Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?




The Movie-Notting Hill (Ain't No sunshine when she gone scene)

When we were coming up with an idea for our music video we thought of season changing showing her journey so we looked at this clip from the movie Notting Hill and tried to illustrate this in our own music video. In the end we decided to show the change through the change of clothes and location.









Kylie Minogue- I should be so lucky



Kylie Minoque's song 'I should be so lucky' is a music video we looked at. We liked the way she moved across each scene easily changing her clothes. The way that it is edited was really good and we tried to make the editing in our music video as seamless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg_7TL5PAzA&ob=av2el

This is the original music video for Natasha Bedingfield-Unwritten.

When planning the music video we also looked at the original music video to see how the illustrated the lyrics. We took the whole going on a journey theme and tried to make it different, original.

These are the three different locations that we filmed at to show her journey.

In our music video we challenged the conventions of a typical indie/pop music video as we added the still images, but I feel that it worked well with our whole concept of following the artists on a journey and the still images near the end basically sumed up her journey.

               

2. How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

This is a animatic answering question number 2.



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

DIGITAL CAMCORDER


  

When we were filming our music video we used a industry standard digital camcorder to film with which stored the clips on a memory card which made it easier to store our work and to transfer it unto the computer.


 
 FINAL CUT PRO

 In finalCut Pro I edited the clips that I filmed for my music video.

 To import a clip or image into final cut pro you must first select 'File' and click on 'Import' and select 'Files'. This will open the folder with your clips and images.

 After the folder opens then select the image or clip that you want to open.

 Click the 'Choose' button after you have decided on the clip or image that you want to upload.

 After the clips/images that you want have uploaded then you can drag them unto the timeline to edit it to the beat of your music so that the lip synch is in time.

These are some screenshots from the finished music video that was edited in final cut pro.

I found using Final cut pro quite interesting, and drew on the final cut pro editing that I learnt in AS to help me, but it was different from last year as I had to edit to the beat of the song. Although I found this difficult at first, I eventually got the hang it.


PHOTOSHOP

With photoshop I made my ancillary print products(digipak and my advertisement).

This is the original image that I chose to use as my front cover, but I didn't like that she was facing that direction so I selected the image and flipped it so that she was facing the other direction, as shown below.

To add the butterfly graphics to the image I selected a butterfly image using the magic wand tool on the tool bar and selected the part of the image I wanted and dragged it unto my front cover image.

(Magic Wand Tool)

I found using photoshop quite easy and enjoyed it very much discovering all the different types of things that you could do with the various editing tools.

This is the finished product, front cover of the digipak.


BLOGGER AND YOUTUBE

This is a animatic explaining how I used Blogger and YouTube.


ANIMATIC

 After you have finished the powerpoint presenation go to 'File' and select 'Save'.

 Name your powerpoint presentation and save it as a powerpoint file first.

Do the same thing, go to 'File' and select 'Save' and then go to format and select 'Move (.mov)' and then click 'Save' and the powerpoint presentation will then save as a movie, this will then turn it into an animatic.

4. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

This animatic is about the audience feedback which I got from my music video and what I learned from it.

 This is a word cloud that I made to illustrate the way I was feeling when I was watching our music video at the 'The Screen' cinema.

We watched our music videos at a local cinema near to our college and it was a very exciting experience. I thoroughly enjoyed watching everyone else's music videos and seeing how other people reacted to my music video. The whole experience, from filming, editing to making the ancillary products was fun, I enjoy each aspect as I got the opportunity to learn more about the music industry, and now I know how to make a music video, digipak and advertisement poster. If I had the opportunity to make the music video over again I would add another location, edit the clips together better and replace the still images and kept with the filming clips throughout the whole video.