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

Here's a video of me answer question 3 :)

JVC Cameras – Because we wanted to get the best quality images we used JVC cameras, which are HD. The camera allowed us to capture motion images and audio. We used the audio recording to mark the words that the artist is singing to the audio on Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro – Through this I could add in videos and blend different scenes together with effects like cross fade for seamless transitions. I could also add in an audio, them mark to beat so that I can cut the music to the beat and make one music video.

Photoshop – Photoshop contains tools that enable me to cut out the artist from the background and place her onto the guitar. To add realism, I painted in the shadows and added in the Gaussian Blur to soften the edges.

On my inside left panel to get that wall background I got a grudge texture off Google, then drew lines for perspective then faded out the grudge texture so that its not so clear so that we can get the feeling that she is leaning against the wall.

Illustrator (I forgot to talk about this in my video) – I used Illustrator to draw out the artist name and floral graphics using the ‘pen tool’, which allows me to make any shape I want. 

EVALUATION QUESTION 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

I answered question 2 using Beeclip, which is a type of interesting and fun presentaion.

EVALUATION QUESTION 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Evaluation Question 1 on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4...

4. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Okay so i didnt get loads of feedback on my music video because i was not able to find them in the hard drive anymore. the feedback from the screen on the green. I also lost some feedback from before. So i have one qwick feedback for my music video. 

Below are all the comments i got fore my ancillary Product. I put it up on facebook so my friends can see and comment on it aswell!!!

So here is the overall feedback i got from the Digipack and the advetisment. I got 2 Positive feedback :).

Here Is the front panal of the digipack. I got '6 Likes' and One comment. :D 

Here is my advertisement and i an equal feedback, with some opinions. :) This comment was mainly positive and the only critism i got was about the bar code which is not a big deal, but overall i find the comment quite fair. and i am happy with it. 

This is feedback from my Teacher Dan. 

Dan said the real streath of my digipack is the quality of the photography. The shot is framed really nicely its really well lit and really nice. What I haven’t done is which is an easy thing to do is which is graphic and layer is that I have not ruined is with top grapy the typography is quite nice and does not spilt it at all and looks really good nice simple clear fonts same green theme which is continued at the back which is really really nice and consist and works really well with the font a nice piece of design.

From this feedback I don’t really see any negative comments been made. I happy very happy with the feedback from my teacher and don’t see what I could have done better. 

‘ He said its really good, The font the different use of font of where I used bold and non- bold etc its really goes with the background, used really nice affects, what I wanted to show really stands out. I used the same kind of thing on the back panal, but its for a different reason, but still really stands out. He said he really likes the background of the back panal, it imitates some of the examples we used for the digipack. Also he mentioned how I used the font bold and normal, maybe it be hard for someone with less vision might be harder to see but apart from that its really good’.  

Well here again. It’s a fantastic comment great feedback. Mostly posistive, which I am very happy about again. I think from these feedback it tells me how much effort and hard work I have put in to receive comments like this. He didn’t mention nothing to major that was negative. Well now thinking about it well maybe it be hard with people with bad eye sight to see it properly, but is not too much of a big deal to change because the font is not that bad, it is okay to see.  

This is valaza and she is from my media class who also gave me feedback. !

'She said its really good, she really likes the front cover especially, the close up of the artist face is really good for establishing the artist, she likes the colour scheme, looks autum theme with the oranges greens, also she likes how I used the same image for the advert, its good shows a good link between the two, also how I used just an imagie for the front not for the whole thing. She said I could have used more pictures on it to extablish the artist abit more'. 

Again mostly positive comments. I am really happy about. The only concern she said was about establishing the artist more, about adding maybe another picture of the artist. Well I agree with the comment. Now thinking about it I think I could have established her abit more. However The reason why I did not put another picture of artist is because my image at the front already stands out really well. It’s a big close up which is clearly shown on the front cover quite well, so I didn’t want to add more pictures of her. However I have learnt maybe next time if the picture wasn’t quite quite zoomed in and big close-up I should add another picture of the artist to astablish her more. However overall I think its quite fair and there was not much negatives things said, which needs big improvements, so I am happy! 

“He said he really like my front cover likes the color scheme, It’s a big picture of the artist which shows who she is, like the way the font as being used as well, goes from normal to bold, likes the inside the use of format, the guitar, and the picture. Likes the advert, how I used the same picture of the artist, the font is good, looks professional, the use of hmv, Itunes etc, and the website which looks really professional.

Wow! Some amazing feedback. No negatives. Well what can I say! I am overwhelmed again by the comments. How he said it looks professional. I am very very happy.

