Evaluation question 1

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation question 2

Evaluation question 2 from Jamesl94 and Brad 

Evaluation question 4

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

This is the camera which we were provided with for the filming of our preliminary video and for our music video. The camera is the Canon Legria FS200 and it was a very good camera. The quality of the camera wasnt brilliant but it suited the purpose of our video and if we had a better camera it would of looked better . We got to grips with how the camera worked very quickly and developed are skills with it by using different techniques such as; zooming in and out, panning and also running with the camera. Also the good thing about the camera was that after we had filmed a clip we could watch it back. This was because of the small screen imbedded on the side of the pull out camera. Due to the fact we could watch it back it became easier to look at what had gone wrong in the clip so therefore we could shoot it again if we needed to.  However the quality of the camera was poor and for a music video i wish we got a better quality camera to film it as it would of allowed us more freedom and shot adaption.
We used the tripod well but they were easily broken as we found out several times.

We used Wix for the construction of our website it allows us to gain a template of a current website and adapted it ! we added our touch and therfore we created a full working website with hyperlinks. this was part of our construction package and helped us promote and market our website for target audience .

This is the software which we used to help us edit our film opening and our preliminary exercise. It is Adobe Premiere Pro, it was a very good software to use and once we got to grips of how to use it, it then became very simple and effective to use. However to start with it is very hard to work because it is so detailed. Due to the fact that we used this software our music,very good and have the effects needed instead of just clip’s being shown after another clip. We were able in our film opening to fade in and out off clips this gave it a much better effect and made the film opening flow whereas with it was just jump cuts because we were new to the software.

 

 Some other technical software and sites we have used were blogger and youtube we used youtube to gain advice from othe rpeople by sharing our videos and allowing them to post comments. This helped us alot. Also blogger was diary type site we used to keep all of the information of construction, pre-production, research and planning and everything else that went into making our production, it is a simple and basic and easy to use site which was easily accessible and reliable.

 

 

We used the internet and prodominatly Google to help our research and development progress and helped us analyse similar products to ours, we used it in the construction process to construct our website and digipak, Google has always been very reliable for us and helped us overall adapted our blog.

 

 

We used word to create our digipak and i creates a template which we could incorporate titles, the barcode and picture etc. It allowed us to quickly and easily create post and helped us with spell check to make sure all of our posts we correct

A example of our word processing creation.

 



Evaluation question preperation

Digipak

Finished Digipak

Im happy to say after finishing one version, then deciding that it wasn't good enough, we took some new pictures and began work on a new Digipak. This is our finished product. We felt that we needed more pictures of our characters together. As we can see, we have the "face-off" between the two on the front cover. This immediately shows the audience the conflict between the two.

Secondly we have some shot with Brad on his own, this shows his solitude during our video. Once again showing our audience and giving them a hint to what our video is like.

Finally we have two over the shoulder shots of me and Brad. This shows once again the divide between the two. Also from the angle taken, represents the different opinions, and feelings between the two characters towards the subject matter.

We have also added in detailing on the spine, with the song name, the band, record label, and our own production company. Added to this we felt it was vital to have a bar-code as well. This adds to the realism of our digipak

Post production questionairre

Ive decided to create a questionnaire based on the finished results of our Digipak, website and Music Video.

Are you Male or Female?

• Male
• Female

Select your age range

• 10-17
• 18-26
• 27-35
• 35-60
• 61+

On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate our video on 1 being the worst, and 10 being the best?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

Did you find the narrative easy to follow in the video?

• Yes
• No

Do you feel the transitions and fades between clips worked well in our video?

• Yes
• No

Did you find the website simple enough to find out information about tour dates?

• Yes
• No

Did you think the colours used on the website suited our video's theme?

• Yes
• No

Did you prefer the picture of characters from the video on the digipak, rather than pictures of the band?

• Yes
• No

Would you purchase the Digipak yourself?

• Yes
• No

Do you feel the digipak connected with the themes used in the video?

• Yes
• No

Location,clothing and Props

Preparation was an important factor during the creation of our video. So its always going to know who's doing what. Lots of different elements need to come together for us to have a successful shoot. Below is a short list of all the elements used.

Delegation of roles

Characters: James Lorimer, Gina Fort, Bradley Roche

Cameraman: Unfortunately for us me and Bradley are sometimes needed in front of the camera at the same time, which leaves us with a bit of an issue. Fortunately for us we have our friend Joe Shaw, who has already experience using the camera who kindly offered to come and help us film. This was an ideal compromise. Apart from these times, Bradley was the man behind the camera when me and Gina had shots together.

Editor: James Lorimer

Locations

Car interior

Living Room + other interior of house

Back Garden

Football field

Roadside

Equipment

Camera including battery charger

Tripod

Props

Cigarettes

Football

Mobile Phones

Car

Alcoholic Beverage.

As you can see we are well planned and ready to shoot at short notice.

Storyboard

Here is just one slide of our storyboard this one shows the turning point in the scene where james and gina walk off hand in hand together and leave bradley on his own they walk off away from the camera its a medium shot lastly 2seconds

Our twitter page and feedback

We recently created a twitter page to spread the word about our music video, and try to get some feedback through this social networking site. The results have been very successful getting comments and tweets about the video itself, and amassing a few followers along the way. We feel this is a vital use of the social network, as it gives us a platform to build on and really get some good publicity. Here are some examples below.

Here we have received a tweet about our Media production video, this showed the importance of having a social networking site to promote your product.

Here we have the front of our twitter page, as you can see we have successfully put linked our video from youtube. Also posted different still images from the video and posted a link to our website. All of this helps our audience find out any information they need and lets them delve into anything they are interested in whether it be the video or the website with consummate ease.

Evidence of time management

Although hard to organise group members with other commitments this shows we managed to get most the work done and met at good times to complete the task. We had to remind eachother alot to bring props and costumes etc but it came together in the end.

Actors

We were lucky in that with the storyline we choose that we only needed to have three characters so choosing actors was very simple and didnt take us much time to do.

First characters: James

This role would be played by me, with previous acting experience it was an ideal choice for us, and also made it easy and less time consuming on casting people for a roll which would then be awkward if that person wasnt available when we wanted to film. This character is a strong male character who is good friends with Bradley, but when the female character comes into the equation we see his attention and friendship with Bradleys character weaken.

Second character: Bradley

As we're both in the same group working together, having Bradley as the second male character in our video was once again ideal, it gave us complete freedom on our schedule for filming, and we could shoot the shots where only me and him our featured seperately to any others, and without warning if we found out we need some extra shots during the day. Bradleys characters is also a confident male character who wants to remain good friends with James's character, but when the female character is introduced we see a form of jealousy take hold and anger that his friend is being taken away from him.

Third character: Gina

We decided to cast Gina as the love interest in our video, she was perfect for the role, as her availability for the role was the best, which can keep our schedule open to film whenever we like. Gina's character is very simple in our video, she is the love interest and without realising is keeping James's character away from his friend bradley, increasing tensions between the three of them.

So overall we have come up with a cast which is very capable, and fits our profile for each character and keeps us available for filming, and re-filming if we need to

Twitter account for our media company

https://twitter.com/ClockOrangeProd