How Creative Have You Been In As & A2 Production?

Use the marking criteria for G325 to help you:

• Explain what you did and analyse the extent of your creativity.
• Give examples from the texts you created to support your points.
• Use terminology e.g. media terms, creativity terms.

The teachers constraint me to making a music magazine and a music video which helped me when it came to thinking up of ideas and I had already been set an area of work to do unlike being left to our own devices and not having a specific area where it could be harder to come up with something as there are so many sorts of magazines and videos. Doing it this way made it easier to come up with original ideas as I could look at other music magazines and music videos that are very popular and similar to the genre I wanted to do. I first picked the genre I wanted to do for each product so I knew the area I was researching to make my products as professional and are real as possible. I did this by taking original ideas and expanded on them as I had the freedom to look through anything I wanted and use all the different genres to make my products as interesting as possible. When it came to my AS work I had to chose the clothing that suited the genre I was doing and the positioning of the girls when it came to the images I was going to use on the magazine as they had to look realistic so I played about with each of these elements to get the best look for my magazine. I got inspiration through looking at magazine I enjoy reading and the same genre magazine as well so I know what the main style is on these sort of magazine. I had to bring this technique through into my A2 work as I had to look at many different media text to make my music video and ancillary text. When it came to making my music video I looked at the little mix's original video and took certain clips and re-create elements to make mine look Pop and newer as I took the fast shot idea of clips into my video to make it professional and interesting to the eye which is part of the genre I did. This was called recycling original ideas that are already proven to work well in the media and a justing it to make it relevent to my genre by usign creativity. This made my overall music video look different to the original as I took many shots from different bands and brought them into one video. This is taking old videos and ideas and putting them into a brand new concept to make the video look more original and real. I had the freedom to chose my own colour schemes, layout and featured elements that are used in both of my media products. This allowed me to conform and challenge the convention for my area of genre to make it look convicing and realistic to the overall products. I used a colour scheme through my A2 course work as this showed the pop convention and linked all my work together which comes across to the audiences as it is a reconisable element that gets attention from the target market. In AS I was told to do a front cover, contents page and double spread but when it came to the layout of the magazine I was aloud to chose how I wanted it to look to meet the Pop convention I was doing. The layout I chose was very easy for the target market to read and understand as it was quite straight forward and was laid out in the genre convention so it was came across very well to the audience I was selling to.

Overall I believe I was more creative with my second piece of course work in A2 as my ideas ranged from a outside genre influences and I didnt rely on conventional ideas as much but it was still a key element when making the video. For example I used a genre I already knew a lot about as Pop is one of my favourite styles of music which already gave me a lot of knowlegde on the area but I decided to widen my search on this area so I could learn more to make my music video very convicing and realistic. This area of genre also provided me with the ideas of colour schemes to use and the photography I could use with the right positioning of my band to make it effective. Looking at the pop genre gave me inspiration regarding the artists style and the branding behind the band which also allows me to look at a range of old texts and products that I can take inspiration from.