Evaluation

Key Questions:

• The reasons behind problems and successes? 

I feel that my music video what reasonably well, I didn't have many problem, a few ups and downs of whether I would actually finish in time and a few that were easily solved but seemed bad at the time. And they did cause problems in timings. I have had slight hiccups that were and were not my fault such as the snow which have had in the last month, and things that I haven't kept on top of as much as I had wanted. I got a bit caught up in the editing, I kept cutting little bits out and swapping parts around and kept watching it over and over again just in case of any bit I hadn't cut out that should have been cut out. while doing this I could have been doing my CD covers and designing a poster. and I also didn't stick to my time-bounded plan well enough which i think effected my performance. I also had problems with filming, as I had to rely on my brother to take me and my niece to my filming destination, which wasn't easy. So I pretty much had to film it all in one afternoon, which took my stress levels up. But I feel that it was filmed well for the amount of time I had given myself to complete the filming. When I came back to put capture my video onto final cut pro, it looked better than I thought. And once I had found the right video to place in from YouTube it looked even better. The way I imagined it, wasn't the way it felt when  was filming, it felt my shot were going to come out not looking very good. but it was fine they came out looking better. The shots that  had chosen to film were simple but effective, this way it was easier to tell my niece where to go and how to look. This also made it easier for me as I had to film her, and had to make sure I had enough room to do this shots. Then I had to create effects that would help my music video look more like a protest film. So I did have a few successes on the way, and I feel as a whole it was a success and I am happy with my music video. The planning was better than the previous music video, so I had learnt  from my mistakes. I had got the planning done before I had to film so I had it all there to know what I was doing. This made it a lot easy to do, once i got there. What also helped was the fact my niece had taken the time to study my storyboard, and practised the shots and she knew how to act and where about' s to stand before I had even asked. this made it so much easier to get it done to almost perfection.

• How cultural, economic, political and social factors influenced your work? 

My video has a few factors that influence it, I have chosen to have political and cultural factors in my video. I have explained this using protests.  I have filmed my own video, of a girl walking around a remote place holding a protest board and looking sad, in the middle of some of my own filmed clips, I have placed YouTube clips as well to create a video that is based around political protests effecting people from different cultures. I have chosen to use this way to make my video as it works nicely and creates an understanding of different cultures and how they go about the same political views that everybody will share and how social factors will affect this. such as in the footage I filmed the girl looks sad a lonely, feeling that the social factor of protests is different to different people. for this girl she doesn't feel its right to protest in riots, but for other this may feel like its the only way. the political factors are obvious it the protests in general, I chose protests from the past and from recently so that you can see that the way we protest hasn't changed. Cultural issues are not seen in the video but I intended it to be as though the political factor will effect all people of all cultures. As this is one of the issues most parts of the world face. Some of the YouTube clips are different and are from different protests so this may seem like a cultural factor.

• How you have addressed issues of diversity? 

Diversity has been addressed in my video by using three different factors that influence my work. One of them being Political. I have addressed this by using clips from YouTube that I have cut to demonstrate different ways of protesting. And I have filmed the other side of protests being that not all people agree with them and not all people will understand why. At the end of my video I present the audience with a rhetorical question. I use a girl holding a plack

• How you have represented social groups and people in your work?  

I have used people to show different social groups, to do this I picked YouTube clips of protests from different countries and for different protests, this shows that different people from different places riot over the same things that will affect them, and the way they riot is similar to those from this country. I am showing this because it proves that it doesn't matter where you come from people can act in the same way. People as a whole will deal with the problems differently, and people view things differently.

• How have you worked during the project? 

I think that I have worked well through this project I have got on with the work and experimented to make my product to a good standard. I have learnt a lot of things that are very new to me. I have learnt firstly how to use the college cameras and then I have learnt how to use final cut pro to edit my video. The things that I have learnt will help me with the things that I do in the rest of my course and hopefully skills that I will keep. I think that i have worked well and kept on top of things despite the problems that occurred. I have completed everything, that I hope is to a good standard, and I am happy with the outcome. I have completed all the things that needed to be done, and were important, such as: The planning, time-bounded plan, mind maps, storyboard, logo ideas, front and back CD covers. This all goes together to create my capture project.

• What external factors affected you work?  

The snow affected my work, as we had days off for it. And I don't have the facilities at home to have done the work at home. Also i had to work around the fact I had to rely on my brother to drive me and my niece to Ding Dong Mine, where I was planning to film, this meant that I only had a day to film. This could have meant that it would have been rushed, but it wasn't. I had my storyboard with me and had planned which shots I should do first, I got the simple ones out of the way. So I had more time to focus on the more difficult ones. my niece made it easy for me, as she had actually practised and worked out what to do and how to look in each shot, so i didn't have to tell her and explain to her as much.

• How other people might respond to your work? 

When we started this project, and once we had got out ideas, we shared them with everyone else. so I had feedback from the start. And my lecturers have also given me feedback through out. I have been given comments, whether they have been good comments or comments that i should do something different. I think that people will like my video. My video has a meaning to it that will affect a lot of people. The political factor being the biggest, lots of people will feel the same as I do about protests. And will like my video for the fact I am demonstrating this. I think that the two other factors that I have included in my video will also create an understanding that I have been putting forward. I hope that people will understand what I am putting across, and will hopefully like it all the same.