Evaluation Question 4

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

Firstly, throughout the whole of A Level Media, I have used Blogger to keep all of my work logged, without having to have tonnes of paperwork everywhere.

In order to create my music video, I used the programme 'Adobe Premiere Pro', and throughout the year I have had lots of practise using the software on projects such as creating a horror version of the Disney film 'Dumbo' and putting together the year 11's prom footage. I have also looked at the art of green screen, using some footage of Mr Henton stood infront of a green screen, and I put it onto the beginning of the music video for Adeles 'Rolling in the Deep'. This was all very good practise for my final piece.

In order to create my Digipack and Music magazine advert I used the programme 'Adobe Photoshop. In order to become farmilliar with this software I sat and spent hours playing, merging two faces together, changing somebodies skin colour etc. I then went on to create 2 practise magazine ads and 1 practise digipack. This all helped to advance my skills to create a top level final product.

While researching, I used 'Glogster', a site in which you can create your own interactive posters. This was a good programme to ues for research because you could create artist profiles that included text, images, sound and videos, this made the research more enjoyable for me personally.

When evaluating, I used slideshare, a site where you can convert Powerpoint Presentations and upload them to the web. Although this is quite a simple programme its still something I had never used before, and I would indeed use it again in future. Also while evaluating I came across a site that allows you to create your own comic strips called 'Pixton'. This was a great programme to use as it was fun and creative, but also easy to get to grips with. I felt that this way of presenting something would be much more fun than just a blog post full of words.

Throughout A-Level Media, I have been doing all my class work on and iMac, something Ihad never used before. While carrying out the tasks to create a music video, Digipack and magazine ad, I have learnt alot about iMacs and some of the software it has.

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?



Lets start with my Magazine Advert and CD Digipack. Being the two products that are printed, they were fairly easy to combine. As you can see I decided to use the same font style, 'Hobo Std' on both products. This was to help combine the two products and make it more obvious that the two items come together. I also uesd the same image effect on both products. I feel that the Magazine Advert helps give a overall feel of what the album is going to be about. The Digipack on the other hand doesn't as much, so I feel that the two products compliment eachother in the fact that what one may not suggest, the other might and visa versa.

The Magazine Advert and Music Video go together well in my opinion. If I saw the advert in a music magazine I would assume that the song 'Odds Are' was about love. I feel that the part within my music video from which the magazine advert is taken from is a big part, and the fact that it is on the poster would make audience members want to watch the whole music video to find out the story behind this moment and what happens following the moment.

I feel that my Digipack tells the story of my music video, its starts with a girl who falls for a boy who she thinks doesn't know she exists, until he approaches her in a small coffee shop in which they get talking and find out that they both have feelings for one another. My digipack is quite quirky, as is my music video, and this is why I feel that they copliment eachother.

All three of my products are, in my opinion, fairly simple but very affective. they all convey a story of girl meets boy, girl likes boy, boy likes girl and they live happily ever after. I feel that if I were to change one of the three it wouldn't combine together properly and I dont think the rest would be as good if I were to change any of them and it is for this reason why I think that my three products combine together very nicely.

Evaluation Question 1

Below is my response to the first evaluation question.

Completed Music Video

Below is my finished product. Enjoy!

Editing My Music Video

Today I started the process of editing for my music video. First I loaded up Adobe Premiere Pro and imported all the footage I had got from my filming. As well as the footage I alos imported the soundtrack into the software.

 I then quickly made a title slide to go at the beginning of the video saying who the artist is, what the song is called and my name. This was very simple to do and only took a couple of minutes.

After this, I then got to work. I put the track into the work area and started looking through my footage and cutting it up to make into a video.

I started with the first lot of footage, where Lisa first meets Tom, and where she is looking on her laptop. this was fairly simple to do as I had the initial idea in my head so all I needed to do was look for the best footage, cut it to size and put it with the music.

Once I had gotten started it became was easy, until I came up against a problem...

  

 

Some of the clips had become over exposed when I filmed them and other clips had stayed at the correct exposure. At first I thought this would be a big problem, but after asking for assistance I found a solution;

I went to the Video effects, then to Colour Correction and there was an effect called 'Luma Curve'. This allowed me to adjust the brightness of the clip to make it brighter. After spending a bit of time playing around with this I managed to get it to where I wanted it to be;

The result was not perfect but it was good enough for how I wanted it.

Once I'd put all the clips together I decided to add transitions to some of the clips, to make the whole piece more fluid and less like it was just one scene after another.

 There is one section of my music video where Tom and Lisa are sat at the table talking. I got several different clips of them talking, laughing, drinking etc but wanted to make it look like time was passing, therefore I used the 'Film Dissolve' effect as I felt that this effect made the clips look like time was passing, it also gave the clips a more professional look too.

After adding a few more effects here and there and looking at the clips to see if there was anything I could change I had reached the end. My music video was done. I got a few people to watch it before finally exporting and uploading to the internet and all the feedback was good, so I went ahead and finished it.

Filming: Day 2

Todays filming was for the scene in which Lisa enters a coffee shop and spots Tom, who notices her and approaches her. They then start talking and finally they leave the shop together.

Filming: Day 1

Today I started to film for my mysic video. I first filmed the scene in which Lisa is sat in a house on a laptop looking at Toms Facebook profile. After filming all I needed in the house, I then ventured out and filmed the scene where the two characters first meet. I then filmed a scene I hadn't previously planned, a scene where Lisa is sat on a park bench and Tom walks past.

