Production: What's going well or what needs to be re-shot?

Production: Filming day 4

Production: Ideas for evaluation:- Question 1

Production: Filming day 3

The Box+ Streaming Chart 4 Music

Ariana Grande Ft Zedd - Break Free

Ariana Grande's latest release of 'Break Free' featuring Zedd has successfully managed to be rated number 16 in The Box+ Streaming Chart with the help from the the rate of her fans!

The genre for this music release is pop as Ariana tends to produce her music specialized in the pop genre, This video however is probably aimed at teenagers again, like her normal music videos.

Her costume change is similar to the costumes she tends to wear in other music videos presented in the picture below. She tends to draw in the male gaze (Mulvey's theory) by wearing rather short dresses and crop tops etc. which connotes that her main target audience is teen girls as they are likely to be drawn into her sense of fashion but also attracting the make gaze through wearing revealing clothing.

Ariana's  music video is most likely to be aimed at teens once again. The use of animatic monsters and graphic scenes of her shooting creates a magical scene. These scenes are used to attract the younger age groups and draw them in to the video. 

In terms of synergy, the colours of purple, metalic silver and white is often used in this video which also comes up in the first shot of the music video. We can see the purple, metalic tones and whites in the music video when she's performing quite clearly, especially in her choice of costume. The whites are used in the background colour and the details on her face (stickers). The tones of purples and pinks are used as a graphical background theme as we can see above from the gif image.

The use of camera in this music video is significant. There are many different uses of camera angles, editing, mis en scene and sound used however, I have realised that the use of tracking shots are constantly used to emphasize on the rhythmic beat of the music video as well as different forms of close ups eg. extreme close-up. Ariana appears also to break the 4th wall (relating to the Andrew Goodwin's theory) which makes creates a stronger connection with her fans. 

A few Changes to Pitch

I have received positive feedback from the members of my class as well as my media teacher. The positive feedback was mainly on good detail and presentation of the pitch. However, she also mentioned that I change my idea on the digi pack because it didn't really relate to the synergy which was the quote tattoo on my arm instead, I used the eyes and eyebrows to be the main focus which wasn't appropriate.

The second suggestion she made was that I include why I have decided to use classy and girly costumes in my video rather than just going with very casual outfits just like the artists I have mentioned in the Dub Step genre. I have now included this briefly in my 'Brand Image' blog post expanding on why myself and group have decided to use girly outfits regarding the Mulvey's theory on the male gaze.

Reflection On Progress Blog

This was my previous 'refection'

'So far I'm comfortable and dedicated for my A2 year, studying media. I'm doing well, trying my best to keep up with all the blogging tasks as during the A2 year, blogging is a great way to track my learning and understanding of the tasks we are set. Blogging is also extremely important for tracking my progress and for my teachers, they are able to make suggestions and comment on what I need to do to improve.

Therefore now, I will need to focus on further blogging and learn the lyrics for my Lip Syncing role. Although memorising lyrics will be hard, I'm keen to do well so I will present my very best potential and be successful at our Music Promotional Package. The amount of researching I have been doing has strengthened my opinion on the fact that our chosen Katy B song will be the best as it also isn't hard to lip sync, so I believe we have made the right choice.'

Firstly, I strongly agree that I am able to keep up with all the blog posts and cope very well with them. I spend extensive amount of time on my blog posts to make them presentable and also make sure that I include what is meant to be included as well as extra blogs. I enjoy blogging very much although it can be very time consuming at times however, I try my absolute best to present my blogs in an appealing way such as through the different apps.

I am now much more confident when being in front of the camera as this was my main weakness. I found that practising in front of the camera and mirror really helped me become confident and happy. The choice of the song I believe is the best song we could have ever done because it's fun and very easy to lip sync and memorize the lyrics as I now know every singe word of it. As a result, I have met my targets and now I will need to be setting other targets such as to; Keep blogging! and start to think about how to answer the important evaluation questions.