Evaluation Reflections Question 1

Just done our evaluation. So much better then doing an essay. I thought this went really well and we ended up talking for 52 minutes!

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

My role in this question was to reply to Jack's introduction of this question. I was there to react to Jack's introduction and carry on the conversation, developing on his points. We also took it in turns to introduce each convention. He did the main bulk of the plan for this question but we each revised it and played and equal part in the discussion for the evaluation. elaborated more on Vernallis's theory and how in our video, there was a distinct lack of balance between the performance and the narrative.

Here are two of the myspaces we compared to ours and analysed:

                                              Angels and Airwaves Myspace

You Me At Six Myspace

Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

                                                                         Slipknot-10 Years

Videos we used as references:

Used this video to reference close-ups/beauty shots of lip sync




Reference for pace




Reference for change-over. Our inspiration. Shows Mis-en-scene and pace.




Reference for genre signifiers, CU's of instruments




Reference for Mis-en-scene




Reference for camera movement, pace.




Reference for use of smoke




Use of pace. Shaky camera.




Contrast of our pace. Slow to fast. Fast to slow