The document summarizes the various media technologies used during the construction, planning, and evaluation stages of a music project. During planning, Google, YouTube, music channels, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint were used for research. Construction involved using an iPhone to film and take pictures, Microsoft PowerPoint and Photoshop for editing, and Web Plus to create a website. Evaluation utilized Prezi, Microsoft PowerPoint/SlideShare, Serif Stop Frame Animation, and YouTube to present information and receive audience feedback.
4. Google
– We used Google to find different examples of digipaks and
websites to get inspiration for our products. Google was also used
to find pictures of other pop artist to see which conventions we
would like to follow and break. Google was used in our
construction and planning so the artist for our music video could
practise the lyrics for the song.
5. YouTube
– We used YouTube to research find other pop music videos similar
to the above point we wanted to see what conventions were
commonly used as inspiration for our video.
6. Music channels
– We also got ideas from watching different genres of music video
and looking at different shot types and where they were located.
We both analysed what we liked and didn’t like about them and
then used them in our music video. Last year we collected college
magazines for inspiration and looked at some online prospectuses.
7. Microsoft Word
– We used Microsoft word to make questionnaire for our audience
to find which genre of music they like and how often they listen to
music etc. this helped with constructing our music video as we
found out what our audience would like to see not only in our
music video but also how our digipak should look like. We used
Word to create a our questionnaires as well as putting ideas
together.
8. Microsoft PowerPoint & Slide
Share
– We used Microsoft PowerPoint to put our research together. This
allowed us to compare conventions from the music videos,
digipaks and websites we had researched from which we decided
what we would want to use. These were both technologies and
platforms which we used last year as they are a simple and
effective way to present information.
10. iPhone
– Just like last year we used an iPhone for filming the video, behind
the scenes and taking pictures. The phone has an 8-megapixel
iSight camera with 1.5µ pixels. We attempted use a camera to film
and take pictures however the quality was unclear. We also used a
selfie stick to make our music video as it aided with stabilisation
and doing panning and tracking shots.
11. Microsoft PowerPoint &
Photoshop
– We used Photoshop to edit the videos, we used different filters and effects to
give the images and artist more dimensional and create a unique star persona
for the artist. Although we used Photoshop for most of the editing, we did use
PowerPoint as well. For the image on the front cover we inserted it on
PowerPoint twice and this vertically flipped the image which was a lot simpler
to do on PowerPoint compared to Photoshop. Last year we both attempted to
use Photoshop however we found it too complicated therefore we used mobile
applications to add filters onto our images and we used Serif Draw plus to cut
around our images.
12. Web Plus
– We used Web Plus to create the website. This was not difficult to do as we have
both used the software before. Web plus has hundreds of different tools which
we used including:
– Adding a navigation bar
– Rollover
– Gallery
– Submission forms
– Search bar
– Vimeo/YouTube embedding
13. iMovie
– We used iMovie to edit the video, this allowed us to access a wide range of
transitions and effects to make the video more interesting. In iMovie we could
organize and edit the clips, and to trim unwanted parts of the video. We added
titles and credits at the beginning and end of the video. We also used the video
stabiliser tool which made the video look less shaky.
15. Prezi
– We used Prezi for our first evaluation, this allowed us to present information
information easily and lets users include images, videos and texts. It displays
information in a variety of interesting ways allowing use to insert pictures and
embed videos as examples.
16. PowerPoint & Slide Share
– For our second evaluation ‘How Effective is the Combination of your Main
Product and Ancillary Texts?’ we used PowerPoint. Initially we included
sound and transition however we realised that we could not upload it to
the blog with the features so we uploaded it to slide share. By doing on
PowerPoint we could compare our products with previous work . Both of
our evaluations last year were done using the same software.
17. Serif Stop Frame Animation &
YouTube
– Initially we intended on doing the evaluation question ‘What Have You Learned
From Your Audience Feedback?’ in a video format more like a vlog however we
thought that doing it as a stop frame animation would be more interesting. The
software has several different tools like ‘clone frame’ which is more time
efficient as we did not have to re-insert every object for each frame. To connect
with the audience a little better we cut out our faces onto the bodies so we are
talking to the audience directly. When the animation was done we uploaded it
to YouTube and embedded it on the site.
