OUR OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

This is the final product of what will be used for our music video.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

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

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?


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

Cameras
In the process of creating my music video and ancillary texts, I used a range of media technologies. 

To film the first take of my music video, we used a tripod and Toshiba digital hand held camera.This particular camera was not as good in pixel quality as expected.
I also filmed extra scenes that were never used in the music video, using my iPhone 4S.
For other various scenes that I needed to re-film, I used a professional canon camera.

Toshiba digital hand held camera

iPhone 4S

Canon camera

Editing software

After filming was finished, we edited at my house, using 'Windows Movie Maker' on my PC as we knew that we were more familiar with this software and previous experience using the macs was not pleasant. However publishing our music video from this software became a problem, so we had to switch software, 'Sony Vegas'.

'Windows Movie Maker'

'Sony Vegas'

Blogspot

From the start of my advanced portfolio, I have created a blog page specifically for the music video project. I have been using it to show my understanding and process of what I am doing, from the deliberation of which artist and song I wanted to do, to the summary of filming. I found that blogspot was the easiest media technology to use and the most helpful, not only contributing to my coursework but allowing me to revise for my exam via PC and portably because of the iPhone app.

'Blogspot'

'Blogspot' iPhone app

Fireworks

In creating my album cover, digipak and poster, as a pair me and my partner were completely unfamiliar with photoshop. So we decided to use 'Fireworks'. Although this was easier for us it did take a little bit of time to do because of specific dimensions we needed to create our digipak.

'Fireworks Adobe'

YouTube

YouTube has been an important feature, in research and planning. I used YouTube to research different underground artists at the beginning of starting my advanced portfolio. YouTube has also played a big part in audience feedback as I have posted numerous drafts of my music video on there for feedback.

'YouTube'

Google Chrome

Google chrome has been a crucial role in planning and researching. It allowed me to research aspects of music videos, digipaks and posters. It specifically aided my research into Vince Kidd.

'Google Chrome'

Powerpoint/Microsoft word/Spreadsheet

These three software have been used in order to create questionnaires, results and produce an evaluation question on. They were extremely helpful in the planning and production of my music video.

'Powerpoint'

'Microsoft word'

 'Spreadsheet'

Slideshare

In order to publish one of my evaluation questions onto my blog, I used this. It was a very helpful and quick way to upload a powerpoint onto my blog.

'Slideshare'

Toondoon

In the attempt of constructing my animation for my music video I used this software to familiarise myself with building up animated features. It was helpful as it was something that helped me learn how to create an animation.

 'Toondoon'

Paint
I used paint to crop and create screen shots and photos that were published through out my posts in my blog. It was very useful as it was quick and easy.

'Paint'

A QUICK CHANGE !

Georgia decided to give a go at adding in our condom clips into our media product again ... due to the change of software ...  IT WORKED !!

My exact words when she sent me the link of the improved music video was "I LOVE IT !!"

 Feeling much more confident with our product, we still were in a bit of a muddle, as to which music video we should use now that we had three to choose from. Georgia gathered some further feedback from people who had already watched music video number one and two.

Their responses:- 

Elena G: Prefers this video to the others as it flows much smoother and likes the fact we've changed the writing part at the end to clearer condom scene. 

Fatma F: (a person that has never watched any of our videos): Very pleased with the animation that we've incorporated and how we portray boys being pressured rather than girls.

Marios D: The third video is a lot more slicker and smoother than before, however it's a bit short. 

Cameron S: Watching the first one again compared to this, we have made such a big improvement especially on the ending. The transitions are a lot smoother and the interchange from the animation to real life footage is perfect!