Overall with all my feedback I don’t see what I can improve on because most comments I got was really positive. I am very happy. Just shows how much effort you put in is what you get out. As I did work hard for it, to deserve feedback like this. I think their all-fair comments. I do not have much thing to say on improvements because I didn’t receive bad comments to improve on. However except one, which I think is fair, but isn’t something I would do differently because of how it is already. I have learnt a lot this year about how much time you put into something is it comes out. I worked hard which is the reason why most people really liked it and I got positive feedback. I am really happy with it. Also i think the music video is a great success but theres always more room for improvements and i think if we had more time to anything it would be even more better. 

Thank you to all. 

Evaluation Question 3....

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

I used loads of different technologies in the research planning and construction and evaluation stage. I used many hard wears including the Brand new state of art- 

 The JVC video cameras with memory cards. I used this equipment which enabled me to video my footages. 

 I used the memory which the footages where saved in and upload them on the mac computers to view all my footages I have done.  Which also allowed me to import it on to my video drive.

I used another piece of equipment which allowed me to illustrate my planning and research was the flip camers. This allowed me to get audience feedback from my music video from the ‘screen on the green’ and also allowed me to also get feedback on my ancillary work. I also used this for group ideas, and teachers feedback. 

I used mac computers for the editing of my video. Through this hardwear I was able to use soft wears such as Final cut pro, which can only be used on mac.

Final cut pro is a programme which allows us to edit videos profeccinally. I used this programme to edit all my video. I used this to add clip, cut in clip, add affects, videos matched to the beats, cross dissolve between clips, which I used in my video to introduce the night time.

I also used this for my annamatic story board.

Another piece of softwear I used was photoshop. This is an softwear which is highly designed to edit photos. This allowed me to cut, crop, brighten add affects n etc. I used this in my ancillary products to add affects to my images. 

Handbreak is another softwear which allowed me to video format and to convert my footages to go on to my blog. 

I used the internet to reaserach and look for ideas images and etc for both my ancillary and music video. I used google to get many of my sources for the reacherch part in this task.

 Youtube was one important website for the music video part. It allowed me to look and get inspirations from artists, and find out more about how the forms and conventions are coorperated in videos. 

I used Prezi which again allowed me to use online to upload pictures, videos, tasks, and information for my work. 

 This is the hard drive where i saved all my clips. The edited ones and etc. 

Blogger is a highly visited programme which allowed me to document my work regurally.

 

Evalution Question 2.....

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

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Evaluation: Question 3.

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

Throughout this process, we've used loads of different types of technology to present our work. For example to flim, we used JVC video cameras to film our music video. All our footage was stored on memory cards which we were then able to transfer onto our hardrives so we could make our music video.

To film music video related stuff, like feedback and group sessions, we used FlipCams. They're really small and useful to have, whenever filming something important it was easy to just grab and film and upload. I used this to film feeback on my ancillary products and reactions to our music video after the cinema screening. Can you imagine having to carry around that big JVC around?

To edit, the main program we used was Final Cut Pro. We used the same thing last year, so we were familiar with the program just a bit rusty on how to use it. But by the end, I would say we're all pros on it. This program is installed on the Mac computers we used on which we uploaded all our footage to, then selected and cut together to make our final video. We were also able to add special effects, such as layering and filters to make it look more professional.

We created our animatic using the same program, but used Quicktime player to play it on. All the videos we had were watched on this program, something that just let you watch what you recorded really.

This is what our hardrive looked like. All the footage we had was stored and organised into folders accordingly (colour co-ordinated) and this just made it much easier for us to look for what we needed when it came to editing, as we didn't need to waste time looking through every single clip.

Handbrake is the program we used to convert our film so it was compatible with blogger and we were able to upload it. After handbraking our video, only then could they be uploaded other wise they wouldn't work. Below is an example of a video on blogger.

To make our ancillary products, I used photoshop. This allowed me to layer pictures and add text and effects to make the album covers and advert.

To present our pitch to the class, we made our presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint, where we were able to put all the information onto one document and present it to the class.

To conduct research, I used the internet the most. This was to search for potential locations, for pictures of other artists work, to get background info on our original artist. I used the search engine Google to find everything. Everything. Google images for pictures of album covers and adverts. Google maps to find our locations. Google videos for research. And Youtube as well to search for music videos.

To document our journey we used digital cameras so we could take pictures of what we were doing so we could upload them on to blogger as proof.  I used Prexi, a fun and interesting online website that allows you to create a presentations in a different form to answer a question.

Annnnnnnnddddd finally, the place where we stored and documented everything. The one and only, Blogger. We uploaded everything we did on here: from research to our pitch to editing sessions.

 The amount of times I saw this when trying into log in. Worst nightmare.