Assessment feedback

Original Advert

Our advert is: Sports drinks for women over 50.
Starting notes for our advert:
> Netball courts
> Teachers playing netball?
> Drink - close up of it to see the label
> Louis = making the music for the advert
> Show product at the end of the advert as well as throughout
> Light blue and lime green logo
> Regan (me) shooting = young teacher
> Natural lighting = outside
> People doing exercise/moving in the background (blurred) with the product next to a netball (in focus) - low angle
> Teacher wearing darker clothes and when it switches to Regan, brighter clothes are worn to show youth
> "Be young, be free, be healthy!" = slogan

EVALUATION: The task that we were given was to create an advert based on a sports drink for women over 50. The name of our brand was REFUEL. We tried to sell the product by showing an older woman holding the product and then turning into a younger and quicker woman. I worked with Maisie, Regan and Ami. Filming was mainly on Ami as we were using her camera and iPad. Planning was all of us but I came up with the general idea for the advert. Maisie and I both did some research for the advert. Ami made the logo with her iPad for our sports drink. I dedicated herself as the "director" and Maisie got a lot of the props included in the advert.
We planned our filming by focusing firstly on the easier and shorter shots. For example, we started by filming Mrs Cooper as she is a teacher and has a busy schedule so we based a lot of the filming around when she was free as well as all of us. We planned our advert the first day we found out what it would be based on and we developed the ideas as time went on. Initially, we were going to make a harder advert to film however, we didn't have a lot of time to complete the advert so we had to change our plans.
Our sequence wasn't as successful as we originally thought but we had to change everything based around what we had and how long we had to do it. What went well was our different ideas about the camera angles. movements and shots throughout the advert. Also, we managed well to incorporate everyone in the group into the visual aspect of the advert.
However, we could have worked a lot quicker in the organisation and preparation of the advert as we were discussing everything longer than we spent filming.
From this task ,we have learnt teamwork skills and how to handle everyone's different perspectives and opinions on certain things. Our communication improved the longer we spent on our advert and we did have to compromise quite a lot due to different hurdles during the production.
In future products, what we have learnt from this will be useful as we can plan a lot quicker and dedicate more time to the actual filming and editing of the advert. Communication is very important and so now having the extra knowledge that we didn't have before, we will be able to make a more successful advert.

Adverts - Refuel

Sports Drink - women over 50
- Refuel
- "Feel young, alive and free"
- Netball Courts
- Teachers playing walking netball
- Drink close-up
- Louis music = young scene
- Teachers wear darker clothes - clear contrast
- Show product
- Light blue, lime green logo

TV Drama

Feedback -

  WWW -

• Good Information 
• Clearly presented 
• Understandable

EBI - 

• Make sure there is flow between each slide 
• Be confident in what you're saying

Audiences

Audiences -

A - Higher Management
B - Middle Management
C1 - Office supervisors
C2 - Skilled Manual Workers
D - Semi skilled and unskilled managers
E - Unemployed

Aspirers - seek status
Succeeders - Seek Control
Resigned - Seek Survival
Explorers - Seek discovery
Strugglers - Seeks escape
Reformers - Seeks enlightenment

Target Audience - who we want to see the product.

Niche - very small target audience.

Media Industries

Media Industries -

• Loses personal meaning when owned by a large company.
• Disney owns Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar.
• Big 6 (soon to be 5)
• Disney, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal and Sony.
• "Stifle Innovation" - Ted Turner.

*Rupert Murdoch

*News Corp, DMG, Trinity Mirror, Guardian, The Sun.

*BBC = Public Service Broadcast (PBS)

1. Comcast
2. Disney
3. 21st Century Fox
4. Time Warner
5. Time Warner company
6. CBS
7. Viacom

Glossary

1. brand identity
   The image a company constructs for itself through the use of logos, slogans and other marketing tools in order to appeal to an audience.
2. cross-platform
   The appearance of a media text on more than one platform; cross-platform or cross-media advertising is used to market a product like a film on the web, TV and newspapers.
3. endorsement
   The act of supporting or backing something; celebrity endorsement is often used in advertising to sell a product.
4. ethos
   The purpose, attitude and beliefs of a person or an organisation.
5. media convergence
   When audiences use one platform to consume various types of media texts.
6. media format
   A media format refers to whether the content is video, audio, print based, or a combination such as a website or video game.
7. media platform
   A media platform is where a media text is presented; this can be TV, cinema, computer, games console, digital media player, smartphone, tablet, magazine, or newspaper
8. media text
   Any media product such as a TV programme, film, magazine, video game, newspaper, music track or album created for an audience.
9. niche audience
   A small, narrow audience interested in a specific topic or theme - the opposite of a mass market audience.
10. public service broadcasting
    Public service broadcasting is for the benefit of the public and not just for profit or commercial gain; the BBC is a public service broadcaster in the UK.
11. smartphone
    A mobile phone with a powerful processor that is capable of running applications and accessing the internet.
12. tablet
    A computer device a little smaller than a laptop but with a built-in touchscreen, usually without a keyboard.

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