made clearer. However when asking them if they think it should be clearer in their interviews, they didn't say that they think it should. Maybe the reason it took some of them some time to realise was because they tried to rush figuring out what the synergy was, didn't have or because they do not have a 'trained eye' to do so, however it has made me ponder whether I would try to make the artist's synergy even clearer if I were to do this project again.

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Uploaded by Katrina Markham on 2018-02-07.

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My teacher Rebecca has given me feedback on my response to the first 3 evaluation questions. Here is what she has said:

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Rebecca gave me the feedback on the structure of my padlet for question one, where the content was scattered too far across the screen, so it wasn't easy to see everything. (Similarly to when I first did task 4 - previous student video during the very first research stage) Also because of the structure, it was hard to read what was meant to be read after what.

Rebecca suggested I make sure everything appears on screen and make sure it is clear what order the reader should read the posts in, for example by connecting posts together. I tried this at first however some of the content still could've been hard to read depending on how big or small the reader's screen is.

For this reason, I changed the format on padlet so it all worked as a scroll down system, and then I reordered the posts to go in the correct order.

(Photograph of final structure)

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For this question, I stated that the daft punk helmets are used as synergy and shown in the album cover, teaser trailer, the MTV music video and the original music video. Rebecca suggested that I added visual proof of these statements and so I acted upon this feedback by adding visual proof for each place I stated the helmets are shown. You can see how I did this in the image below:

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For question 3, Rebecca said that I need to make it clear what stage(s) I used the technology that I talk about, so that I clearly show how I used technology in the research, production and evaluation stages for both the main music video and ancillary products. An example Rebecca gave me was that where I explain how to use Camtasia, I need to make it clear that I am talking about how I used it in the evaluation stage. Here you can see that I went back and did this.

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I have asked Rebecca what I need to add to this padlet that I am currently working on. She has said all I need to do now is make a final, detailed conclusion on what I have learned from the feedback I have received, so that is what I shall do!

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Overall conclusion on how helpful feedback was 

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Overall conclusion on how helpful feedback was 

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I think feedback has been really helpful for me throughout the whole process of my A2 coursework. Without it, I would've been lost!

- During the beginning research process, feedback helped me to go back on work I had done (some of it over the Summer holidays) and make ammendments to it, which will hopefully have improved the marks I can gain from that research.

- During the planning process, feedback helped us to establish and adjust our ideas and plans for the music video. For example, class and teacher feedback helped us to choose our song because we shortlisted a few songs and played them to the class who helped us to choose our final song, which was obviously a very important part of the music video. Another example is that our teacher gave us feedback on our choice of synergy and I am so glad she did because I much prefer our chosen concept of the hoops and nose ring and my additional use of a clear colour scheme than the London underground sound as it is a more conventional choice of synergy and I think it creates a much clearer brand identity than the London underground sign would've. Ally addressed this issue here: https://candipop17group6.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/task-36-revisions-to-pitch-and-final-decisions-alycia/

- During the production process, feedback helped us to know whether we were on track and what audiences thought of our video. There was this one time some peers watched what we had put together so far for the music video and their feedback helped to confirm what we already thought we needed to do to improve it. They also reacted really well to the shot where the camera pans round to reveal our artist standing in King's Cross light tunnel, which confirmed to us that it was a good shot. It was good to get encouraging feedback during this process which helped confirm that we were doing well.

- During the ancillary production, feedback helped me to know how to make my products better in several ways. This was especially helpful because we had a fairly short amount of time to make the products.

- During the evaluation production, feedback helped me to include what is required and reminded me if there were any technical issues or if I had missed anything out.

Overall, I found the feedback really helpful. I remember doing coursework during GCSEs where feedback was limited but that meant that some of the time I didn't feel like I knew what I was doing very well. However I think the feedback I have received during this process has worked for my learning in a much more effective way because it has still been me putting the work in, however feedback has helped me to improve that work, to aim my efforts in the right direction and to extend my knowledge on what makes a good blog, good products and clear/effective work overall.

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For following this A2 Media coursework journey! I hope you have enjoyed it!