How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
During all of this work we have used a lot of different technologies.
We used cameras, to film and take photos for our ancillary tasks, we didn’t use any effects when using the camera we just thought about different types of shot etc.
We used photo shop to edit our photos for our ancillary tasks, this gave us a great chance to really get going with special effects to make our photos look as good as they possibly could for example Danny had bad skin in the picture and therefore we had to clean it up.
When editing and producing the video itself we used I Movie HD, this allowed us to use many effects such as speeding up scenes, slowing down, adding contrast, cutting unwanted scenes etc. This was probably the piece of technology that we used most within this whole piece of work.
Blogspot is the programme that we have used the whole time in which to add all of the information we have found out along the way, we have used it to give people a preview of our ideas, to show final pieces and also as a kind of bibliography for research in which we have found.
We have used power point to process a slide show evaluation, in which we presented in front of our class, this slide show was an evaluation of our work, powerpoint proved good when making a slide show although it isnt a very advanced piece of software., maybe prezzi may have been a better option for us.
We’ve used the internet throughout to find out a lot of info on our artist etc, we have used it to compare our video to others, but also to get simple things like images for our blog etc. The internet is another big part of our work as without it most of the technology we used wouldnt have worked such as our blog, we wouldnt have been able to use facebook or youtube to get responses on our video, therefore we would never know what people thought of our video.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Evaluation Questions!
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
When designing and making our ancillary tasks we tried to think a lot about the mes en scene in which we had used in our video, we thought about different types of shot, such as long shots, close ups, this was because we wanted the ancillarys to be as effective as possible.
We also decided to use a picture for an album cover where the actor is holding a cigarette, we feel this is effective when linking it to the video because it gives the whole thing a much more urban feel.
We feel that certain things could be changed with our ancillary tasks such as the text maybe, as we havent used a text that really links in with the video, we feel that maybe if we used a better text it may have made the whole thing that little bit more effective.
We used a black and white theme to make the cover feel more urban, like the band in itself, we feel colour could have been added but we didn’t know if this suited the band.
We also made advert covers and decided to make them simple, but we feel they are effective, I think a little more planning could have gone into the advert, but the simplicity that we have used gives it an appropriate feel, most of all the ancillary tasks suited the bands video that we made and we feel that this is a very effective quality as when an audience reads the ancillarys then sees the video they have a good chance of picking this up.
When designing and making our ancillary tasks we tried to think a lot about the mes en scene in which we had used in our video, we thought about different types of shot, such as long shots, close ups, this was because we wanted the ancillarys to be as effective as possible.
We also decided to use a picture for an album cover where the actor is holding a cigarette, we feel this is effective when linking it to the video because it gives the whole thing a much more urban feel.
We feel that certain things could be changed with our ancillary tasks such as the text maybe, as we havent used a text that really links in with the video, we feel that maybe if we used a better text it may have made the whole thing that little bit more effective.
We used a black and white theme to make the cover feel more urban, like the band in itself, we feel colour could have been added but we didn’t know if this suited the band.
We also made advert covers and decided to make them simple, but we feel they are effective, I think a little more planning could have gone into the advert, but the simplicity that we have used gives it an appropriate feel, most of all the ancillary tasks suited the bands video that we made and we feel that this is a very effective quality as when an audience reads the ancillarys then sees the video they have a good chance of picking this up.
Evaluation Questions!
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
When trying to get audience feedback, we used a few different techniques such as;
Facebook, Youtube and general surveys of family and friends. Mostly we had good comments but we are not sure wether or not these comments came just as friendly gestures. We did'nt really aim our questions for feedback to a certain audience we wanted a range of answers and a range of constructive critisism from as many people as possible.
From the feedback me and my partner have learnt alot. We have a had a few comments from people saying that they really understand the links between the band and the story, this was a brilliant achievement for me and my partner as this was one of our biggest aims. This also means things like editing was of a ggood standard otherwise the audience never would have understood the story etc.
From a more technical point of view we had a lot of good comments about our editing saying that it all makes sense, and that all lip syncing is of a high standard. Many comments followed this saying that for the editing to make so much sense alot of attention must have been paid to the planning, this was good to hear also as we did put alot of time into our planning and its good to hear that its paid off.
We also got a bit of constructive critisism, most of which is people noticing that a camera wobble within thte video, we feel it is good in a way that people have noticed this as it means that people are paying attention to our video throughout. This made me and my partner think in many ways such as maybe a double check of shots would have been appropriate?
Overall we had really good feedback and me and my partner are glad that we stuck with our ideas and its paid off, were glad that the sheer simplicity of our story line has managed to get such good reviews, but most of all we have learnt that a good plan sets an extremely good base for a good video.
When trying to get audience feedback, we used a few different techniques such as;
Facebook, Youtube and general surveys of family and friends. Mostly we had good comments but we are not sure wether or not these comments came just as friendly gestures. We did'nt really aim our questions for feedback to a certain audience we wanted a range of answers and a range of constructive critisism from as many people as possible.
