Reflection on Progress (Overall Evaluation)

I have found that throughout this course I have progressed from start to finish. I found that I have taken in a lot more considerations this year than I did previously. For example, I have got way more feedback this year from my audience which is good because it has helped me improve all of my products and it has also helped my knowledge develop. Now that I have gained all of my feedback from my audience I have realised I still could change a lot about my final product even though I followed the feedback they gave me previously and this is why I feel as I have developed so much and that is because I have gathered a lot more different opinions this year than I decided to do last year.

I believe that with most of my work I have gone back to it, refined and developed it, and I have also changed my approach to creating my video and my ancillary as the course has progressed.

Reflection on Progress (Ancillary)

I have found that my Digipak and my Magazine Ad was quite successful. I believe this because it followed the same style of the genre and it done this by the conventions in which was used in order to create it. I found that it linked to my music video very well as the same conventions which were used in the video were used in the ancillary task. I found that my Ancillary products will appeal to the audience due to how well it does link to the music video, for example, there are black and white shots throughout the music video and in the ancillary task, I edited the image so the performer was in black and white.

Three improvements:

1.  I did some research into the ancillary tasks but I believe that I could have looked it into a bit more to try and make my product as perfect as possible.                                                                                           
2. I believe that I could have looked at some more digipaks so next time I should look at a wider range of digipaks instead of just a few.                                                                                                               
3. Even though the audience said they liked the magazine ad, I believe more could have been added to it so it looked a bit more professional.

Reflection on Progress (Construction)

I found that now I have completed my video and now that I have edited all of my clips together, it is clear that I have made a massive improvement as time has gone on. I believe this because I managed to change my work to suit the genre more and I did this through the feedback which I was given from my audience. When I Showed them a rough cut of my video they gave me a list telling me what I could have improved and I went away and acted upon this. One example, they told me and my partner that we needed a better opening and closing shots, we then took this on board and managed to get a range of different shots and put them together so it really showed we knew the genre.

Three improvements:

1.  I need to make sure that I now focus on my digipak and my magazine ad and look at a range of different ones so I know what will relate to my genre and what won't.                                                                                                
2. I need to make sure that I continue to gather feedback from my audience because I need to make sure I know what they think of my ideas.                                                                                                                       
3. I need to look at a range of different font types so when It comes to creating my Digipak I know what style is best to go for.

Reflection on Progress (Planning)

So far I have managed to get a draft of my music video and show it to the class. From this, I knew what shots I had to change and what shots looked good within the video. I also gained some feedback which said I should add some narrative to my video and this is what my next steps are going to be to make it more successful. I have gone back and added some more detail to the rest of my posts, this way my audience can understand more about the topics in which I have discussed. I also did some research into the Digipacks and I now understand what I have to do to make mine a success.

Three improvements:

1. I think I need to keep track of what I am doing a bit more so when it comes to reviewing what I have done, I can easily know.                                                                                                            
2. I need to make sure that I use all of the feedback I have been given and apply it to my work to make it more successful.                                                                                                                  
3. Finally, I think that I need to not rush anything that I am blogging because I don't want the standard of work dropping as my blog increases

Reflection on Progress (Research)

Three things needed to improve:

• I need to improve my knowledge on some of the tasks. For example, I need to look into how a digipak is styled and take some ideas from it and start to make my own. By doing this I can link it to my practical work and then I can show what I have chosen for my final song choice.

• I also think I need to make sure I keep track of everything I am doing because I don't want to lose any information when it comes to putting it all onto my blog. To do this I need ti keep updating my blog of all the work I am doing so I don't forget about it.

• Finally, I believe that I need to put some more information into by blog work. I believe this because some of the posts I have created could have more detail on them and could be in a better format to make it more interactive.