A2 Induction Evaluation:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
   - We worked as a large team which is similar to the real industry of media products, we all had a go at editing on the Macs which meant we all gained knowledge from this section of production. However in real media products there would probably be one specified editor for music videos that creates the final piece themselves. As a class we nominated one person to be the director so one person was in charge of us all and took on the full role of director by organising the cameraman and sound operator to be in cue etc. Whilst editing using iMovie on the Apple Macs I learnt how to synchronise the music track to the edited film clips; this will help me a lot when creating my final A2 coursework music video.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
   - Our final cut of the video was uploaded onto YouTube and we believe it to be similar to the original as we took the exact shots from the official video and simply recreated them. This was successful due to the role of the director being organised and the cooperativeness of the class during the filming.
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
   - On YouTube as of (12:45pm, 29/6/11) we have had 79 views.
   We have also had one comment post on it 'niice ;)' which suggests that the audience feedback is positive and we will hopefully improve the view count over the Summer.
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
   - Video camera and tripod from Lutterworth College library
   iMovie editing software on Apple Mac computers
   Firewire Mac computer lead
   PC Computers to access YouTube