Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3

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  Evaluation Question 2
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  Filming Technology This isthe state of the art camera that we used to film our music video. Over the course of the filming we hooked up some lights to get the best shot possible when we were filming in dark rooms. Whilst filming we made sure that all the shots were in focus, and thanks to the camera’s battery life, we were able to film most, if not all the scenes twice just to be safe. This is the memory card we used. Thankfully we never forgot them and they worked like a charm. Without them, the video never would have been made. This is the light we used on the camera to capture the best shot in a dark room. It lit up our world.
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  Blogger Over the courseof the year Blogger has been the platform that we use to present our work and research. Thankfully, the website has a broad spectrum of media usage, which allows me to present my work on various websites but broadcast it primarily on Blogger, which is how I used my time on Blogger.
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  Research These posts area few examples of the research that I did for looking into Music Videos. I primarily used GIFS to show examples of what specific feature I was talking about. I find this is the easiest way and more visual than posting a simple picture. I tried to make sure I didn’t look at just one genre, but spread the genres and decades up, that way I could watch the Music Videos grow; You can see in the image above I looked into the Rolling Stones, Celine Dion, Frank Ocean & Nirvana.
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  Planning These are someexamples of my post’s that I created for planning. In the first post, I started planning the props and costumes that I owned, and I took some photos and described why I thought they would work. The second post was planning the target audience, and I posted a GIF of the Glastonbury crowd that the Arctic Monkeys were headlining. For the third post, I posted the unofficial video for our chosen song, and wrote about some of the key ideas we had. Finally I created a virtual pin-board which had key images that related to our music video. I varied my planning posts to keep everything fresh, new and exciting for all.
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  The Evaluations Not includingthis evaluation, I have completed Evaluation Question 4 and 2. For evaluation question 4, I created videos. I chose the video format because the question was aimed at feedback, and I had already filmed several videos, one being the cinema reaction and the other being people’s reaction to the Music Video. In total, I made two videos and posted them both on different websites; Vimeo & Dailymotion. I also made a Voki to summarise the two videos and what I personally thought about the feedback. (Next slide for Evaluation 2)
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  The Evaluations For EvaluationQuestion 2, I created several different sub post’s, all using different forms of media. For the first section, I created a Powtoon, as I found it to be a very simple way to present an idea whilst allowing me to use images and animation in a professional manner. Much like this presentation. For the next section I posted a YouTube video for the Audience Feedback question with my good friend, David Lynn. It made sense to make a video as you could hear our voices and emotion. For the questions on synergy I created images to show the similarities through synergy as simply as possible.
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  Websites There have beena variety of websites myself and the group have made to promote ourselves and reach our target audience. The YouTube account was made by Stephen and it makes sense to make one as YouTube gets 1 billion views per day. We made a GoAnimate to produce our GoAnimates to update our blog on what we’re doing in a fun, yet professional way. I made the twitter account as most teens and adults have one now, and it’s very easy to get your music and advertise yourself quickly. I also made the Vimeo account to post videos such as Evaluation Question 4 and the Cinema Reaction.
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  Apps This is Group10’s Instagram account. It was created by Maria and was made to reach our target audience through their phones as 99% of people own mobile phones now, but more specifically, the majority of our target audience (teens and young adults) own iPhones; which Instagram was initially made for. By making this we could post photos of the group, updates and tour dates, as a lot of music artists are doing so now. The hashtag #wavinglady / #thejewellers / #ohsandra could also have been developed to allow fans to find each other by searching key words. This would also allow the fans to connect to the band on a closer level, and make The Jewellers seem more modern and up to date with key trends
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  Websites Used forResearch I used a lot of websites when I did my research. Because I created a lot of GIF sets and Photo sets, Google was the main search engine, and Google Images was the best. I used YouTube to watch music videos and download videos to convert and create into GIFS. I used Wikipedia to search facts and figures about the Arctic Monkeys and diamonds, just so I had some background knowledge. These are examples of the images I produced using Google with the help of Wikipedia. By searching the Band’s discography I googled the album covers and created these pieces of art. Da Vinci
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  Using Photoshop These aresome examples of the things I’ve made on Photoshop; research into indie bands, examples of synergy and the evolution of my digipak. I used little editing for the bands albums, I just put them all together to show the other bands evolution of artwork. I updated the blog on the groups editing and filming by taking photos and turning them into polaroid's as I found it looked much more interesting. I created some potential fake merch with T-Shirts and mugs and I experimented with potential album and poster digipaks.
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  Using Photoshop Here ismy finished digipak and advert that I made on photoshop. I took a picture that Maria took of the band against a wall, turned it black and white and replaced our faces with the masks. Unfortunately I couldn’t use the masks as I didn’t have copyright (see voki for full details) so I replaced the masks with the fingerprint to keep the synergy flowing. The bottom images is the evolution of the advert that I made. As you can see, after the photo was taken I could create the criminal theme I wanted and I think it improved a lot. (final advert is above) Photoshop was a great tool to use for this project, however, when I say photoshop I don’t mean elements because that is awful and not helpful and just a bad program in general.
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  Word Cloud The wordsvary from media centred subjects, to the group in general, but they all come together and that’s what I loved about this media platform and why I used it. I created this Word Cloud whilst doing research and planning. I found that I was taking in a lot of information and words were coming in and out of my head, and I just had nowhere to put them. That was, until I found Word Cloud. This fantastic piece of media allowed me to put all the key words I wanted down in a text box and boom, a beautiful cloud of words was created.
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  Timetoast Timetoast allowed meto see the schedule of the group virtually instead of on paper. By doing this we could all see when and where we were going without fear of loosing the paper or not getting the text. It was an efficient method of organization and I liked it but I don’t like the name at all.
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  Presentation Technology When wewere in class, scanning our brains for ideas, we created storyboards. Of course they were rough ideas, some stuck for the finishing product, some unfortunately didn’t; however, with the help of Maria’s illustrations, a Quark Storyboard and an Animatic were created. Both helped the class visualize what our ideas were in the Pitch and gave the group some direction to go in. The pitch was delivered to the class and was extremely successful. That particular slide was on costume and with the help of animations we could show the class images and movement which livened up our slides. Unfortunately I cannot link a Vimeo video on PowerPoint
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  Thank You Thank you