How did you use media technologies in the construction research and planning and evaluation.

I used Adobe Photoshop for my ancillery tasks I found this very hard to use as even though I had used adobe Photoshop before I still was not very used to it so I did not know how to use all the effects and how to use any of the tools however as I spent more time on my ancillary task I was able to get to grasps with how my ancillary task does work. I did have an idea to use Photoshop in my music video however I realised that that would not work, I wanted to take pictures of houses and upload them into Photoshop and then try and make it look like in the video that they were moving; however I decided not to go with that as i thought that the stop motion was better than doing the houses.

How did you use media technologies in the construction research and planning and evaluation.

I found the fig rig at times challenging and easy at the same time as I found it challenging as I had never seen it or used something like it before, however I also found it very easy as it made it easier

How did you use media technologies in the construction research and planning and evaluation.

I then decided to use Lego characters which I felt was a brilliant idea as I had never personally seen Lego characters on a music video before. I decided to make many different sequences with the Lego characters as I wanted them to be in my music video quite a bit. Once I had finished a sequence I put all of the photos together and put them onto I-movie and then I played the movie through making it look like the Lego is moving simultaneously. I used the video camera to film the actual music video I did not feel that this was that challenging for me as i have filmed before for other projects. One idea which I did have that I thought I had never done was using two cameras to film I decided to do this one it would save time and I would be able to experiment with different types of camera angles, two I wanted to track round the singer whilst there was one camera stood still filming to see what I could use that and experiment in final cut.

How did you use media technologies in the construction research and planning and evaluation.

The media technologies which I used was the fig rig, still camera and video cameras, adobe Photoshop, final cut express and I-movie. When I was filming we used both a still camera and a video camera the reason why we used a still camera is because I wanted to use stop motion in our film. As I wanted our film to consist of some animation, however my ideas did change whilst doing this as I wanted to use clay animation but I was not able to do this as I realised that it would take very long to get it perfect so I then decided to go down a different route

What have I learnt from my audience feedback?

Also got some negative feedback as I was told that I should not of have used so many effects as at times in the video it can drag the attention away from the audience, the other feedback which I got back with was negative was that the stop motion as much as it was a really big hit with the audience some people did say that they did not see what it had to link in with the lyrics

What have I learnt from my audience feedback?

The stop motion was a very big hit with the audience as some had never seen it before or hadn’t used it before; another reason why they thought that the stop motion was good was the fact that we was one of the if not the only group that done it.

What have I learnt from my audience feedback?

The other feedback that we got was that our music video had many conventions of syth pop videos as we had many effects on it and we also had the stop motion

What have I learnt from my audience feedback?

The positive feedback which I got back from the peers in my class was that they liked the effects which we put on our music video; they also said that it was very good that the singer in our music video had changed outfits as the video rolled through

How does my main product and ancillary task match?

Another relation between my main product and my ancillary task is the fact that on in my music video the main character is the main focus even though I have put many parts of stop motion in the video the main character is still the focus as with all the effects she is still in your face and she is able to attract the audience to her.

How does my main product and ancillary task match?

My main product and my ancillary task have matching aspects with that I used pictures from my music video and put them onto my ancillary task so that I could get across the genre to the public. With my music video I had to add a lot of different effects, so when it came to making my DVD cover as an ancillary task I made sure that I had as many different effects as possible so that my DVD cover would relate to my ancillary task.

How does my media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

For my research I went onto YouTube and looked up many different videos I made sure that the videos that I looked up were not just videos of my genre as I knew that I could get more ideas from other genres and then combine them with any ideas which I already had from my genre this way it my video would still follow the same path of synth pop however still be different as I would be challenging what the typical synth pop conventions are.

How does my media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my ancillery tasks I made sure that the colours which I used were the colours which I believed would be used to attract my audience, the colours which I used were bright red and bright orange I used these colours as these are very in your face funky colours. I also had many a select few picture s which I put on the back cover I did this as I wanted to give the audience a little insight into what to expect

How does my media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

A way in which I challenged the conventions was when I had the dancers however I had the dancers hide behind a screen and you was only able to see their shadows behind the screen taking away the traditional view of dancers as usually you are able to see who the dancers are and predominately dancers are mainly women however I took the stereotype away by having a boy and a girl both dancing in the background behind the screen.

How does my media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

As part of my course work I was asked to produce a music video and a cd cover, when asked to do a music video I had to develop a use of conventions from other music videos so that I could gather an idea of how to make my music video look like a professional one. I researched up on many different music videos on YouTube, by doing this I was able to gather a good idea about how I wanted my music video to look like. As my genre was synth pop I made sure to do my research around these types of videos; whilst doing my research on these videos I realised that if I was going to go ahead and make this type of video then I would have to go into looking to make many different effects as these videos are very bright coloured, over the top and in your face.










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