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Dear Moderator,

My name is Emily Moss (52235). Welcome to my blog. This contains all of my work undertaken as part of the G324 A2 Coursework Portfolio Unit within the OCR GCE course in Media Studies.

I chose to work individually to produce a music video to the song 'Nasty' by Pixie Lott.

Please use the navigation bar located above in order to access all my work, as organised into eleven categories.

I hope you enjoy my work!

Yours Faithfully

Emily Moss

A2 Advanced Portfolio- Completed Music Video

After a long time of editing (about 4-5 hours!) I have finally finished my music video! I firstly used iMovie as since last year it has become much more advanced with effective features which I was able to use simply, however after I had done 3 edits on iMovie, I decided that I needed a much  more advanced software: Final Cut X. This enabled me to add on lots of different effects, such as mirrors, flashes and layered images. I am thrilled with my final music video, I hope you enjoy it too...

Evaluation Question 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 Q3- What Have You Learned From Your Audience Feedback?

Evaluation Q4-How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Digipak Panels (Large Images)

Front Cover

 Inside Image 1

 Inside Image 2

 Inside Image 3

 CD background image

Back Cover With Spines

Digipak Completed!

Magazine Advert

Here is my magazine advert for my coursework. I created this on PicMonkey as well as using iMovie in order to green screen the white background. Firstly I imported the photo into iMovie in order to provide a white background, then I imported it into Gimp.com to make the background transparent and then added it onto picmonaey as an overlay to the frame. I chose Bliss Magazine as the review as the readers of that are typically the listeners of this genre of music. 

Third Edit

I have finally finished the second edit of my music video. After doing the pick-up shots I found it a lot easier to edit as I had a much wider range of shots to choose from. The next step is to export it to FinalCut 10 in order to add some funky effects! 

A Star To Be...?

Whilst doing some pick-up shots for my music video (yes thats me standing on the table), my dog decided he wanted to feature...

Too cute not to post! ;)

You can also see my Green Screen Set up here. I had 3 lights- 2 side lights and one main light. I found this produced the most effective green screening.