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Note to the examiner: ensure when watching the video that annotations are turned on for at least the first ten seconds. 

The Music Video above is the main component of the coursework brief. The ancillary products viewed in a separate blog post below, or in the page captioned "2. Combination of Products".

Evaluation Questions can be found either below on the main section of the blog or within the pages above.

The complete digipack

The front cover of the digipack

The magasine advertisement

EVALUATION QUESTION 1: GENRE CONVENTIONS

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 1: Codes and Conventions from Ben Murray on Vimeo.

Watch the video above to access my answer to the question. I decided to use my brand new Vimeo account to upload the video (instead of going the Youtube route) , as Vimeo is a platform more suitable for more academic works.

EVALUATION QUESTION 2: COMBINATION OF PRODUCTS

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Play the soundcloud widget above to listen to my vocal answer to this question. The ancillary products are below

The magasine advertisement

The full layout of the digipack

The front cover of the digipack

EVALUATION QUESTION 3: FEEDBACK

Evaluation Question 3 from venturay

My answer to question three was done in the form of a slideshare as seen above.

EVALUATION QUESTION 4: NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Some of the technologies that you have used: what else have you used?

Above: I used a website called 'New Hive' to create the answer to Evaluation Question 4. Click on the New Hive icon to the bottom left of the embedded widget to access a larger, interactive version.

Production - EDITING THE EVALUATION QUESTION

Using Final Cut Express to edit my response to Evaluation Question 1: Codes and Conventions of a music video

Production - FINAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT

The final design for my magasine advertisement. After many drafts, this is the conclusion; a single page spread including the artist, the name of the song, the digipack cover, a photo of the singer against the most visually interesting background in the video, along with quotes and praise for the song from several sources along with purchasing and ownership information.

Production - USING A FACEBOOK PAGE AS A FEEDBACK TOOL

The image above is a screenshot from the Venturay Productions Facebook page, which I am using to try and receive feedback on the first draft of my magazine advertisement.

Research - MORE MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS

Below: further examples of magazine advertisements

Research - MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS

Using Kerrang's website to browse for examples of magazine advertisements for new albums 

Using Google to skim through and find examples of magazine advertisements similar to my genre

Above: A double page spread on Muse, however this example is not an album advertisement

A single page magazine advertisement for a new album by Green Day

Having conducted research, I compiled a list of common factors that regularly crop up in these advertisements:

- Mid shots or close ups of the singer of the band, and possibly the rest of the band too

- An image of the album cover

- Release date of the album

- The name of the album and the artist

- Logos for shops or websites that will sell the album

Production - BEGINNING WORK ON MAGAZINE ADVERT

A screenshot of Blender beginning to render out a still frame for the magazine advertisement's background