From the feedback me and my partner have learnt alot. We have a had a few comments from people saying that they really understand the links between the band and the story, this was a brilliant achievement for me and my partner as this was one of our biggest aims. This also means things like editing was of a ggood standard otherwise the audience never would have understood the story etc.
From a more technical point of view we had a lot of good comments about our editing saying that it all makes sense, and that all lip syncing is of a high standard. Many comments followed this saying that for the editing to make so much sense alot of attention must have been paid to the planning, this was good to hear also as we did put alot of time into our planning and its good to hear that its paid off.
We also got a bit of constructive critisism, most of which is people noticing that a camera wobble within thte video, we feel it is good in a way that people have noticed this as it means that people are paying attention to our video throughout. This made me and my partner think in many ways such as maybe a double check of shots would have been appropriate?
Overall we had really good feedback and me and my partner are glad that we stuck with our ideas and its paid off, were glad that the sheer simplicity of our story line has managed to get such good reviews, but most of all we have learnt that a good plan sets an extremely good base for a good video.
Evaluation questions!
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?
I feel that My music video uses a lot of real media texts.
For example in the planning of my Video It was decided that there would be Know main attraction in the video. Me and my partner wanted there two be to attractions, the band and the story. We did this because We took our research into account and realised that a lot of other music videos by this group used this technique. We tried to challenge forms and conventions by using out of ordinary mes - en - scene, We used dark backgrounds along with light backgrounds to really make a differnece between the band and the story!
We used stereotypical band qualities such as skinny jeans and branded shoes to keep with real media texts, we felt this would give the video a real good urban feel, just like the band do in all of there other videos.
Another way in which we challenged the forms and conventions is by using special effects to make sure that we had the viewers attention at all times, we used flashing lights on the artists face to make the viewer really pay attention to him and what he was saying. Me and my partner never changed our ideas throughout planning as we new from the word go that our song and video could either challenge or match the real media texts.
I feel that My music video uses a lot of real media texts.
For example in the planning of my Video It was decided that there would be Know main attraction in the video. Me and my partner wanted there two be to attractions, the band and the story. We did this because We took our research into account and realised that a lot of other music videos by this group used this technique. We tried to challenge forms and conventions by using out of ordinary mes - en - scene, We used dark backgrounds along with light backgrounds to really make a differnece between the band and the story!
We used stereotypical band qualities such as skinny jeans and branded shoes to keep with real media texts, we felt this would give the video a real good urban feel, just like the band do in all of there other videos.
Another way in which we challenged the forms and conventions is by using special effects to make sure that we had the viewers attention at all times, we used flashing lights on the artists face to make the viewer really pay attention to him and what he was saying. Me and my partner never changed our ideas throughout planning as we new from the word go that our song and video could either challenge or match the real media texts.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
preliminary video
As a practice For my main video me and a peer decided to make a sweded film tailer for 'Harry Potter and the philosophers stone' we tried to use a range of techniques and shots so that we would get as much practice as possible for our main video. It was a lot of fun to make and has given me a lot of ideas for my main video.
Friday, 26 March 2010
Editing
me and my partner have just recently finished editing and alternated time on the laptop where both myself and my partner took it in turns to edit, sometimes we had disagreements but we would both edit that part and decide whose was better. We looked at previous assignments and asked for help with some of the band footage as the background wasn't dark enough for us. We were fortunate enough to get feedback from other media students to drop the brightness and slightly increase contrast to give a more live raw feel to the band and decrease the backgrounds brightness. Looking at other music videos with how they have cut and fitted the story in with the music was important. Also by fitting the instruments with the timing of the song and making sure that it was the correct time for that instrument to begin playing. We are now just fitting the titles for our media video and also burning to disc, the following music videos are the ones researched and what i have gained from watching them.
Bloc Party Banquet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5Li08_ie8
We tried to record many angles similar to the banquet video but our equipment wasn't as good nore was the resources available but we have been editing in similar ways by making quick, fast and straight cuts to keep the tempo of the song going fairly fast. The only transitions that were used was "overlap" and this was in our story section of the music video.
We did try having the band footage in black and white but due to the quality of the camera and the movement from the band shots there was alot of blur motivation and didnt look professional enough to us.
Arctic Monkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEukS2YN9B8
This is the original music video for the song that we are doing. It is a story where a girl is desperate for a man and try extreme lengths to get one. We took this idea and changed it to where a main cannot decided what girl he wants and the story unfolds during the video.
There are alot of straight cuts in this music video to ensure the tempo and during the long shots that are in there, there are right to left push tranisitions and alot of "Flashes" to create a similar effect to an instant fade in. We have used many straight cuts in our music video similar to the original and instead of the few push transitions we used "overlap"
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