Our finished music video

This is our finished music video hope you enjoy it

Magazine Advert

This is our magazine advert that my group have created. We used photoshop to make this advert.

Moodboard

Our digipak

We printed out a copy of our digipak to make sure that digipak worked and looked okay. So heres our printed copy of our digipak

Digipak

This is our finished digipak. This was mainly created by me but with influences from Charlie Searle and Katie Edmead. the digipak was very successful and are very pleased with the results of our digipak.  So here it is hope you like it. 

Evaluation question 4

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

When we were constructing, researching and planning and evaluating our music video. We used all these types of media technology; Imacs, Final Cut Express, Blogger, YouTube, Google, HD camera, Monopod and a Tripod. 

This is a screen grab from the program Final Cut Express that we use to edit our video footage. When using this we are able to get rid of parts of our filming that weren't needed and were able to move parts of our video around. By using this it meant we did not need to film it in the order it was going to be shown in the final video. We uploaded the filmed footage from the HD camera that we used onto Final Cut Express so that it could be edited easily. This was to make sure that that our video was so that it looked professional, we also used a Tripod and a Monopod. All the editing that was done was carried out on the schools Imac computers.

We mainly used Google to conduct our research on our artist and the song we was using. The group also used websites such as Facebook and Twitter show our video so it gathered a wider interest so that we could receive audience feedback. 

The last website that we used in our final process to get our video out there was to upload it to YouTube so our video would spread across the internet. YouTube is the most popular way to show videos any where on the internet. This will hopefully give our video to a wider audience and to get it more interest and hopefully give the artist of the song some credit as well. 

Using these forms of media technologies has made our video a success. 

Evaluation Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We asked our fellow peers and teachers views on how we could improve on our music video, advert and digipak before we finished them. We got a lot of positive feedback on our work and a lot of new ideas.

In our video we originally had a lot of long shots and not as much editing as the video was for quite a slow song. But after getting some advice from our teacher we was told that there had to be faster editing, more close ups and a wider range of transitions and cuts.

After we used our teachers comments, we made the useful changes. Then we put our video up on YouTube so that our peers could watch it and give us some feedback. Once we had made the changes to our video the viewers of it said that they enjoyed it a lot more.

After we finished our video, we had to make a digipak, this is what our first prototype looked like:

After we consulted with our viewers, my group decided to make some changes in order to make it more appealing. For example our original digipak was going to be black and white with a hint of colour. Me and my group decided that the lips and the writing were to be red to make them stand out from the background of the digipak. Also my group made the Katie's face the main focus point on the front cover. On the inside cover of the digipak we used another photo of the forest so that the digipak was just simple. This was a well thought out decision by me and my group because the finished product came out exceptionally well. 

Me and my group were influenced by our peers that our advert should be the same as our digipak. This was a good call on our behalf as it went along side with our digipak. We also put logos from HMV and iTunes and also put ratings from well known companies such as The Times and MTV. 

This is a collection of ideas that we collected from our audience feedback so that we could improve on our work.