Film

As a group we feel that our Music Video is completed at the moment. We might change our minds when we look at it again in the next few weeks, in which case we may have to re-film or re-edit parts. HOWEVER at the moment we are pleased with this film.

Today we added iphone sound effects at the beginning, so that its not just completely silent as the audience is waiting for the song to start.
We got these effects from 2 YouTube videos and a website that transfers YouTube Videos to MP3.
The YouTube videos and website we used were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johVa_3lnmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNz4XtZ-XMs&spfreload=5
http://convert2mp3.net/en/index.php

And here is our Finished Piece:

Evaluation Research Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages
Media technologies we used:
          Research and planning

• Blogger- We used Blogger so that we could post all of our research and planning so that we had somewhere to store it and go back to it should we need to.
• Search Engines- We used search engines such as Google and YouTube to find research to help us create our film and give us ideas.
• Google Maps- We used Google maps to post location shots on the blog to show people where we were filming.
• Magazine adverts- To give ideas for our advert.
• CD covers- To help us in making our CD cover.

          Construction

• HD Camera- Standard camera we used.
• Advantages
• Easy to use
• Good quality

• Adobe Premier Pro- Editing program we used to create our film.
• Advantages
• More editing techniques
• More effects

• Disadvantages
• Confusing to use

• Adobe Photoshop- Editing program we used to create our logo, CD cover and magazine advert.

• Advantages
• Easy to use
• Experienced

• Mobile Phones- We used mobile phones so that we could organize everyone together.

• Advantages
• Easy to communicate
• Simple and basic

Disadvantages

Required Wi-Fi to receive messages

Magazine Advert

After reviewing our plan for our magazine, we have now come up with what we believe to be our final magazine advert. The reason I say 'we believe' is because until we finish our music video, nothing is final so this may change if we come up with a new idea to improve it. This goes for our digipack as well. Our final ancillary tasks will be presented together in one image in one post .

Evaluation Research Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

At this current stage we only have our information from our questionnaire which we used to determine our exact target audience.
Once we have finished our finished product we will produce another questionnaire and film our audiences response. From this we will be able to talk about what we learned from our target audience.

Perhaps we could create a small News-like broadcast for this question. We can film our media class watching our music video.
We could use two cameras, one at the front to the side, and one behind the audience showing the back of the audience as well as the footage being shown to them. During this we could record ourselves talking, explaining what's happening and so creating a narrative over the visuals.  This could be the intro to the News Broadcast. We can then record some members of the audience giving their opinion on our music video. We can then record one of us talking to the camera whilst walking down the corridor perhaps (?) , giving the overall result.

The quote below is from our target audience research, we will be using this conclusion in our evaluation as our feedback from our audience enabled us to realise our target audience.

"Considering the fact that we did not ask an even amount of people from each age group, we can still clearly see that our target is teenagers or woman aged 16 to 20. This will be taken into consideration when we make our music video by asking girls from that age group to give feedback on our video as we get closer to completion."

Evaluation Research Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

So far we have have a front case for our digipack and a magazine advert. As far as we are concerned these parts of our ancillary tasks are a successful combination for our main product as our ancillary tasks feature our music video in order to present and advertise. For example, for both you can see Celine as she is playing the part of Lorde for our music video. Not only does this represent our video, but also creates a star image. On top of this, we believe that our magazine advert would not look out of place in a real magazine advert but our front cover for our digipack may need some work.
When we come to actually doing our evaluation, we will sum this up and of course we will have more details as everything will be finished.

Updated Location Report

We weren't originally going to film here. We originally planned to film on Sundridge Drive but given the short amount of time we decided to use somewhere that was slightly closer.

Storyboard