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Question 3 - What have you learned form your audience feedback?

Question 4- How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

During this year, I have encountered new technologies with a range of properties that have helped me create and develop my research, planning and evaluation. Firstly for my research and planning I used You Tube to discover music videos, of particular genres which would help inspire me to come up with the knowledge of what music videos needed to contain and what they commonly included. This research lead to be the frame work of what the video needed to have and my ideas which were inspired by the videos would essentially fill in the gaps. Also for the search of artists we used the social network of Myspace to interact with artists in the sense of whether they were available to shoot and to gain feedback on our ideas with some of their own input.

Secondly for the filming of the video, I was able to use new digital technology of HD video cameras and the Adobe programme Premier Pro. Premier Pro was one of the core technologies needed to create the music video as it put all of our shots together and had all of our editing requirements.

Also with the need for feedback from our audiences, there was no better of achieving this than Facebook. Facebook enabled us to organise days of filming, feedback from our targeted audiences and was how I communicated with the rest of my group.

The technology I have used, has been one of the biggest assets with the making of this music video. For example with the amount of new technology that has been available to me, I have been able to be more creative with my video in the sense of editing. With black and white shots, slow motion and ghosting. This we can see is media 2.0, which is when people, like me who aren't professionals, are creating their own videos, music, etc. with technology they can access. They can then try and promote themselves with sites like Myspace or You Tube. This is what we did and so I now know how to create, market and distribute my creations and ideas through the use of the internet.

Final Music Video

Stop motion test

These are a a few stop motion videos we did to practise for a possible feature in our music video. Some are with different effects added.





These are with the added effect

Cast

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The cast for our music video is Nathan Hodson, the vocalist and rythme guitar for City Walls. As I am acquainted with Nathan I was able to ask for his contribution to the video. However due to his band, college and work. Time free for Nathan to do this is very limited and scarce. With his experience of playing in small gigs and his interest in our project. Working with Nathan to produce this video should be easier.

The crowds we are to use in our video have not been organised and so are just random people in the town centre. Due to the amount people we want in our video we shall have to plan to film when Worcester is busiest which is usually a Saturday.

Storyboard

This is me and my groups storyboard to give you an idea of what the music video is going to include.

First if all we have desided to begin our video with the bust streets at night and we plan to take slow shutter spped still camera shots. So we get the blurred streaks of light from the cars' lights. This is during the the first 'slow and steady' part of the song. We then would have a car with its lights shining at the camera moving closer and closer. We then come to crowds moving quickly and slowly around. The n some mid close ups of the performer looking round at buildings on his own.

We would then have our artist walking around different places to emphisies him being alone and isolated. We also want to film cars passing him and speeding up the footage to suggest time passing around him to show how he is being left out. We then want the actor to hold the camera as he walks and sings to have a hand-held to have a personal approach to the viewer.

We then want some establishing shots of more tall buldings for the chorus and then for the verse, we want the vocalist singing at the bottom of a grand building such as the cathederal in worcester. After that we want to add some stopmotion of the vocalist appearing on different floors of a car park

Finally we want to have our artist in an Alley Way, agin to connote isolation. We want hime walking towards the camera up the Alley way and then some car lights appearing behind him. Which would create suspition of who the voclaist is and wether he may have done something wrong or is running away.