Dear Moderator...

Welcome to my A Level blog! My name is Emily Brown and my blog contains all of my work produced for my G324 A2 Coursework Portfolio Unit within OCR GCE course for media studies.

I worked with another peer to create our music video to Kate Nash's song '3am'.

Along the right hand side is a menu displaying all the labels to relevant blog posts and to help you navigate my blog.

Thank you and Enjoy!
Emily Brown

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

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

Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Completed Music Video!

Ancillary Task Two: Magazine Album Advert

Here is  my final magazine advert for my artist's album, 'Moving On'.

Creating My Magazine Advert

The first website I used to create my advert is Fotor. With this website, I changed the filter of my picture to black and white and added the text. Luckily, I managed to find a font very similar to the font I used on my website.

After I had imported all the text I wanted onto the advert, I then used LunaPic again and used their 'merge image' tool in which you can add a photo on top of another. I imported the edited image I created on Fotor and then uploaded the record label image and re-sized it to fit into the bottom left hand corner. 

I then had to re-save this image and re-import it so I could add the social media logos that I took from my website.

As I was unsure on the lay out of the magazine advert I asked two 17 year old girls to help me decide where all my text should go. This ensure that it will appeal to people of my target audience. 

Ancillary Task One: Final Website

Below is the website I have created for my artist, Imogen,

http://ebrown68.wix.com/imogen

Here is the homepage of the website.

Here is the page showing pictures from the artist's photoshoot:

The homepage shot of Imogen smiling remains the background for each page. The home page displays the artist's name, album name, social media links and a menu bar for other pages. I added social media accounts as this generation follow many celebrities and music artist's lives on social media. The text has an added 'fade in' transition to make the website look more sleek and professional.

I will use the same font for my magazine advert to add synergy so it is easy for my artist's fans to recognise the brand of Imogen.

Website Audience Feedback

Whilst creating my artist's website, I had 6 pictures of my artist to choose from for the homepage and to ensure my website suited my target age group, I asked five 16-18 year olds to choose their favourite. However it was a tie between these two photographs:

I made the executive decision to use the smiling photo (bottom) as the website and I will use the top one for the magazine advert.