How did media technologies in construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
Camera:
During the production(construction), it was crucial for us to be able to use this equipment independently and together as a group. Considering that I was in a group of only three, that meant that some days only two of us will be able to film or vise versa. This was a useful attribute to have as it would allow our work to not look amateur like, considering that we are also in A2, our use of camera should be so much better than what is was in the previous year. I for one, can happy say that my skills with using a camera has improved so much, my filming looks so much better and they tend to come out just as I wanted it to. However, there is always room for improvement and I hope to get even better over the years to come.
Managing production schedule:
Throughout the planning of the production we had to produce a production schedule in order to keep track of our progress with filming the music video, I produced a production schedule that I made sure was detailed. Later on, producing a TimeToast, so that all the information was on one post, making it easier to present and showing the development over time. Though it was briefer than the actual first production schedule I produced, I found it useful to see what was needed to be done at a faster rate. This was especially useful because it was easy to access for the teachers to see that we were actually using the time wisely and for the other members of my group, it stopped them for constantly asking me what we were going to film on the separate days, and whether some days were not able to film as something may have come up.
Presentation of work:
Throughout my research I tired to use as many different types of technology in order to present my work. As last year I used a lot of Microsoft Words Power Point, though it was good, it wasn't as entertaining and attractive as other kinds of presentation formats. Which is why I tended to use a lot of Prezi presentations. This is because it was much easier to use because of how you can directly embed the work once you are done. Whereas PowerPoint, you will have to completely remove it from the blog to alter mistakes then replace it with a updated one (this is because I used screenshots, rather than making it into a video clip). Another thing I grew to frequently use was ThingLink, I really do enjoy using this, it makes things visual as you are able to show them what you see and put annotations wherever you want with your ideas or interpretation. This was extremely useful for research when I was looking at real time artist ancillary work(albums/websites), also when it came to the initial idea where I got my inspirations from music videos that have already been created. I was able to add in detail and how we can try to use that in our own product. Another method was embedding videos. This was useful when we did the research about Carol Vernalis and Andrew Goodwin, because I was able to show expects of their theory within actual music videos, therefore showing that their theories still relate to things today, it's not just an ideology that has died over time, it still remains today. I have also enjoyed using Gifs this year. Last year I really did struggle to use them, which is why I felt my work lacked life and energy. Gifs were good at showing my sense of humour and in some cases making my research more interactive. I used a lot of screenshots, which was useful when giving important information, like response emails and specific elements when researching music videos.
Social media:
Using social media sites to show that we were actually doing what we were meant to was useful. I created loads of Snapchat videos whenever we were out filming. Another social media site I actively used was Flickr, this was where I was able to store all the images and videos from the days of filming, in a way documenting and providing evidence of ur filming. It was important for us, in order to stay in contact with our group via Whatsapp, so that we know where to meet and what not. Likewise for keeping up to date with our teachers. In terms of researching our target and wider audience, social media gave us a platform to work on. As it has so much accessibility and its so easy to interact with other people, for instance when I did the research about what the audience expects to see in a music video of that genre, I was able to turn to Whatsapp and ask a few of my friends, as well as use sites like TicketMaster to read few comments of reviews from our artists shows. Giving me a feel of what they expect to see and how we can hopefully achieve some of the things that they said. Another social media site we frequently used was Twitter, we tweeted photos of us filming whenever we could, as evidence to what we were doing.
Editing software:
Throughout the editing stages, we used Premiere Pro, which is so much easier and better than Final Cut Pro, so thanks God for that! This software allowed us to professionally editing our work into a realistic music video. It has various effects and things to make that made the music video more visual. We also used after effects, though PP has good effects, After Effects provided a even bigger platform of different effects that we could pick form and play around with.
Editing of ancillary work:
At this stage we were able to use PhotoShop. A global software that's used to edit images. Allowing us to successfully portray the synergy we initially wanted, which was the praying gesture. This is seen in both the music video and ancillary work. It was also useful at helping us try to stick closely appealing to our target audience as well as we could. We also used Wix to create our website for our artists.
Internet research:
YouTube was literally my best friend, that was what I turned finding good example of music videos. Likewise with Google, I used the search engine frequently to help me guide my findings and bring me to different websites that will hopefully help me out.
Where you stored your work:Blogger was the website that we have used to construct all of our work and store anything we have done, it will be used to present our work and organise things.
Use of animatic/digital storyboard:
Though we didn't use it within our work, I did try it out but found it ab it long to do it so I didn't bother, instead I made sure that the paper storyboard was as detailed as possible and it was also backed up by the use of storyboard shot list.
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