By Chitra JeebodhunA2 Music video coursework.

Part 1…

Evaluation Question 4:How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research,

planning and evaluation stages?

Introduction…Throughout the two years of this course, we have used different technologies in order to provide the best of our work. From old to new, we’ve used various kind of technologies and our knowledge on technologies also expanded. I have never used Survey monkey, and it was absolutely intriguing to see how fast we can collect audience feedback through the use of technology. Most of these technologies I’ve used for my AS coursework however there are many of these technologies that I’ve mentioned which I’ve recently learnt how to use but Even though we used them in AS, this year we were able to know more into detail of how to create the advanced tools to create better work. As a media student, I have learnt how the technology is advancing minute by minute and it enables us to produce better products. I have never imagined that I would be able to have the opportunity to be able to produce a Thriller movie and a music video, as whenever I looked at real movies and videos it makes me think that for a normal person to create such fine piece of work is impossible. But with the use of technology it proved me wrong, anyone can produce a media product all that is needed is your dedication and hard work! I have also learned to appreciate the directors and crews of movies that were made way before technologies were introduced, as if it’s hard enough with technologies then it surely must have been a lot of work for the movie makers.

HD Canon CameraThe camera was our main technology we made use of throughout the making of this music video, from it’s planning to research to actually producing the media product. Last year we had a normal camera however this year we got a more advanced one, though most features were the same it was still new to me and my partner but it was easy to use! This Camera and tripod were the easiest as we had practice from last year. With the help of this I was able to film my music video and audience feedback before and after constructing the media product.

The TripodWithout the tripod, it would have been almost impossible to get good and still shots. The tripod avoids us from getting ‘shaky shots’ as it will completely ruin the scene. For all of the scenes, we’ve used the tripod to get us good and still shot. It was easy to get pan shots without moving it too much.

Samsung Digital Camera

We had to take pictures for locations while we were planning and pictures for the digipak and magazine adverts too. I was able to also take some pictures for my animatic using this camera. The good thing about this camera is that it provides us with good quality images.

GoogleGoogle was a main source of technology, we used this search engine for our research and planning.Google helped us look at different works of people in order to give us ideas to create our own.I was able to look up information regarding copyright etc…

Blogger

Since the first year, Blogger has been one of the main technologies we’ve used. The Blogger acts like a journal/ diary where we get to talk about our journey of being able to create our tasks in detail and to show the examiner how successful we have been in researching, planning and creation of the media product.

Blackberry Smartphone.Personally I own a blackberry, the useful thing about this is that you can do many things on this. Since this phone is always with me, it has helped me in every way during the planning, research and construction of this media product. The pictures of locations, props costumes, animatic, behind the scenes images and pictures to the process of editing were all taken from this Smartphone. I was also able to keep the track on my Smartphone as whenever we were filming it would be easier to get access to the music and I also saved the lyrics on the phones just in case the main actor has issues remembering all of it as it’s a pretty hard song. I was able to use word on my blackberry to write my posts whenever I was unable to access a pc. One of the scene consisted of me and the main actor texting each other and thus this phone was used.

Unsigned.com

In order for us to get started in creating this media product, we did a lot of research on unsigned.com for us to be able to find unsigned U.K based artists so that we can use their music in our video. This site contains music artists that are not signed by big records companies and the aim of this site is for those artists to post their music in hope to get feedback by companies looking for new talents. We found a lot of good ones that matched the story we had for the music video in our minds however unfortunately they were American artist or the music was only under a minute long.

YouTube.comAfter failing to find music on unsigned.com, You tube was our only reliable source. You-tube contains everything and anything and since I know a lot of unsigned artists therefore me and my partner decided to look through their music until something that grabs our attention. We were unable to decide at one point as we liked a music and it was perfect for the story of our music video but the only problem was rapping and not many people can rap therefore we had to thrash this one. However we found another artist I knew and his music was just what we needed. I emailed the artist and we soon got the reply back in which he allowed us to use his music.You-tube also helped me in researching for other alike music videos from which I got ideas of particular scenes that I could use in my own music video.

Jigsaw Planet

Jigsaw planet is a place where you can upload images and make a puzzle. What I was thinking of doing is making a wordle of audience feedback first then save the wordle as image and turn it into a puzzle using jigsaw planet. This is an effective and fun way to present audience feedback as it makes it more interesting.