Dear Moderator,

My name is Victoria Crouch and this is my blog; it contains all of the work I have done as part of the G324 A2 Coursework Portfolio Unit within the OCR GCE course in Media Studies.




I chose to work in a group of 2 to produce a music video to Ciara's "Livin' It Up". The project lasted around 5 months, starting in September 2013 and finishing in April 2014.




I hope you enjoy reading my blog!




Yours thankfully
Victoria Crouch

My Finished Music Video

Here is the final version of my music video to Ciara's "Livin' It Up"

Ancillary Task - Magazine Advert

Here is my finished magazine advert for a new album for my artist:

Ancillary Task - Website

Here is a link of the website I made for my artists:

http://vickycrouch.wix.com/hannahz


Home page:

About me page:

Gallery page:

Tour dates page:

Evaluation Question 4

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

Evaluation Question 3

What did you learn from your audience feedback?

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Evaluation Question 1

New Idea

Once we had finished our rough cut, we showed it to various people and one of them gave us a new idea; the shots of our artist singing on the stairs in the train station where we have her jumping from one place to another could be sped up to the pace of the music by adding in a few second shot of a faster version of this but not in the same order.


At first, I thought this might look a bit weird and didn't think it would really work. However, I still wanted to try it to see what it looked like. So, I got a second shot from each different place where she was standing, copy and paste it in a different / muddled order and it actually worked really well to the music. I put it inbetween the shots of her on the stairs and the next verse where there is a break as she is not singing.

Acting On Audience Feedback

Once we had discussed potential ideas to change the repetitiveness of the shots on the train station stairs, we went out and filmed some different shots for this part and added it to the ending.


I also then had an idea that for the ending that we could have our artist 'kissing the camera'. I didn't want to do a fast shot as towards the ending the music slows down and I thought that this shot would be a nice ending. So, I found a clean window, put some red lipstick on the singer and filmed the shot. It went really well and when I added it to the ending I felt it looked a lot better!