Planning: Shot List

Below is a list of the different shots I will be using in my music video:

Shot 1- Mid Shot of Lisa, walking towards and past camera.

Shot 2- Mid Shot of Tom, walking towards and past camera.

shot 3- Long shot of Lisa, walking across the screen right.

Shot 4- Long shot of Tom, walking across screen left.

Shot 5- Mid/ two shot, characters walk into shot, bump into each other, Tom walks out of shot left, Lisa remains in shot, looking left at tom, Lisa walks out of shot right.

Shot 6- Long shot, Lisa sat on bench, looking at her phone.

Shot 7- Extreme close up, Lisa looking at her phone.

Shot 8- Long shot, Lisa still on bench looking at phone, Tom walks through shot from left, Lisa looks up, looks at Tom.

Shot 9- Extreme close up/ over the shoulder shot, Lisa looking up at Tom, tom seen over Lisas shoulder walking past.

Shot 10- Close up, Lisas face, looking at Tom.

Shot 11- Mid shot, House, Lisa sat in chair, looking at laptop.

Shot 12- Close up/ over the shoulder, looking at laptop screen over Lisas sholder, looking at Toms Facebook profile.

Shot 13- Mid/Close up, Lisa looking at laptop screen.

Shot 14- Over the shoulder/ close up, looking at screen, Toms profile pictures.

Shot 15- Mid shot, Lisa looking at laptop, playing with her hair.

Shot 16- Mid Shot, Lisa looking in mirror, sorting out hair, looking at face.

Shot 17- Establishing shot- Shot of Coffee shop, lisa enters shot from left, walks towards door, enters.

Shot 18- Mid, Lisa enters shot from left, goes towards table and chair, sits.

Shot 19- Over the shoulder, Lisa looking forward, Tom enters shot from right, sits down on sofa.

Shot 20- Two shot, Lisa sat at table, waiter (Oliver) enters from left, takes order, exists left.

Shot 21- Two shot, Oliver brings Lisa her drink, exists left.

Shot 22- Close up, Tom eating/drinking hot chocolate, looks at Lisa left.

Shot 23- Close up, Lisa looking past camera at Tom, playing with hair.

Shot 24- Long shot, Tom gets up, walks up the staris towards Lisa, camera pans to follow Tom.

Shot 25- Two shot, Lisa sat at table, Tom enters from left, sits down.

Shot 26- two shot, Tom and Lisa at table, laughing.

Shot 27- two, Tom and Lisa at table, talking.

Shot 28- Two, Lisa drinks hot chocolate, Tom looks at Lisa.

Shot 29- Two, both talking and laughing.

Shot 30- Two; Both drink at same time, laugh.
Shot 31- Two, Lisa looking at Tom, Toms hand on table, Lisa moving hand to Toms.
Shot 32- Extreme close up, Lisa puts hand on Toms hand.

Shot 33- Extreme close up, Lisas face, looking into camera as if looking into Toms eyes, smiles.

Shot 34- Extreme close up, Toms face, looking into camera as if looking back into Lisas eyes, smiles.

Shot 35- Mid, Both walk into shot from behind camera, stand next to each other.

Shot 36- Close up, holding hands, walk down stairs, out of shot, fade to black.

Planning: Equipment

In order to create a good piece of work I will need to use high quality equipment. Below is a list of some of the equipment I shall be using to film my music video:

Camera:

 This is the type of camera I shall be using; the Canon EOS. It is a high quality camera with: 

• Superior 12-megapixel image quality
• On-screen Feature Guide
• Creative Auto and Basic+ HD video capture
• ISO 100-6400 sensitivity
• Wide-area 9-point AF system
• 63-zone iFCL exposure metering
• 6.8cm (2.7”), 230,000-dot screen

Tripod:

The reason why I will be using a tripod for my filming is because it makes the shots steadier and gives the footage a more professional look to it whereas if I did my filming without a tripod the footage would be shakey and look  more amature. Because of the tripods telescopic legs, it can be set up on any type of flooring whether it be completely flat or on a mildly steep hill. With the tripod you can perform shots like a panning shot, a tilt shot, a tracking shot (made easier with a set of atachable wheels) along with many others.

iPod Touch:

I will be using my own iPod Touch to play the song that my music video is based on. This was to help my actors to get a feel for the song and to help them move/act in time with the song. This will help later in the editing process as I can look at whether the actor(s) are, for example, walking to the beat and then edit that into my music video to make it look more of a professional piece of work.

Planning: Mise-En-Scene

Scene 1- Outdoors:

• Phone for Lisa to be on while walking down street

Scene 2- Park Bench:

• Phone
• Lisas hand bag

Scene 3- House:

• Arm chair for Lisa to sit on.
• Laptop for Lisa to be looking at

• Mirror for Lisa to look at her face in

Scene 4- Coffee Shop:

• Chairs for actors to sit on
• Table for actors to sit at.
• 2x Hot Chocolates for actors to drink

Planning: Costumes

Because of the type of song it is, I am letting my actors wear what they want, this is because I feel that their style already suits the song so I dont need them to really change anything.

Tom: I would like Tom to wear jeans, a colourful t- shirt and trainers, with the possible addition of his jacket.

Lisa: I would like Lisa to be in something bright and bold, perhaps a long t- shirt. Lisa also has bright red hair so that adds to the costume. For her lower half perhaps leggings and some plimsoles.

Oliver (Extra): As Oliver is a waiter, and is playing a waiter in my video, I want him to be dressed in a white shirt, black trousers, black shoes and an apron.