Ccr a2 media
- 1. Q.1 How do your products use or challenge conventions and how do they represent social groups or issues?
- 2. My product clearly uses the convention as a teenage boy is mentally upset and falls into depression and anxiety after losing one of his loved ones which leads him to smoke and hurt himself. This is totally according to the today’s society where teenagers are more of a target on drug intake and self-harm.
- 3. The story line will attract my audience especially teenagers as it has everything to do with them. Being the center of attention helps the audience to gain interest in such things. On the other side it gives the audience a message on how to tolerate stuff like these and not to take such actions, as everyone has their own problems and weaknesses. We should learn how to deal with it as life is too short, we better make the best out of it; focus on the positive side and throw away all the negativity which is holding us back.
- 4. My story line represents the major issue amongst the youth of taking drugs and hurting themselves. This can help them think what these stuff can do to them also parents will be aware of what’s going on around the society as most of our parents don’t even think what their children are going through. Maybe their problems are small but they are small too, they need proper attention and support which should restrain them to go on these things.
- 5. Q.2 How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’?
- 6. The elements of my production are very simple and according to the stereo-type, as now a days people do feel stupid and do not feel acceptable in the society. They think that every problem happening is only with them, which is obviously not the case as each and every individual is going through something, but they don’t accept the fact that life is to survive and good days do come after some struggle.
- 7. This is how my story can work as a source of branding or promoting the music video, it contains a complete story, appropriate angles and lighting, also the editing is done in such a way that makes the video interesting. This will help promote my video as youth is my center of attention and they are the heart of social media these days who like to listen to songs, especially like these in order to connect their situation with the song and feel relief.
- 8. Q.3 How does your product engage with the audience and how would they be distributed as real media products?
- 9. My product would engage as the music is very popular and I have chosen it to sync with my story of actually being NUMB. As I made a poster which can be posted on different social applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and much more.
- 10. My video can be posted on YouTube as it has a worldwide connection of distributing videos through its platform. YouTube has billions of viewers which can help my video to be watched easily.
- 11. We can also contact any distribution company such as LANDR. and link with our AS studios to distribute our music video in order to gain support and audience acceptance. People will be more interested if a bigger production or a distribution company takes over. They can actually give reviews to our product which will help it to grow much faster.
- 12. Q.4 How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
- 13. The camera I used was Nikon D3300 along with a tripod. The camera helped me shoot the video in high quality and the tripod made the camera stable by which the viewer can enjoy watching it without any interrupt or camera shake issues.
- 14. I edited on Adobe Premier Pro as it has various features to edit and is also an easy software to work on.
- 15. Made my blog on blogger.com, it is a user friendly website and much easier to post stuff and also we can edit our posts once they’ve been posted.
- 16. In order to promote my video I made a poster on Adobe Photoshop which has advanced editing features which helped me make the best thing out of it.
- 17. The picture I posted on my poster was taken by the same camera as mentioned above and I edited that picture on Adobe LightRoom.
- 18. I posted my video on YouTube in order to connect with my audience and show them my work. YouTube is the best platform these days for posting videos and watching it easily.
- 19. A-level media studies was a new experience for me where I learned a lot about the digital media and it’s market. Also it was fun and worth the hard work, my photo and videography skills also enhanced and I hope I do bigger things in future.