Final Music video

This is the final edit of my music video 'Hold On' by School Boy.

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the contruxtion and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Another media technology which i was the camera when filming. I really enjoyed the filming as it helped me to understand a lot more about shot types and angles and also how to film the correct mise-en-scene. When it came to filming the first idea, i hadn't done a lot of the filming as it was very a mix and match project and by the end of it, it didn't really look like a music video. However once we had changed our idea i decided that i at least wanted to film something. I managed to film all of the footage in one day, with taking the same shot at least a couple of times but from different angles, just so that we had more to use when it came to editing if a clip couldn't be used due the mise-en-scene etc. By using the camera it enabled me to do something on my own and to feel confident with doing it whereas with editing i am still quite not sure but am happy to do it with someone helping me.

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the contruxtion and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Once the storyboard were completed, which every team member took part in, i fianlly uploaded them to the blogger site. i thought that it was important for the viewer to see something visual as they can understand what we are trying to create and also as it breaks up the blogger site rather than just having a lot of text.

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the contruction and researching, planning and evaluation stages?

For my research and planning stages of my work, i researched other artists of the same genre that iftted with mine. Not only did i just look at the artists i also looked at set design, costume, lighting and genreal appearence. When looking at the general appearence i found that a lot of the artits were quite tidy and smart and also looked straight to the camera as if looking straight out into their audience for example:

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the contruction and researching, planning and evaluation stages?

Another media technology that i have used in all stages is a website called: www.blogger.com. This website enables the user to post blogs, whcih can include writing, pictures, videos and soundtracks, to edit blogs and to share blogs around the world.
Throughout the creating process this enabled me to regularly update my blog with the progress that i had made in all sections of my work for example; i was able to upload my stroyboards, the original music video to my song, sketches of my ancillary task. As every blog i created is separate, it meant that i could create a new post with every step/progression that i made. This therefore making it easier for the viewer to understand my work and the progress that i was making throughout.
An advantage to blogger is that it allows other people to comment from all over the world. I found that this helped me as i could see what people thought of my work and possibly if there were any changes that they thought i could make, helping me with audience feedback. It also allowed em to delete comments that i deemed as unnecessary.

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the contruction and researching, planning and evaluation stafes?

Another technology which i used was the eye tool on photoshop. When you place a piece of new information onto the black cnavas it creates a new layer. The new layer enables you to correct mistakes which occur in the process just by selecting the relevant layer. By uisng the eye tool it enabled me to ocntrol which layer i wanted to see. For example; i had made a mistake on the magazine advert as i had hidden the 'S' to make sure that the background was the right colour, when it came tousing the stamp tool to show the rating to make it loom professional i found them hard to line up, by clicking back onto the 'S' layer it reappeared making it easier for me to line up the rating stars.

Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

By using photoshop it also enabled me to change my pictures of the sratist. I managed to add an effect over lewis and also add in outer glow. This was done by looking through a lot of different gradients and applying them to see which one fitted best. For the outer glow i did this by selecting a range of different colours and applying them to the appropriate picture. I then changed the thickness of the glow so that it could just been seen as an outline.

An example of my original picture is:


and changed it into this: