Wednesday, 18 June 2014

HA4 Task 6 – Evaluation

HA4 Task 5 – Post-production





Peer Reviews:

Daniel Harrison: I thought the advert was very good, especially the song and dinosaur parts. The idea of the kitkat moving is really good as well.

Reece Cordingley: The music scene is very clever and overall it was very creative.

Chloe Kyriacou: I thought that it was a very well-made advert and the stop motion was very good. There was a bit of a problem with the lighting throughout but, it wasn’t too noticeable. I really enjoyed the advert overall.

Kelsey Keighley: The advert was brilliant and really creative. I thought that the moving bar was really well thought out and fun. It seemed a bit slow at times and the music didn't fully match.

Emma Upton: I really liked the advert, though there were parts of it where it kept flashing. However, it was very good. I also think that different music should have been used.

Skye Nel: The adverts style was good and the idea was too. The stop-motion style was very well done and there was nothing wrong with the video.


Callum Wallace: The advert was really good and well made.

From this I can conclude that while my advert did well in terms of creativity and execution, there were some small elements that i could have fixed. The primary concern was the lighting and the music. I couldn't find any other fast paced instrumental music and the lighting would have been near-impossible to correct in post-production due to a lack of resources and time.

HA4 Task 4 – Production






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There is a big gap between the first two log entries as when originally uploaded to slideshare, the format would change and affect the pictures by overlapping them with text.

HA4 Task 3 – Pre-production





































HA4 Task 2 – Ideas Generation











HA4 Task 1 – Research for Production













Wednesday, 14 May 2014

HA3 Task 8 - Audience Classification

Audience Classification


There are a range of techniques that are used to classify audiences for the TV advertising industry. This is referred to as 'Audience Profiling'. By researching their audience beforehand, a researcher can ensure that an advertiser puts across the right message to the viewing audience. It might include details like age, sex, educational qualification, work experience, financial background, field of work, interests, mood, orientation, bias, food habits, religious background, physique, health condition etc. As it depends on what is being researched, how much detail is applied to the research can vary. 


Demographics


A common and traditional method of audience profiling is known as demographics.Demographics means a small subgroup of a society that can be used to put them into categories. Demographic trends are also important, as the size of different demographic groups will change over time as a result of economic, cultural and political circumstances. Characteristics of demographic research include age, gender, ethnicity, orientation, job and location. The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. They were originally developed by the National Readership Survey to classify readers, but are now used by many other organisations for wider applications and have become a standard for market research. The social grades were created and developed over 50 years ago and are still used to compare classes today.



Psychographics


Psychographics means describing an audience by looking at their behaviour and personality traits. It goes more in-depth than normal demographics. Psychographics labels a particular type of person and makes an assessment about their viewing and spending habits. A more detailed look into people involves looking at their personality, values, opinions, attitudes, interests and lifestyles. This type of research is based on the assumption that the types of products and brands on individual purchases will reflect that persons characteristics and patterns of living.The advertising agency Young and Rubican invented a successful psychographic profile known as their 4C’s Marketing Model, which stands for Cross Cultural Consumer Characterisation. This allows people to select what they think about themselves, therefore identify their characteristics and personality:



A small table detailing a few differences between demographics and psychographics, showing the main differences between the two.



Geodemographics



Geodemographics is the process of analyzing survey data of a specific geographical area to profile economic and demographic characteristics of population living there. It is commonly used for marketing and advertising strategies. It will analyze where various people live and how viewing decisions between locations change. This is because people living in crowded council estates would probably watch different things than people who own their own house in an upmarket area. Geodemographic systems estimate the most probable characteristics of people based on the combined profile of all people living in a small area near a particular address. Geodemographics can also work in conjunction with psychographics and class systems. This is because some areas will typically be more upmarket, with more expensive house whilst other will consist of council houses and high rise flats. So, the class and personality traits will most likely differ greatly. 

An example of the types of houses in a location in Great Britain: