How did you use
media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?
Research
The
main source of my research was the internet because this gave me asses to
websites like YouTube, vevo and vimeo. And this was mainly used to research
other music videos by bands and artists similar to mine. Google was the main
source because I research the entire theorist using it and I also researched
the codes and conventions of my genre and how it could be applicable to my
music video. I also used youtube along with google to research the bands and
other ancillary texts they’ve done and how it was similar to what I wanted to
do.
Social media sites like facebook, twitter and tumblr to research and see how the bands were
connecting with their fans and how the ancillary text was advertised to their
audience using social media. I blogged everything as I researched so
that when pre-production began I would know what to reference and what aspect
of the video should follow certain conventions.
Planning
I
didn’t use a lot of media technologies when it came to planning because I
worked solo and for me planning took place everywhere and anywhere and at all
times. I was always thinking about the different ideas I could use and how
things I see can be related to my music video. When I taught of an idea I wrote
them down on a note pad I always carried and I recorded and brain stormed different ideas and different scenes I could add to my music video. Finally before
production I took all those ideas together and made a storyboard that will
guide me when I began making my music video
Production (pre and
post)
The
predominant use of media technologies was during the production stage because
this stage was when I was bringing my idea to life. I used a flip camera for
filming some scenes and I also used an underwater camera to film the scene with
the blood spill under water. I used my phone to film the scenes with the girl
because I wanted it to seem like a homemade footage and since she was a
teenager, I figured that teenagers use their phones for almost everything and
in real life the suicidal teenager is more likely to film her suicide message with
her mobile phone. Using a phone to film those scenes made it more real and it
could make the audience relate to it better. Using a high tech camera will make
the audience feign the emotion they get from the scenes.
For
editing I used Final Cut Pro and manipulated the pace of the video to suite the
music. I also used photoshop to make the digipak and the poster. Initially
there were some effects I wanted on the digipak but I was unable to do them so
I did some research on Google and was finally able to do them and I used them
for the inner panel of the digipak.
